"Six pressures. One post. President #Trump did not discover diplomacy. He discovered arithmetic. The 48-hour #ultimatum was a threat. The 5-day #pause is a confession that the threat’s consequences were worse than its target. Destroying #powerplants would have sealed the strait permanently, triggered Ghalibaf’s promise to “irreversibly destroy” Gulf desalination and energy infrastructure, crashed TSMC’s supply chain, spiked inflation past 3 percent, and handed the midterms to the opposition on a platter of $7 gasoline."
#EndWars #Iran
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