US Officials Prepare for Weeks of Reciprocal Strikes as Trump Gets Briefed
⏱️ WASHINGTON — Officials say weeks of strikes; Trump just sat down to hear why. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Framing this as days-to-weeks is a posture shift — not a campaign with a defined endpoint, but an attrition timeline. With Qatar's mediation role collapsed and no diplomatic ceiling, US planners are now budgeting for sustained exchange, not coercive resolution. European energy buyers and Gulf host nations just lost the assumption that this ends soon.
