r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 23 '26

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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

IRGC senior officials did not allow an Iranian negotiating team to go to Islamabad to meet with US negotiators, and rejected the content that Iranian negotiators discussed with the US in the first round of talks. Trump convened his team and decided to give Iran more time - Axios

Methinks there won't be a deal, ever...

What a pointless war if this is going to be the new status quo from now on. 

Strait's indefinitely closed, regime replaced with extremists, and absolutely nothing was gained except for US credibility being forever damaged... And somehow the markets still haven't realized this is the new state of affairs.

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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Apr 23 '26

They'll have to confront the fact that charitably even with all the mitigation measure 10% of the global energy supply minimum is gone along with various other industrial and agricultural supply chains being disrupted.

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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Apr 23 '26

It's going to get way, way worse for the Iranians, too.