The War Trump Keeps Ending
Oil tankers are rerouting around Africa as Oman-brokered talks and Trump’s threats test a fragile path to end the war, officials said.
- President Donald Trump's conflicting threats to unleash the "biggest attack since World War II" followed by claims that talks are "close" have created confusion, as Tehran denies any negotiations are underway despite White House insistence they start Monday.
- Five months into the 2026 war, Washington finds itself in a familiar posture similar to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan—too deep to exit cleanly, yet not deep enough to declare victory. Trump built his political identity on disdain for wars predecessors could not end.
- Oil tankers are rerouting around Africa while traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has stalled. Despite degradation of Iranian military and nuclear infrastructure by The United States and Israel, more American service members have been killed or wounded.
- Saudi Arabia's crown prince has publicly urged Trump toward dialogue, initiating tentative Oman-brokered talks regarding shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, which Gulf states view as essential to regional stability.
- Washington resists the reality that "no deal" is not a neutral default while the war grinds on. Ending the conflict requires accepting a modest deal now rather than pursuing total capitulation later.
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The way out of Trump’s failed Iran war
Much like the rest of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, the latest outbreak of hostilities has produced nothing but death, destruction and disorder. The current flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz makes the Schuylkill Expressway look fast,…
The Iran off-ramp Trump keeps driving past
Five months into what historians will likely call the 2026 Iran war, Washington finds itself in a posture it has occupied before, in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Afghanistan: too deep in to walk away cleanly, not deep enough in to call the thing won. US President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again threats to unleash what he […] The post The Iran off-ramp Trump keeps driving past appeared first on Asia Times.
The Iran war puts Ukraine in a dangerous situation. Paradoxically, it also splits Trump's MAGA camp, which helps Ukraine.
The President has dusted up old Cold War threats. Obviously, these are instruments of mass distraction, not to mention the price of the rising gas, of a useless war with Iran that is not ending, or of the investigations that concern it. But there is also a way to affect the internal divisions of the Democrats
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