Thursday, March 26, 2026

This Only Gets Worse

U.S. President Donald J. Trump appears to be leaning toward ordering a “major ground operation” against Iran, involving the seizure of Iran’s Kharg Island in the Northern Persian Gulf, with Washington convinced Tehran will buckle under such military pressure, an official from one of the countries mediating between the U.S. and Iran tells The Times of Israel.
Weren’t they supposed to have buckled by now?
Another official warns that while the U.S. may be able to capture the island, holding onto it for an extended period of time will require many more soldiers and an extended period of fighting - far beyond the four-to-six week window that Washington has told the public the Iran War would last.
Trump wants out. Trump wants to win. What happens when he can’t have either outcome?
President Trump on negotiations with Iran: “I mean, the problem with the issue of the Hormuz Straits is this: We've decimated them as a military. No air force, no navy, very few rockets left. We blew up so many. Hard to manufacture them. Same thing with drones. The leadership is gone. The problem with the Straits is this: Let's say we do a great job. We say we got 99%. 1% is unacceptable, because 1% is a missile going into the hull of a ship that cost a billion dollars, right? So 1% is not... If we do a 99% decimation, that's no good. So it's really, you know... I have a feeling it's going to clean up pretty quickly. I could just say this. They want to make -- they want to make -- and I probably hurt our little negotiation. It gives them a little impetus to say, ‘Well, I wish you didn't say that.’ But they said yesterday that we weren't negotiating with them, and now they admit that we were negotiating with them. So they want to make a deal. The reason they want to make a deal is they have been just beat to shit.
Then why do we need to take Kharg Island? To beat their shit into shit?

And how does that open the Strait? Trump is right: 1% is too great a risk. Ask Lloyds.

The missiles can come from further away than Kharg Island. And if you take it, why shouldn’t they keep the Strait closed? What have they got to lose, at that point?

Or has nobody imagined that yet?
According to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, the “big present” that Iran gave to the U.S. was allowing 8-10 tankers full of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, as the president mentioned the transit of a few Pakistani-flagged vessels, but failed to mention if this applies at all to U.S., Gulf nation, and Israeli vessels.
The price of WTI is over $94.  It was $88 on Monday. That’s American oil, as Trump likes to think. I guess the present wasn’t that big, after all.

Wait a minute. 
Trump: As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well.
Never mind. I guess.
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