Post #2010761

2026-03-26 03:38 UTC

Well, their first move was to tell the Iranians what they want, which is like telling the rug guy upfront, before he’s said a word, what you’ll pay. It’s the usual stuff that the Iranians already knew – stop working on your nukes, give us all your enriched uranium, stop producing missiles and drones, don’t give any more money or weapons to Hamas or Hezbollah, and open the Strait of Hormuz and let us manage ship traffic in and out of the Gulf. Ri-i-i-ght.

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@orrickle@sfba.social 2026-03-26 03:41

That’s like telling the rug merchant to give you all the rugs the shop you’ve set on fire and tell him that you’ll help him put the fire out, after you’ve loaded up all the rugs. It sounds bad, doesn’t it? Well, it’s worse. All those missiles and bombs we’ve dropped on Iran have cut off their communications to the extent that the leadership has a great deal of difficulty talking to one another – probably because they’re all in bunkers and all the cell towers are down and their military super-secure commo networks are destroyed. So, they can’t get together and decide how to respond to our 15-point “offer,” other than to tell us to stick it and where. The negotiations, if they can be called that, are therefore much slower than they might have been if we hadn’t bombed the shit out of everything in Iran.

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