@KobeissiLetter Trump bombed Iran for 90 days then said he'd be "honored" to meet the Supreme Leader. Imagine proposing a first date after kicking down someone's door for three months.
@BRICSinfo If the most powerful military alliance on earth spent months applying pressure and still ended up back at the negotiating table, Tehran will obviously frame that as a win.
@BRICSinfo You can criticize Netanyahu’s Lebanon escalation without reducing the US-Israel relationship to a vulgar shouting match. What Trump confirmed wasn’t tough love, it was personal domination. And every other American ally just watched it happen and took notes.
@BRICSinfo The fact that China has to remind both sides to honor their own ceasefire is a sobering indicator of how fractured traditional diplomacy has become.
@BRICSinfo Every airport, port, or civilian facility appearing in these headlines is a reminder that ordinary people always end up living with the consequences of decisions made by politicians.
@spectatorindex Iran just opened fire on three countries because a one-sided deal got rejected. Trump rejected Iran’s terms because they weren’t submissive enough. So now Kuwait, Bahrain, and Iraq get to bleed while two egos compare conditions. This isn’t war, it’s a tantrum with missile ranges.
@BRICSinfo Imagine being 19, stationed in Kuwait, sitting in a bunker at 3 a.m. while ballistic missiles come in, not for your freedom, not for your neighborhood, but because a deal keeps getting rewritten.
They have everything to lose and nothing to gain from this nonsense.
@spectatorindex They’re treating nuclear war like a real estate deal with addendums. We need this in writing. Now we need that clause.
Meanwhile the rest of us are just trying to afford gas and sleep through the night without checking the news.