President Trump declared Monday that the Iran war will charge ahead and that the US has ordered 25 new B2 bombers and already struck 5,000 targets in the conflict that’s now in the second week.
Trump, 79, delivered a sweeping update on the Iran war from his Doral, Florida, golf resort after a weekend spent on the links in the Sunshine State.
The President told reporters that the Islamic Republican now has ‘no Navy’ with 46 of its ships sunk on the Gulf’s floor and off the shore of Sri Lanka. One of Operation Epic Fury’s key objectives was to wipe out the Navy, Trump has said.
He also said that Iran has ‘no air force,’ and without radar, telecommunications, anti-aircraft systems, and most importantly, leadership. Iran’s military drone capacity is down to 25 percent and is soon expected to go to zero while the country’s missiles are mostly destroyed, he added.
But the country’s second in command, Vice President JD Vance, has been ‘less enthusiastic’ about the war, Trump admitted.
Vance, 41, a veteran of the Iraq war who has long had outspoken anti-interventionist views, is ‘philosophically a little bit different’ than the President, Trump shared.
‘We get along very well on this. He was, I would say, philosophically a little bit different than me. I think he was maybe less enthusiastic about going, but he was quite enthusiastic.’
Trump quickly added: ‘But I thought it was something we had to do. I didn’t feel we had a choice.’
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