Julian Borger
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first heard Feb 2021
last heard 25 Aug
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Today in Focus · US troops killed: has Trump lost control of Iran war? – The Latest · 21 Jul 2026
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The casualties could have been far worse.
He couldn't accept American casualties.
The real problem for him is to get to somewhere, some agreement that he can claim is a diplomatic triumph.
Well, they're very serious because this is already a very unpopular war in the U.S., public opinion, mostly for economic reasons up to now, price of petrol.
But if you add into that American servicemen and women are beginning to get killed and injured, then that is a whole other level.
And that's something, if there's one consistent thing about Trump over the years, is he's been very reluctant to put American soldiers in harm's way.
He has no problem with bombing other people and likes to see war in that way, just bombing the enemy and keeping American soldiers away from it.
So this is something he is trying to avoid, and yet it has happened now.
And so the stakes for him are growing and the jeopardy for him, especially politically with the elections coming up, that is getting worse.
Well, there are two things really.
One is the sort of the revenge and that, you know, he couldn't accept American casualties and then said, OK, well, let's call it off.
That's not in his DNA and that doesn't work politically.
The longer question is,
Will he keep on up these attacks in the hope that it will shake something loose in the Iranian negotiating position and he can get what he wants on the negotiating table?
Up to now, that really hasn't worked.
And there's no sign that it's going to begin to work.
But he's, apart from that, really out of ideas.
And, of course, he has the military at his shoulder who always have a plan of how things can be done and more things to bomb.
And so for the time being, as there isn't a...
diplomatic solution.
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