The US has overwhelming military power. Yet the battle has moved to oil routes, alliances and domestic politics \u2013 where Tehran is testing western unity<\/p>\n
Donald Trump would like you to know that he is winning\u00a0the war with Iran. So comprehensively, in fact,\u00a0that he now needs Nato\u2019s help<\/a>. The western alliance, he warns, will have a \u201cvery bad\u201d<\/a> future if its\u00a0members refuse. Germany\u2019s defence minister had a\u00a0brisk reply: this is not our war<\/a>. Meanwhile, tankers pile up outside the strait of Hormuz as Britain\u00a0promises, in an understated way, to keep \u201clooking<\/a>\u201d at\u00a0its options. Mr Trump has found out that\u00a0starting a war without a\u00a0coalition of the willing is\u00a0easier than finishing one with it.<\/p>\n Along with Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu, the US president started with an illegal attack on Iran in which the country\u2019s supreme leader was assassinated<\/a>. American forces have established overwhelming military superiority. By hitting military targets but sparing key oil facilities on Kharg Island<\/a>, Mr Trump is sending a blunt signal: the US can wreck Iran\u2019s economy. It just hasn\u2019t decided to \u2013 yet.<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US has overwhelming military power. Yet the battle has moved to oil routes, alliances and domestic politics \u2013 where Tehran is testing western unity Donald Trump would like you to know that he is winning\u00a0the war with Iran. So comprehensively, in fact,\u00a0that he now needs Nato\u2019s help. The western alliance, he warns, will have … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}