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Trita Parsi May 18, 2026

We should first recognize that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit — the blockade of the blockade — has failed. That, in turn, was itself an admission that the war had failed. Which was an admission that the threats of war in January had failed. As I have argued before on my Substack, this relentless search for an escalatory silver bullet capable of bringing Iran to its knees is not unique to Trump; it has become a defining pathology of American Iran policy for decades.

Although negotiators have made meaningful progress on several fronts, talks have thus far failed to produce an agreement, largely because of irreconcilable differences over Tehran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile. And as Washington has come to realize that the blockade is backfiring, a new and dangerous dynamic has emerged: both sides now believe another round of fighting will strengthen their hand in the negotiations that follow.

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 17 points 17 hours ago (4 children)
[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

If a US military action lasts longer than 60 days, congress gets to vote on it to make it a war, or force it to stop. Trump is arguing that the ceasefire means it has stopped, and therefore hasn't gone over that limit. And also that if they now start fighting again, it's not the same conflict, so they get another 60 days.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago

when people stopped focusing epstein files, it ends, when epstein comes up every time it will restart.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Indeed, WTF is the orange idiot yapping about.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

Epic Fury is done

Now it has a new name

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago
[–] GhostFace@lemmy.today 9 points 18 hours ago

Someone check the betting sites.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Then toss him on the front line if he so fucking keen.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Did it stop at some point?

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago

He's won the war multiple times every day since it started.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Raped and murdered little girls.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 7 points 21 hours ago

He also fucking ate some of them.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Used to? I'm sure they still do.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

doubtful they could even get it up anymore with all the drugs they abuse.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's not a war, it's a war, it's a ceasefire but we're still shooting each other cuz Iran did it first, it's not a war there are no hostilities it's a ceasefire and on and on it goes, we're going to restart the war.

For fucks sake, can we start discussing solutions to the conservative problem? I'm open to final solutions but really any solution will do.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Solutions are long term. Shit like education. It is not glamorous. Short term stuff is not truly effective.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The fascists are ruining Canada too. Nearly everyone I've talked to wanted to vote NDP last election but instead voted Liberal. Why? We were afraid that the fucking Trump supporting conservative Pollivere would win the election if we didn't vote liberal. And he still hasn't given up, he is still the conservative leader. I really want the NDP party to be in power but we have to settle for the liberals to protect us from the fucking nazis

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Fuckin pp had to move to bassakwards magaville alberta because he was voted out of his riding. God i hate maple millhouse

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Obviously for his "Christian" masters.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

Unhinged murder

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Considering that a blockade is an act of war, it has not in fact "stopped".

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

Right? We all know wars only end when the President dresses up in a pilots outfit and lands on an aircraft carrier to announce Mission Accomplished. The decades of slaughter after that are don’t count as “war”.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago

Only for it to "stop" again just before the deadline where Congress needs to vote on a war powers resolution. Convenient.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so congress passed an extension to the war powers act?

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

iirc this a new not-war so gets is own deadline.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

I mean its not but I think he wants to sell it that way if congress does not give him something.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago

He never really stopped.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Yes. Please drag the country and the world into complete economic chaos. It's the only way the cult will understand their actions.

Eh... even then they won't care as long as browns and queers are getting it worse.

Side note: I made this exact comment on reddit and they removed it and gave me a warning for encouraging violence... Wow that site has gone to complete shit.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago

Oh, your IP address hasn't been permabanned sitewide from reddit yet? Not sure if I can trust you in that case, to be honest... /s

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Stop interacting with Reddit.

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

I will believe it when I see it. Right now it's just taco

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Total victory has been achieved! Now watch me start the war again! Restart the clock!

🫲🍊🫱

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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mate, they've won that war at least 17 times since it started this year. Of course it ended. At least the same amount of times they've won it.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

It stopped?

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