US president reportedly asking advisers about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and US military chief Dan Caine; Trump said to favor giving talks more time before new round of strikes
US President Donald Trump may scapegoat his defense and military chiefs for the state of the Iran war, according to a Sunday report, even as he considers resuming attacks on the country following the US midterm elections on Tuesday.
The war is deeply unpopular in the United States, and with no resolution to the conflict in sight, is expected to hurt Trump’s Republican Party in Tuesday’s votes for the US Congress. Oil prices have risen as Iran continues to obstruct shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.+
Citing two unnamed sources outside the administration who are close to Trump, the report said Trump is asking about Hegseth and Caine’s job performance, though it did not indicate that he is on the verge of firing either. The report added that Hegseth is unpopular in the White House and has been providing Trump with rosy assessments of the fighting.
“Hegseth is good at telling the president what he wants to hear,” one of the outside advisers told The Atlantic.
I'm betting this is Bibi's fault. I'm betting he went to Trump and told him that a quick, hard strike on the leadership would cause the survivors to flee to Russia whereupon the Shah's son could land in Tehran, set up a provisional government and lead the transition to a democratic Iran. A peace prize for that, right?
ReplyDelete(Oh no, to get a peace prize you have to blood libel Israel. Apparently getting Israel and multiple Arab countries to sign peace treaties isn't relevant)
And then the surviving leadership dug in and announced that they'd burn the whole region down rather than fleeing. And now the US is stuck.