Well at least the Strait of Hormuz is now open and free, like Trump said, right? Wrong. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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They buried the lede.
I think it would be more accurate to call it a tentative surrender.
Why is this not being universally acknowledged as a humiliating defeat for Trump, who achieved none of his purported aims? How is opening the Strait being seen as an achievement when it was open before this useless, destructive, and wasteful war?What about those 156 girls he killed?
As I was saying….
Sanger writes as if Trump was not deranged. But the quotes! Trump tells him if Iran balks he might make the United States “the guardian of the Middle East” in return for 20 percent of the region’s revenues. Insanity, normalized. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
Sanger writes as if Trump was not deranged. But the quotes! Trump tells him if Iran balks he might make the United States “the guardian of the Middle East” in return for 20 percent of the region’s revenues. Insanity, normalized. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
Trump is waiting to party on the South Lawn after surrendering to Iran.
My latest:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
AP backtracking, now describing it as an “initial agreement… to open the Strait of Hormuz and further extend a shaky ceasefire in the Iran war”. But headline is still incorrect. apnews.com/article/iran...
