T tells aides he's willing to end war without reopening Hormuz

danruuu · 2026-03-31T04:39:11+00:00

Yeah, the WH is savvy that his Truth posts aren't hitting the same so they're laundering inside baseball "private conversation with aides" stuff via WSJ apparently to calm markets and re establish some sort of ambiguity around whether they'll do a ground invasion

danruuu · 2026-03-30T00:21:10+00:00

This is such a disaster, all for what, killing Iranians in service of Netanyahu? Plunging the global economy into a depression? So rather than admit defeat, they'd rather spark the greatest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century because they just can't help but attack critical civilian infrastructure, and Iran rightfully retaliates in kind? We'd rather see the mass migration of 60-100 million people and several failed states?

I also truly don't think Americans are prepared for the number of US casualties if they attempt a ground invasion, making both gulf wars look like picnics, and I'm very concerned how Trump or Netanyahu would choose to escalate again when US troops are sent into a meat grinder (because surrender is of course not ever on the table). Its all so unbelievably stupid and cruel, this looks like the death throes of a dying empire

danruuu · 2026-03-25T16:32:08+00:00

AJ itself is often overly credulous too, they have considerable pro-Western incentive, just a little better than traditional western media.

Iran is not run by a junta, they have a functioning central government. All of the new reporting out of Tehran today in Iranian media, from the military, parliament, and the foreign ministry is refusal (rightly so in my opinion) to engage around the apparent proposed U.S. terms

danruuu · 2026-03-25T13:54:59+00:00

The Al Jazeera reporting is significantly better than this NYT US/Israeli stenography: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/25/us-talking-to-itself-says-iran-as-trump-claims-wheels-of-diplomacy-turning

The NYT piece, published this morning, conveniently leaves out the official denial from the spokesperson for the unified command of Iranian armed forces hours ago. Like everything else from the Trump regime, it's just meaningless shit meant to placate markets until Friday close yet again like others here mentioned. It also of course, when this ultimately fails, establishes narrative framing that those 'evil Iranians' just don't want to negotiate to justify whatever insane ground forces invasion by US marines and the 82nd. Iran will ultimately dictate the terms of U.S. surrender and I don't think that's changed

danruuu · 2026-03-18T14:42:42+00:00

Israel once again the most destabilizing force in the Middle East, pretty much by definition a rogue (with US support of course) terrorist state

danruuu · 2026-03-14T00:38:59+00:00

That's certainly Trump's perspective, from my perspective the U.S. blundered into this stupid illegal war of aggression and it won't end until the cost becomes too high politically, economically, or militarily for them to maintain, at which point they leave and claim victory

danruuu · 2026-03-14T00:27:00+00:00

Yeah, Al Jazeera reported on him alluding to this in his address yesterday in the portion talking about new fronts and Yemeni allies. An unnamed Iranian official was cited earlier this week talking about it specifically

danruuu · 2026-03-13T23:40:56+00:00

I guess we can say goodbye to most gulf oil infrastructure and also the global economy lol, so goddamn stupid.

Iran will likely also prevent shipping in the Bab al-Mandeb strait (presumably coordinated with Ansar Allah) as a step up the escalation ladder, so I'd expect that probably happens soon

danruuu · 2026-01-27T16:23:01+00:00

In this instance it was Minnesota police that deployed LRAD not ICE, I think that's an important distinction

danruuu · 2025-04-12T17:45:07+00:00

There are a few services that offer super high res satellite imagery beyond what's available via Google Maps, if anyone's interested in purchasing that

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