{"id":323938,"date":"2026-03-02T08:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323938"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:28:17","slug":"alastair-crooke-trump-is-caught-in-a-fatal-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323938","title":{"rendered":"Alastair Crooke: &#8216;Trump is caught in a FATAL trap&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sharmine Narwani \u2013 The Cradle March 1, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_LDUPhJ8isc?si=X9m9gkRccwzXBsti\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_LDUPhJ8isc\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has walked into a trap because he can\u2019t afford a long war with mounting losses, says Alastair Crooke. However, Tehran has yet to unleash its most advanced weapons and although Trump wants the conflict over as soon as possible, if Iran has its way that isn\u2019t going to happen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":322280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323943,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323938\/revisions\/323943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}