Trump and Israel wanted a war with Iran — what they’ve got instead is failing defences, trapped allies, and a nightmare spreading across the whole region. Right, so Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu wanted a war with Iran. What they have got instead is a widening chain of blowback that now runs through Israeli cities, British bases, Gulf oil terminals, shipping lanes, airline schedules, insurance markets and the homes of people who had no say in any of this. The sales pitch was control. The footage says otherwise. Iranian missiles and drones have kept getting through. Israeli authorities have kept tightening what can be filmed and shown. Trump has started talking about “unconditional surrender” because when the clean quick dominance fantasy falls apart, the language just gets bigger while the room for manoeuvre gets smaller. The fantasy that passes for a brain in the head of the mango coloured muppet seemingly has no bounds. Of course he’s not the only muppet in the room right now. Pete Hegseth has confirmed an investigation into the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab after a US official told investigators the strike was likely American, and the evidence around the site has made the usual excuses look very thin. More than 165 people were reported killed there during school hours, most of them as we know were children, and satellite analysis has pointed to clustered, precise impacts inside the compound rather than some random malfunction story doing the rounds to protect reputations. The school stood next to a Revolutionary Guards compound, questions need asking about that certainly, it’s the sort of thing we expect Israel to do. But equally that does not make the school a military target.