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The War Trump Can’t Control
President Trump has consistently said the war in Iran will be over “quickly.” Is it becoming one America can’t exit?
By Adam Harris | July 13, 2026, 8:40 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/07/ra-iran-reescalation/6878
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Following the United States’ war with Iran can give you whiplash. One day, it’s nearing a resolution; the next, the nations have resumed missile strikes on each other’s military installations, and Iran on Gulf States caught in the destructive web of this conflict. By the time President Trump declared, on Friday, that a cease-fire with Iran was over, the U.S. had already hit more than 140 targets in the preceding days—his words did not make policy; they were simply an articulation of reality.
Though the president has said he would not enter any “forever wars,” America seems to find itself headed toward one. Is there a way out? My colleagues Tom Nichols and Nancy Youssef, who cover the military and diplomacy for The Atlantic, joined me on Radio Atlantic to discuss the conflict that is beginning to feel more like a permanent condition.
Transcript at https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/07/ra-iran-reescalation/6878
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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"Can't control", according to whom?
Your chronically whining, Anti-American left wing faggot bitches over at the Atlantic.
Go fuck yourself, stupid.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Suddenly, Hormuz is Less Crucial Than It Was
Why? Because the real energy crunch is coming from the Russia/Ukraine war
Paul Krugman
Jul 14, 2026
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/suddenly-hormuz-is-less-crucial-tha
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Are we back at war with Iran? Did the war ever stop? The US is, once again, bombing Iran while Iranian drones strike shipping. Iran, giddy with its success in defying America, is demanding sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, while Donald Trump is saying no, he owns the Strait and will collect 20 percent tolls.
Folks, this is bad. U.S. national security policy is now entirely in the service of one man’s vanity. We got into this mess because Trump thought he could win an easy victory that would let him strut around feeling powerful. Now we can’t get out because he won’t admit that his war has been a humiliating failure.
The good news is that Trump’s temper tantrum will probably do less economic damage than one might have expected — because the cease-fire that is apparently over wasn’t doing as much good as one might have expected. The fact is that there is now a disconnect between events in the Strait of Hormuz and the energy prices that matter. This disconnect is coming from a surprising place, another war that was supposed to yield a quick, easy victory but didn’t: Vladimir Putin’s attempt to conquer Ukraine.
To see what I’m talking about, start with a question: Why was oil so cheap just before this latest confrontation?
Charts, graphs, and more about crude oil prices at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/suddenly-hormuz-is-less-crucial-tha
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Immediately after Pearl Harbor, President FDR could have bragged that he, personally, drove the Japanese Fleet out of Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was never again attacked! But, for some reason, FDR felt a need to collapse the Japanese government, not just protect Hawaii. And so began a war that continued for 1,364 days, unlike Trump's War with Iran, which he said was Won On Day One.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
"Can't control", according to whom?
Your chronically whining, Anti-American left wing faggot bitches over at the Atlantic.
Go fuck yourself, stupid.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5967020-donald-trump-da
y-one-iran-war-graham-death-daylight-savings/
It was exactly 1,364 days (or 3 years, 8 months, and 22 days) from the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, to the formal signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.
Today is the 137th day of Trump's War with Iran (or 10% of Roosevelt's War with Japan) https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Who Really Controls the Strait of Hormuz?
Since the war began, Iran has only expanded its power over the waterway.
By Will Gottsegen | July 14, 2026, 7:32 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/07/who-controls-strait-of
-hormuz/687920/
Yesterday, President Trump wrote on Truth Social that the United States would become the “GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” blockading Iranian ports and ensuring the safe passage of non-Iranian vessels. And in the spirit of “FAIRNESS,” he added, the U.S. would charge vessels a fee for the trouble.
Then, this morning, an amendment: Trump disposed of the fee idea while still indicating that he intends to assert control of the strait and resume the blockade. Now, Trump says, the Gulf states will be making “the Trade and Investment Deals” with the U.S. as a form of compensation. But the particulars of those deals (and of which states will participate) remain unclear.
Today marked the fourth consecutive day of strikes across Iran. The cease-fire has disintegrated—Trump formally notified Congress yesterday that the war has resumed—and negotiations have collapsed. If American forces do try to reassert power in the strait, they’ll face a difficult path. Iran is still clamping down on ship traffic, and recent violent clashes in the waterway have once again dramatically reduced the number of vessels entering and exiting the Persian Gulf. The United States’ ability to exert control in the strait could depend on its ability to erode the system of dominance that Iran has established in recent months.
Dominance in the Persian Gulf has never been clear-cut. In the early 16th century, Portuguese mariners brought their cartaz system of permits to the Strait of Hormuz, overseeing the waterway for more than a century. In 1622, the joint forces of Persia and England’s East India Company seized it. The Strait of Hormuz is now broadly understood as an international zone, and yet portions of the waterway remain contested. Its narrowest stretch is just 21 miles wide—meaning that, according to a United Nations convention, it is entirely within the territorial waters of Iran and nearby Oman. Neither Iran nor the U.S. are party to the UN treaty, but the U.S. nevertheless recognizes it as international law, Michael Poznansky, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told me.
The U.S. has assumed some responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz in the past. Defense of the Persian Gulf was at the core of the Carter Doctrine—Jimmy Carter’s attempt, in 1980, to respond to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Iran periodically attacked foreign vessels in the strait during the Iran-Iraq War of the ’80s; in 1987, the U.S. Navy launched Operation Earnest Will, escorting Kuwaiti tankers through the strait for more than a year. During that war, the Iranian regime threatened to fully close off the strait but decided against it, realizing that the damage to its own economy would be too great. Iran has repeated this threat over the past two decades, but it never actually followed through until February, in retaliation for the U.S. and Israeli strikes on its land and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Despite the persistent threat of Iranian interference in the strait over the past half century, its leadership was never guaranteed to be able to enforce an effective blockade. But what remains of Iran’s military, decimated by months of war, has still proved capable of maintaining the transit restrictions that the regime announced in the spring. The persistent threat of mines, and of its nimble boats that can harass or attack other vessels, has kept ship traffic to a minimum; the number of crossings on Sunday was the lowest it had been in a month.
Past efforts to break Iran’s stranglehold over the course of this war have failed. In May, American forces began escorting some vessels through the strait as part of an initiative called Project Freedom; it ended after just two days, in part because Saudi Arabia declined to let the U.S. use its military bases and airs
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Immediately after Pearl Harbor, President FDR could have bragged that he, personally, drove the Japanese Fleet out of Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was never again attacked! But, for some reason, FDR felt a need to collapse the Japanese government, not just protect Hawaii. And so began a war that continued for 1,364 days, unlike Trump's War with Iran, which he said was Won On Day One.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
"Can't control", according to whom?
Your chronically whining, Anti-American left wing faggot bitches over at the Atlantic.
Go fuck yourself, stupid.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5967020-donald-trump-da
y-one-iran-war-graham-death-daylight-savings/
It was exactly 1,364 days (or 3 years, 8 months, and 22 days) from the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, to the formal signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.
Today is the 137th day of Trump's War with Iran (or 10% of Roosevelt's War with Japan) https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
CAN'T CONTROL? ACCORDING TO WHOM?
I don't need any of your bullshit dialog on any topic.
I asked you a fucking question. Do not quote my question and not answer it, fuckwit.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Quote:Trump lost to Iran. It is over, kind of like Bush, who lost to Afghanistan, but he didn't realize it. Bush went into Afghanistan to kill Osama bin Laden, but Osama was in Pakistan. The US Army searched for years unsuccessfully because it was looking in the wrong place. How much did that search cost? $8 trillion. Trump has already spent hundreds of billions on the Iran War. The price will keep going up until the next President, or the one after that, declares the war is over.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
CAN'T CONTROL? ACCORDING TO WHOM?
I don't need any of your bullshit dialog on any topic.
I asked you a fucking question. Do not quote my question and not answer it, fuckwit.
Costs of the 20-year war on terror: $8 trillion
https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
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How success in Venezuela set Trump up for disaster in Iran
Not every country can be run from afar.
By Joshua Keating
Jul 20, 2026, 5:45 AM CDT
https://www.vox.com/politics/495917/trump-venezuela-iran
Last week presented a stark contrast in the trajectories of the Trump administration’s two riskiest foreign policy ventures. On July 13, the President Donald Trump formally declared a return to military action in Iran, making clear that a war that he had anticipated would last just four or five weeks will stretch past the five month mark and probably longer. Trump appears increasingly frustrated by Iran’s failure to concede to his demand to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, comparing the country to a “great boxer”: “You think you have them beat, and then all of a sudden he comes back and he gives you a shot.”
Key takeaways
• After removing President Nicolas Maduro in January, the US is now effectively controlling Venezuela via new President Delcy Rodriguez. On the other hand, after five months of fighting, Iran shows no signs it will accede to Trump’s demands.
• Trump cited Venezuela as a model for how he would like to control Iran and spoke of finding another “Delcy" to run that country, but it should have been obvious that was never going to work, given the differences between the two countries.
• Trump has spoken of attempting regime change in other countries, particularly Cuba. The question going forward is whether the experience of Iran has changed his views on how easy this would be.
On the far side of the globe, however, the other country Trump attacked this term has proven much more manageable. Venezuela’s government — now led by former Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who took power when Nicolás Maduro was captured in a US raid in January — agreed to talks with an opposition leader handpicked by the US that aimed at “strengthening democracy.”
The New York Times reported earlier this week that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is effectively the “viceroy” of Venezuela, ruling the country in absentia from Washington, DC. (“Viceroy” is traditionally an official who governs a country or colony as a direct representative of a monarch.) The US has direct control over the revenues Venezuela receives from selling its oil abroad, giving Rubio effective power over the country’s budget. The grip is so tight, the Times reports, that Rodriguez asks for White House approval before appearing on Fox News, much to Trump’s delight.
Two different countries in two different parts of the world with two different responses to Trumpian military pressure. But when future historians tell the story of how this administration ended up enmeshed in exactly the sort of Middle East quagmire that he had run for office pledging to avoid, they’re likely to devote at least a few paragraphs to Venezuela. The easy success of one operation set the stage for the still unfolding disaster of the other.
Exporting the Venezuela model
In a daring predawn raid on January 3, US Special Forces managed to capture Maduro in a matter of hours, with no US troops killed. Contrary to the warnings of critics that such regime change would result in chaos — and to the hopes of the Venezuelan opposition that it would lead to democracy — Trump and Rubio successfully replaced Maduro with his much more pliant vice president, who has proven more than happy to let Washington call the shots. Trump now regularly muses about making Venezuela the 51st state.
The operation was, the Times reported, “evidence to the president of the unmatched prowess of U.S. forces” and, along with the relative success of the first round of airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program last June, emboldened him to take further military action.
“What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect scenario,” Trump said in early March, referring to prospects for regime change in Iran. And in one sense it worked; the US was able to remove the head of state within hours of launching military action, with Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in a join
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump lost to Iran.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
CAN'T CONTROL? ACCORDING TO WHOM?
I don't need any of your bullshit dialog on any topic.
I asked you a fucking question. Do not quote my question and not answer it, fuckwit.
No. He didn't.
You're a fucking idiot, Shit Golem.
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Since there are no good air defense systems in the region, it's a grudge match and slug fest between America/ Gulf Monarchies + Jordan/ Israel v Iran/ Iraq/ Ansar and Allah(?)/ China(?).
Each side will continue until one runs out of missiles or their assets are destroyed. I don't think infrastructure destruction OR civilian deaths will count.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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