{"id":33378,"date":"2026-04-04T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=33378"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:41:58","slug":"die-sechste-woche-trump-erklaert-den-sieg-und-der-krieg-erklaert-das-gegenteil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-sechste-woche-trump-erklaert-den-sieg-und-der-krieg-erklaert-das-gegenteil\/","title":{"rendered":"Week six - Trump declares victory, and the war declares the opposite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump stood on Wednesday, April 1, in the Cross Hall of the White House and addressed the nation. It was his first live address since the beginning of the war, five weeks after the first strike. He said the United States had defeated Iran and completely decimated it - militarily, economically, in every respect. Iran\u2019s radar was one hundred percent destroyed. America was unstoppable as a military power. He spoke with the calm of a man convinced that reality is listening to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See also our article:<\/strong> Trump speaks for 19 minutes about a war he cannot explain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two days later, an American fighter jet was shot down over Iran. A second aircraft was hit by Iranian air defense. Trump had said just days earlier that Iran no longer had any air defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is how this war is unfolding in its sixth week. The president speaks, and reality responds with different messages - silent, without comment, but unmistakable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, the Bushehr nuclear power plant was attacked for the fourth time. A guard was killed, an auxiliary building was damaged. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported no increased radiation levels. The plant, operated with Russian uranium and Russian technicians, lies 750 kilometers south of Tehran - closer to the coasts of the Gulf than to the Iranian capital. Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote that radioactive fallout from further attacks would not affect Tehran, but the capitals of the surrounding Gulf states. It was not a warning to his own population. It was a warning to Iran\u2019s neighbors, who have so far mainly appeared as victims of Iranian missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Bushehr nuclear power plant - an auxiliary building is hit. The strikes resemble a dance on the razor\u2019s edge<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, an airstrike hit the petrochemical special zone of Mahshahr in Khuzestan, another struck a facility of the Iranian Ministry of Agriculture in Mehran. The United Arab Emirates reported 23 ballistic missiles and 56 drones from Iran on that Saturday - one of the highest daily totals since the start of the war. Bahrain counted eight drone attacks in the last 24 hours, since February 28 a total of 188 missiles and 453 drones against the small island kingdom that hosts the US Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet. Debris from intercepted projectiles damaged buildings in Abu Dhabi, six people were injured. Aluminum plant Alba in Bahrain hit, two employees lightly injured. The Emirates Global Aluminium plant in Abu Dhabi reported significant damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran\u2019s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf posed a question on social media on Friday that was not a question. He asked how heavily trafficked the Bab el-Mandeb strait is. The passage connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden - one tenth of the world\u2019s seaborne oil and a quarter of all container ships pass through it daily. The Houthis from Yemen, who have already fired a missile at Israel and declared their entry into the war, control the coast on the Yemeni side of this strait. If Bab el-Mandeb were to be closed while the Strait of Hormuz is already largely shut, two of the most important sea lanes in the world would be under fire at the same time. What that would mean for the global economy does not need to be explained. Qalibaf did not explain it either. He only asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n