To be clear.
Broadly speaking thus war will end even remotely as a victory if ships can traverse the strait and gulf without constraint
Other ends (like denuclearization or arms control)are icing on that cake. And remember that "victory " is worse than we had pre war
To achieve that end Iran must agree to the terms ie to agree to not interfere with traffic
What will motivate Iran to agree to that? Well that's the $64000 question
Some think bombing sufficient
I don't
But anything beyond that is certainly difficult if not impossible to achieve
Iran will want some guarantee that Israel and America won't be back in a year. Given our untrustworthy behavior in negotiations and in fact Trump bragging about using negotiations to fool the Iranians I don't see that as an easy fix
Iran will want Israel to leave Lebanon which given how Israel dealt with Gaza doesn't appear as likely
Irans nuclear material seems critical to Israel buy in for any ceasefire and that is not even remotely possible to seize without Iranian agreement
America cannot achieve a separate ceasefire from Israel
So despite the lies that talks are in progress we are in the same irreconcilable dilemma
The war is lost and the only question is how much we will pay before trump realizes that fact
All part of the Plan.
Traumatize workers and take away funding and the financial ability to resist.
"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," Vought said in a video revealed by ProPublica and the research group Documented in October. "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down ... We want to put them in trauma."
Who the hell even talks like that?