Trump, Netanyahu, Iran war, Strait of Hormuz, JD Vance, gas prices, Situation Room - Hawk covers the bombshell New York Times report by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan detailing how Benjamin Netanyahu made a hard sell to Donald Trump in the White House Situation Room on February 11th, pitching a joint US-Israel military campaign against Iran. The pitch included regime change, destroying Iran's missile program, decapitating the Iranian regime by killing Ayatollah Khamenei, and a slideshow of potential secular replacement leaders - all assessed by U.S. intelligence as largely farcical.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the regime change scenarios farcical. Marco Rubio translated that for Trump. General Dan Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, raised serious concerns about missile stockpiles, the Strait of Hormuz, and the difference between tactics and strategy - but deferred to Trump. Pete Hegseth was fully on board. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, two real estate developers with massive financial ties to Gulf states, were in the room influencing a decision to go to war.

JD Vance - who was excluded from the February 11th pitch - was the only voice in the administration who forcefully warned Trump that this war would destroy his presidency, fracture his coalition, and betray the voters who believed in no new wars. He was right.

Now the Strait of Hormuz has been closed for five weeks. U.S. military bases have been abandoned. Gas prices in the United States are up 40 percent - the largest single-month increase in recorded history. South Korea, Japan, Ireland, and the UK are facing fuel crises. Trump has now ordered the U.S. Navy to blockade the Strait of Hormuz after JD Vance's 15-hour ceasefire negotiations in Pakistan failed.

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