{"id":21861,"date":"2026-03-23T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21861"},"modified":"2026-03-23T23:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:02:36","slug":"trumps-iran-u-turn-how-us-marines-could-reopen-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21861","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Iran U-turn &amp; how US Marines could reopen the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former US Colonel Peter Mansoor says Trump thought Iran would surrender just from air attacks and didn&#8217;t have a plan for if they didn&#8217;t. He also said the war is unconstitutional, and that while a part of him is happy to see Iran get pain after killing hundreds of Americans in the Iraq war, most of him worries that Trump doesn&#8217;t have a plan and has opened a can of worms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018A forever mission&#039;: US colonel on Trump&#039;s Strait of Hormuz quagmire\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RbPfiSB-MN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Colonel Peter Mansoor says Trump thought Iran would surrender just from air attacks and didn&#8217;t have a plan for if they didn&#8217;t. He also said the war is unconstitutional, and that while a part of him is happy to see Iran get pain after killing hundreds of Americans in the Iraq war, most of him worries that Trump doesn&#8217;t have a plan and has opened a can of worms. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RbPfiSB-MN8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,429,190,221,272,355,314,156,2098,259,170,747,158],"class_list":["post-21861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-constitution","tag-constitutional","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-trump","tag-unconstitutional","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21862,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861\/revisions\/21862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}