Last night, President Trump made a move that came as a surprise to many.
He got TOUGHER in his negotiating position.
But why did he do this is the question many are asking right now. Iran has consistently rejected terms offered by the United States because, quite frankly, they are ridiculously maximalist and entirely detached from the reality of the situation.
Trump is at the table with Iran holding a 7 & 2 off-suit, and Iran is sitting with pocket aces.
So why even waste the time to make an offer Iran is sure to refuse immediately?
Because the deal wasn’t meant for Iran. It was meant for American consumption.
Throughout this conflict, from a strategic standpoint, Trump has been absolutely dog walked by the Iranian regime. From the very first day that Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, and every day since, Iran has held the upper hand, and it only gets stronger by the day.
Trump knows this, even as he wallows in self pity and denial. Iran obviously knows this, and sees the upcoming bullet train of the World Cup, lowest SPR levels in history, midterms, cratering approval numbers… everything is going south for Trump fast at this point. It’s spiraling, and Trump looks increasingly desperate for a deal.
As much as Trump has tried to claim Iran is “begging” for a deal, it is obvious to everyone that it is really Trump that is on his hands and knees.
So if he’s going to reject the latest Iranian proposal because the terms are simply a step too far… why not give the image, the bluster, the BRAVADO of a “tough on Iran” Commander in Chief to sell to the American people.
“Trump is dictating the terms”
“Trump is running the show”
“The United States is in control”
Of course, this is all obviously rubbish. Iran knows that. Trump knows that. And everyone around the world knows that. But it’s not meant for them, it’s meant for his MAGA base.
Trump, by setting forth even more ludicrous terms, allows for a kicking of the can down the road, and the veneer of a tough President that will placate his base that has been ready to rip him to shreds.
It’s not a serious offer. It doesn’t have even the slightest of chance to be accepted by Iran. But it was never meant for them.
It was meant for the desperate and hopeless President Trump to try to prove to his base that he is still in control.
Even when he is clearly not.
India is not doomed. It is too large, too resilient, and too deeply rooted to fail, even under the gross incompetence of its current government.
But survival is not success.
This country had the demographics, the talent, the capital flows, and the global goodwill to become something extraordinary. A wasted opportunity on this scale is no better than outright failure. 2014 offered genuine hope. A decisive mandate. A willing population. A world ready to invest. And those entrusted with this moment extinguished it through arrogance, spectacle, and sheer mediocrity.
The world no longer waits for a country that houses twenty percent of humanity but contributes a fraction of its potential. India has not collapsed. It has simply become irrelevant.
And irrelevance, unlike crisis, generates no urgency to recover.
@Z_DauletSingh The line has always been the preservation of US hegemony. India must also tow the line in addition to helping US hole the line in Asia. This has always been the case.
@SavageAryan007 Don't forget the depreciation in Rupees against yuan and USD. 10-20 percent in one year. Imports prices have gone way up in addition to chip and memory price hikes.
a lot harder to brainwash people when everyone has access to all the footage and news of you slaughtering innocent children like animals you rotten fuck
Shocking. @talk2anuradha has received legal notice from Delhi Police for her three year-old sarcastic tweets after Scheduled Castes Commission took suo motu cognisance of them. The draconian SC/ST Act has been invoked. She could be arrested any moment.
I stand with Anuradha.
I was having a discussion with my college senior at the GYM yesterday and his outlook for India was that things are gradually slipping out of control, we have spent too much time in last many decades in not securing energy needs, fixing infra, education and too much focus is on religion politics and we have become a reactive society where a disaster like situation has to happen before we try to fix it.
I could sadly not counter his argument.
Narendra Modi’s funda is simple:
– If it’s about duty, Indians should do it
– if it’s about responsibility, Nehru did it
– if it’s about credit, Modi did it
Congratulations to you. Children are innocent and lovable. Those 168 children that your boss killed in the school in Minab, and you justified, were also children. When you kiss your baby, think of the mothers of those children.
If India survives Modi. That's a big if. So far, there's no sign of being able to run the country for the well-being of the masses, while there is every sign that he will hold on to power by hook or by crook - mostly by crook - by compromising institutions or outright violence.
By the time the public gets disillusioned enough, there will be little left to loot - but also no resources to rebuild with. Newer generations are growing up entirely out of touch with reality or the building blocks of civilization, so to say. Rational thinking is at an all time low. I seriously don't think our grandparents were as dumb as our contemporaries.
So far the Modi Era is looking more like the end of India than just a dark age to recover from.
This is probably my most important post.
The FED stole your future and there is no going back
"The system is rigged. The deep state does not want us to be free. The American dream is dead."
Statements like these conjure images of deep pessimism, a worldview where you have no agency, where you are merely a puppet dancing for malignant powers you cannot see or touch. We are not people who live in that camp. But sometimes, certain data points are so damning that they leave us no choice but to admit: something is seriously wrong, and it needs to be laid out in the open.
Every time I visit India now, I find people agitated. Even those in the top 10% of the income bracket, earning anywhere from ₹50 lakhs to a crore per year, feel like they are running on a treadmill that keeps accelerating. No matter how fast they move, it is never enough. At the ground level, the situation is far worse. It is the same story everywhere. In Canada, both partners in a household work full time and still fall short each month. In Australia, young professionals earn well and own nothing. In Germany, the middle class quietly shrinks. The geography changes. The exhaustion does not.
And the origins of this mess are not in New Delhi or Ottawa or Berlin. They are in Washington D.C. All of us are paying the price for a policy disaster handed down from ivory towers, by people most of us never elected and, frankly, never even saw.
Consider this: the U.S. money supply (M2) grew by 40% in just 2 years
*The Federal Reserve United States Money Supply M2*
January 1, 2020: $15.4 trillion
January 1, 2022: $21.6 trillion
A staggering ~40% increase
As of Mar-26, $ 22.6 Tn
( so they never reversed the increased money supply although Covid got over)
Unprecedented in the history of the Federal Reserve post-World War 2 era. (Source: FRED) This massive injection of liquidity created asset bubbles across the economy. Wages stayed stagnant. Those who owned capital benefited enormously. Everyone else got the inflation.
Most people have not yet identified the cause of their frustration, but they have begun to feel its effects viscerally. And that feeling, that the system simply cannot deliver on their aspirations, has become the quiet tailwind driving a very dangerous behavioural shift.
The more people sense that conventional paths are closed off, the more they reach for asymmetric bets, even knowing the odds are stacked heavily against them. The explosion of betting apps and prediction markets, Kalshi, Polymarket, Dream11 and their many cousins, are not trends. They are symptoms of a broken economy. The feverish rise in F&O trading and the massive uptick in exchange volumes are different expressions of the same underlying truth: when people stop trusting the system to reward honest effort, they start gambling on outcomes instead.