so abu dhabi wants to point fingers at iran for some big fireworks near their nuclear plant, classic statecraft passing-the-buck maneuver but the twist this time is our old pal trump getting in on the action, telling tehran their clock is ticking which either means he’s trying to sound like a movie villain or just likes the sound of his own tweets. is he trying to spook iran into action or does he just not get that diplomacy isn’t like firing off a reality tv show tagline? in my humble 2am opinion, all this bluster feels like the kind of thing that history classes dissect in painfully detailed study years from now — trust me, i was in a few — as they try to figure out if anyone had a plan or it was all just posturing. trump’s remark kinda nudges the whole thing closer to a void where anything might happen and likely something nobody wants. yet the ceasefire supposedly hangs by a thread, and this kind of rhetoric feels like the scissors hovering nearby. anyone else think this is feeling a lot like the inverse of the cuban missile crisis except everyone’s more confused and sleep-deprived?
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