{"id":21435,"date":"2026-03-21T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=21435"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:54:25","slug":"trumps-war-its-such-a-debacle-he-is-saying-hell-wind-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/21\/trumps-war-its-such-a-debacle-he-is-saying-hell-wind-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: It&#8217;s such a debacle he is saying he&#8217;ll &#8216;wind it down&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The disaster continues\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: Trump hints at wind down of war as US prepares to send more troops to Gulf &#8211; it&#8217;s all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/20\/us-considering-occupying-iran-kharg-island-hormuz-strait-trump\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>HuffPo<\/em>: Iranian attempts attack on US\/UK Diego Garcia air base \u2014 about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from Iran &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/israel-threatens-surge-attacks-iran-britain-condemns-tehran-targeting-us-uk-air-base_n_69be882be4b0284f9be0a37e?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>I Paper<\/em>: Iran has weapons in reserve &#8211; and it leaves the US, Israel, and other Middle East powers playing a high-risk guessing game. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/hidden-weapons-iran-reserve-missiles-drones-agents-4304399\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>WaPo<\/em>: Trump administration lifts sanctions on millions of barrels of Iranian oil, giving Iran\u2019s war effort against the U.S. (<em>wait for it<\/em>) a boost &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/03\/20\/iran-oil-sanctions-trump\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: Iran&#8217;s ability to threaten Strait of Hormuz &#8216;degraded,&#8217; US says after underground missile sites bombed &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/ce84073mr06t\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers &#8211; it&#8217;s all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/21\/israel-targeting-medical-facilities-south-lebanon-health-workers\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Sargent at <em>TNR<\/em>: Trump Erupts in Fury Over His War Failures\u2014and Exposes a Big Weakness. Read it <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/208047\/trump-war-failures-exposes-weakness?utm_medium=notification&#038;utm_source=pushly&#038;utm_campaign=pushly_launch\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>NY Times<\/em>: High Gas Prices, Driven Up by the Iran War, Loom Over the Midterms &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/21\/us\/politics\/gas-prices-republicans-affordability.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NBC: U.S. intelligence chiefs&#8217; testimony is out of sync with Trump&#8217;s talking points &#8211; all the dirt<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/us-intelligence-chiefs-testimony-sync-trumps-talking-points-rcna264383\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disaster continues\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21435","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\/21435","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=21435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21458,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions\/21458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}