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Q: "Why didn't you tell U.S. allies…about the war before attacking Iran?" President Trump: "We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

Vance says Americans should find comfort in the fact that our allies are "suffering more than we are" from high gas prices

"'I’m sure that had occurred to him before the convoy, that I didn’t invent this tactic, but I don’t know if the Navy folks realized how strong that explosion was and what it would do to an escort until I reminded them. Then, they did quickly get in line behind us.'"

The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the ongoing Iran War, according to a senior administration official, in an enormous new ask that is almost certain to run into serious resistance from Democrats and Republicans in Congress. The amount being requested would far surpass the costs of the Trump Administration’s massive airstrike campaign against Iran to date and instead seek to urgently increase production of critical weaponry expended by the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Navy in strikes against and defending from attacks by Iran, according to three other people familiar with the matter who spoke to the Washington Post.