{"id":21341,"date":"2026-03-18T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=21341"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:38:59","slug":"trumps-war-more-chaos-more-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/18\/trumps-war-more-chaos-more-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: More Chaos, More Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blowback from the massive miscalculation continues unabated.<\/p>\n<p><em>WSJ<\/em>: Russia Is Sharing Satellite Imagery and Drone Technology With Iran. More <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zYaiX#selection-543.0-543.66\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg: Iran Warns Gulf Nations of Major Response After Gas Field Strike. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/international\/2026\/03\/18\/862363.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC: Israel says it has killed Iran\u2019s intelligence minister in third assassination in two days. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/18\/iran-war-intelligence-esmail-khatib-israel-middle-east-crisis.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera: Israel bombs central Beirut, strafes south, east Lebanon, killing over 20. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/18\/israel-bombs-central-beirut-killing-6-strafes-south-east-lebanon\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: US spending on first week of Iran war hits over $11 <strong>billion<\/strong>, raises stark questions about priorities. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/us-spending-iran-war-priorities\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>WaPo<\/em>: Hezbollah ignites blowback from its base as over 1 million flee war with Israel. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/03\/18\/iran-war-hezbollah-israel-lebanon\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Financial Times: MBS\u2019s bet on Iran backfired. Read it <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Ygx4z#selection-1589.0-1589.31\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NBC: Rebuffed by allies, Trump now says U.S. doesn&#8217;t need help defending the Strait of Hormuz. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/rebuffed-allies-trump-help-defending-strait-hormuz-rcna263917\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: Fire damage, clogged toilets, and sinking morale: USS Gerald R Ford to set sail for repairs in Crete. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/onboard-fire-uss-gerald-ford-aircraft-carrier\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blowback from the massive miscalculation continues unabated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341","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=21341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21375,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341\/revisions\/21375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}