Jake Billiot
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🇮🇷 Iran's biggest problem at the negotiating table might be one it created itself... The NYT reports Iran can't fully reopen Hormuz because it literally cannot find all the mines it planted. The IRGC used small boats to mine the Strait haphazardly in the early days of the war. Some mines were placed without recording exact locations. Others have drifted from where they were originally set. Araghchi's reference to "technical limitations" when announcing the Strait would reopen was diplomatic language for "we mined our own waterway and can't undo it." Neither Iran nor the U.S. has robust mine-clearing capability. The U.S. relies on a handful of littoral combat ships for the job. Iran doesn't have the equipment at all. Removing sea mines is exponentially harder than laying them, the same asymmetry that defined the entire war applied in reverse. Trump demanded "COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING." Iran can offer partial, gradual, and uncertain. Source: NYT





The Trump administration gave a Vatican envoy "a bitter lecture warning that the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants—and that the Church had better take its side"




Trump threatens that "a whole civilization will die tonight" in new post




🚨🇺🇸🇫🇷 Trump just mocked Macron by saying his wife "treats him extremely badly" and he's "still recovering from the right to the jaw." Brigitte Macron is 71. Emmanuel Macron is 48. They have been married since 2007.




The situation is so bad for the colonizers Trump is hallucinating nonexistent peace talks lolll this is fantastic









