trump's unjustified lenience with iran to advance his own self-interest of a final settlement has merely emboldened the terrorist death cult, who neurotically think their god is saving them from harm.

so, the following is clear regarding this "agreement" reached between the united states and iran.

- the americans are holding to the position that it is a starting point for negotiations

- the iranians have no intention of adhering to the agreement or of negotiating

it is also clear that trump does not want to bomb iran's civilian infrastructure and never had any intent to. iran was supposed to sign a deal, and they're not going to.

it's not clear what the americans are going to do. they could walk off, or they could escalate. if they walk off, they're going to have to come back, and soon.

i want to encourage and call on the pentagon to develop a clear regime change option for trump to implement. there is no diplomatic solution. the only solution is regime change. it seems somewhat ridiculous to me that the pentagon has not done that, and i suspect they must have, but for whatever reason it's being seen as inadequate. it might be the use of ground troops. it might be shifts in the use of technology since the plans were written. i don't know.

this doesn't strike me as that complicated - you blow up the palaces and dismantle the ruling class. all of it. not this guy and that guy, but all of them. all of the clerics, all of the judges, all of the mullahs, all of the governors, all of the police stations, all of them, along with the infrastructure they use to rule with. if that plan is not written, it should be, and the pentagon should be preparing it to give to the president to enforce. that is the only eventual possible outcome, and it's a question of when and not if.

the longer the americans drag out the inevitable, the more complicated and costly the eventual invasion becomes.

somebody needs to wake donald trump up from his delusion of capitalist negotiation, as a first priority. this is going nowhere until trump drops his bullshit and delusional insistence on signing an agreement with these psychopaths.

if the result of the war is the displacement/expulsion of shia groups from lebanon, the lebanese state should emerge stronger from the conflict and better able to prosecute the terrorist entities for their crimes against israel. it will remain up to them to do so, or face the consequences of their ineptitude.

lebanon has not acted to arrest or prosecute hezbollah members, or done anything at all to hold them accountable for their criminal behaviour. it would be better if the international community would help lebanon eliminate hezbollah, and it certainly has the means and expertise, but it won't do so due to it's moral ineptitude after some bleeding hearts got upset about seeing monstrous terrorist women rightly held indefinitely in isis camps, and due to lingering, growing and underlying anti-semitic attitudes being exported from the middle east to the west.

israel is not able to act in the international capacity that a country like canada could. it won't always look pretty, but israel is doing what it can and what it must do, in response to the inaction by the global community to eliminate terrorism in lebanon and western europe is increasingly defining itself as being on the wrong side of this conflict, which will have consequences. 

israel needs support in it's struggle against terrorism, not criticism.

the science is abundantly clear that spanking your kids is fucking retarded.

the law should be changed to explicitly clarify that parents caught spanking their kids will be prosecuted for assault, to the full extent of the law.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/spanking-laws-in-canada

at this point, the most important thing is throwing carney out of office, even if we have to elect the conservatives to do it.

the liberals are opening up a hole the size of carney's ego for the ndp to run through and they have everything necessary to do it in place, they just need to drop the baggage of some foolishness in order to do it. it's an open question whether they can.

it is very predictable that the liberals are going to get bitten very hard by the ndp in the next election. what is less clear is if they can steal the liberal base altogether or if it just helps the conservatives win, forcing the liberals to rebuild and come back with a new arrogant fake leftist, like that goofy guilbeault guy in quebec.

this woman is a lunatic that was on the right-wing fringe of the conservative party.

canadians need to punish the liberals at the first opportunity. severely.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-mp-marilyn-gladu-crosses-floor-to-liberals-9.7156167

it's extremely important that israel continue it's operation against the depraved terrorist group hezbollah, which needs to be completely wiped off the face of the earth, and i will state again that canada should be offering assistance to israel and to lebanon in that task, to permanently destroy this pestilence once and for all.

the media has never understood donald trump because they try to treat him like a modern republican, and he's not one. the reaganites hate him more than anybody else.

what actually happened last night? was an agreement reached? is this the end of the war?

there is some real possibility that trump might decide it's not worth it and just sail off, but that's not what happened. what happened was that donald trump decided, clearly delusionally but nonetheless, that iran's counter-offer demonstrated he has a business partner in iran to make a deal with. that's what he said, and you should believe him. therefore, he doesn't need to blow them up, because he succeeded in bringing them to the table.

yes, they were at the table before this started. trump doesn't see that. he blocks that part out. 

conservatives like to criticize liberals for wishful thinking, and that's the right way to understand donald trump. trump is demonstrating something conservatives call confirmation basis. the liberal analog to this is the suspension of disbelief, but trump is a liberal and not a conservative, and the conservative critique is more correct. trump sees what he wants to see, not things as they actually are.

trump legitimately believes he will negotiate a deal with iran that gives america what it wants, in exchange for what it doesn't care about. that's what happened, because that's what trump wanted to happen - he wanted his threats to force iran to negotiate, and he is seeing what he wants to see, rather than what is.

it's not clear how long these negotiations will need to fail before trump gets bored with them and it's not clear how he will react when he does, but he very well may just sail off, which is the worst outcome possible. but he did it in afghanistan, and he didn't learn from what happened.

so, the media is going to have all kinds of stupid analyses and they will mostly be wrong. 

trump wants a deal and he grasped on pure magical thinking to prove himself right and give himself more time to make it. that's the reality of what happened.

trump's quixotic insistence on negotiating with terrorists, who are clearly not negotiating in good faith and clearly have no intention of adhering to any agreement, is what happens when you treat government like a business and place business people in positions of power in government. a lot of people will try to analyze what's wrong with what's happening. the root cause of the problem is capitalism, and placing business people in positions of power in a democratic governing structure. there are profound contradictions between how the business world operates, which is authoritarian and hierarchical, and how a democracy operates. capitalism and democracy don't plug and play very well, and are ultimately not compatible with each other. the business world will subvert and evade democracy at every possible step.

for trump, everything is transactional. everything is a negotiation. everything is business. iran is not an enemy, but a business partner. he has no capacity to comprehend the situation in any other terms. he seeks a hostile takeover, not a clash of civilizations. this is an unworkable approach and a foolish strategy, and is going to leave the americans with billions in debt and nothing to show for it, while the iranians merely try to take advantage of their stupidity, but trump is unable to construct a better strategy because he doesn't have the life experiences, the education, the ideological inclination or the aptitude to do so. if smarter people don't prevail, iran is going to emerge from this mess as a bigger problem than they were when this started, generating the need for a long and serious war to dismantle them. you can't negotiate with terrorists. 

the correct way for americans to learn from the bizarre catastrophe of donald trump is to erect a 100 foot barricade between government and business, but i'm not holding my breath or expect it to happen. the rest of the world can learn from america's mistakes in giving executive power to capital better than america will.

no, trump's bullying did not "work".

- iran conceded nothing whatsoever. the united states is beginning with their ridiculous draft. trump caved to them, they didn't cave to him.

- but this won't last. it's extremely temporary. there remains no alternative to regime change in iran, even if trump evades responsibility for it and leaves it for the next president.

- the iranians are reportedly still bombing people, and israel is unlikely to halt what they're doing.

- the iranians cannot be trusted to live up to their agreements.

anybody with assets stranded in the gulf should get them out immediately and then avoid the area. if there's any value to this, it's to let people that got stuck in between clear out, so do do that.

this isn't an end, even if people want it to be. ends require resolutions. donald trump is not beethoven; he has to resolve. this resolves nothing.