Over a month later those objectives have multiplied, contracted and contradicted each other. In the fifth week of the war alone, Trump said the war had nothing to do with oil, then posted that the US should “take the oil & make a fortune”. He described the war as nearly over and simultaneously threatened weeks of escalating infrastructure strikes in a primetime address. And within 48 hours of that, he went from telling other nations they could reopen the strait of Hormuz themselves once the US left, to insisting Washington could “easily” do it. Here is how the story shifted over the week.

Source: The Guardian April 05, 2026 01:17 UTC