{"id":28444,"date":"2026-07-23T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=28444"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:13:41","slug":"trumps-war-oh-look-its-starting-to-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/23\/trumps-war-oh-look-its-starting-to-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Oh, look, it&#8217;s starting to spread!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is disconcerting\u2026<\/p>\n<p>AP: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-hormuz-strait-war-60d46bf8c83c43a8f2268b7b87627c55\">Yemen\u2019s Houthis attack Saudi tankers in the Red Sea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Telegraph: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/07\/23\/houthis-strike-tankers-red-sea-iran-war-bab-el-mandeb\/\">Oil prices hit $100 after Iran-backed Houthis \u2018strike two tankers\u2019 in Red Sea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/07\/23\/least-one-saudi-oil-tanker-is-attacked-red-sea-war-risks-widen\/\">The Houthis had largely stayed out of Trump&#8217;s War &#8211; but now they&#8217;re in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WSJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/u-s-surges-forces-toward-middle-east-giving-trump-options-to-expand-iran-war-e5d627b1\">US Surges Forces Toward Middle East, Giving Trump Options to Expand Iran War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/22\/world\/middleeast\/iran-war-us-bases-images.html\">What Visuals Show About Recent Damage to US Military Sites in the Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/07\/23\/as-iran-war-escalates-u-s-is-fighting-from-a-weakened-position\/\">As Iran war escalates, U.S. is fighting from a weakened position<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/iran-strikes-cia-facilities-russia_n_6a618e5de4b05756b0dfcf25?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">Iran Strikes On CIA Facilities Prompt Questions About Possible Russian Role<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is disconcerting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28444","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\/28444","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=28444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}