Update 3: Attacks continue on Lebanon and Iran, from Israel. Iran let two ships thru, then closed the Strait again. The original announcement from Pakistan said that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire, but then Israel said it didn’t, and now Trump says the same. As ceasefires go, this isn’t one. I’ll probably write a new […]
Second Iranian War
Not precisely a surprise, given they sent Kushner, Witkoff and Vance to negotiate. Apparently Vance talked to Trump six times and Iran says that the negotiations were going OK until Netanyahu called Vance, then suddenly it seemed like the American delegation was negotiating for Israel. More to the point, the US wanted the Strait open […]
Of all the wars I’ve covered in my writing career, this one has been the hardest in the sense that figuring out what’s true and what isn’t is difficult. The baseline assumption is that nothing the US says about the war can be trusted. Most of what Iran says in concrete terms about what they […]
I saw an article today by the American Conservatives, who tend to be more sensible than most conservatives. It posits that peace can’t be made with Iran till Trump gets tough with Israel, because it’s Israel who keeps escalating. This is true, but it avoids the pedo-elephant in the room. It is almost certain that […]
You may remember when Iraq said “Americans must remove all troops from Iraq” and the US said “who cares what you think?” Well, right now the Iraq resistance is removing all American troops from Iraq. They can’t defend their bases and even had to beg for a truce to remove troops. But the real problem […]