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.
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