It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.
Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.
It’s not a victory for Trump to open the Strait of Hormuz when his illegal war is what closed it in the first place.
No operational, tactical or strategic reason to do this except performative viciousness, humiliated frustration, and impotent rage.
There are no words.