Trump’s aggression is dangerously straining the Navy, military
So much for the presidential candidate who claimed the desire to end “forever wars.” President Donald Trump’s administration has trapped itself in a Middle East quagmire with Iran. A conflict the president said would last only weeks will soon surpass six months as global energy prices continue to surge.
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So much for the presidential candidate who claimed the desire to end “forever wars.” President Donald Trump’s administration has trapped itself in a Middle East quagmire with Iran. A conflict the president said would last only weeks will soon surpass six months as global energy prices continue to surge. Results of Trump’s second-term adventurism, including the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and threats to invade Greenland and Cuba, have strained America’s armed services. But nowhere has this become a more acute crisis than the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran’s military has weaponized by choking the transit of about a fifth of the world’s oil and gas supplies.
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- So much for the presidential candidate who claimed the desire to end “forever wars.” President Donald Trump’s administration has trapped itself in a Middle East quagmire with Iran. A conflict the president said would last only weeks will soon surpass six months as global energy prices continue to surge.
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Trump’s aggression is dangerously straining the Navy, military
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