Trump’s in a trap

The likeliest alternative, unfortunately, is for Donald Trump to decide that the solution is yet more force. Perhaps including ‘Boots on the Ground’, because it will be hard to make the Strait of Hormuz safe without controlling the Iranian islands on the north side of the Strait.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. Netanyahu first warned that Iran would have nukes 'in three to five years' in 1992, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the White House

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 12, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—United States President Donald Trump is caught in the trap that he helped to build, and he is starting to flail against his fate. His ‘war of choice’, ‘Operation Epic Fury’, was supposed to end in “unconditional surrender” by Tehran in just a few w...

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