{"id":19052,"date":"2026-08-11T20:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/?p=19052"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:16:36","slug":"the-war-with-iran-expressed-as-strip-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/the-war-with-iran-expressed-as-strip-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WAR WITH IRAN EXPRESSED AS STRIP POKER"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"19052\" class=\"elementor elementor-19052\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d1ff562 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d1ff562\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-61b14b6\" data-id=\"61b14b6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb0e8c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb0e8c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>It seems to me that the only person to benefit from the war with Iran has been the Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel\u2019s losses have been minimal whereas much of Iran\u2019s infrastructure has been destroyed and it has been greatly weakened militarily.\u00a0 While Donald Trump has found himself mired in a war he can\u2019t extract himself from which is damaging his reputation and causing economic pain both in America and the rest of the world. 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Israel\u2019s losses have been minimal whereas much of Iran\u2019s infrastructure has been destroyed and it has been greatly weakened militarily.\u00a0 While Donald Trump has found himself mired in a war he can\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3717,63,70,149,2877,285,175,2390,53,692],"tags":[3764,3765],"class_list":["post-19052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3717","category-conflict","category-economic","category-feature-cartoon","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-north-america","category-politicians","category-politics","category-war","tag-2026-31","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19063,"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions\/19063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}