{"id":30001,"date":"2026-08-15T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=30001"},"modified":"2026-08-15T10:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:55:57","slug":"trumps-war-stagnation-frustration-and-festering-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/15\/trumps-war-stagnation-frustration-and-festering-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">TRUMP&#8217;S WAR:<\/span> Stagnation, Frustration, and Festering Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when he claimed &#8220;we&#8221; would win in two days?<\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/08\/15\/frustration-with-trump-grows-among-us-persian-gulf-allies-officials-say\/\">Frustration with Trump grows among U.S.\u2019s Persian Gulf allies, officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meidas: <a href=\"https:\/\/meidasnews.com\/news\/trump-says-he-will-declare-strait-of-hormuz-a-territory-of-the-united-states\">Trump Says He Will Declare Strait of Hormuz a Territory of the United States<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/iran-rejects-delusions-trump-strait-hormuz-us-territory-rcna592666\">Iran rejects \u2018delusions\u2019 after Trump says he wants the Strait of Hormuz to be a U.S. territory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WSJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/iranian-demands-disrupt-trumps-plan-to-end-the-war-4ca53b85\">Iranian Demands Disrupt Trump\u2019s Plan to End the War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NewsNation: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/world\/trump-accept-high-gas-prices-amid-iran-war\/\">Trump urges Americans to accept high gas prices amid war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/revenge-inevitable-iran-ramps-propaganda-war-violent-billboards-rcna591867\">\u2018Revenge is inevitable!\u2019 Iran ramps up propaganda war with violent billboards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/15\/us\/politics\/china-expansion-asia-trump-iran.html\">As China Pushes to Expand in Asia, Trump Focuses on Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when he claimed &#8220;we&#8221; would win in two days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30001","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\/30001","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=30001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}