Can Trump's tough-guy approach work with Iran?

[Dulcinea]

(USA Today) -snip- Military experts and philosophers from the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu to Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez have historically noted that it’s much easier to start a war than to end one. Trump and his team seem to be discovering the hard truth behind that theory as they look for an exit ramp out of a conflict that has already killed thousands of people across the Middle East.

“We have gone from Trump demanding total capitulation to Trump essentially taking Iran’s word for it,” said Brett Bruen, a former diplomat who worked in the White House as director of global engagement under President Barack Obama.

The Trump administration is trying to end the war and extricate itself from a conflict that hasn't gone as planned, has sent oil prices skyrocketing and goes against American public opinion, said Dina Esfandiary, a Geneva-based Iranian national and Middle East policy expert at Bloomberg Economics, which analyzes geopolitical shifts.

"It is trying to test the waters and see what it can get away with without too much political cost within the constraints of the domestic situation in the U.S.," she said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/threats-peace-talks-trumps-tough-205707562.html

[Whip-poor-will]

1. Losers lose

For the first time in history Iran landed a roundhouse to trump's bully nose...a direct hit showing his ass can't cash the checks he writes

with his mouth.

[dlilafae]

2. The boil down point to all of this is

don't start a war that you're not ready to see all the way through. We understand this by, watch what they do not what they say. It's the best predictor of his future action(s). This is the same thought process with him as it was with COVID: aww, Flap it!! That's it in a nutshell! Him with his I'm done with this, this is hard - let 'em die it out kind of thing. How could people forget about that? ~ Bibi and the Bozo

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Not a chance

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. That boat sailed a long time ago.