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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump stated that the US “knew nothing” about Israel’s strike on South Pars. By Thursday morning three Israeli officials told Reuters it was coordinated in advance. The NYT cited US officials saying Trump not only knew but “supported it as a message to Tehran over its block of the Strait of Hormuz.”  Then in the Oval Office Thursday he said “I told him don’t do that” in the same breath as “it’s coordinated.” One sentence, same Schrodinger's Trump. Why the public distance? Because the war that was “won on day ten” is now a $200 billion emergency request to Congress, a hypersonic missile over HaKirya, Ras Laffan burning, Kuwait’s refineries hit, and Brent approaching $120. Gulf Arab countries are seeking explanations from the White House.  The Apprentice declared victory through wave after wave... then Iran went from wave 37 to wave 65 and turned the whole Gulf and all of Israel into a target range. You don’t distance yourself from a war that’s going well. You take the credit. Trump apparently threatened to “massively blow up the entirety of South Pars”  if Qatar gets hit again. That’s not a man winning a war. The $200 billion is the humiliating admission. The denial is the tell. And that’s nothing compared to how this ends.







Economist Editor-in-Chief: Clearly you and I agree, and we’ve both been critical of the Israeli government. Tucker Carlson: Well, I’ve been critical of the Israeli government. The Economist: I’ve been plenty critical. Tucker Carlson: What do you think of what happened in Gaza?