{"id":22582,"date":"2026-04-23T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=22582"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:26:30","slug":"trumps-war-standoff-stalemate-and-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/23\/trumps-war-standoff-stalemate-and-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: standoff, stalemate, and stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not going as Trump planned\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: US and Iran in blockade stalemate as Pentagon reportedly says clearing strait of Hormuz could take six months &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/23\/middle-east-crisis-live-news-us-iran-ceasefire-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-ships-latest-updates#top-of-blog\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NPR: U.S. seizes another oil tanker as peace talks with Iran still in limbo &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/23\/nx-s1-5796719\/iran-middle-east-updates\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marine Insight<\/em>: Iranian Oil Tankers Go Dark To Evade U.S Naval Blockade In Hormuz Strait &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marineinsight.com\/iranian-oil-tankers-go-dark-to-evade-u-s-naval-blockade-in-hormuz-strait\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PBS: Iran targets ships in Strait of Hormuz as U.S. talks remain uncertain &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/iran-targets-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz-as-u-s-talks-remain-uncertain\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>NYT<\/em>: A New Era and New Leadership: The Generals Who Are Running Iran &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/23\/world\/middleeast\/iran-new-leadership-generals.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not going as Trump planned\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22582","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\/22582","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=22582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22586,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22582\/revisions\/22586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}