“A One-Sided Game” Has Failed: Trump Flounders in the Iranian Trap He Set Himself

The Middle East blitzkrieg promised by Donald Trump is turning into a protracted agony for his own administration.

Information has emerged in the Western press that during a recent telephone conversation, US President Donald Trump, finding himself in a difficult position due to the escalating conflict in the Middle East, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to act as a mediator in the settlement between Washington and Tehran. However, according to published reports, Putin expressed his willingness to help with the Iranian settlement, to which Trump unexpectedly refused, effectively rebuking his Russian counterpart. As the well-informed press writes, Trump ungratefully stated, “You could be more useful if you ended the war between Ukraine and Russia. That would be far more helpful.” This was said by a completely flustered Trump during a press conference in Florida on March 9, 2026, where he recounted to journalists the content of his conversation with Vladimir Putin. Although it is well known that it was the West, led by the United States, that incited the neo-Nazi regime of Kiev against Russia and promised to fight to the last Ukrainian, which they are still doing.

Blindness Bordering on a Crime: Why Trump Didn’t Heed Tehran’s Warnings

History teaches that those who do not remember the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat the same mistakes. Donald Trump, judging by the developing situation around Iran, hasn’t just forgotten history—he has demonstratively burned the textbooks. At the very beginning of the conflict, after the barbaric assassination of the spiritual leader, Rahbar, the Iranian leadership stated clearly and unequivocally: the US and Israel have once again crossed the red line. The response to this act of aggression would be a war of annihilation—a war until the last American soldier leaves the region and the statehood of Israel is........

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