“President Trump’s new 10 percent tariff on global imports has created a new slate of winners and losers, suddenly reshuffling the prospects for countries that have spent many months angling for lower tariff rates than their neighbors and competitors,” the New York Times reports.

“The 10 percent tariff, which was issued under a legal provision known as Section 122, replaces the previous system of levies that the Supreme Court struck down last month. The change is particularly beneficial to major exporters that had faced the highest tariffs rates under that old regime, including Asian nations like China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia, as well as Brazil.”

“Canada and Mexico also face much lower nominal rates, though in practice many of their exports have been excluded under the terms of a North American trade pact. The losers are countries that previously had the lowest rates — including close allies like Britain and Australia — who have seen their advantage over other exporting nations erased.”

Time: “After weeks of threatening military action against Iran, President Donald Trump’s decision to follow through on Saturday was driven in part by his view that negotiations with the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program had become a fruitless exercise… He also feared Iran might strike first against the armada of American forces he had ordered to amass in the region.”

“Trump was also frustrated that Iran flat out refused to discuss two topics—its continued construction of ballistic missiles and its support for violent proxy forces in the Middle East.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth bizarrely claimed in a live Pentagon address that the U.S. did not “start” the war with Iran, the Daily Beast reports.

Hegseth said Iran has carried out attacks for decades in a “one-sided war against America,” without offering much in the way of specifics.

He added: “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.”

“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth rejected concerns of another forever war during the Trump administration’s first media briefing since the beginning of its military operations in Iran,” NOTUS reports.

Hegseth described the operation, which he called the “most lethal, most complex and most precise aerial operation in history,” as a necessary response to Iran’s “nuclear blackmail ambitions.”

He added: “This is not a regime-change war, but the regime sure did change. This is not Iraq, this is not endless. Our generation knows better, and so does this president.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said there was “no indication” that Tehran was “close to getting nuclear weapons” after the United States struck several Iranian nuclear facilities in June, The Hill reports.

Said Cruz: “We launched targeted bombs at the end of the 12-Day War where we dropped the equivalent of about a third of a nuclear weapon on those underground facilities. Facilities like Fordow, built into the base of a mountain We took them out last year.”

Senior U.S. and Israeli officials said their countries’ opening strike on Iran was originally planned to take place a week earlier, but delayed for operational and intelligence reasons, Axios reports.

“As American and Israeli warplanes continue to bombard Iranian cities, European allies have been left in a familiar place: on the sidelines. President Trump cut them out of planning for a conflict that has direct implications for their security,” the New York Times reports.

“The awkward patchwork of responses from European leaders — a mix of guarded approval and plaintive calls for a return to diplomacy — attest to the complexities of dealing with a United States increasingly untethered to post-World War II rules and norms.”

Washington Post: “The vast number of retaliatory attacks — and the array of sites being targeted, including nonmilitary sites in Arab nations across the Middle East — is concerning after so much of the regime’s top leadership was killed… Officials are worried about the command and control of those weapons.”

“Inside the Pentagon, and among some members of the Trump administration, there was deepening concern Sunday that the Iran conflict could spiral out of control.”

“The length of America’s military commitment to its confrontation with Iran depends on what the goals are. And they keep changing,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“On Sunday alone, President Trump and his allies offered at least two separate objectives for the assault on Iran, muddying Washington’s intentions for ending a conflict that has engulfed the Middle East and killed three American service members.”