President Trump on Wednesday made the case for going to war with Iran

 

He should have made at the outset. But it was still essential for Americans to hear it. 

The most important message we heard is that he’s not ending the war until the job is done, and Iran’s leaders would be wise to act accordingly.

The strongest argument for bombing Iran is to deny the radical regime a nuclear weapon, and Mr. Trump made the case with vigor. 

You can nitpick that he exaggerated the immediacy of when Iran would have a bomb or have missiles capable of hitting America. But only a naif would believe the ayatollahs weren’t set on both. 

Someone had to stop them, and Mr. Trump acted when other Presidents and world leaders would not.

We were glad the President didn’t repeat his threat to withdraw from NATO. But he did send a pointed message to Europe and our Asian allies that depend on Persian Gulf oil that they have a stake in helping the U.S. open the Strait of Hormuz. 

WSJ Editorial 1 April 2026

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-speech-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-oil-israel-nato-07b5e420

Under torsdagseftermiddagen står Storbritannien värd för samtal mellan runt 35 länder som ska diskutera möjligheterna att få igång trafiken genom Hormuzsundet.

På mötet, som sker digitalt, kommer bland annat Frankrike, Tyskland, Italien, Kanada och Förenade arabemiraten att delta.

Sverige kommer att ha med en representant i samtalet, men utrikesminister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) deltar inte.

SvT 2 april

Many people expected Trump to pull the mother of all TACOs

To declare victory and surrender. He did not do that. He declared victory, of course, but he did not actually announce an end to hostilities. 

On the contrary, he said we’re going to bomb Iran into the Stone Age. So add massive war crimes to your schedule.

There is clearly no strategy here. There’s no endgame. There’s nothing. It’s hard to tell, as always, whether Trump is delusional or just completely unable to admit something that he actually knows.

The world can’t believe what it’s seeing. 

What it’s seeing is that the world’s greatest military power took on a fourth-rate power. And we lost. 

Paul Krugman Apr 2 substack.com 

Trump’s Speech: No TACO This Time

https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-gives-a-speech-like-the-world-has-never-seen

Every past president since Bill Clinton, Republican and Democrat alike, has declared that Iran couldn’t be permitted to develop nuclear weapons. 

Not one acted to prevent it. 

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2026/03/bad-days-are-here-again.html