“We are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” Trump said.
We should strap in for a long, vague victory lap to this war.
Trump at one point touted a “decisive, overwhelming victory” and claimed “never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks.”
And at another, he seemed to say that victory was unfinished. “We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” Trump said. “We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.”
In one moment, he predicted the Strait of Hormuz “will just open up naturally.” In another, he told buyers of Middle East oil to take responsibility for the passage that is crippled in response to the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. “The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won’t be taking any in the future. We don’t need it. We haven’t needed it, and we don’t need it,” Trump said. “We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on.”