Jay KuoSchrödinger’s Iran war: We are both escalating and deescalating.
PokingFunOfAllSorry to disagree. You can escalate to desescalate. In "100 years of solitude" they do just that. To get the other side to the negotiation table, and have a good enough position, Colonel Aureliano Buendia escalates first.
Of course, the bunch of goons in the government don't even read Mad Magazine.