Washington is "low keying it," per Trump himself, semi-negotiating while a blockade grinds down an economy that reportedly can't pay its troops.
Critics call it drift. Sean Spicer, Trump's former White House press secretary, calls it something else: the president doing exactly what he does best.
His insider read is the gem here. Trump plays every hand close to the vest, and even his own staff never knew what was strategy and what was instinct.
Sean's verdict: strategically brilliant, because an opponent who can't read you stays off balance.
Tehran, split between the Ayatollah's circle, the speaker, and the IRGC, is learning that now.
Sean defends the war's purpose with a statistic that rarely gets airtime: one US service member killed by Iran or its proxies every three days before the first bomb ever dropped.
And he's clear-eyed about the rebuild America needs, from the single Alabama plant making key munitions to a Navy he'd reinforce any way possible:
"I'd rather ride around in a South Korean sub than no sub."
His prescription is pure America First: buy time, rebuild the arsenal, restore the deterrent, and sign nothing with a regime whose factions won't honor each other's agreements.
@seanspicer @WeTheBrandon
