This could have been predicted. The cease fire in the Middle East is falling apart.
Israel on Tuesday carried out military strikes in Gaza after the nation accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire by attacking Israeli troops and not returning the remains of Israeli hostages killed in Hamas captivity.
The Trump administration claims that the peace deal still holds, even though the persistence of military strikes means there is, by definition, no peace in the region.
The ceasefire deal “doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there,” Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday during a visit to Capitol Hill. “We know that Hamas or somebody else within Gaza attacked an [Israeli] soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the president’s peace is going to hold despite that.”
JD Vance is such a slimy little toady.
At least Trump can fall back on his other 6 or 7 war-ending negotiations. Can anyone name them?
India and Pakistan.
Albania and Azerbaijan.
Gondor and Mordor.
Ankh-Morpork and Pseudopolis.
Earth and Mars.
Heaven and Hell.
What do I win?
He ended the civil war in Nambia.
Didn’t he mostly end the National Guard occupation of Los Angeles? And he could do the same for D.C., Chicago, Portland… there is no end to the number of wars he could end.
SApparently Trumpcan’t anymore.
From what I read / heard he’s forgotten that Armenia is a country and cannot pronounce Azerbaijan. Whihc I’;e probly mistyped but anyhow..
Also Trump had nothing to do with that one anyhow..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Azerbaijan_border_crisis_(2021%E2%80%93present)
SApparently Trumpcan’t anymore.
From what I read / heard he’s forgotten that Armenia is a country and cannot pronounce Azerbaijan. Whihc I’;e probly mistyped but anyhow..
Also Trump had nothing to do with that one anyhow..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Azerbaijan_border_crisis_(2021%E2%80%93present)
‘the ceasefire doesn’t mean the fire will cease’ – jd vance
6 or 7? I think I see what you might have done there…
Hemidactylus @ 7
You’re banned! : )
Yeah, everyone in the White House is at sixes and sevens trying to remember where Dear Leader restored peace…
The number of wars Trump has or is starting are so many, it is hard to keep track of them.
.1. The Trade wars with all the tariffs.
.2. The War on Science.
.3. The War on Medical Research and Medicine.
.4. The war and invasion of the USA by the US military.
In LA, Portland, Chicago, Washington DC etc..
I still haven’t figured out why the USA is declaring war on the USA but whatever.
.5. Venezuela, probably.
.6. The Wars on the Poor and Homeless.
.7. Reserved space for the next war on something, somewhere, for some reason.
The US has declared war on me. Again.
We’ve been through this once before when I was a kid, the anti-Vietnam war protest movement.
Bovino, the head of the Border Patrol, is now threatening to shoot protesters. That is me and a few million of my close friends. I’ve been to 7 demonstrations so far and am a minor part of the local committee.
You can tell, they really, seriously want to see rivers of blood and piles of bodies in the streets. They are trying very hard to call out the National Guards and the entire US military including the Air Force, Space Force, Marines, and Navy.
And with that and all those poorly trained, substandard newly hired ICE and BP thugs and the huge amount of tactical equipment and guns, it is inevitable.
They’ve already shot two people, for no good reasons, one of which is dead.
Is “The War on US citizens” one of the 7?
Trump totally stopped the war between Agrabah and Atlantica.
Or perhaps it was the lack of water for one, and a surfeit of water for the other? Or that they’re both fictional?
Someone should ask Trump. I’m sure the answer will be entertaining.
I’d love if some reporter could just casually mention the ongoing conflict between Wakanda and Genosha to Trump, for his thought.
Then, since firing has not ceased, it’s NOT a ceasefire deal.
Oh, I get it! Peace is war. I bet there are others..
‘When I use ‘ceasefire’, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less'”
–JD “Humpty Dumpy” Vance
He sure won the War Of The Roses.
Tore that garden right up.
There’s this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-armed-conflict-drug-cartels-caribbean-boats-b2838272.html
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War on drugs: Trump declares US is now in ‘armed conflict’ with Caribbean cartels
Officials sent notice to Congress labeling alleged traffickers ‘nonstate armed’ combatants in bid for legal justification for extrajudicial killings
The United States is formally engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels that Donald Trump’s administration has labeled “unlawful combatants,” according to a confidential notice to members of Congress.
A unclassified notice obtained by The Independent was delivered to congressional national security committees this week. The New York Times first reported the statements.
The designation appears to claim extraordinary wartime powers to justify a series of strikes against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea, which have drawn legal scrutiny and allegations that the administration and defense officials committed extrajudicial murder.
Re: larpar at 2:
Apropos of “Nambia”, I’m reminded that Finnish politician Martti Ahtisaari won the 2008 Peace Nobel for having served in 1977-1981 as the head of the UN nation-building and peacekeeping operation that prepared Namibia’s 1990 independence from South African occupation. At a cursory glance, the whole process seems to have had some similarities with Palestine’s struggle for independence.
Notably, it takes a lot of time to confirm that a peace process like this is actually successful. Maybe not always 30 years, but certainly longer than the 30 days or less it sometimes takes to confirm that a peace process has failed. In order to win the peace prize, Trump would not only have to actually achieve something on that front, but also have a lot of patience, and live improbably long while not wrecking up many things elsewhere.
The Civil War, also known as the War of Northern Aggression? Nah. That one is still raging. The South now occupies Chicago. It took them 160 years, but they finally pulled it off.
Trump Goes Full Dictator With Bonkers Threat to Use Air Force and Navy in U.S. Cities
Eurasia, Eastasia, and Oceania. Not that there ever was a war between those 3 of course.
A translator delivered an embarrassing rebuke to the president in South Korea
At least Albania is now at peace with Azerbaijan.
Netanyahu only agreed to a cease fire while giving credit to Trump to console him regarding his exalted peace prize. Trump is once again played by Netanyahu.
There is no cease fire in reality. Every day I wake up to Palestinians being bombed or shot with some fake reason that Hamas did something to cause it.
@25 stuffin
I would think that Israel is running out of stuff to blow up in Gaza.
And Russia just bombed a Ukrainian children’s hospital. See, you let Israel get away with it and other despots and dictators copy.
garydargan, true, but… one should not imagine that’s all they do.
Ukraine does not reveal military hits. Only the civilian ones, and the infrastructure ones/
And they use a lot of EW against drones. Which means some go off-course.
Also, the numbers are getting ridiculous.
E.g. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-curbs-power-supplies-after-attack-energy-facilities-kyiv-says-2025-10-30/
Russia strikes Ukraine energy grid, killing seven, including one child
By Anastasiia Malenko and Olena Harmash
October 31, 20258:35 AM GMT+10Updated 2 hours ago
Zelenskiy said Russia launched more than 650 drones and 50 missiles in the attacks. Most of the drones were neutralised and two-thirds of the missiles were downed, he said.
Air defence units shot down 592 drones and 31 missiles, the air force said.
UKRAINE ANNOUNCES LIMITS ON POWER SUPPLY
The attacks hit energy facilities in central, western, and southeastern regions, Ukrainian officials said.
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Anyway, historically, attacking civilians to weaken their will has never historically worked.
Reginald Selkirk. Although all the Hamas bases that were disguised as hospitals and schools and apartment blocks and aid centres and tent cities have been destroyed there are still many Hamas terrorists disguised as children and and other unarmed civilians to “blow up”.
Russia has been bombing maternity wards longer than Israel.
After three thousand years of almost-constant warfare in the Levant, is anyone surprised that an outside-brokered “peace agreement” failed? The last one that to Americans “really meant anything” — the Camp David Accords — lasted less than 90 days before there were two armed conflicts in the region.
I independently endorse what Nick Wrathall noted.
From where I sit, Israel’s military posture toward Hamas mirrors the logic of U.S. policing when officers shout “stop resisting” while applying overwhelming force.
Obs, the analogy has limits, such as the U.S. policing targets individuals whereas Israel’s actions affect entire populations, but the justification used to escalate and prolong violence while ostensibly framing the target as inherently threatening is obvious.
They’ve levelled Gaza, and still they bash because of their alleged resistance.
Larry@11: Is “The War on US citizens” one of the 7?
1. Los Angeles, California
2. Washington D.C. (Which despite showing a reduced crime rate, Der Orange Führer insists is heavily crime infested.)
3. Memphis, Tennessee
4. Chicago, Illinois
5. Portland, Oregon (which Der Orange Führer insists is burning to the ground.)
That’s at least 5, and he has expressed plans to start wars in at least 11 US cities. Who would have thought that appointing a feeble-minded, narcissistic, psychopathic, pathologically lying, career criminal to the presidency would ever be a bad idea?
Here is another reason why Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump is now going to start another war, this time in Nigeria.
Whether this will be before or after the War in Venezuela is To Be Determined.
Needless to say, there are 5 or 10 things wrong with this plan.
Notably, Nigeria is a big country with 232 million people.
The whole idea looks a lot like the Vietnam war and we all know how well that worked out.
@ ^ raven : Plus looks a lot like the American* wars in Iraq and Afghanistan too & ditto.
Probly simultaneous because things just aren’t bad enough or distracting enough already.
.* Plus American allies that get sucked in every time to every needless war and feel obliged to trot off the cliff like lambs blindly following their mother sheep** because of c we do.
.** Yeah, I know, sheep don’t do that. They’re smarter. Metaphorically speaking here. One my primary school history (?) teacher memorably said once.
StevoR, tsk.
Not even slightly. Did you forget the ‘coalition of the willing’? Tony Blair?
Utterly different circumstances! This is nothing like that.
@ ^ More specifically and unreliable human memory serving he (my history teacher) mentioned that Australia always follows America like a lamb trotting after amother sheep. He didn’t talk about it going off a cliff.’
Going off a cliff is where we – globally – seem headed metaphorically in so many ways now with such staggering huge implications. Not that giving into defeatism or despair will help..
Huh, I footnoted the following along “All the way with USA!” allies too.. Bush the Lesser, Blair, Howard.. War criminals all.
“Looking like” in terms of needless invasions and bloodshed and destruction likely to extend for prolonged periods of many years with catastrophic, counter-productive very much not as planned results.
Wars and history that should have bene learnt from but predictably hasn’t been.
^ @ 36. John Morales : Needless to say but saying anyhow
StevoR, this is not like that at all. Nothing, total silence officially and even by any pollies.
(The dog that did not bark; applies to every single ally in Iraq and Afghanistan, too)
Two citations:
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/10/un-experts-condemn-coercive-intervention-venezuela-united-states
&
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/448051?ln=en&v=pdf
(Resolution 1368 (2001) / adopted by the Security Council at its 4370th meeting, on 12 September 2001 )
I love how JD Vance is going to dump his wife and hook up with Erica Kirk, the mourning wife in leather tights. Picture book christianity right there. An inspiration.
As to Gaza, the media reporting of Israel just keeping going killing Palestinians is so, so dismal. Ceasefire, my ass.