“Iran offered a counterproposal Wednesday to end the war in the region after rejecting a ceasefire plan backed by the Trump administration”:
Even if Israel seduced Trump into the Iran War, he bears full responsibility for the disaster:
- Trump Wrote the Tariff Playbook. Now Iran Is Using It on the World’s Most Important Oil Route (Fortune)
- Trump Avoids Word ‘War’ to Describe Iran Conflict ‘Because You’re Supposed to Get Approval’ (The Hill)
- Americans Broadly Disapprove of U.S. Military Action in Iran (Pew Research)
- Republicans in Congress Fret over Iran War as Pentagon Offers Few Answers (NY Times)
- Trump’s ‘Absurdly Incoherent’ Iran Pleas Leave Allies Befuddled (Politico)
- The Right Is Openly Divided over the Iran War as Conservatives Gather for CPAC (PBS)
- In Trump’s War Messaging, Veterans See Something New — and Disturbing (Washington Post)
- The Iran War Has Already Hurt Oil Production More than the ’70s Energy Crisis Did (Reason)
- Iran War Is a ‘Catastrophe,’ G7 Ministers Warn — but There’s Little They Can Do to Stop It (CNBC)
- Russia Slams Second US-Israeli Strike at Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Reactor (Aljazeera)
- Iran’s Rejection of US Talks Reflects Deep Mistrust (BBC)
- Gulf States’ Scepticism over Alleged US-Iran Talks Signals a Distrust of Trump (The Guardian)
He “served alongside U.S. Army Special Forces for more than a decade in the Afghan National Army Special Operations Command” but died in ICE custody after his captors denied him the inhaler he needed to breathe:
“Rather than accelerate a change of leadership, Israeli and US strikes may have helped harden the resolve of those whose defection would be key to bringing down the Islamic Republic, experts say”:
- Iran’s Regime Was Teetering. This War Could Be Keeping It from Collapse (Times of Israel)
Trump boasts that Iran’s navy is “gone,” but Ukraine never really had one to start with …
… “Iran does not need to target every ship, just as the United States did not need to sanction every bank. A few examples were enough to force the rest to fall in line”:
- Iran Is Using America’s Playbook Against Us (NY Times)
Iran “has deliberately decentralized its military command, distributed political authority across regional nodes that can operate autonomously, and cultivated multiple potential successors at every level”:
- Iran’s Long Game: Decades of Preparation Are Paying Off (Foreign Affairs)
“The Houthis, who are based in Yemen and backed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, could soon become involved with the U.S. war in Iran if vessels attempt to pass through Bab el-Mandeb”:
“Gulf states issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning Iran’s ‘blatant’ and ‘criminal’ attacks against their energy infrastructure, signaling a readiness to act in ‘self defense’ in the future”:
“The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir”:
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