March 19, 2026
Who’s really driving this war?
US has "lost control of its own foreign policy", Oman says
‘Trump let Israel drive the car’ – internet explodes after Oman says US has “lost control” of its foreign policy
TLDR: Oman’s foreign minister says the US has “lost control” of its foreign policy and let Israel drag Trump into a disastrous war with Iran just as a real nuclear deal was close. Commenters are split between blasting the US as Israel’s obedient bodyguard and mocking the whole saga as reckless, meme-worthy chaos.
Online, Oman’s foreign minister didn’t just drop an article – he dropped a lore update for the entire Middle East saga, and the comments section went nuclear. Albusaidi basically says the US isn’t in the driver’s seat anymore, claiming Israel talked Donald Trump into a disastrous war with Iran just as a real peace deal was on the table. One side of the internet is screaming “This is what happens when you send a landlord and your son‑in‑law to do nuclear talks”, roasting Trump’s real-estate buddy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for showing up with no experts while the world teetered on war.
Others are furious but divided over who’s really puppeteering whom: one camp repeats Oman’s line that Washington is now “Israel’s bodyguard with nukes”, while another claps back that blaming everything on Israel is just a lazy excuse for Trump’s own choices. Netanyahu’s claim that “no one tells Trump what to do” has become an instant meme, with commenters captioning it over pictures of Trump holding a tiny steering wheel from the passenger seat. Dark humor rules the thread: people joke the US “rage-quit diplomacy like a bad video game lobby”, calling the aborted peace talks “the DLC we never got”. Underneath the memes, though, there’s a heavy mood: a lot of users genuinely believe this “grave miscalculation” has locked the region into yet another endless, unwinnable war.
Key Points
- •Oman’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi claims the US has “lost control of its own foreign policy” and was persuaded by Israel to enter a war with Iran, which he calls a “catastrophe” and “grave miscalculation.”
- •Albusaidi says Iran and the US were on the verge of a substantive nuclear deal after talks in Geneva, with Iran offering major concessions on uranium enrichment and a civil nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
- •The UK’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell reportedly shared the view that the talks had made significant progress, enough to avert war, and a final negotiation round was planned in Vienna.
- •Despite this, within about 48 hours of the talks concluding, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, which Albusaidi describes as an unlawful military action that derailed the diplomatic process.
- •Oman, while most vocal in opposing a US attack, along with the UAE and Qatar sought diplomatic solutions and warned of regional devastation; Oman has increasingly criticised the US as acting as a proxy for Israeli interests and damaging international law.