"No one was texting war plans " In mid-March 2025, almost two months into Trump 2.0, Houthi rebels in Yemen and the Trump Administration's national security team found themselves on a collision course, headed for a calamity unprecedented in US politics - an intelligence leak, and subsequent scandal, that bespoke the staggering incompetence of the administration, top-down and throughout its leadership. It was deeply alarming on its face - but what it portended, as a vanguard of Trump's determined demolition of democratic norms, has been chilling. What follows in this short read is an account of the events immediately before and after a US attack on the Houthi rebels, and subsequent leaking of the real-time communication among the national security team members as it happened. The story may or may not be complete, but it hopefully provides some illumination of the grim reality Americans in which Americans now find themselves, as the nation careens forward with gathering speed - with no one at the wheel.
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