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There is substantive movement in terms of the actual negotiation itself.

But...

Trump consistently undermines it because the other side also has to present a win and he is incapable of saying something other than they completely surrendered and I got everything that I want.

And maybe the Iranians could live with that if they got a lot of what they wanted too and they can project it to their domestic audience, but that's not where things are right now.

They're under a literal naval blockade in a state of war against the United States.

So all of this, I think it makes, I know that the talks are allegedly going to happen

I still think they probably will.

Stuff like this does not make it more likely, is what I would say.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, the more that I just keep looking at all of these comments, it's clear he's manic and he needs to claim victory.

And Trump is the same way.

He always has believed that he is his best communications director.

He doesn't believe anybody else can do it.

That's why he constantly undermines communications.

Sometimes it works tremendously to his benefit, his ability to dominate everything obviously has been his sole skill set of the last decade.

However, in this particular case, I think he's finally met his match in terms of where he's dealing with an enemy that he dramatically underestimated, and now he's stuck in this vice grip where he needs victory, but he also has to get some sort of a concession, but he hasn't totally crushed them and doesn't really have that ability without a full-scale invasion.

So where things go from here, I don't know.

All we can really say from looking at this is saying, if he's gonna say, I'm ready to bomb, and the ceasefire is not going to get extended.

It's this funny thing, I remember it, with the end civilization truth that he put out, and all the MAGA people were like,

you idiots, that's just how Trump talks.