Trump Hit Start on a War Like It’s a PS5 Tutorial

“Launched a war without planning” is a sentence you say about your dumbest friend’s Vegas weekend, not the Commander-in-Chief with the nuclear codes.

But here we are: reports say the U.S. and Israel kicked off a joint military campaign against Iran, and the vibe is less “carefully calibrated strategy” and more “oops, I pressed the red button while yelling at my TV.”

Pete Buttigieg — yes, Mr. Amtrak Goes To Brunch — basically handed America the screenshot of the week: Trump “went off and launched a war without planning.” That’s the whole story. That’s the group chat.

Officials will use words like “targeted,” “limited,” and “deterrence.”

The immediate fear isn’t just Iran. It’s the domino effect: retaliation, shipping lanes getting spicy, oil markets doing their little panic dance, and every neighboring government choosing violence because they saw an opening.

And of course, the Pentagon is already rubbing its hands like Mr. Burns.

Meanwhile, Congress will do what it always does: act shocked, ask for donations, and approve the tab like it’s a corporate card they don’t personally pay.

This isn’t abstract geopolitics. This is your commute getting more expensive, your taxes getting rerouted into missiles, and the country’s attention getting yanked away from the stuff you can’t afford even in peacetime.