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September 9, 2026

Battleship.

When war starts looking like a board game, somebody should probably check the score.

Editorial cartoon in a Pentagon war room showing Donald Trump clapping gleefully over a map of the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz with ten burning U.S. ships and five burning Iranian ships. Pete Hegseth sits beside him. Trump says, This is fun! I always liked playing Battleship when I was a child. A general replies, Sir, you do realize that for every five ships we sink, they attack ten?