Trump’s Iran Threats Get Wilder; But That’s What Failure Sounds Like

Hormuz has shown Trump that punishment is not the same thing as control - he has plenty of the first but a rapidly shrinking amount of the second. Right, so to say Donald Trump has been repeatedly and mercilessly punching himself between the legs with regards to Iran these last few days would be an understatement, I would imagine Little Donnie’s Little Donnie must resemble something akin to orange pate by this point such has been the degree of failure and if I’ve left you feeling somewhat nauseous over that mental image, it’s pretty much justified, because whether you’ve seen the reporting on all of this or not, the breadth of failure on the part of the US currently is truly astounding. Let’s start with a return to negotiations after JD Vance went on a 16 hour jolly to Pakistan, achieved nothing and then went home. Trump has just told the world that his representatives will be heading back to Islamabad for negotiations with Iran, except he’s done that after the United States went ahead and blockaded Iranian ports, after the US Navy has fired into the engine room of the Iranian-flagged cargo ship Touska, after Marines boarded it, after he has gone on Truth Social threatening to knock out every power plant and every bridge in Iran, and after oil has jumped again because the Strait of Hormuz is still not behaving like it belongs to him, because it very much doesn’t. Well surprise, surprise, if his team goes to Islamabad again, they’ll be waiting a long time for Iran, because they aren’t going to waste their time again, they’ve told him no! Well we know what Trump’s reaction to that is by now don’t we?