Trump Destroys Himself After Destruction Threats Fail; Iran Now Holds All The Cards

Trump threatened to wipe out a civilisation, then ended up taking Iran’s terms to Islamabad. Not a leader just a loser. Right, so Donald Trump said a whole civilisation would die that night if Iran did not do what he wanted, and then less than two hours before his own deadline he backed off, took a two-week ceasefire, accepted talks in Islamabad in Pakistan, and called Iran’s proposal a workable basis for negotiation after having previously said it wasn’t enough. That is not the story of a man imposing terms. That is the story of a man finding out, in public, that there is a difference between saying the most extreme thing you possibly could, out loud and in public as usual and actually being able to carry it through. He did not just retreat. He did it after talking like he had reached the point where retreat was no longer available. He put total destruction on the table, he fixed a clock, he made the whole thing sound utterly final, and then the clock ran down into Pakistan-brokered diplomacy. He tried to sound like the end of the conversation and landed on what could frankly be the end of him, because Iran was never backing down. People forming human chains on a bridge there, putting their bodies on the line, daring the US to strike civilians, to commit the war crimes that would have been cut and dried if Trump had struck what the orange oaf said he was going to, instead it turned into taco Tuesday, but don’t denigrate the bravery of those people prepared to do that for their own country. It speaks volumes of what they think of their country, regardless of what you might think of the theocracy that rules it, would you chain yourself to a bridge for Keir Starmer, or for Donald Trump? Who is really the worse society? Of course some in the media are claiming these people were being forced into it but did you see any signs of that, because I didn’t. Worse for Trump of course is just how clearly he made his plans known. He did not mutter some vague lines about options remaining open. He talked about bridges, power plants, complete demolition, four hours of destruction, and then the big line about a whole civilisation dying that night.