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Trump faces dire ‘conundrum’ as desperation reaches ‘comic levels’: analysis

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The Trump administration has gotten itself into a dire “conundrum” as officials struggle to push two contradictory narratives at once, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein argued Thursday in an analysis published on his Substack. That “conundrum” was on full display earlier this week during a “ disastrous interview ” in which President Donald Trump’s United Nations ambassador both denied that the United States was running low on military stockpiles and blamed the shortages on the Biden administration. “Washington officials are stuck on this half-propaganda, half-operational conundrum. They both want more money for the military and they want to make clear that no weapons shortages are constraining the US from fighting Iran,” Klippenstein wrote. “This desire to have it both ways reached comic levels this week when U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz said to 'Meet the Press' that Biden was to blame for the missile shortage, before immediately insisting there was no shortage and that whoever is

First report: Trump Faces Escalation Conundrum as Iran War Flares Once Again — bloomberg.com, 12d