Israel & US versus Iran war discussion

Now he says Iran gave him a "concept" of the deal. You can't make this **** up.

@mypeez :
It could be that with no war and oil prices at $65, raising interest rates would be necessary to maintain the value of the Dollar, which would trigger a recession, and stock prices would fall, and lots of people would be upset, and people would have a harder time buying gasoline at $2.85 while unemployed than they are now at at $4.80.I'm not saying it's right to keep the bubble growing, but this could be the reality. 4% of the world's population using 25% of the world's resources isn't fair to the rest of the world.

In my opinion and mine alone, and no one else, the only time the President decides to do something if interest rates aren't good, stocks are falling, or oil prices are unstable, is if his billionaire friends call him up to complain. Then he acts.

So, is the war over, or not? Conflicting statements from the President and Iran. Or is it hypocrisy on his part?fortune.com/2026/05/ 01/trump-white-house -argues-iran-war-is- over-because-ofapnews.com/article/i ran-us-war-ceasefire -negotiations-strait -9317c11e51ba8dMy opinion and mine alone and not my employer's.

Is a naval blockade an act of war? If the USA was the subject of the blockade it would be.

Oil is up $5.00 a barrel today.

@MadScientist : From what I'm reading online, it is/was.

Trump said that we were no longer "at war." But, I see that Iran fired on American ships, and America retaliated. That seems like "war" to me. It definitely isn't a ceasefire.

How many times has he claimed that the war was over?

We'll get half truths or denials from the WH, but to me, the ceasefire is over, and the war is back on.
apnews.com/article/i ran-us-war-ceasefire -negotiations-strait -a4857f28d9b47eMy opinion and mine alone and not my employer's.

Iran has 24 hours to surrender. If they don't, then they have 2 weeks.

Carrick Ryan

"Today, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the world's media and made the following statement about Iran:
"This is an international waterway, No country can control them. There is no international law that allows you to say, I'm going to put mines in an international body of water, and I'm going to blow up ships that don't listen to us and try to go through."
"We cannot live in a world where a rogue state like this Iranian regime is allowed to claim, as a new normal, control over an international shipping lane,"
I agree with him.
Since September last year, the US military has conducted 47 strikes on civilians marine vessels travelling in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, leading to over 190 deaths.
No criminal trials, no evidence provided to the public to justify the violence, merely an arbitrary declaration of terrorism with no transparency or accountability for who they have summarily executed.
The USA then sent its military into Caracas, killing more than 80 people, to abduct the President of Venezuela and replace him with a compliant proxy.
It then commenced a military campaign against Iran that has already killed thousands, without even attempting to conduct themselves within the parameters of international law. The UN Security Council was not consulted, and no evidence has been provided to support its flimsy attempts of retrospective justification.
The US President has made genuine threats to invade Greenland, Panama, and Cuba, without ever once bothering to even pretend to discuss a legal justification for the hostility.
The erosion of the concept of international law as a guardrail against geopolitical anarchy has led us to a dangerous place. But few nations have contributed more to that erosion than the USA, and no president has expedited its demise faster than Donald Trump.
This isn't just hypocrisy, it's insulting, performative, dishonest, and shameless."

@skutfarcus :

@mypeez :
That's actually how stupid this administration is.