Brett Cameron

Retired Clinical Hypnotherapist/Mentor/Author

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

@AlboMP addressing the nation tonight. Speechwriters in Israeli embassy working overtime. I hope his address is heard from the river to the sea #FREEPALESTİNE

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

Thank you Michael West for confirming what we have long suspected about the pro Zionist grub @ChrisMinnsMP

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

"Chris Minns did not arrive at this moment by accident. He was built for it." Andrew Brown - how Israel groomed an Australian premier
#auspol
https://t.co/hO6vLGkgA3

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

@ProudSocialist @Dangerclose001 US is a war economy. It has to be at war with someone to keep the factories open, churning out weapons and bombs with the profits greasing the wheels of DC. Since WWII, when was the US not at war?

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

@boblake33 @noplaceforsheep @DougCameron51 They are hiding in a very small echo chamber and all they hear is their own bullshit.

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

@MikeCarlton01 @Martin_Flanagan It’s AI Mike. Benny the Butcher is dead and the Israelis are working to fill the power vacuum. (Allegedly)

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

Just for the doubters who thought that Benny the Butcher might still be alive.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Iran trolls Benjamin Netanyahu, showing how easy it is to fake reality with AI.

https://t.co/ShzZisQuSV

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

@RishiSunak @thetimes @RishiSunak have you always been a f*ckwit?

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

@JJKALE2 @SenatorWong So what happens when our “support workers” come home in body bags? We know what Israhell thinks about support workers.

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

ABC Insiders flagging credibility in tatters. Inviting Barnaby Jibberer Joyce to comment on Iran War is like asking a gold fish to explain quantum physics. #auspol TV is now off.

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

@AlboMP I’m calling bullshit. Trümp calls you last night telling you to get involved in his war. You announce we are helping UAE, one of the richest per capital nations. Trümp announced support for Iran womens footballers. Smoke and mirrors.

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

And again and again

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

This is a “MUST READ”. @istandwithiran

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

Hey @AlboMP . I wish I was still a member of the Labor Party. Just so that I could resign again. You’re a pusillanimous numpty.

[Nabil Al-Nashar | نبيل النشار @NabilAlNashar]

Israel’s words in the American president’s mouth.

That’s how the ABC’s @TheLyonsDen described @realDonaldTrump’s speech.

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

FFS! What next? Nobel prize for literature?

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

I’m still on a Labor mailing list. Today’s email said “if an election was held today in NSW, the govt would beLibs and No Notion Party.” Please donate to Labor. Pig’s arse. If @ChrisMinnsMP and his brown shirt cohort behaved like decent humans it would be different.

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

@slsandpet @AlboMP Redundant

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

@noplaceforsheep He is such a disappointment

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

Use one word to describe @AlboMP . I’ll begin … dinosaur #istandwithgracetame

[Brett Cameron @CameronHypnotic]

Looking forward to being there to hear UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti and Prof Emily Crawford speak in Newcastle 12 March. @NewInstitute @SydneyLawSchool “Australia, International Law and Armed Conflict.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

This is so cruel to see stylistic symbols of fascism added to these world figures in the window of Dissent Cafe & Bar in Canberra, taken down.

It would be such a shame if they were reposted on social media by people.