What Trump has agreed to…
So basically the US lost is what I’m reading here. Not even a ceasefire just a straight defeat.
Look, let Trump save face. Let him gloat that he won. It’s better than him bombing innocent people.
Wouldn’t be the first time they mask loss
You can literally read the word “ceasefire” if you open the article lmao
A ceasefire were you don’t achieve any goals, and the opposing side gets major concessions is a defeat.
The Iranian regime survived. The nuclear programme survived. Iran now has the right to charge tolls on an international strait. The US is negotiating an withdrawal from the Middle East. Iran will get rid of the sanctions. And in they will get reparations as a cherry on top.
A ceasefire with guarantee not to repeat aggressions is either a lie or a defeat
So this 2 weeks is just them ending it and it’s over and we’re just going to forget about it because that’s how the news cycle works and then this never happened Jesus f****** Christ murica lost again but the billionaires won cuz they made money on this by rug pulling the world’s economy why do we live in capitalism so people can do this
Well, I think some good came out of this. Mostly evil, but some good.
I’m looking at (used) EVs seriously now. I’m betting a lot of other people are also trying to move to EVs after the nth price shock in x years. This one went at least as bad here as the start of the Ukraine war.
Also there are now politicians in Germany initiating discussions about restarting some of the nuclear plants if possible. My own country sadly isn’t too progressive on these issues, most people want shale rock to be brought back rather than additional wind turbines being built, since there were some points during the winter where there was no wind when it was really cold and electric prices shot through the roof.
wait what ahaha seriously? this is going to be the most “we actually lost” victory Trump is going to declare. can’t wait for him to call this “deal” (no lmao) a peaceful cessation of power and a success. iran couldn’t get more out of this if they tried.
It reminds me of that scene from the newer All Quiet On The Western Front when the diplomats negotiated an end to WWI.
Trump will start to walk back on this the second they sit down and possibly offer “personal gains” they just cant refuse. Iran will just walk out and all this shit will continue.
Do we have a source for this?
I don’t think Trump would agree to #6. However, Trump could explain to Iran that ending sanctions would enable Iran to rebuild. #2 and #5 require explanation. Trump would probably agree to letting Iran having sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, but they would have to keep it open. Iran would have to agree to any UN resolution banning it from developing a nuclear bomb.
Mission Accomplished, part 2
TACO!
The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives
Ok, so you don’t need a ceasefire, you need to just fucking leave.
The ceasefire is while theyre finalizing the peace agreement. If its all true then its standard.
If its all true
Imma stop you right there
Do you think peace just magically gets signed one day and people pick up and leave that day? Obviously the process incudes a ceasefire to give time to finalize things and withdraw.
Israel will probably just bomb Iran and everything will continue, they still want this war.
Israel already rejected Iran’s terms for a ceasefire and is continuing to attack Lebanon.
Yea but this chain is about having completed war aims so you should just up and leave instead of signing a ceasefire and finalizing peace. Isreal still says theyve got work to do and was still fighting. Plus isreal attacks from their home so they cant up and leave.
TACO Tuesday
I know you guys really love your twee little catchphrase but how did he chicken out when his demands were met? Iran are the ones who folded, at least for now.
**oh nevermind, Iran is saying he agreed to their 10 point plan. If that’s true then lmao, the whole civilization ending thing was probably staged to let him save some face.
***if it’s not in reference specifically to today’s deadline to open the strait then the subtext of saying TACO here is that you’re calling him a coward for not continuing the war. weird take but ok.
when his demands were met?
were they?
Iran did not give up its uranium, nor was there regime change. The only thing he got was getting the strait open, but that was never a problem before the war he started.
I assumed they were saying he chickened out of today’s deadline to open the strait. Which doesn’t make sense because Iran agreed to that specific demand. I did not consider that maybe they were calling him a coward for not doubling down and continuing the war.
Sure I guess you can call him a coward for not doubling down and not technically be wrong. Wouldn’t occur to me to do that though.
Did Iran fold? They are firing missles at Israel, like right this moment
The demand was open the strait or get bombed, they agreed to open the strait as a condition of the ceasefire.
This is like getting mugged, handing over your wallet, and then saying ‘hah, I knew you were too much of a coward to stab me.’
Do you remember why the strait was closed in the first place.
This is like knocking over someone’s sand castle, getting your ass beat for it, they agree to stop if you rebuild the sand castle, you do and declare victory
Sorry I thought “trump is a coward for not doubling down and doing a ground invasion” was too stupid of a position to take. I assumed they were saying he chickened out of today’s deadline to open the strait.
It is, the right position is he should have never started it the first place. Now he’ll scream victory and leave. Only costed millions, if not billions, of dollars and thousands of lives. Such success
The cost is estimated to be 500 mil per day with $31 billion spent on the five weeks of bombing seen so far.
Haven’t seen the straight open yet.
Have you tried offering them a massage?
Ok, it’ll make sense to say XD TACO if they reneg and Trump doesn’t follow through. But they’ve agreed to open the strait or there is no ceasefire agreement.
I’ll bite, where is them agreeing to open the strait? I’m not taking trumps word here.
Did they agree to open the strait?
consider at least reading the headline of the post you’re commenting on
*“agrees” heavily implies two parties. CNN is not such a clickbait rag that they would have framed it like that with a looming deadline less than 2 hours away if it was just trump saying some shit unilaterally.
Have we actually heard anything directly from Iran about this, or just Trumps blabbering? Just because Trump said it doesn’t make it so.
Wasn’t the strait technically open “in coordination with Iran”? Drop them a couple mil and you get through.
Exactly, they were already coordinating with various countries to let ships through. I believe the number of ships has been steadily increasing. Every agreement Iran makes cements their newfound sovereignty over the strait including this ceasefire.
Will still be the case; they need to fund the reparations.
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The ubiquitous two more weeks.
What bothers me is that the Iranians seem to take this bait literally without being too critical. They’re basically saying that they’re ready to open the strait right away for negotiations to happen, even when Trump bombed their country during the previous ones. I think they will come to regret this.
What do they have to lose though? The moment the US starts bombing again the missiles start to fly. It’s tit for tat. That’s been their strategy this whole time. I don’t think they expect the US to take negotiations seriously at all.
I do however think Iran wants to appear reasonable to the rest of the world. Under the ceasefire, they still expect other countries to coordinate with them to get ships through. That was already happening prior to the ceasefire but now it’s clear that’s what they expect from everyone. They’re forcing the world to acknowledge Iranian sovereignty over the strait which is a pretty serious win if they can keep it.
Yes someone needs to warn the Iranians that this administration doesn’t always negotiate in good faith, they’re clearly not aware of that possibility.
Take the bait? Look, playing chess with a pigeon is difficult. Given the terms listed out, someone took bait, but I don’t think it was Iran.
Maybe Iran will commit to the ceasefire in the same way Israel committed to the Gaza ceasefire?
Other way around. Israel will commit to this ceasefire like they committed to the Gaza ceasefire.
They will. All it will take is a few drones from Iran atracking Israel after the cease fire and then the narrative will be “Iran violated the ceasefire, bombing will continue and now Europe has to help keep the strait open”.
Did Iran agree to a ceasefire? I’d totally believe Trump just said this to manipulate the markets.
Their Foreign Minister did reply to the proposal, promising to open the strait, their only leverage, for the duration of the negotiations.
It is not their only leverage, though it is by far their strongest card.
They’ve proven that they can destroy the energy infrastructure in the gulf, if they have to go full scorched earth. They’ve also proved capable of hitting Israel very painfully, and while it’s nothing compared to American bombs, the Nazis in Israel have a very low tolerance for any attacks at home, they can’t sustain a genocidal war when the victims aren’t mostly children and can actually fight back.
They’ve also already inflicted heaven losses on the US military, not to mention proved that they’ll come out on top in a war of attrition.
The only way the US/Israel can truly defeat Iran is with nukes, and while I do think Trump is stupid enough to do it, hopefully enough sane people can convince him that that’s not the victory he’s looking for.
