This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don't understand politics, you should at least understand protocol.
The visuals from Switzerland:
• The U.S. delegation entered well before the Iranians. In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn't wait in the room. You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.
• Ghalibaf did not enter while the press was inside. JD Vance did. Another mistake. It looked as though you didn't just abandon allies, including Israel, you also diminished America's image by ignoring basic diplomatic protocol.
• The Iranian foreign minister entered last and refused to shake hands. We didn't need photographs to tell us who looked confident and who looked desperate, but these images made it easy for the world to draw its own conclusions.
Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.
The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.
“Losing control of the strait will be the biggest blunder of this era because it is a card the US cannot counter without going all in,” a fourth source involved with the military planning for the war said. “Now there is no way to undo the strait without amassing a massive force.”
Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister.
Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.
New: A Washington Post satellite imagery review reveals that Iran has caused far more damage to US military sites than previously reported.
Amid a US imagery blackout, Iran has released more than 100 images of strikes on US bases.
We analyzed them: https://t.co/r68Qpki0TG
I respect that farmers had the right to vote for what they believed in
I also respect that they are now facing the consequences of their adult decision
I’m not interested in fawning profiles of how noble they are. You voted for this, you got it
If Joe Biden had entered office with this ethos, things would be very different in the US now. The next Democratic candidate for the presidency needs to be taking notes here.