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“They have announced that the only acceptable result of negotiations is the shutdown of Iran’s nuclear activities and enrichment. So, we would sit at the table, and the outcome of the talks would be exactly what they had dictated in advance.” “That is not negotiation,” the Leader stated, “that is dictation, that is imposition.” “To negotiate with a party where the result must necessarily be what they want, and what they say; is that negotiation?”

Russia also wanted to avoid a price cap. The Group of 7, the European Union and Australia had restricted companies from providing insurance and other services in cases where Russian crude oil was sold above $60 a barrel, a cap the European Union and Britain have since dropped even lower. So ships affiliated with Russia began to use sketchy insurance or none at all. They started to fly third-country flags and to send false location information to cover up where they had loaded their cargo. By making it harder to tell if oil had come from Russia, they created an air of plausible deniability for oil buyers... he shadow fleet comes with an even more obvious drawback. It has “limited the cap’s efficacy,” America’s Government Accountability Office concluded in a report this month, keeping money flowing into Moscow’s coffers and helping it to fund the war in Ukraine. That doesn’t mean that the sanctions are a mistake, supporters say. Ben Harris, a former Biden administration Treasury official and an architect of the price cap, pointed out that the sanctions, even if imperfect, cost Russia. It’s expensive to ship oil to India or China and to build up the shadow fleet. “Enforcement is the real challenge,” he said. For now, countries are applying even more sanctions to combat the shadow fleet...

What are the odds the unstated goal of these sanctions is specifically to force Russia into practically giving away valuable natural resources to oil-thirsty capitalists, to mark up exponentially to make it look like it was acquired within the rules while also being able to whip up the common people about both energy prices and accidents, or anything else they can blame on Russia?

Hope so, and that it shakes out well, for more good for everyone.

I think Macron is more aware than he can politically say. He also called US diplomacy unacceptable, which is a diplomatic way of saying "bat-guano insane." I'd eager the rest of Europe is waking up. They remain dependent on and cowed by the US. I would imagine they are meeting on as big a sly as possible to figure out how to extricate themselves from the trap they so eagerly entered decades ago, although I obviously can't know.

The interview is worth reading. Macron is walking a political tightrope, and I find plenty that's not up to my personal preferences, but a -1 is the idea of a UN peacekeeping force, which invites USA soldiers, not to mention the usual problems that accompany UN peacekeeping troops. Not sure if a regional coalition is better though.

+.5 for not outright rejecting Zionism, but saying disagreement with the Israeli regime is not antisemitism, and crazy making.

But overall, this is the most hope that governments are starting to actually rethink policy in the region, and while it's minimal, it's a lot better than in recent memory. A toe in the ocean, but closer to the ocean than recent out-of-the-atmosphere proximity to the ocean.

Yes, I'm extremely disappointed.

God help us. Southeast USA?

Well collective karma is real, and they think by throwing some into the volcano it won't erupt. But the volcano is going to do what it does, eventually.

It's rather unfortunate that no one gets to see other perspectives. And it's messing with my hope that the USA can get better, because it's feels like this: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8939607

These people are willing to accept the "lesser evil," but it's the same evil, and they are condemning poor people and PoC to have to deal with it, because we're the buffer. But they won't stop at us.

Moreover, this is the censorship they screen bloody murder about with the "great firewall." Absolutely zero introspective ~~ability~~ effort.

I agree about Mexico and Lebanon, heaven forbid!

I wonder how are those “advisors” selling the idea to Trump and his lackeys.

Visceral emotional whims, apparently.

Maybe I'm being unnecessarily pessimistic. I'll start walking again this week, Erin brought rain for days.

There's no doubt in my mind about that. My doubt is in the mental soundness of whomever has the president's ear.

I'd operate as if invasion is imminent, regardless.