US lawmakers see no Trump plan for Iran following strikes

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  1. Donald Trump, and the many Republicans who backed him through this latest disgrace, have spent decades pretending to believe the Iranian government is uniquely evil because it threatens (idly) to wipe its enemies off the map.
  2. It must be clear to everyone credible in U.S. discourse now that Trump-era Republicans—the U.S. regime—and the Iranian Mullahs are degenerates of the same species. Anyone who can’t acknowledge that is not credible.
  3. In this conflict, which Trump began, Iran has kicked Trump’s ass. And as much as we don’t gotta hand it to them, that’s better than any alternative.
  4. It’s critical that Iran has conceded nothing, because the last thing the world needs at the moment is for Trump to conclude that explicitly genocidal, implicitly nuclear threats will yield concessions.
  5. We know he caved in part because the basis of peace negotiations undergirding the two-week ceasefire point to a post-war settlement that leaves Iran much stronger than it was before the U.S. and Israel attacked it unilaterally.
  6. The “funnier” tell is this cut-and-paste error by the prime minister of Pakistan, which strongly suggests the U.S. drafted a statement for him designed not to announce any diplomatic breakthrough or triumph, but to give Trump weak cover for backing down.
 
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