Trump’s Epic Fury is grandiose, like he wanted. But it’s more of an epic fail |
Trump’s Epic Fury is grandiose, like he wanted. But it’s more of an epic fail
March 18, 2026 — 7:10pm
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The latest round of global chaos unleashed by President Donald Trump began with the name of his war in the Middle East. Instead of going with the obvious choice: The Donald J Trump War for Reasons Too Numerous to Mention but that Definitely Make Sense and are Legal if I Say So, Trump personally selected Operation Epic Fury from a list of options and by doing so made his first mistake.
Epic, by definition, requires grandiose scale. Operation Epic Fury, which began as an Israel-US attack on Iran, is living up to its name, exploding out to encompass Lebanon and the majority of the Middle East, and pushing up global fuel, fertiliser and food prices. Epic Fury’s tidal wave of consequences now includes not just the dead, injured and displaced in the sites of military action but Thai fishermen and Kenyan agricultural exporters, whose livelihoods are threatened without stable fuel supplies.
Public schools in Pakistan have closed in an effort to combat fuel shortages and fuel rationing might be coming to Australia. Millions of Filipino, Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan,........