: Yesterday President Trump continued his “victory lap” on the Iran war, bragging that we’ve already won the war and that he is ready to end it. Meanwhile a new Intelligence Community report was leaked assessing that the Iranian government is holding steady. Meanwhile oil and LNG prices are shooting up and several tankers attempting to pass the Hormuz Strait have been hit by Iran.

A Community-wide US Intelligence assessment before the Trump attack on Iran concluded that the Iranian government was unlikely to be destroyed by outside military force. As with the Iraq war, the US Administration chose to ignore the advice of its intelligence analysts and embrace the advice of the neocons. Also today, Trump launches new Latin America military coalition.

The Trump Administration was warned that any attack on Iran would lead to a regional war in the Middle East, but he chose to ignore voices of caution and went with his “feeling” as the White House described it. Less than a week later, every US military base in the region is damaged or destroyed and other countries in the region are being drawn in. The quick victory promise has given way to increased calls for a US ground invasion. Mainstream media in the US is non-stop war propaganda, but reality is biting the warmakers hard.