Originally posted by: Mark
Exactly! Trump no longer cares they have nuclear weapons if they will quit the war Trump started.
They know, though, he's in a very weak position, and they have no particular reason to end the war, They want reparations, which is fair--we caused tens of billions of dollars' worth of damage and killed thousands of their citizens. They want security guarantees, which, given that the Turd will still be around, is also fair.
But they're going to want control of the Strait, which is a non-starter, and US withdrawal from the Middle East, ditto. So after the usual back and forth, both parties will agree to a resumption of the prewar status quo. And we will have spent an insane sum of money, fucked over the world's economy as well as our own, depleted our stock of munitions, and killed thousands of innocent people...for nothing.
It's rough justice that we're suffering from this mess, because we caused it. Of course, both sane people and MAGAs are getting raped at the pump and the grocery store, but only the latter deserve it. But we sane people also bear the burden of responsibility, because we didn't kill every single MAGA, as we should have, years ago. We let them live, and let them vote in the Turd, AGAIN, and now we're all paying for that mistake.