Trump In Epstein Quagmire

A White House statement of March 19, 2026, reads: “The decisive leadership of President Donald J. Trump, Operation ‘Epic Fury', is delivering overwhelming, devastating success against the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism…. America’s unmatched military has obliterated the Iranian regime’s air and naval capabilities, demolished its ballistic missile arsenal and production facilities, annihilated more than 7,000 targets, and crippled its ability to fund and arm terrorist proxies.”

Many term it ‘Epstein Fury’, Epstein Files being the basis of Trump’s warmongering – Venezuela, Greenland, Panama, Cuba, Iran, Mexico, you name it.

Trump boasted in his State of the Union address that he had obliterated Iran’s nuclear program. But the fact is that B-52 bombardment can only penetrate 50 feet below rocks, not beyond.

Iran offered to surrender its enriched Uranium at the last talks in Geneva, but Trump wasn’t interested in peace.

America has pulled out both its damaged aircraft carriers (Gerad R Ford and Abraham Lincon) from the region. Iran has been targeting US bases in the Middle East, shot down an F-35 (https://x.com/Globalsurv/status/2034865092915757223?s=20),damaged three F-35s on ground, sunk a US Navy destroyer (https://www.facebook.com/reel/1609647093646651) and continues to fire missiles and drones.

US Navy minesweepers have been pulled out from Straits of Hormuz, reappearing 5,630-km away, and Trump wants NATO to do the dirty work, who have said they can do it only after ceasefire.

Trump has given a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran for making the Straits free, threatening otherwise to target Iran’s power plants. What else can be expected from Trump who has no hesitation to bomb civilian areas, hospitals and even the primary girl’s school at Mirab.

Morality can hardly be expected from Trump; without the guts to sue David Letterman who openly accused him of fathered the boy Barron Trump through his daughter Ivanka.

Douglas Macgregor wonders how a young nation (America) thinks it can wipe out the centuries old Persian civilization. But Macgregor didn’t qualify that the US was formed by immigrants who butchered and subjugated the native Red Indians.

Many US administrations were headed by those, who as the saying goes, wouldn’t mind auctioning their dead mother’s womb to gift a necklace to the harlot.

Trump has expressed happiness over the death of Robert S Mueller, FBI Director during 9/11, who had disclosed the JFK Assassination (1963). RFK Assassination (1968), World Trade Center bombing (1993), Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) and 9/11 in 2001 were all planned and executed by the highest US government levels (https://x.com/SternDrewCrypto/status/2034950317423333465)- so much for respecting American lives!

Was intelligence shared for Pearl Harbour to facilitate nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Iran’s recent strike in Southern Israel injuring over 100 (fatalities unknown) conveys that the ‘Iron Dome’ can be breached, Iran is far from exhausted and the strike near Dimona, home to Israel’s nuclear facility was in retaliation to the bombing close to Iran’s nuclear reactor at Natanz.

Tactics are not very different from Volodymyr Zelensky striking close to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine and blaming any possible radiation leak on Russia.

The hoax of Netanyahu aka Bibi leading Trump into war with Iran continues to be played out, like Israeli bombing of South Pars, Trump asking Bibi to not bomb Middle East oil facilities, and Bibi deferring to Trump’s request.

But the fact is that both of them are very much on the same page and all actions are well coordinated. Journalist Michael Wolf, describing Trump’s paedophile days, calls him the first “Jew President” of America (https://youtu.be/pOz5UbQrViQ?si=qcEjmVt4L1bOseAJ).

Also, Saudi Arabia discovered that its oil refinery was not struck by Iran, as was also the strike on Cyprus. Qatar, the global financier of terrorism, gifted Trump a USD 400 million jet, but now has USD 20 billion gas infrastructure gone up in flames. South Pars, which Iran shares with Qatar, holds an estimated 1,800 trillion cubic feet of gas and 50 billion barrels of condensate. Iranian missiles caused extensive damage to Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, the largest LNG facility on Earth, causing a surge in global oil prices to USD 110 per barrel.

According to Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, CEO of QatarEnergy, Iranian attacks have wiped out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years. But the arms and oil lobbies of the US, centred on America’s deep state, are clapping with joy over the surge in defence exports to the Arab nations and the rising exports of American oil. Zelensky is making a fast buck by exporting drones and drone specialists to Gulf countries.

Iran foresaw Trump’s designs for Kharg Island and had moved out its oil reserves. Trump claims to be hitting all the military facilities there and wants to seize the island. But a US seizure of Kharg Island would trigger an unavoidable escalation from a limited maritime operation into a broader war with Iran, exposing the limits of American dominance over global chokepoints.

Director of US National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has said that Pakistan, along with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, is a missile and nuclear threat to the US. But Trump has developed a special relationship with Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir.

Douglas Macgregor says if an evil regime of a terrorist country was to be attacked, it should have been Pakistan and Syria, not Iran.

As Israel continues its ground offensive in Lebanon, Hezbollah and Iran have teamed up to launch rocket and drone attacks in central Israel. The Yemen-based Houthis are conducting a sustained campaign to disrupt global shipping through the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait, aiming to leverage economic pressure in solidarity with Gaza. Netanyahu now says that alternatives to the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb must be found for the movement of global oil supplies?

Trump has perforce removed the sanctions of Russian and Iranian oil supplies at sea – desperately seeking an exit plan having plunged headlong in a war without a coherent strategy while simultaneously seeking additional USD 200 billion to continue the war on Iran.

Netanyahu is in no mood for a ceasefire either and with the latest Iranian strike in Southern Israel, has vowed to retaliate on all fronts. The US and Israel may further degrade Iran’s retaliatory military capability and may/may not succeed in fully opening the Strait of Hormuz but this will require massive boots on ground with a difficult guess about the number of casualties the US may suffer in the process.

However, Iran will not capitulate and the region could become America’s Vietnam. Considering the Trump-Bibi stance, this war is not going to end anytime soon. Meanwhile, China can hardly contain its glee since nations are paying in Yuan (not in Dollars) to transit the Strait of Hormuz (https://x.com/shangguanjiewen/status/2035599682739826783?s=48&t=1-FH0Oe0CU1E1UI-xTTAYQ), which probably is why Trump has cancelled his visit to Beijing next month.

Cover Photograph: Posters in Washington D.C. (YouTube).

Lt General Prakash Katoch is an Indian Army veteran. The views expressed here are the writer’s own.