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The Washington Post is taking things seriously tonight. Here is their headline:
“Trump threats, U.S. troop build-up raise specter of battle for Hormuz.”
It’s not boots on the ground. It’s blood on the ground. At the whim of one man, the blood of thousands has already been spilled. No matter who it belongs to, all blood is precious."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/19
"Some estimates, the first two sources tell us, are easily in the dozens for an initial phase of occupation, with numbers likely to rise sharply if President Trump wished to hold the island for an extended duration.
Some of the internal Kharg analysis has been shared directly with Trump in recent weeks, sources stress."
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/18
"In multiple scenarios, if Donald Trump were to invade and try to occupy Kharg Island for an extended period of time, American casualties would very likely be 'considerable,' one of the people familiar with the matter says."
~ Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/17
zeteo.com/p/the-kharg-island-b…
First Draft: 🇮🇷 The Kharg Island Bloodbath?
If Trump carries out his decades-long violent fantasy, his team expects ‘considerable’ US casualties. Plus, the clock is ticking on the US president's threat to commit war crimes in Iran.Asawin Suebsaeng (Zeteo)
"At least 2,200 troops of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit have departed from Camp Pendleton aboard the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/16
wonkette.com/p/mullah-said-the…
Mullah Said There'd Be Days Like This. Tabs: Mon. March 23, 2026
News and things to read and watch! Iran, Trump, Jeffrey EpsteinMarcie Jones (Wonkette)
"Donald Trump is backing down from striking Iranian power plants, giving a five-day extension due to what he describes as productive talks with Iran. The problem is that Iran denies having any conversations with the White House or even through intermediaries."
~ Aaron Parnas
"'And he’s not going to get a ceasefire as long as Iran is holding the gun of the strait of Hormuz against his head.'
'He tends to be naive about how things can happen,' Panetta told Smith. 'If he says it and keeps saying it, there’s always a hope that what he says will come true. But that’s what kids do. It’s not what presidents do.'”
"As former defense secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told David Smith of The Guardian, '[I]f there was an escape here for Trump, it would be to declare victory and it’s over and we’ve been able to be successful in all of our military targets. The problem is he can declare victory all he wants but, if he doesn’t get the ceasefire, he’s got nothing.'"
"The president is under enormous pressure, as his war with Iran sparked Iranian officials to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20% of the world’s oil flows. This outcome was expected by previous presidents, but Trump seemed to think he could avoid it and now is stuck without an easy solution."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"After more than two weeks of consistent bombing, new US intelligence suggests Iran’s regime is now consolidating power, unlikely to collapse, and led by a cadre more extreme than before."
~ Jon Hoffman
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Israel #RegimeChange
/7
"Instead of imploding from within, Iran’s govt has dug in and escalated the conflict, striking blows and counterblows against military bases, cities, ships in the Persian Gulf, and against vulnerable oil and gas installations.”
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Israel #RegimeChange
/6
"The belief that Israel and the US could help instigate widespread revolt was a foundational flaw in the preparations for a war that has spread across the Middle East."
Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Ronen Bergman
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Israel #RegimeChange
/5
"Why the desperation? The answer is obvious. It’s turning out not just that regime change — if that was really the goal — is hard to engineer, but also that the world is a lot more dependent on the Strait of Hormuz than Trump and co. seem to have realized."
#Trump says the #US will “obliterate” #Iran power plants if it doesn’t fully open the #StraitOfHormuz within 48 hours
Trump issued the ultimatum on social media while he spent the weekend at his resort in Florida.
He said he’s giving Iran exactly 48 hours to open the vital waterway or face a new round of attacks. He said the US would destroy “various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!”
#TrumpsWar #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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