Trump threatens to escalate strikes against Iran
President Donald Trump threatened to “hit Iran hard” after the US and Iran traded strikes. Analysts questioned the White House’s willingness to escalate, citing Pentagon concerns about unsustainable large-scale operations and munitions shortages.
Analysts were skeptical of the White House’s willingness to escalate the costly conflict.
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to “ hit Iran hard ” after the US and Iran traded strikes, though analysts were skeptical of the White House’s willingness to escalate the costly conflict.
Trump posted AI-generated videos of the US bombing Iranian targets, but actually bombing them requires munitions the Pentagon is running short of: Military leaders warned the US defense secretary this week that “ prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable,” The Washington Post reported, and will weaken US capabilities elsewhere. “The war has almost irreparably damaged Trump’s foreign-policy toolkit,” Foreign Policy’s editor-in-chief argued.
While Trump still has “powerful economic tools to wield as cudgels against allies and adversaries… countries and companies will learn that he has peaked.”