The maximalist aims of the joint attack cast doubt on whether there had ever been any prospect of success for the US-Iranian negotiations in the preceding weeks, in which delegates discussed possible limits on uranium enrichment. Those talks, the latest round on Thursday, had been conducted under the shadow of what Trump called his “beautiful armada” gathering in the Middle East, the biggest US force in the region since the ill-fated 2003 Iraq invasion, and it now seems likely that only a complete capitulation on Iran’s part could stop this assembled American might being unleashed.

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      Calling it now. Nothing will happen.

      A slap on the wrist here. A scapegoat there. Nothing serious.

      The people that run America want this to happen. The mega-wealthy. They don’t care. They are in charge.

      The people could be if they rose up or protested enough. They won’t though. As long as they have their TV shows and food on the table the majority sadly don’t give a shit.

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        i wish i disagreed with you, but if they didn’t with W, they won’t with Krasnov. Only way he sees justice is if he starts naming names in his demented fog