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Two-Week Ceasefire with Iran Highlights Trump’s Verbal Brinkmanship
The pause follows days of threats and gives both sides two weeks to negotiate after Iran set terms for talks, officials said.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, reversing his earlier threats that a "whole civilisation" would die if the regime did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persuaded Trump to pursue regime change during a February 11 White House Situation Room briefing, arguing Iran's ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks.
- The United States has received a "10-point proposal" from Iran, which Trump described as a "workable basis on which to negotiate" to address escalating tensions.
- Announced 90 minutes before the deadline, the ceasefire allows time for assessment while Iran demands the withdrawal of US forces and the lifting of sanctions.
- Legislators on both sides of politics have discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, as public opinion has shifted with a majority of Americans now siding with the Palestinian people.
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Trump’s Freudian 'psychopathology' put US on 'march to disaster': political philosopher
As the Trump administration celebrates what it refers to as a “historic victory” in the wake of Tuesday’s news of a ceasefire with Iran, others are calling it a “march to disaster” initiated due to Trump’s “psychopathology.”Since launching war against Iran, writes John Gray at the New Statesman, President Donald Trump’s asserted intentions have “shifted from aiming to block Iran achieving a nuclear capability that was supposedly ‘obliterated’ la…
Nuclear brinkmanship usually works. It’s also incredibly dangerous.
I’m not super eager to talk about military strategy as opposed to the political implications of the war with Iran. But as someone with some expertise in strategy and game theory generally, I suppose I’d like to make a quick point here. Over the past few days, President Trump had been making some extremely escalatory threats toward Iran. On Easter Sunday at 8 a.m., he wrote the following on Truth Social:And then on Tuesday morning, Trump doubled …
US President Trump once again threatened Iran with extinction before the end of his ultimatum.
Two-week ceasefire with Iran highlights Trump’s verbal brinkmanship
President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s civilization marked a new level of intimidation, and ultimately a two-week pause in hostilities and the temporary opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
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