A Trump administration official on Sunday grappled with mounting criticism over the length of the US war with Iran after months of promised diplomatic breakthroughs, short-lived ceasefires, and the deaths of three more American troops bringing the total number of American military members killed in the conflict to 17.
Appearing on ABC’s This Week, the US energy secretary, Chris Wright, defended the Trump administration’s strategy after being confronted with his earlier claims that the war which began in February would have ended by now.
Wright argued that the mission had since shifted toward ensuring oil shipments can move through the strait of Hormuz.
Although he simultaneously defended Trump’s idiotic non-strategy when he said it, the Secretary of Energy is correct in pointing out that Operation Iranian Freedom IV is all about ensuring oil flow. To put it more succinctly, the current war is all about undoing our defeat in Operation Iranian Freedom III, by which POTUS himself surrendered control of Hormuz to Iran.
Whereas his first two unprovoked wars for Israel against Iran were about regime change, the bar is so low now, due to the failure of Trump’s brain trust to present any coherent strategy whatsoever, that we are just starting wars, losing them, and then starting more wars to undo the failure of our previous lost wars, and then losing those wars.
This is not how the Americans conduct themselves, their wars, or their diplomacy. But this is how Trump is doing it for his Epstein Island buddies.
See also:
–Voters Are Struggling To Keep Up With Iran War’s Twists And Turns
–Trump Silent So Far On Iran Plans As US Death Toll Hits 17