SadKangaroo wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 10:49am:


We're gonna take that as a 'no', Baron.

Well - the Pakis didn't negotiate a ceasefire on Hezbollah with Israel - they seem to mistake Trump for some kind of global dictator who could just order them to stop defending Israel.

It's a common error from those who live under despotic governance such as the gross imposition of Islam.  They seem to imagine he is an Ayatollah with total powers from God .. but he is only a US President bound by rules and constraints... not some 'living god', but a man.

It shows, really - that the ceasefire offer - which was what Trump was after alongside the re-opening of the Strait - was not genuine.  They knew when presenting these outrageous deands that they could not be sustained, so they were merely looking for an excuse for Iran to re-commence hostilities and try to play the victim and the good guy.

With good guys like that - who needs enemies?

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 12:42pm:


What you've written isn't analysis, it's a pile of lazy deflections wrapped in casual racism.

Referring to Pakistanis as "Pakis" while lecturing others about "despotic governance" doesn't make you sound informed, it just advertises the level of bias driving your entire argument. If you start from that place, of course you're going to contort reality to defend Trump and absolve Israel of any responsibility.

The core issue you're dodging is simple, if a ceasefire is mediated and explicitly understood to include Lebanon, then continuing strikes on Lebanese territory, regardless of whether you label the target Hezbollah, is a breach in substance if not in semantics. You don't get to redefine a ceasefire after the fact to excuse ongoing military action.

And this idea that Trump is just a passive actor "bound by constraints" is revisionism. No one is claiming he's an ayatollah, but he is the President of the United States, the primary backer of Israel, with enormous leverage. If he proposes or endorses a ceasefire framework, he owns the credibility of that framework. If it collapses while one side continues striking, hand-waving it away as "defence" isn't neutrality, it's complicity.

Your claim that the ceasefire was never genuine is also convenient, it shifts blame onto Iran by asserting bad faith without actually engaging with the sequence of events. It's an unfalsifiable excuse, not an argument. By that logic, any breach by Israel is pre-justified, and any response by Iran is proof of their duplicity. That's circular reasoning.

What's actually happening here is far more straightforward, you're starting with the conclusion that Trump and Israel must be right, and then working backwards to rationalise every contradiction, even if that means ignoring the mediator's stated terms and pretending geography doesn't count.

If you want to have a serious discussion, drop the slurs, drop the double standards, and engage with the reality that ceasefires aren't meaningful if one side can keep bombing a neighbouring country and call it "not part of the deal".

Participants in the talks in Islamabad

For the Iranian regime and its proxies, survival equals victory. If they are not destroyed, if they retain their weapons, if they remain in power, they can claim success.

So far as they are concerned, there are no compromises. In any conflict, no matter how severe, if any of their leaders -- no matter how freshly branded -- are still standing, that is proof that their strategy of armed confrontation, refusing to back down, and jihad works.

This outlook is precisely why all ceasefires will be repeatedly exploited by Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah. The ceasefires are regarded simply as opportunities that provide time to rearm, regroup, and prepare for the next round of fighting. They reinforce the belief that jihad and "resistance" deliver results.

For the US, this should be the clearest warning sign: negotiations, promises, ceasefire agreements -- all intended by the West to reduce violence -- are instead interpreted as validation of the jihadists' approach.

The Western belief that negotiations and ceasefires can evolve into peace agreements with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian regime is – as has been proven – unfortunately false.

In these cultures, agreements do not have a moderating effect on the power structures. Negotiations, threats, and even bombings do not deter anyone or lead to disarmament. On the contrary, they reinforce defiance.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22453/iran-hamas-hezbollah-power

Frank wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2026 at 9:55am:


Don't lie, old boy. Pete's already carried out regime change, as DL says.

He's made the world 100% safer, even if we had to cop a minor fuel supply shock in return.

And that's okay. We can now buy our fuel from America, Venezuela, Russia and Iran, so that's that.

We will make America great again, no?

They've given up on deadlines now.

'President Rapist and convicted felon Donald Trump announced the extension of the ceasefire with Iran to continue until a "unified proposal" for peace is submitted by Tehran, effectively removing an immediate expiration date.'

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2026 at 3:22pm:


No no, Greggery, Bobby gave him six weeks. He distinctly said, and I quote, I'm going to give DL the benefit of the doubt here, but if he hasn't fixed this mess up in six weeks, I will "rescind all support...

Yes, we said, finish the sentence.

"...worship and devotion hitherto and henceforth."

Thanks, Bobby, we said. You've got six weeks.

Time's up.