{"id":21798,"date":"2026-03-31T08:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=21798"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:57:01","slug":"trumps-war-blowups-happen-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/31\/trumps-war-blowups-happen-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Blowups happen, I guess\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Situation normal: all fouled up\u2026<\/p>\n<p>MM: mm &#8211; read it here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: Kuwaiti tanker hit by Iranian drone attack in Dubai port &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/31\/kuwaiti-tanker-hit-by-iranian-attack-in-dubai-port-raising-oil-spill-fears\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stars &#038; Stripes<\/em>: During a Tuesday morning &#8220;news conference&#8217; that played out more like a propaganda spew, Hegseth claimed he visited troops fighting in Trump&#8217;s Iraq war &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/middle_east\/2026-03-31\/hegseth-caine-briefing-iran-march-31-21236249.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters: Italy refuses US aircraft use of Sicily base for Middle East operations &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/italy-refuses-us-aircraft-use-sicily-base-middle-east-operations-source-says-2026-03-31\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NPR: Trump tells Europe &#8216;get your own oil&#8217; &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/31\/nx-s1-5766991\/iran-war-lebanon-israel-dubai-trump-oil-europe\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>NYT<\/em>: Trump Faces a Decision on Whether to Start a Ground War in Iran &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/31\/us\/politics\/trump-faces-a-decision-on-whether-to-start-a-ground-war-in-iran.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters: US Defense Secretary Hegseth&#8217;s broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack, FT reports &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/us-defense-secretary-hegseths-broker-looked-buy-defense-fund-before-iran-attack-2026-03-30\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situation normal: all fouled up\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21798","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\/21798","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=21798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21800,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21798\/revisions\/21800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}