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Should be a wild four years.

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Did trump just declare a ceasefire with neither party knowing?

It's not a bad move if you think about it. It clearly signals Trump's intentions to end it here as far as American involvement is concerned. If Israel doesn't go along with it, they look like shit for violating the ceasefire and lose public support, making it less likely the US gets further involved when they (Israel) are acting in bad faith. Iran has good reason to stop hostilities as well and this gives them an out to start further negotiations and some time to stabilize internally after having so many senior staff members killed.

I don't think any lasting peace can be achieved until the Ayatollah dies and a more secular government takes shape. He's old enough (86) that he could go of natural causes any time now. I can't imagine the last several weeks have been easy on him, particularly if he has to keep moving around for security reasons.
 
Depends on what happens to Israel now.
If they are stil AIPACing then its not over.
What else are they going to do? They've neutered Iran for at least a few years, and after such a high op-tempo they will need to put their planes on some downtime for repairs. plus they've burned through a shit ton of ordnance in the last two weeks between 24/7 bombing in Iran and depletion of their AA missiles.
 
I wonder if this whole thing was started for Trump to get some peacemaker cred after his failure with Ukraine. It all started a bit after all that went nowhere after all and would line up with how managed at least these last few stages were.
 
The Trump/Nixon bull in the china shop mad man theory will never not be funny. it makes all the right people panic and usually works out in the end. All the usual suspects seethe because it doesn't fit into a "rules based international order".
It's flagrantly obvious that someone like Trump is necessary for the US military to have any credibility to make it useful. The crazy bastard just might use it!
 
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