https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116365796713313030
https://xcancel.com/PressTV/status/2041646648506437903#m
https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2041647382090108974#m
🚨 US PRESIDENT TRUMP: “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks” – a “double sided CEASEFIRE.”
🔸Trump says he will pause planned strikes on Iran for two weeks after talks with Pakistan’s leadership, conditioning the move on Tehran reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
▫️The pause is contingent on the “COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz.”🔸Trump claims the U.S. has “met and exceeded all Military objectives.”
🔸Says a “10 point proposal from Iran” is now a “workable basis” for a broader deal.
🔸Adds the sides are “very far along with a definitive Agreement” on long-term peace.
🔸He described the two-week window as time to “finalize and consummate” a wider agreement to end the war.
:kelly: Taco Tuesday
Makes me think Trump really did threaten to nuke them. Not sure how else to explain the about face, they've been pretty firm, even gleeful, in denying any amount of negotiation except for the US's complete withdrawal.
Even if trump really was running his mouth, the calculus of MAD and nuclear warfare demands that every other nuclear armed state takes the threat dead serious.
I suspect the moment his post went out every diplomatic and military side channel was lit up with calls from Russia, China, Pakistan etc telling the US to sit their boy down.
Failing to do so would mean fatally weakening deterrence. The yanks may think themselves safe half a world away, and trump lives in his own invented reality, but no one in the Eurasian continent will stand for this bullshit.