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Trump Hasn’t a Clue What He’s Doing

He has no endgame for his war, which may be his undoing

EL CENTRAL by EL CENTRAL
March 5, 2026
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Trump said last Monday that the United States would continue attacking Iran for “whatever it takes.”

But what’s the “it” in that sentence?

He also said: “We’re destroying Iran’s missile capability” and “annihilating their navy” and ensuring that “this sick and sinister regime” in Iran “can never obtain a nuclear weapon.”

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But how will we know when we’ve achieved any of this?

American intelligence officials say Iran has not tried to rebuild its main nuclear sites since the U.S. attack in June. Iran’s stockpiles of enriched uranium are still buried deep under rubble. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says his agency has found no evidence that Iran resumed enriching uranium since June.

Yet even more U.S. forces are headed to the Middle East, and Trump says bigger waves of airstrikes are coming. He hasn’t ruled out sending in ground troops.

Neither Trump nor anyone else in his regime has provided any clarity about how we’ll know whether we’ve “won” this war.

He has no endgame. He’s given out different timelines and goals, depending on when and to whom he’s speaking. Asked by NBC News what his objectives are, he said, “Number one is decapitating them, getting rid of their whole group of killers and thugs.” He told The Washington Post, “All I want is freedom” for the Iranian people.

Trump told ABC News’ Rachel Scott on Sunday that he had a “beautiful plan” for Iran’s future. He told other outlets there were “good” candidates to take over but later told ABC’s Jon Karl that the people he had in mind were all dead.

I can’t help thinking about the Vietnam War, which preoccupied much of my youth (and, since he’s almost exactly my age, presumably Trump’s as well). There was no clear endgame there, either.

The biggest difference between Trump’s Iran war and Lyndon Johnson’s in Vietnam was that during Vietnam, America had a draft — which meant the administration had to repeatedly justify the war to the American people. As that misbegotten war escalated and its justification became ever more elusive, it grew to become a central focus of American politics, eventually causing LBJ to drop out of the 1968 presidential race.

But Trump feels no pressure to justify or explain anything. He has no clue what he’s doing in Iran. He’s winging it. He believes he can somehow pull it off because he thinks he’s invincible.

It’s Trump’s M.O. He loves to create chaos because chaos allows him to improvise — to impose his own narrative on a flood of events, dodge responsibility for failures, take credit for successes, and create illusions of glory and victory.

But the chaos he’s ignited in the Middle East is so large that the narrative may already be out of his control. The conflagration is escalating and spreading too fast. Just three days in, he’s making conflicting and inconsistent decisions and providing conflicting accounts.

He assumed a war would be helpful to him. It would justify emergency measures at home. It would deflect attention from his multiple failures. It would make him seem larger.

But it is already making him smaller, more hostage to what’s occurring than leader, more Netanyahu’s patsy than senior partner, another American president sucked into the giant maw of the Middle East.

Americans have short memories, but they do recall that Trump was reelected to accomplish three things: First, to get prices down. He hasn’t done this. Inflation is growing at an annualized rate of nearly 3 percent. Oil prices are about to go through the roof because of the war he’s ignited in the Middle East.

Second, he promised to get control of the nation’s southern border. He’s done this by unleashing immigration agents inside America on people here legally and doing so with such barbarity — including at least two murders — that most Americans think he’s gone too far.

His third promise was to avoid foreign entanglements. He said during the 2024 campaign that he’d “break the cycle of regime change” and avoid “reckless” policies. He noted that toppling regimes without plans creates “power vacuums that are filled simply by terrorists.” He wanted to shift America away from being “the policeman of the world.” He repeatedly promised to “expel the warmongers” from government. On election night in November 2024, he declared, “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”

Trump has broken this pledge with astounding negligence. He has launched a war in the Middle East without a plan, without a strategy, and without any clear idea about where it leads or how it ends.

Even absent a draft, Americans will not tolerate this for long. If Trump’s War costs many American lives, they will not forgive him.

For all these reasons, Trump’s War may be his undoing. I pray it’s not also the undoing of America.

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Trump no tiene ni idea de lo que hace

No tiene un final para su guerra, que podría ser su perdición

Trump declaró el lunes pasado que Estados Unidos continuaría atacando a Irán “cueste lo que cueste”.

¿Pero qué significa “cueste” en esa frase?

También dijo: “Estamos destruyendo la capacidad misilística de Irán”, “aniquilando su armada” y garantizando que “este régimen perverso y siniestro” en Irán “nunca pueda obtener un arma nuclear”.

¿Pero cómo sabremos cuándo hemos logrado algo de esto?

Los funcionarios de inteligencia estadounidenses afirman que Irán no ha intentado reconstruir sus principales instalaciones nucleares desde el ataque estadounidense de junio. Las reservas iraníes de uranio enriquecido siguen enterradas bajo los escombros. El director del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica afirma que su agencia no ha encontrado pruebas de que Irán haya reanudado el enriquecimiento de uranio desde junio.

Sin embargo, aún más fuerzas estadounidenses se dirigen a Oriente Medio, y Trump afirma que se avecinan oleadas de ataques aéreos más fuertes. No ha descartado el envío de tropas terrestres. Ni Trump ni ningún otro miembro de su régimen ha aclarado cómo sabremos si hemos “ganado” esta guerra. No tiene un objetivo final. Ha dado diferentes plazos y objetivos, según cuándo y con quién se dirija. Al ser preguntado por NBC News sobre sus objetivos, respondió: “El primero es decapitarlos, deshacerse de todo su grupo de asesinos y matones”. Declaró a The Washington Post: “Lo único que quiero es libertad” para el pueblo iraní.

Trump declaró el domingo a Rachel Scott, de ABC News, que tenía un “plan magnífico” para el futuro de Irán. Comentó a otros medios que había “buenos” candidatos para asumir el cargo, pero luego le dijo a Jon Karl, de ABC, que todos los que tenía en mente habían muerto.

No puedo evitar pensar en la guerra de Vietnam, que preocupó gran parte de mi juventud (y, dado que tiene casi mi misma edad, presumiblemente también la de Trump). Tampoco allí había un final claro.

La mayor diferencia entre la guerra de Trump contra Irán y la de Lyndon Johnson en Vietnam fue que durante la guerra de Vietnam, Estados Unidos tenía un servicio militar obligatorio, lo que significaba que la administración tenía que justificar repetidamente la guerra ante el pueblo estadounidense. A medida que esa guerra descabellada se intensificaba y su justificación se volvía cada vez más difícil de alcanzar, se convirtió en un foco central de la política estadounidense, lo que finalmente provocó que LBJ abandonara la carrera presidencial de 1968.

Pero Trump no siente presión para justificar ni explicar nada. No tiene ni idea de lo que hace en Irán. Está improvisando. Cree que, de alguna manera, puede lograrlo porque se cree invencible.

Es el modus operandi de Trump. Le encanta crear caos porque el caos le permite improvisar: imponer su propia narrativa a un aluvión de acontecimientos, eludir la responsabilidad de los fracasos, atribuirse el mérito de los éxitos y crear ilusiones de gloria y victoria.

Pero el caos que ha provocado en Oriente Medio es tan grande que la narrativa podría estar ya fuera de su control. La conflagración está escalando y extendiéndose demasiado rápido. Apenas tres días después, está tomando decisiones contradictorias e inconsistentes y ofreciendo versiones contradictorias.

Asumió que una guerra le sería útil. Justificaría medidas de emergencia en casa. Desviaría la atención de sus múltiples fracasos. Lo haría parecer más grande.

Pero ya lo está empequeñeciendo, más rehén de lo que ocurre que líder, más chivo expiatorio de Netanyahu que socio principal, otro presidente estadounidense absorbido por las fauces gigantes de Oriente Medio.

Los estadounidenses tienen memoria corta, pero sí recuerdan que Trump fue reelegido para lograr tres cosas: primero, bajar los precios. No lo ha hecho. La inflación crece a una tasa anualizada de casi el 3 %. Los precios del petróleo están a punto de dispararse debido a la guerra que ha iniciado en Oriente Medio.

segundo, prometió controlar la frontera sur del país. Lo ha logrado enviando agentes de inmigración dentro de Estados Unidos contra personas que se encuentran legalmente en el país, con tal barbarie —incluyendo al menos dos asesinatos— que la mayoría de los estadounidenses cree que ha ido demasiado lejos.

su tercera promesa fue evitar los enredos extranjeros. Durante la campaña de 2024, afirmó que “rompería el ciclo de cambio de régimen” y evitaría políticas “imprudentes”. Señaló que derrocar regímenes sin planes crea “vacíos de poder que simplemente llenan los terroristas”. Quería que Estados Unidos dejara de ser “el policía del mundo”. Prometió repetidamente “expulsar a los belicistas” del gobierno. En la noche electoral de noviembre de 2024, declaró: «No voy a iniciar una guerra. Voy a detener las guerras».

Trump ha roto esta promesa con una negligencia asombrosa. Ha lanzado una guerra en Oriente Medio sin un plan, sin una estrategia y sin una idea clara de adónde conduce ni cómo termina.

Incluso sin reclutamiento, los estadounidenses no tolerarán esto por mucho tiempo. Si la guerra de Trump cuesta muchas vidas estadounidenses, no lo perdonarán.

Por todas estas razones, la guerra de Trump podría ser su perdición. Rezo para que no sea también la perdición de Estados Unidos.

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