About this episode
The episode discusses Donald Trump's military actions against Iran following a helicopter incident near the Strait of Hormuz and the subsequent regional implications.
Right, so the tangerine toddler Donald Trump has managed the rather impressive feat of taking a helicopter incident near the Strait of Hormuz, using it as his excuse to hit Iran again, so much for claiming he wanted out of this mess, and then watching US-linked bases across Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan come under fire. Trump wanted a strong response, Trump ordered strikes on Iran, and Iran answered by pushing America's regional military network straight into the firing line. Bahrain and Kuwait reported air defences active, Jordan got pulled into the same story, and the immediate official line from those states was that attacks had been intercepted or repelled, with no immediate confirmed casualties or damage. So let's get the first thing straight before anything else, because the headline is not that Trump looked tough as he would love it be. The headline is that Trump's show of strength left US positions having to defend themselves, and that's a rather different story, isn't it? Now, the Apache helicopter story. I touched on this yesterday, it was unclear why it came down at the time, but now it's the route Trump took into this latest mess, so let's deal with it properly. A US…
People in this episode
Host: Damien Willey
Topics covered
- US-Iran relations
- military response
- Trump administration
- Middle East conflict
- regional security
Keywords
- Trump
- Iran
- military strikes
- Bahrain
- Kuwait
- Jordan
- Apache helicopter
- Strait of Hormuz
- US military
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: US Army
Places: Strait of Hormuz, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan
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