{"id":28340,"date":"2026-07-22T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=28340"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:15:53","slug":"trumps-war-expensive-quagmire-gets-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/22\/trumps-war-expensive-quagmire-gets-more-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Expensive quagmire gets more expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as if they had no serious plan going in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdrv0p37k8jo\">US renews strikes on Iran as Trump threatens to attack underground nuclear site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-vows-to-destroy-one-bridge-or-power-plant-for-every-shot-fired-at-a-ship-in-strait-of-hormuz\/\">Trump says US will commit war crimes, destroy a bridge or power plant for each Iranian attack in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/07\/21\/red-sea-blockade-threatens-new-front-us-iran-war\/\">Hegseth says Iran war has cost $37.5 billion, defends request for more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/iran-war-trump-strikes-pickaxe-mountain-hormuz-oil-prices-red-sea-rcna588654\">Trump and Tehran signal no letup in expanding conflict<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/mike-johnson-iran-war-donald-trump_n_6a5ffd6fe4b06bbe43f4fb35\">&#8216;Wrap It Up.&#8217; Mike Johnson Makes Stunning Comments On Future Of Iran Wa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/07\/21\/ships-bound-saudi-arabia-turn-around-sign-new-red-sea-blockade\/\">Ships bound for Saudi Arabia turn around in sign of new Red Sea blockade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/iran-war-us-service-member-killed-attack-jordan-base-military-rcna588668\">US identifies 3rd service member \u2018believed\u2019 killed in Iranian attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/22\/iran-foreign-minister-abbas-aragchi-attack-killed-khamenei\">Iran\u2019s foreign minister describes moment of attack that killed Khamenei<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/jonathan-lemire-donald-trump-fall-guy-iran_n_6a606e5fe4b0fb869f7d3c70?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">MS NOW Host Names Donald Trump Official Most Likely To Take The Fall For Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as if they had no serious plan going in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28340","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\/28340","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=28340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}