{"id":20176,"date":"2026-02-24T11:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=20176"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:19:33","slug":"lets-have-a-war-portents-of-trump-plan-to-target-iran-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/24\/lets-have-a-war-portents-of-trump-plan-to-target-iran-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Have a War! Portents of Trump Plan to Target Iran Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: &#8220;Trump has pushed the United States to the brink of war with Iran even as aides urge him to focus more on voters\u2019 economic worries.&#8221; More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-pushes-us-toward-war-iran-advisers-focus-economy_n_699d3311e4b0f7641da67671?558\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>WaPo<\/em>: &#8220;The U.S. military has rapidly increased its presence near Iran, shifting more than 150 aircraft to bases in Europe and the Middle East since a second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran ended without a breakthrough on Feb. 17, according to publicly available flight tracking data and satellite imagery reviewed by The Washington Post.&#8221;. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2026\/02\/24\/united-states-iran-buildup\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nNBC: &#8220;If Iran\u2019s leaders believe U.S. strikes threaten their hold on power, they may opt to launch large-scale retaliation aimed at causing American casualties or disrupting the oil industry in the Persian Gulf, former U.S. officials, foreign diplomats and experts say.&#8221; More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/new-us-attack-iran-risk-large-scale-retaliation-rcna259964\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>HuffPo<\/em>: &#8220;President Donald Trump on Monday bashed multiple media reports that suggested his top military adviser, Gen. Dan Caine, had issued warnings about the serious risks of a military operation against Iran&#8221; \u2013 with plenty of his predictable invective. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-dan-caine_n_699d2240e4b0f7641da670ec?9tu\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looking like Sundowning Donnie Felon thinks he&#8217;ll be a popular wartime president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20191,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176\/revisions\/20191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}