{"id":21917,"date":"2026-04-03T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=21917"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:46:51","slug":"trumps-war-more-saber-rattling-as-the-pigeons-come-home-to-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/03\/trumps-war-more-saber-rattling-as-the-pigeons-come-home-to-roost\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: More saber-rattling as the pigeons come home to roost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an unmitigated disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Times of Israel: US intelligence said to assess around half of Iran\u2019s missile launchers still intact &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/us-intelligence-said-to-assess-around-half-of-irans-missile-launchers-still-intact\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera: Kuwait desalination plant, oil refinery hit by missile and drone strikes &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/3\/kuwait-desalination-plant-oil-refinery-hit-by-missile-and-drone-strikes\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>NYT<\/em>: Trump Struck Iran. Now Farmers Are Paying the Price. &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/100000010798680\/trump-iran-farmers-iowa-fertilizer.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>WaPo<\/em>: With Mideast in conflict, Pope Leo criticizes those who invoke God for war &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/04\/03\/pope-leo-god-war-trump-peace\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Raw Story<\/em>: &#8216;Massive betrayal&#8217;: Hegseth hit with stark threat over alleged bid to profit from Iran warm &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/pete-hegseth-2676657534\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>HuffPo<\/em>: Trump Issues Threats Against Iran\u2019s Bridges, Power Plants &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/trump-issues-threats-against-iran-041027980.html?guccounter=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>WSJ<\/em>: Iran Beefs Up Defenses, Recruits Children as It Prepares for Ground War &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/75gcG#selection-555.0-555.71\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>WaPo<\/em>: Trump pushed the Iran war in prime time. Investors weren\u2019t swayed. &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/03\/trump-iran-midterms-gas-prices\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an unmitigated disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21917","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\/21917","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=21917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21920,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917\/revisions\/21920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}