Ben Rhodes

So how is the United States roaring back at Russia for that?

How are we getting them to back off?

How are we making them pay for doing that?

Not at all.

We're not doing anything quite the opposite.

President Donald Trump has instead inexplicably twice cut sanctions on Russian oil.

And then this weekend, Trump decided to additionally give Russia a big new gift.

The U.S.

has imposed a blockade on all sorts of fuel to the island nation of Cuba for a couple of months now.

But this weekend, for some reason, who knows why, Trump decided to let a Russian oil tanker go right through the blockade, sail on through unmolested to bring oil to Cuba anyway.

I mean, Trump's war on Iran has been one question mark after another about the most serious stuff in the world.

Tonight, not only is the Strait of Hormuz still unsafe for shipping, but Iran appears to have hit a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the port of Dubai.

The crew were reportedly unharmed, but they hit the tanker.

Meanwhile, this weekend, thousands of troops from the U.S.

Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division, the paratroopers, arrived in the Middle East, which means there are more than 50,000 American troops in the region.

Trump reportedly wants to send 10,000 more.

The latest deployments include large numbers of special operators, including Navy SEALs.

What are they there for?

What is Trump going to tell them to do?

What is the point of this war at this time?