The War Trump Can't End
Karim Sadjadpour: Washington needs a deal, but Tehran needs an enemy.
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"In a zero-sum negotiation, Iran's monomaniacal focus is a greater currency than American military power," Karim Sadjadpour argues.[image or embed] -- The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) 6:05 PM · May 29, 2026
"In a zero-sum negotiation, Iran's monomaniacal focus is a greater currency than American military power," Karim Sadjadpour argues.[image or embed]
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Islamic Republic has never been willing to trade its revolutionary principles for prosperity [Sadjadpour argues]. As recently as May 26, Mojtaba Khamenei used the hajj"Islam's most universal gathering"as an occasion to warn that the "terrorist" U.S. military was no longer safe in the Middle East, and that the "cancerous tumor of Israel" would soon experience the "final days of their wretched existence." And the Trump administration appears to have little illusion about Iran's priorities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during a recent state visit in India that "Iran would rather invest in the rapists and murderers of Hamas" than in its own people."
#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-30 07:46 AM | Reply
"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio bleated during a recent state visit in India that "Iran would rather invest in the rapists and murderers of Hamas" than in its own people."
Everybody surfing the global internet has seen Dummkopf Trumpf invest in "rapists and murderers" by pardoning the 6 Jan insurrectionists against the US government.
Most of the world does not see Hamas as "rapists and murderers" but as a resistance movement against Israeli genociding Palestinians and stealing their land, like 19th-century colonists in Africa or America's "Indian fighters."
Most of the world has recognized the State of Palestine.
Idiotic, childish comments like this are why nobody on the planet takes Empty Suit Marco Rubio seriously.
And Iran has achieved 95% of its universal healthcare initiative for all its citizens, soon to be 100% like Mexico will have in 2027.
WTF do we have here in the US?
#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-30 08:18 AM | Reply
The war Trump's mental illness won't allow him to end.
The war Trump's mental illness caused him to start.
#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-30 08:20 AM | Reply
*** Is The US Back to the 'Forever Wars?' Vermont ARNG Deploying 500 Soldiers to Middle East ***
FTA:
"[The VTARNG Soldiers] are heading to USCENTCOM, a large military region that includes the Middle East. The mission, dubbed Spartan Shield, includes securing bases in that area. It was planned a year and a half ago, but now it coincides with the illegal US war against Iran being fought by US forces to benefit Israel.
Sources say the unlawful US war against the people of Iran is not part of the VTARNG mission, but since there are now boots on the ground in that region, it's possible these citizen-soldiers could be called on to support the unconstitutional and economically bankrupting war effort."
Link: www.wcax.com
#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-30 08:37 AM | Reply
And Iran has achieved 95% of its universal healthcare initiative for all its citizens, soon to be 100% like Mexico will have in 2027. WTF do we have here in the US? #2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS
NW as hell.
#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-05-30 08:48 AM | Reply
Lindsey Graham branded pathetic' for saying Nobel Peace Prize should be renamed Trump Prize www.independent.co.uk
... Senator Lindsey Graham has been branded "pathetic" after he called for the Nobel Peace Prize to be renamed after President Trump. Graham made the remark while speaking about Trump's suggestion that Middle Eastern nations should sign up to the Abraham Accords amid efforts to end the war with Iran. If the president succeeds, Graham says the prestigious peace award should be renamed as the "Trump Prize." "If he can pull this off, if he can get Saudi Arabia, the center of Islam for the entire world, to recognize the Jewish state Israel, he'll have ended the Arab-Israeli conflict that's been going on for thousands of years," Graham claimed on Wednesday's episode of Fox News' Hannity. ...
Graham made the remark while speaking about Trump's suggestion that Middle Eastern nations should sign up to the Abraham Accords amid efforts to end the war with Iran.
If the president succeeds, Graham says the prestigious peace award should be renamed as the "Trump Prize."
"If he can pull this off, if he can get Saudi Arabia, the center of Islam for the entire world, to recognize the Jewish state Israel, he'll have ended the Arab-Israeli conflict that's been going on for thousands of years," Graham claimed on Wednesday's episode of Fox News' Hannity. ...
#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-30 01:51 PM | Reply
It has taken a colossal mistake by Der Dotard for the US population to recognize what they have been told for years: Trump is a bad negotiator, a lousy businessman and a child in an adults world. He will either bend to Iran, restart the war or present voters with gasoline at more than $4 per gallon. Trumps 2018 mistake of unwinding the agreement Obama negotiated has this country in the position of never going back to terms as favorable as those we once had. The Trump comedy duo of a condo salesman and little wooden boy do not have the skill to win such a deal. Trump is making America worse, one quip at a time ...
#7 | Posted by catdog at 2026-05-30 03:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Pres Trump's war : War of choice, peace of desperation.
#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-30 04:00 PM | Reply
Three big takeaways for the Iranian regime from Trump's War: (1) Seldom will an adversary just hand you the deck, trust your elaborate shuffle and then bleat: "Name the game and the rules." But should that occur, squeeze that opportunity for everything you've got. (2) The nukes are gold - go for it, the fast and dirtier the better. (3) Despite the way he sounds, appears, and behaves, Donald Trump may have some life left in him yet. Pray the Americans are saddled with him full term.
#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-30 04:39 PM | Reply
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