'Winding Down,' He Said. Then Everything Escalated.
The same day Trump posted about winding down, he rejected ceasefire, deployed Marines, and watched Iran fire missiles at a base 4,000 kilometers away.
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The same day Trump posted about winding down, he rejected ceasefire, deployed Marines, and watched Iran fire missiles at a base 4,000 kilometers away.
Three weeks in, the president's own words form a timeline of contradictions that no briefing can paper over.
The USS Boxer left port with 2,500 Marines the same day Trump posted about winding down. Someone is wrong.
The Senate voted 53-47 to block a war powers resolution. Since then the war expanded to the Indian Ocean, added 2,500 Marines, and hit 8,000 targets.