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Trita Parsi May 18, 2026
We should first recognize that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit — the blockade of the blockade — has failed. That, in turn, was itself an admission that the war had failed. Which was an admission that the threats of war in January had failed. As I have argued before on my Substack, this relentless search for an escalatory silver bullet capable of bringing Iran to its knees is not unique to Trump; it has become a defining pathology of American Iran policy for decades.
Although negotiators have made meaningful progress on several fronts, talks have thus far failed to produce an agreement, largely because of irreconcilable differences over Tehran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile. And as Washington has come to realize that the blockade is backfiring, a new and dangerous dynamic has emerged: both sides now believe another round of fighting will strengthen their hand in the negotiations that follow.
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Restart? Did it end?
If a US military action lasts longer than 60 days, congress gets to vote on it to make it a war, or force it to stop. Trump is arguing that the ceasefire means it has stopped, and therefore hasn’t gone over that limit. And also that if they now start fighting again, it’s not the same conflict, so they get another 60 days.
when people stopped focusing epstein files, it ends, when epstein comes up every time it will restart.
Indeed, WTF is the orange idiot yapping about.
Epic Fury is done
Now it has a new name
Then toss him on the front line if he so fucking keen.
Someone check the betting sites.
Did it stop at some point?
He’s won the war multiple times every day since it started.
Obviously for his “Christian” masters.
Unhinged murder
It’s not a war, it’s a war, it’s a ceasefire but we’re still shooting each other cuz Iran did it first, it’s not a war there are no hostilities it’s a ceasefire and on and on it goes, we’re going to restart the war.
For fucks sake, can we start discussing solutions to the conservative problem? I’m open to final solutions but really any solution will do.
Solutions are long term. Shit like education. It is not glamorous. Short term stuff is not truly effective.
The fascists are ruining Canada too. Nearly everyone I’ve talked to wanted to vote NDP last election but instead voted Liberal. Why? We were afraid that the fucking Trump supporting conservative Pollivere would win the election if we didn’t vote liberal. And he still hasn’t given up, he is still the conservative leader. I really want the NDP party to be in power but we have to settle for the liberals to protect us from the fucking nazis
Fuckin pp had to move to bassakwards magaville alberta because he was voted out of his riding. God i hate maple millhouse
Raped and murdered little girls.
He also fucking ate some of them.
Used to? I’m sure they still do.
doubtful they could even get it up anymore with all the drugs they abuse.
It ended?
Considering that a blockade is an act of war, it has not in fact “stopped”.
Right? We all know wars only end when the President dresses up in a pilots outfit and lands on an aircraft carrier to announce Mission Accomplished. The decades of slaughter after that are don’t count as “war”.
so congress passed an extension to the war powers act?
iirc this a new not-war so gets is own deadline.
I mean its not but I think he wants to sell it that way if congress does not give him something.
Only for it to “stop” again just before the deadline where Congress needs to vote on a war powers resolution. Convenient.
I will believe it when I see it. Right now it’s just taco
He never really stopped.
