Remember Trump saying something similar during the US-China tariff war?
What was China's response? 以打促和
And what was the result?
Iranians had better double down, or they'd end up with nothing.
Remember Trump saying something similar during the US-China tariff war?



The best thing the Gulf States can do right now is to not retaliate at all in what is obviously a trap set by Israel to have the middleast in total chaos. Just let Iran obliterate American infrastructure in the region so it can then focus on lobbing missiles on Israel.I noticed that the Gulf states are not striking back at Iran. Bahrain, Qatar and UAE were all hit directly, yet they're not scrambling fighters and attacking Iran.
Lesson: don't be afraid of escalation. If you can hit hard enough, other countries will proactively look for excuses to not fight you if they have an offramp.
How is it Iran's fault for getting attack in the middle of negotiations
If there's a retarded government in the region is the Jordanian monarchy.Something hit in central Tel Aviv. We know from last summer that IDF has an AD battery there but it clearly could not stop this,
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Reports of a Lebanese public attack on US embassy
Irani hacker group, Handala, disabled Jordanian gas stations,
15 bases in 7 countries (excluding Israel) attacked on Day 1 by Iran,
The best thing the Gulf States can do right now is to not retaliate at all in what is obviously a trap set by Israel to have the middleast in total chaos. Just let Iran obliterate American infrastructure in the region so it can then focus on lobbing missiles on Israel.
As Israeli bombs fell on the supreme leader's compound in Tehran on Saturday morning, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was meeting above ground with several of his top advisers.
A week before the Geneva meeting, the U.S. and Israel agreed on a potential window for launching the attack — the coming Saturday, when Khamenei held a routine meeting with his top aides at his government compound.
- But they faced a specific challenge: keeping Khamenei from suspecting anything and retreating to his underground bunker.
- An Israeli intelligence official said an Axios story that mentioned the possibility of assassinating Khamenei created anxiety among military planners — but the Iranian leader didn't change his plans.
How do these guys keep falling for it honestly?Ali Khamenei was killed above ground in a meeting with his top advisors. That explains the unusual daytime attack since it was time sensitive. Trump used the nuclear deal talk to trick Khamenei into a false sense of safety so he attended his routine meeting with his advisors at the government compound.
No, it doesn't. This is exactly what Japan did and they lost because their economy is just not as big. There is no way for Iran to finish US off while there's a million ways for US to finish Iran off.Hamas and Hezbollah were also tricked into holding a meeting, then gathering their advisors, only to be wiped out by a single Israeli bombing. The Iranians haven't learned this lesson.
In my view, adventurism and seizing the initiative will be the mainstream for the foreseeable future. All negotiations will be conducted on the premise that they could break down at any moment; 以打促和 To promote peace through fighting will be the basic tactic.
If you are confident and capable of handling an escalation, then go ahead and escalate, because an opponent of equal strength will most likely do the same. The law of the jungle has returned.
If Iran were to launch a preemptive strike while US troops are massing, it would actually have more leverage than it does now. But they lack both the capability and the courage.
Maybe the Ayatollah was the deepest cover Mossad agent of all time, just fulfilling his duties one last time.How do these guys keep falling it honestly?
How do these guys keep falling it honestly?