In the early stages of operations Epic Fury y Roaring Lion -the unilateral attacks without legal protection by the US and Israel against Iran- the Trump Administration made several errors when it came to conveying the arguments that have led to the upheaval of the international market, with the price of oil exceeding the barrier of 100 dollars a barrel, after.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had to retract – qualify according to him – his initial statements, in which he stated that Israel was going to attack Iran and this would trigger a wave of attacks against US bases and other positions in the Middle East and the Middle East. to move according to Israel’s interests, Trump himself came out saying – once again – that they did it because they knew that Iran’s attack was imminent and was two weeks away.
Trump has also burst onto the scene not only when the usefulness of the war against Iran – or the authorship of the bombing that killed 167 Iranian girls – was questioned, but when it became clear that he was not responding to the promise that it would be a short intervention. He came out when the price of oil skyrocketed, achieving a certain calm below that barrier of $100 a barrel, and he spoke again when six attacks on oil tankers and cargo ships confirmed that Iran still had military capacity in Hormuz.
This Friday, despite warnings of the economic impact of the war, Trump has returned to the scene speaking of the total destruction of the regime that yesterday made public the first words of Ayatollah Khamenei’s successor, his son Mojtaba Khamenei. “They have been murdering innocent people around the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th president of the United States, am murdering them,” Trump boasted, inviting everyone to “watch what happens to these crazy people today.” But that is not the only thing he has said, he has also left a ‘but’ to that ‘it is almost already destroyed’. And a message to the press that they don’t like.
Trump slips that they have “plenty of ammunition and time” and… another thing for ‘The New York Times’
The ‘Trump paradox’ involves describing Iranian capabilities as completely devastated, without combat aircraft or ships and without leadership. “The Iranian Navy has disappeared, its Air Force no longer exists, the missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and its leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth,” the Republican president has stuck out his chest, ensuring that “we are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically and in other aspects.”
However, he has also boasted about other issues relating to the US Army itself, generating even more uncertainty about . He has said, in his same publication in Truth Social, that the US Army has “unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition and plenty of time.” Where there is no time to spare is in the international market, where it is estimated that if the Hormuz blockade lasts two weeks, 3.8 million barrels per day would be lost, which is equivalent to more than 3% of world production.
It is not a light statement, since in the early stages of the attacks at the end of February, one of the complaints of the Trump Administration was to point out its predecessor, criticizing a lack of ammunition due to the supply to Ukraine in the framework of the Russian invasion. In other words, he regretted that the Biden Administration had allocated part of the inventory to kyiv, although they did the same with Israel when bombing the Gaza Strip.
That speech also changed later and Trump has issued signals that they have enough ammunition, despite the fact that each interception of a Patriot battery or other defense system against Iranian ballistic missiles or drones means burning several million dollars compared to devices that range between 20,000 and 60,000 dollars. “We have a good level of supply, but it is not where we would like it. A lot of additional high-grade weapons are stored in countries far away from us,” Trump said.
“If they read [a ‘The New York Times’]they would mistakenly think that we are not winning [la guerra contra Irán]”
Donald Trump, US president
On the other hand, Trump has also had words against a newspaper that is a regular target of his attacks and to which he has even threatened with million-dollar lawsuits – in this case they have not been successful. It is about The New York Timesthe same media that a few days ago revealed that the preliminary investigation into him lacked updated information on military positions. Trump said that perhaps they had sold him a missile tomahawk someone and Iran would have used it as a false flag attack.
Trump has countered his version that they are destroying the Iranian regime and, therefore, winning, by attacking the journalism of one of the most prestigious newspapers in the world: “However, if you read the newspaper in decline The New York Timesyou would incorrectly think that we are not winning.”
