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You can’t keep making threats and then back off. He now has no credibility. Again, it’s amateurish negotiating. His threats may work with spineless US politicians but will not work with people as crazy as he is. In the Middle East neighborhood the one who is the craziest has the upper hand.

The 2015 deal with the Iranians took a very long time to be negotiated. Nothing will be negotiated in two weeks time, especially if you have amateurs doing it. In addition, there appears to be no face to face negotiations taking place between the parties. If true, negotiations will take even...

Trump has threatened to destroy the Iranian civilization. If he follows through he will forever besmirch this country and join the ranks of the likes of Hitler and Stalin. While this country has never been always on the side of angels, we have never used our significant power to destroy a...

This situation is somewhat of Trump’s making as he cancelled the agreement that Obama made with the Iranians. It was not a perfect deal but the Iranians did make some concessions. The only reason he cancelled it is because Obama made it. Getting back to the present he’s dealing with an...

One thing that needs to be established is that he does not know how to negotiate. It’s a complete myth. I used to negotiate for a living and the mistakes he makes in negotiations — giving away points before he has to, for example — makes me shake my head. The NY real estate world is different...

Nicely done.

The ones with the background work best. They being out the excellent quality of the figures. Where did you get the broken fence pieces?

I was a teenager in those days (started college in 1969) but my recollection and my readings since then was that the reporters on the ground after awhile saw that things didn’t start to make sense with what the administration and military was starting to say — the credibility gap — and they...

Not correcting you but your post got me thinking so I checked to see how the Dow reacted the first business day after Pearl Harbor. By the way, the Dow was then 111 and did not hit 1,000 until 1972 and 10,000 not until 1999.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.9 percent on the first trading day after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and another 11 percent over the next four months. But the Dow returned 20 percent in 1942 and then doubled over the next three years. An equivalent drop today would...

Forget WW II. Vietnam was not that long ago but even that was almost 60 years ago. Most people reporting the news weren’t alive then. We are in the age of thinking that we are the first to experience something.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-says-nato-defences-downed-fourth-inbound-iranian-missile-2026-03-30/

I may be mistaken but didn’t he show prototypes when he visited Australia?

Credit Israel for destroying or weakening their allies but I don’t believe this regime is going anywhere unless the Iranian people rise up. I firmly believe that in any dictatorial or autocratic regime, it is the people themselves that must do the work, not outside forces (who can help but can’t...

You can make light of past history (which I doubt you knew about anyway) but the past informs the present.

They could but why would they. They have no beef with Europe, just Israel and the US. Americans may have forgotten about it — as if most ever knew — but the Iranians have never forgotten about the CIA’s overthrow of Mossadegh.

And he rightly received grief for his inaction. That’s what living in a democracy entails, one that Trump would love to curtail, unless you agree with dear leader.

When the head of a government makes a decision there is no requirement that you have to agree with it. There are many means to protest a decision. That’s what living in a democracy is all about. I would never defer to a decision made by the head of the regime just because he made the decision...

There have been no missiles lobbed at Europe except perhaps for one or two that Turkey intercepted.

In addition to Mike’s post about the European nations, Trump has gone out of his way to insult several European countries and threatened to invade and take over Greenland, part of Denmark and so now after all that he expects them to help him? It just proves the old adage that you attract more...