{"id":57881,"date":"2026-03-03T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=57881"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:56:18","slug":"ron-paul-troops-on-the-ground-trump-vows-whatever-it-takes-to-defeat-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/ron-paul-troops-on-the-ground-trump-vows-whatever-it-takes-to-defeat-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Troops on the Ground? Trump Vows &#8216;Whatever It Takes&#8217; To Defeat Iran!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday President Trump signalled that the US\/Israeli war on Iran could go for &#8220;weeks, maybe longer&#8221; as he indicated that troops on the ground may be needed. Meanwhile Secretary of State Rubio admitted that Israel forced the US hand on launching the Iran attack. Polls continue to show substantial opposition to the new war.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MEiI1bE7t6k?si=gFTbT21kxlPq-SpX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Yesterday President Trump signalled that the US\/Israeli war on Iran could go for &#8220;weeks, maybe longer&#8221; as he indicated that troops on the ground may be needed. Meanwhile Secretary of State Rubio admitted that Israel forced the US hand on launching the Iran attack. Polls continue to show substantial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-57881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57885,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57881\/revisions\/57885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57881"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}