After twenty-one hours of intense negotiations, Vance and his delegation left Islamabad to return to the United States with no deal following direct three-party talks. From the sidelines, Israel reiterates its commitment to fight Iran and its proxies on all fronts as the death toll in Lebanon exceeds two thousand. For its part, Iran is willing to uphold the ceasefire but is under no pressure to rush a permanent peace. Citing in part safety concerns for maritime vessels as the military lost oversight of all the sea mines laid in the vital waterway during the first days of the war and only knows for sure that a narrow corridor allows for secure passage, thus the trickle of ships allowed through, the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed.
Lashing out against the fake news media for suggesting that the US is not winning or that Iran retains any leverage—before finally announcing as he attended a wrestling match in Miami he does not care if a deal is reached, Trump claims that American warships have entered the strait to conduct mine-sweeping operations, a development that Iran denies and cannot be independently verified. The White House maintains that there Trump card is a naval blockade, which seems to be what is already in place from the Iranian side, and Pope Leo, after being threatened by the administration for his pacifist stance has become a very staunch critic of the war, decrying the “delusion of omnipotence.” A case study in the Streisand Effect as the distraction from the Epstein files seemed to be working with the public attention focused on more immediate matters, first lady Melania Trump testified before congress that she was not Jeffrey Epstein’s friend and the disgraced financier and rapist had not in fact been her pimp, introducing her to her present husband and to please leave her out of this—please and thank you. Maybe Netanyahu has had the kompromat along.
Lashing out against the fake news media for suggesting that the US is not winning or that Iran retains any leverage—before finally announcing as he attended a wrestling match in Miami he does not care if a deal is reached, Trump claims that American warships have entered the strait to conduct mine-sweeping operations, a development that Iran denies and cannot be independently verified. The White House maintains that there Trump card is a naval blockade, which seems to be what is already in place from the Iranian side, and Pope Leo, after being threatened by the administration for his pacifist stance has become a very staunch critic of the war, decrying the “delusion of omnipotence.” A case study in the Streisand Effect as the distraction from the Epstein files seemed to be working with the public attention focused on more immediate matters, first lady Melania Trump testified before congress that she was not Jeffrey Epstein’s friend and the disgraced financier and rapist had not in fact been her pimp, introducing her to her present husband and to please leave her out of this—please and thank you. Maybe Netanyahu has had the kompromat along. 
synchronoptica
one year ago: Trump’s tariff war escalates (with synchronopticรฆ) plus binding spells to settle accounts for the departed
fourteen years ago: another Bulli called Lady
