Trump talked to some Pakistani leaders, and that was good enough. He has announced a ceasefire.
President Donald Trump said he’d agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday, less than two hours before his 8 p.m. deadline to destroy a “whole civilization.”
Trump said the ceasefire agreement was made on the condition that Iran agree to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz.
Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!,Trump posted on Truth Social.
The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East,Trump wrote.
See? He thinks he won already. Iran said nothing.
How about if we just ignore him from now on and focus on the Epstein files and getting him out of office?
It’s not an “agreement” unless both sides have agreed. It sounds like they haven’t, and he is just lying again.
Meanwhile:
Pro-Iran Hackers Target Critical U.S. Energy and Water Infrastructure
OK, so give him the Nobel Peace Prize to make him happy and distracted while serious people get on with cleaning up the mess he’s made.
I wonder how much the markets are being gamed on this move.
And as I predicted in the earlier post today, the markets are back up sharply after hours. Real people are being killed so he and his co-conspirators can game the market, and!!! keep The Files out of the news cycle.
TACO Tuesday…
I had recently fallen into darkness contemplating the potential usage of a nuke. I’m glad it apparently won’t happen (Trump’s conditional vagueness…) but putting yourself there takes a lot out of you that can’t be gotten back. I was having Thirteen Days flashbacks.
Trump needs to have the 25th invoked and be placed in a rubber room or a home for deranged ex-presidents. Someone on a previous thread compared recent events to George HW Bush (via a Dana Carvey spoof) and the first war on Iraq. This ain’t it. He wasn’t insane and at least had more competent cabinet members (excepting Quayle at least). HW would be a RINO now.
Hemidactylus:
“I had recently fallen into darkness contemplating the potential usage of a nuke. I’m glad it apparently won’t happen (Trump’s conditional vagueness…) but putting yourself there takes a lot out of you that can’t be gotten back. I was having Thirteen Days flashbacks.”
I myself had no prob.
No putting.
Heck.
This is nothing like the bad old Cold War days, worry-wise.
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As Robro points out, markets kinda show the scene.
There was no panic. Just fluctuations.
Large-scale, they price in future expectation via the wisdom of the collective; narrow-scale, the fluctuations can be arbitraged.
Trump says X, oil goes up. Says Y, oil goes down.
(Many such oscillations, many market movements)
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Many grifting methods, for example, I did notice big players bought up a lot of the tariff refund ‘futures’ for pennies in the dollar. All that stuff within hours. It’s been noticed, but hey.
Profit first, then the disputation and the appeals and so forth.
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And it’s always in 2-3 weeks, with Trump. The meme.
John Morales @7
I’m not so sure. With JFK during the Cuban missile crisis we were on the brink, but at least had competent cabinet members pushing back against Curtis LeMay and trying backchannels with the Russians. They legit brought us back from the brink.
I’m not about to play up the Iranian regime’s side as noble, but with Trump we are far more like a bellicose unhinged Khrushchev than a reserved JFK. In a nutshell, back then we feared the Russians, though the LeMays and Goldwaters were scary too. Now it’s coming mostly from inside the house in horror movie parlance.
I suppose the overall nuclear threat dynamic is different, but I was worried, and still am, that we will become the first use aggressor with that with an unhinged POTUS. I am not as afraid of being struck in the short term, but such usage changes the world for the worse.
I am still worried the ultraorthodox Iranian leadership will consolidate its position, the ultrarapacious US leadership will consolidate its position, the ultramalicious Israeli leadership will consolidate its position, and in a couple of weeks we’ll have circled the drain back to the same standoff but even further down the pipe.