Thursday, February 26. Around 5pm, the final Situation Room meeting got underway. The positions of everyone in the room were already known before they sat down.
Trump went around the table.
General Daniel Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, outlined the risks meticulously – munitions depletion, the difficulty of securing the Strait of Hormuz, the question of what came next – and offered no opinion. JD Vance, who for
