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Trita Parsi May 18, 2026

We should first recognize that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit — the blockade of the blockade — has failed. That, in turn, was itself an admission that the war had failed. Which was an admission that the threats of war in January had failed. As I have argued before on my Substack, this relentless search for an escalatory silver bullet capable of bringing Iran to its knees is not unique to Trump; it has become a defining pathology of American Iran policy for decades.

Although negotiators have made meaningful progress on several fronts, talks have thus far failed to produce an agreement, largely because of irreconcilable differences over Tehran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile. And as Washington has come to realize that the blockade is backfiring, a new and dangerous dynamic has emerged: both sides now believe another round of fighting will strengthen their hand in the negotiations that follow.

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[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

On Friday. He always fucks with shit on Friday so the stock market can churn over the weekend, and then he walks it back on Monday and cashes out.

He's already laying the groundwork for a military op in Cuba. Probably going to happen in the next month.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago
[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If a US military action lasts longer than 60 days, congress gets to vote on it to make it a war, or force it to stop. Trump is arguing that the ceasefire means it has stopped, and therefore hasn't gone over that limit. And also that if they now start fighting again, it's not the same conflict, so they get another 60 days.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

when people stopped focusing epstein files, it ends, when epstein comes up every time it will restart.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Indeed, WTF is the orange idiot yapping about.

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[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 44 points 2 days ago
[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I dispute that it's not still happening. It's absolutely still happening, likely on taxpayer dime right this minute.

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Raped and murdered little girls.

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

He also fucking ate some of them.

[-] BeardededSquidward 9 points 2 days ago

Used to? I'm sure they still do.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago

Did it stop at some point?

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

He's won the war multiple times every day since it started.

[-] GhostFace@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago

Someone check the betting sites.

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 91 points 2 days ago

Yes. Please drag the country and the world into complete economic chaos. It's the only way the cult will understand their actions.

Eh... even then they won't care as long as browns and queers are getting it worse.

Side note: I made this exact comment on reddit and they removed it and gave me a warning for encouraging violence... Wow that site has gone to complete shit.

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Dude I got banned for defending compassion. They're using ai to ban and it's absolutely hopeless over there. Reddit is dead, let ai and the bots have it.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 85 points 2 days ago

Stop interacting with Reddit.

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

It still has the best niche subs though. Like /r/weeviltime, or any random hobbies, it has the largest community anywhere. Anything remotely about news or politics or anything is dogshit though and I try to stay away from all that (and keep it here).

[-] Escape13@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 days ago

If you don’t build it here they won’t cum. Fuck u/spez

[-] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Damn I just know some tech bro sex bot company is gonna use it as their slogan or something lol

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

They still won't come here even if you do.

They are centrists, we have tankies here, it simply is what it is.

Some people don't enjoy reading the incessant calls for murder e.g. Luigi-ing or guillotining. We can be anything that we set our mind to, I'm just trying to illuminate how we are - wishful thinking about what might have been does not help us in any way.

We turn them away, we routinely say that we don't even want them here, we (collectively) don't want them here. So they both do not want to come nor are welcomed if they did. This matter has been settled and decided and seems extremely unlikely to change.

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Meh. I came here from Reddit and it’s fine.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We all did, and agreed it is better here:-).

Here is the last discussion about it afaik. Here is a quote from the comments in that discussion:

While the Fediverse may be “strong” overall, the individual pieces are too fragile to handle a significant Rexit onslaught. If even a small fraction of all Reddit users came to the Fediverse en-masse, this place as we know it would be gone.

Here is another quote:

I don’t want people from Reddit here. The fact that half of Twatter moved to Bluesky instead of Mastodon is a blessing. ActivityPub is by design a data harvesting goldmine, the fact that it flies under the radar is the only saving grace.

These were both highly upvoted, with tens of upvotes and almost no downvotes. I could go on... and in fact, here's one more:

Ready for a bunch of teens coming in and trashing the place? No.

(this one had many downvotes, but it had >3-fold more upvotes than down so...) Another one is:

No, not ready for another USA spam shit. Other than that, the rest is fine.

On the bright side, the upcoming Lemmy 1.0 software should help a bit, as moderation reports will finally federate out to mods on other instances besides exclusively the one that the community itself is on.

But there are more downsides too - such as the fact that since that discussion the anarchist flotilla has been pushing strongly to defederate from lemmy.world, and any instance that runs PieFed software too, for being "zionists" - thereby further fracturing the Threadiverse into tankie-tolerant vs. tankie-intolerant spaces, and increasing the complexity of someone having to pick an instance. This includes lemmy.dbzer0.com that is the #7 most popular instance.

Leftist in-fighting and the complexity of signing up are the top 2 reasons why people do not join. Lack of content is the third, which is further aggravated by defederations and in-fighting.

I am so very glad that you felt welcomed here. I am so glad that you persevered through all of this. But... I can understand why people choose not to. At the end of the day we cannot control how others feel.

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[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Post has real "you people" energy

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[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 21 points 2 days ago

I'm so incredibly angry that the fucking economy is the only thing they care about. This is killing people, but nobody gives a shit.

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[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

The cult will never understand. They cannot be persuaded, only defeated.

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Fascists never go away through appeasement unfortunately, as we've learned throughout history

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, your IP address hasn't been permabanned sitewide from reddit yet? Not sure if I can trust you in that case, to be honest... /s

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[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

Considering that a blockade is an act of war, it has not in fact "stopped".

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

Right? We all know wars only end when the President dresses up in a pilots outfit and lands on an aircraft carrier to announce Mission Accomplished. The decades of slaughter after that are don’t count as “war”.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Total victory has been achieved! Now watch me start the war again! Restart the clock!

🫲🍊🫱

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[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 days ago

He never really stopped.

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 42 points 2 days ago

Mate, they've won that war at least 17 times since it started this year. Of course it ended. At least the same amount of times they've won it.

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[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Then toss him on the front line if he so fucking keen.

[-] prole 17 points 2 days ago

Only for it to "stop" again just before the deadline where Congress needs to vote on a war powers resolution. Convenient.

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Obviously for his "Christian" masters.

[-] StillAlive@piefed.world 38 points 2 days ago

Kamala would've been the same, right?

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 35 points 2 days ago

Harris would have opened a literal portal to hell and used the demons to kill infants so the rich could bathe in their blood.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Dunno about bathing in blood, but fucking the infants? That's the Epstein files...

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[-] KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 days ago

Have you seen the Republican primaries this month? Trump's endorsements won across the board. Even Thomas Massie; a Republican who rallied against data centers, big tech remotely controlling cars, and AIPAC; lost his seat because Trump bashed him. It doesn't seem like voters regret backing Trump at all, as evident by how much shit Trump's administration is getting away with.

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

All the more reason to tell any American trying to say "but we're not all bad" to shut up and get to work. This gets a lot worse the longer you leave it.

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[-] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

I will believe it when I see it. Right now it's just taco

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

It stopped?

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Unhinged murder

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"poised to restart the distraction from epstein files, coming to light" which was prompted by the french investigation, and several individuals trying to "go on a tour" about it. and also hide the fact the most obvious person, other than trump is involved, todd blanche.

[-] rottenmummy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Just watch out for some gambling on polymarket to know when it is going to happen

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