Trump’s plan for Iran is: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
In a war that could redraw the map of the Middle East overnight, the official position of the United States currently appears to be: Hey, man, we’ll figure it out later.
Q: Is the war ending, or are you about to bomb Iran into the Stone Age?
Trump: Can’t tell you. I don’t know.
There it is… the entire US plan in the Middle East, distilled to a shrug.
For weeks, the message has ricocheted between “we’re very close to peace” and “we could wipe them out tomorrow night,” often in the same breath. The strategy, if you can call it that, appears to be a blend of maximal threats, minimal clarity, and a running commitment to keeping everyone: allies, markets, and apparently even the president himself guessing.
Pressed on the contradiction, Trump didn’t clarify, refine, or even attempt a pivot. He just… admitted he has no idea. No plan, no line, no pretense of one. Just vibes, deadlines, and a coin flip dressed up as strategy.
In a war that could redraw the map of the Middle East overnight, the official position of the United States currently appears to be: Hey, man, we’ll figure it out later.
He neither knows nor cares about strategy. He cares about sounding tough. And of course he has no idea, he’s no doubt being told what he wants to do by multiple people with differing ideas many times a day, and he can’t remember it all or keep any of it straight.
It’s all good as long as his friends make money from it.