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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 7:29 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Trump’s Logic for Blockading the Blockaders

He wants to use economic pain to weaken Iran — even if that threatens the global economy.

By Will Gottsegen | April 14, 2026, 6:28 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/trump-iran-war-blockad
e-of-blockade/686813/

Over the past seven days, Donald Trump has adopted two contradictory positions on the Strait of Hormuz. A week ago, he wrote that a “whole civilization” would “die” if Iran didn’t make certain concessions—among them, allowing ships to resume their normal courses in and out of the Persian Gulf. This weekend, though, after marathon peace talks between the United States and Iran ended without an agreement, Trump announced a blockade of Iranian ports, essentially doubling down on restrictions in the waterway.

Why blockade the blockaders? The tactic is all but guaranteed to aggravate the ongoing energy crisis, which has been a pain point for Trump since the start of the war. But it also inflicts a new level of punishment on Iran: a trade-off that, for the president, appears to be worth making.

Since late February, Iran has been threatening to attack most ships passing through the strait, and the resulting drop-off in traffic has created the worst threat to global energy security in history, per the International Energy Agency. American gas is averaging $4.12 a gallon, and prices for commodities such as fertilizer and helium are way up. But Iran’s threat to the Strait of Hormuz has always had a few carve-outs. Its own ships can pass safely, as can foreign ships that comply with the country’s terms for passage, which include the payment of tolls (reportedly in cryptocurrency or Chinese yuan) and the use of new shipping lanes closer to Iran’s coast. The U.S. blockade, which went into effect yesterday morning, is intended to prevent Iran from exporting its oil, choking the country economically.

So far, the precise scope of the U.S. blockade has been somewhat unclear. According to international law, a full blockade must be applied impartially. Total enforcement would mean that all vessels intending to travel to and from Iranian ports in the region would be prevented from doing so. The Navy has indicated that non-Iranian ships will be allowed to transit the strait; U.S. forces have the right to visit and search any ship, and the right to seize ships that they deem to be carrying contraband in support of the Iranian war effort. How the U.S. will determine which ships meet that criterion is uncertain, and Atlantic reporting suggests that even military officials have been struggling to understand how the blockade is being implemented.

In his social-media post on Sunday morning announcing the blockade, Trump wrote that the Navy will “seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran.” But the official notice from U.S. Central Command later that day didn’t mention any plan to halt ships that had paid the toll—in fact, it explicitly stated that U.S. forces would uphold freedom of navigation, allowing neutral ships to pass. The blockade will likely be tested in the coming days. Centcom said this morning that U.S. forces have already successfully directed six merchant vessels “to turn around to re-enter an Iranian port.”

The lingering question of the war’s legality could further complicate the situation. “If the war is not legal, then the blockade also isn’t legal,” Jennifer Kavanagh, the director of military analysis at the think tank Defense Priorities, told me. Our allies are hesitant too. Despite Trump’s claims that other countries would be “involved,” the United Kingdom has refused to lend its support, and Spain’s defense minister said that the blockade “makes no sense.”

Up until this week, the Trump administration had been focused on easing restrictions on some Iranian oil as a way of lowering energy prices. Now, with U.S. intelligence reportedly indicating that Iran’s economy could be more fragile than it appears, Trump has decided that attacking the country’s exports is more important: The plan is to force Iran back to the negotiating table, in a weaker position than before. In the lead-up to America’s blockade, Iran had been making an estimated $139 million (not necessarily paid out in U.S. dollars) each day through its oil exports. Inhibiting its ability to ship oil from its ports amounts to a direct hit on the country’s war chest. Plus, the chaos in the strait has the potential side effect of boosting U.S. energy exports.

But Iran has also displayed extreme resilience in past weeks, both in its ability to withstand the U.S. and Israel’s relentless bombing campaign and in its determination to assert control over the strait. Claire O’Neill McCleskey, who previously led the compliance division at the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, explained that Iran has a sophisticated capacity for so-called dark maritime activity, which could subvert the blockade: Its “shadow fleet” is able to switch off its tracking devices and broadcast false tracking information to authorities.

If the U.S. Navy does manage to stop Iranian ships from leaving the Gulf, the disruption will have a real impact on China, which buys roughly 90 percent of Iran’s exported oil (the Chinese foreign ministry has called the blockade “dangerous and irresponsible”). China has in recent years maintained close relationships with nations throughout the Gulf, and reportedly played a role in Iran’s recent decision to accept a two-week cease-fire. Chinese officials “don’t want to have a war with the United States in the Middle East,” Kavanagh said, but they also “don’t want to be seen as bowing to the United States.” How China might continue to respond over the coming days (and whether it might be more inclined to pressure Iran to reach an agreement with the U.S. and Israel) is an open question. “It’s what everyone’s watching,” Kavanagh said.

The White House’s latest move comes at an important cost. Already, the blockade is pushing up oil prices. In clamping down on Iranian exports, the administration is intentionally tightening the global supply of oil and worsening the energy crisis that it had until recently been looking to end. Iran and China aren’t the only nations that will bear these costs; in imposing this blockade, Trump is effectively toying with the global economy. The United States isn’t immune—on Sunday, the president told Fox News that oil and gas prices might stay the same or even go “a little bit higher” by the time of the midterm elections, in November. Iran has shown that it can withstand enormous punishment, including the assassination of top government officials. Meanwhile, America may be punishing itself.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 8:09 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

its war time so...vote good or get arrested

Limits on the interwebs and 'Speech'

YouTube bans viral pro-Iran AI-generated LEGO videos trolling Trump

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 8:43 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

What has Trump achieved with his war in Iran? Ayatollah replaced with his extremist son

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15714921/Trump-achieved-war-I
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9:12 PM

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What has Trump achieved with his war in Iran? Ayatollah replaced with his extremist son

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15714921/Trump-achieved-war-I
ran.html

So is the son alive then?

I thought nobody had actually heard from his gay, impotent son and everyone assumed he was already dead too.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 10:34 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
What has Trump achieved with his war in Iran? Ayatollah replaced with his extremist son

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15714921/Trump-achieved-war-I
ran.html

So is the son alive then?

I thought nobody had actually heard from his gay, impotent son and everyone assumed he was already dead too.

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Trump bombed a school full of children, then denied they were children, calling them little terrorists. Then he said it was a false flag operation where the Iranians bombed the school to make Trump look bad. Trump is close to Victory!

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 11:48 PM

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They're Muslims.

Fuck 'em.

The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:02 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Looks like either you or your Legacy Media was lying again today....

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-us-cease-fire-talks-stalled-2026
?st=u9RWoN

Nobody has gotten through. Not china. Not anyone.

They're afraid to even try.

Even Google AI says your story about a Chinese ship getting through without any problems was fake news.

You really should demand that the people you listen to stop lying to you every day if you're going to continue listening to them.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026 2:00 PM

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I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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They're Muslims.

Fuck 'em.

The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.

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Hey WISHY! I didn't know SIX was your sock puppet!

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026 2:00 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like either you or your Legacy Media was lying again today....

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-us-cease-fire-talks-stalled-2026
?st=u9RWoN

Nobody has gotten through. Not china. Not anyone.

They're afraid to even try.

Even Google AI says your story about a Chinese ship getting through without any problems was fake news.

You really should demand that the people you listen to stop lying to you every day if you're going to continue listening to them.

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Is success for Trump equal to the US stopping ship traffic? But previously, success was defined as ship traffic flowing smoothly.

There is a long article, which 6ixStringJoker will not read because he is running his mouth nonstop, which explains why Trump is foolish:

The High-Risk, Low-Reward Blockade of Hormuz

Americans may not have the stamina for the economic pain and military losses ahead.

Brynn Tannehill | April 15, 2026, 7:28 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/04/iran-blockade-advant
age/686812/

The Trump administration’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has made the waterway one more testing ground in a battle of wills. The question isn’t whether Iran or the United States has the more powerful navy, but which country can endure economic pain and military casualties longer—the United States, which has been waging an unpopular war of choice in the Middle East, or the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is fighting for its survival.

Since the beginning of the war, Tehran has allowed vessels of its choosing to pay a toll to pass through the strait. In this way, it has been able to continue selling its oil at a high price while also profiting from the tolls. Iran is now demanding that any ship that wants to transit the strait must also deviate from the normal lanes into Iranian waters near Qeshm Island and be inspected by members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

In its counterblockade, the United States is stipulating that no ship that pays a toll will be allowed through. It is also denying transit to ships that enter or leave Iranian ports, which would presumably include those that deviated from the normal routes so as to be inspected in Iranian waters. Ships that comply with U.S. demands risk being attacked by Iran, and ships that comply with Iranian demands risk being detained by the United States. Complying with both is impossible. And on top of that, Iran has likely laid mines in the channels most commonly used for passage.

Enforcing the blockade could be complicated and risky for the United States diplomatically. The U.S. may have to decide, for instance, whether it will detain a Chinese-flagged vessel, or even one escorted by the Chinese, Pakistani, or Indian navies. If the United States were to board such a ship, the Chinese or other powers could retaliate economically, including through tariffs or by stepping up military or economic assistance to Iran.

Enforcement could also put American service members at risk. Visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) teams are tasked with inspecting vessels. They tend to use small, inflatable boats with a rigid hull, which are deployed from larger ships, such as destroyers and frigates. Vessels being boarded are supposed to come to a complete stop. But some ships attempting to run the blockade might refuse to be boarded and instead continue speeding ahead. The U.S. Navy would then have to decide whether to board the ship without the crew’s cooperation, which requires special training, or to disable the vessel by firing on it.

Other vessels might attempt to avoid capture by staying close to Iranian waters, which would expose the destroyers, and especially the VBSS small-boat teams, to enemy fire. Iran still reportedly possesses most of its “mosquito fleet” of small boats, which could swarm American assets that come near its coast. The Iranians could lay ambushes for VBSS teams onboard certain vessels, thereby turning seemingly compliant boardings into deadly firefights in hostile territory.

The U.S. has also pledged to disable mines that Iran has placed in the strait. This is a painfully slow process that will require teams in small boats to operate underwater drones in search of mines and then send divers to deactivate them. Mine-clearing teams may be even more vulnerable to attack than those seeking to board ships.

The U.S. warships from which all of these missions will be dispatched will have to operate much closer to Iranian territory than they did before the blockade. Iran has unmanned surface drones that can cause immense damage to warships, as Ukraine has repeatedly demonstrated. The best defense against Iran’s mosquito fleet and drones is airpower—using the MH-60R helicopters onboard Navy destroyers, say. But China has reportedly sent modern shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. Those could be used to shoot down helicopters. Just one drone, one cruise missile, one mine, or one suicide boat that gets through American defenses could put a billion-dollar guided-missile destroyer out of action for years. This has happened to U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf in the past.

Those are the risks. They must be measured against the uncertainty of the blockade’s rewards. Iran has proved adept at evading sanctions for decades, and it will undoubtedly attempt to continue moving goods over land, via airlift, and potentially via pipelines to Pakistan. The Iranians may also avoid sanctions by using ships flagged by other countries, or those that lie about their destinations inside the Gulf. They could use small craft such as a dhow, the traditional boat in the region, which are difficult to track and impossible to stop when they travel in large numbers. VBSS teams would have to board each one.

If, in spite of all of these obstacles, the blockade does successfully shut down Iranian oil revenue, the U.S. and Iran will find themselves racing against an economic clock. Iran entered the war with a precarious economy. Oil revenue accounts for 9 percent of the country’s GDP. Total Iranian exports through the strait amount to $435 million a day—roughly a third of Iran’s GDP. An extended, successful blockade would jack up the country’s inflation rate within weeks. But it would also raise the price of gas, food, pharmaceuticals, and electronics globally. Oil futures have been held down by President Trump’s repeated hints that an end to the conflict is just around the corner. But those statements can’t indefinitely postpone the consequences of removing 20 percent of the world’s oil from the market.

The American public was never sold on the war with Iran, and Trump’s popularity has taken a hit in the lead-up to the 2026 midterms. How the blockade ends may depend on just how many casualties and how much economic pain each country and its leaders can endure. The advantage in this contest belongs to Iran—because it is not a democracy, because it is fighting near its own territory, and because its regime will do anything necessary to survive.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026 2:58 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like either you or your Legacy Media was lying again today....

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-us-cease-fire-talks-stalled-2026
?st=u9RWoN

Nobody has gotten through. Not china. Not anyone.

They're afraid to even try.

Even Google AI says your story about a Chinese ship getting through without any problems was fake news.

You really should demand that the people you listen to stop lying to you every day if you're going to continue listening to them.

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Is success for Trump equal to the US stopping ship traffic? But previously, success was defined as ship traffic flowing smoothly.

Yup. Plans change.

Go fuck yourself.

Still doesn't change the fact that you lied yesterday and you were lied to by your Legacy Media Masters too.

Why don't you stay on topic, you little bitch?

If you're not going to admit when you're wrong, stop posting a bunch of bullshit everyday.

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Thursday, April 16, 2026 9:44 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Iran’s stubborn rulers defied Saddam Hussein. They won’t yield to Trump

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/iran-stubborn-rulers-defied-saddam-124729159
.html

they say Rumsfeld played a central role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Ford named Rumsfeld to succeed Schlesinger as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Defense

he was Iranate Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East, Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein

Rumsfeld, talking WMD - 1976 (USSR) & 2002 (Iraq)

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Thursday, April 16, 2026 11:34 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Yup. Plans change.

Go fuck yourself.

Still doesn't change the fact that you lied yesterday and you were lied to by your Legacy Media Masters too.

Why don't you stay on topic, you little bitch?

If you're not going to admit when you're wrong, stop posting a bunch of bullshit everyday.

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Trumptards are all alike. They lose friends easily, gain enemies frequently, and struggle to succeed in America.

Friends No More: Trump Turns on Italy’s Meloni

By Marcus Walker
And Margherita Stancati

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/trump-turns-against-italys-giorgia-me
loni-broadening-clash-with-europe-ba37f1d4

ROME—As President Trump’s rift with Europe widens, he is casting even his political friends into the chasm.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has spent the past year trying to act as a bridge, while Trump tussled with other European leaders over tariffs, Ukraine and Greenland.

Trump, who has called Meloni a “great leader,” says he is shocked by her refusal to send forces to open the Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S.-Iran war. "I thought she had courage, but I was wrong,” he told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

The abrupt breakdown of their political friendship shows how the middle ground is disappearing between a White House that is demanding loyalty from its allies, and a Europe where voters and governments increasingly view Tramp as a destabilizing force.

Meloni’s striving to hold the West together is laudable, former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti told The Wall Street Journal. “But this fails to take reality into account,” he said. Trump’s open hostility to the European Union makes it “difficult to act as a bridge.” Ever fewer European leaders now openly support Trump. On Sunday, he lost one of his closest allies, Hungary’s longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who suffered a crushing election defeat despite U.S. efforts to support him.

Some European leaders, such as Spain’s left-wing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, have actively repudiated Trump’s foreign policy. But in many cases it is Trump who has reacted with anger or ridicule toward European leaders who have tried to win his ear, such as U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Now Meloni—a fellow right-winger whose views on immigration, gender and “woke ideology” are close to MAGA’s—finds herself dismissed by Trump as just another cowardly European leader whose country is being destroyed by immigration.

“Trump does not view European member states as equals: He sees the entire bloc as a problem to be managed, and as an obstacle to his own policies. And Meloni is part of this European bloc,” said Teresa Coratella, a senior analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

For more than a year, Meloni has maintained a balancing act between the U.S. and Europe, playing down differences with Trump and insisting that the trans-Atlantic alliance is alive and well.

In January, when Trump threatened to seize the Danish territory by force, she urged other European countries not to escalate or retaliate. Much of the region, however, is preparing for a divorce with the U.S.

The Iran war has tested her Atlantic triangulation to the limit. The U.S.-Israeli campaign, which Trump says was necessary to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, is viewed across most of Europe’s political spectrum as ill-advised and damaging.

Italy, which relies heavily on gas imports from Gulf Arab countries, could face some of the worst economic fallout if the closure of the Strait of Hormuz persists.

“I fear that if the situation continues like this—on the energy front and fuel oils—a severe recession will follow,” Italian Finance Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti warned. Still, Meloni’s criticism has remained muted.

Her perceived closeness to Trump contributed to the defeat in a March referendum of her proposals to overhaul Italy’s judiciary, some political analysts said. The breaking point came this week after

Trump lashed out at Pope Leo for his anti-war sermons. Meloni, reluctant to pour fuel on the flames, at first endorsed Leo’s advocacy for peace without mentioning Trump.

But as outrage mounted in Italy, she clarified that Trump’s words were “unacceptable.”

“She’s unacceptable,” Trump shot back. Their relationship is no longer the same, he told Fox News on Wednesday.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:17 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Trump’s bungled Iran negotiations didn’t have to go this way

Wendy Sherman helped Obama reach a deal with Iran. She sees several areas where Trump is going wrong.

by Caitlin Dewey
Apr 16, 2026, 6:00 AM CDT

In her new interview with Vox’s Noel King, Sherman cautioned against being too “reductive” in discussing the outcomes of the war or the talks. (Iran has absolutely been weakened, she said.) But she outlined five areas where the Trump administration’s approach has, so far, failed.

Problem No. 1: They sent the B team to negotiate. Nearly 300 Americans descended on Islamabad for the most recent round of US-Iranian negotiations, including national security advisers, regional specialists, and Vice President JD Vance, who led the US delegation. But earlier rounds of negotiations were helmed by guys like Jared Kushner (Donald Trump’s son-in-law) and Steve Witkoff (Trump’s personal friend). Whatever their merits, neither man holds any particular expertise on Iran (or a real government position).

To further complicate matters, the US attacked Iran twice during previous rounds of ceasefire negotiations that Kushner and Witkoff hosted. So they don’t exactly radiate credibility, Sherman said.

Problem No. 2: They pursued a strategy that benefited Russia. Whatever the outcome of these peace talks, no one makes out better than Russian President Vladimir Putin. While the war in Iran is costing the US something like $2 billion a day, it could generate as much as $151 billion in additional revenue this year for the Russian government.

Russia benefits both from rising oil prices and from the relaxation of long-standing US sanctions, which Trump partially lifted in March. That windfall has already eased a domestic economic crisis in Russia and allowed Putin to continue his Ukraine war.

But that’s not the only way that Russia — and other US adversaries, including China — benefit from the war in Iran. The US will also emerge from the conflict weaker than it began, Sherman said: “We have just spent billions of dollars. We have reduced our inventory of weapons that we may need for other theaters. We have undermined our alliances.”

Problem No. 3: They badly damaged the world economy. At this point, I probably don’t need to list the myriad and diverse ways that the war — and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz — has destabilized the global economy. Just this Tuesday, Britain’s finance minister slammed Trump for what she called a costly “mistake” and “folly.”

Whatever you make of that “folly” bit, however, the cost was predictable, Sherman said. In fact, it came up repeatedly during the 2015 nuclear negotiations.

“We constantly said to the United States Congress, ‘if we risk war, it could close the Strait of Hormuz; it could increase the gas prices; it could take down the international economy,’” she added.

Problem No. 4: They did not, in fact, have the Iranians’ “backs.” President Trump initially urged Iranians to rise up against the regime, promising that the US would support them. Now, regime change is no longer a focus of either the US military campaign or negotiations to end it. That’s a major blow to many pro-democracy activists in Iran and throughout the Iranian diaspora, as the writer and advocate Roya Rastegar wrote for Vox last month.

“Iranian citizens who do want freedom … have been completely forgotten in this process,” Sherman said. “The regime in place in Iran now is more hardline than the one before, if you can believe it.”

Problem No. 5: They actually made the nuclear problem worse. As my colleague Joshua Keating has written, Trump’s quest to stop Iran from getting a nuke could actually encourage the regime to seek out a bomb. Why? Because in the present world (dis)order, that actually looks like the best or only way to protect against US intervention.

Meanwhile, if Iran gets a bomb, other countries will want one too — including close US allies, Sherman said. So the world may ultimately become more likely to see a nuclear attack because of Trump’s war.

The bottom line? “The United States, in my view, has been set back.”

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/485875/iran-negotiation
s-mistakes

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, April 16, 2026 1:33 PM

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Pope criticizes 'tyrants' who spend billions on wars after Trump spat
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg0z3n5e5jo

Trump specifically requested $200 billion to pay for his Iran war. Divide that price by 340,000,000 population equals $588 per American.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/white-house-offers-no-hint-i
ran-war-cost-it-seeks-military-funding-surge-2026-04-15

Where did that $200 billion price tag for the Iran War come from? Multiply 100 days by $2 billion per day.

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While the war in Iran is costing the US something like $2 billion a day

Current Day (April 16, 2026): Day 48 of the War. That means 52 days more to go! Assuming $200 billion is the real limit on what Trump will spend on his war-making hobby.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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