What? No threats, just demands? My God is this feeble.
Trump Not Even Issuing Idle Threats Anymore
Truth Social: I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict (started because, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON), even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings! But it is an interesting idea because now I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole, and thousands of others killed in combat. Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months. I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Aug 10, 2026, 10:31 AM
Follow-Up Demand
Also, with respect to the Iran negotiations, Iran should be responsible for the damages and death caused to the people of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump Has No Cards
These are the demand of a man with no cards.
The US public is overwhelmingly against the war, the US is out of missiles, the Mideast countries except Israel are all against escalation, and Trump fears midterm elections.
Ironic Demand
The one top demand by Trump is amusingly ironic, “THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.”
Obama had a deal that ensured that. Trump had that agreement by Iran on nuclear weapons before he started this stupid war, and the MOU agreed to that as well.
So now after threatening to bomb Iran back to the stone age Trump on numerous occasions, given Iran 10 last chances, and declared victory dozens of times, is suddenly issuing feeble demands.
What a hoot.
Iran Emboldened, Trump Feeble
The Brush-Off
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he MOU deal is off the table. Trump wants it back but Iran upped demands.
August 8, 2026: Iran Issues Six Demands on the US to Re-Open the Strait
Here’s the exact translated demands.
If anyone wants to read an adult viewpoint on all this, I recommend George Friedman’s essay, “Iran’s Unfinished War: Tehran’s Race Against Time,” on his paid Internet journal, “Geopolitical Futures.” I am a subscriber. George is of course not responsible for anything I have written on this site, and his opinions and my opinions might not coincide much at all, but I think his writings are well informed and I always take them seriously. George once ran another information platform called “Stratfor,” which I think some people called a “private C.I.A.” He fell out with his associates and was thrown out of that. I defected from Stratfor and subscribed to his new journal, “Geopolitical Futures” instead. Stratfor have stopped sending appeals asking me to resubscribe, and I don’t know if they are still operating.
I respect Mish’s abilities with respect to statistics, but I think military strategy is a different field. Also politics is no game for nice people, but it has its own skills too, and they aren’t the same as the skills required in the interpretation of statistics either.
I suppose I should mention that I don’t know if I am breaching any unwritten rules by touting “Geopolitical Futures on a possibly competing platform like this.
Appoint General Jojo and Admiral Bessent! Pompoms! Invade! Invade and conquer Iran! Megaphones! Onward Christian soldiers!
Long as they are in the first wave of the assault.
March 3 — Trump: the U.S. Navy could escort tankers through Hormuz “as soon as possible.”
It took exactly 48 hours for reality to hit Trump.
In a stunning pivot (the clear punchline behind his current obsession with 48-hour ultimatums) the heaviest stakes of the conflict evaporated overnight:
. Enriched uranium stockpiles.
. Nuclear warheads.
. Ballistic missile threats.
. The regime’s brutal murder of hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
Decades of strategic policy aimed at regime change are completely gone.
All that is left?
A wish, a hope, and a prayer that Iran (because apparently no one else has the power) will somehow decide to open the Strait of Hormuz.
B
Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control (wsj.com)
Almost time for Trump to turn on Hegseth. He has plenty of ammo for that at least.
Given the irrationality of the Trump administration, they will carpet bomb Iran with conventional bombs simply to use them up. High altitude B52s would satisfy Trumps need for a war tantrum and something to talk about, By using millions of lbs of carpet bombs they do not commit the ultimate crime of using a nuclear weapon.
No one stopped Israel in Gaza and no one stopped Israel in Lebanon. I doubt anyone will
In the process Trump and BiBi will create a genocidal wasteland that makes Gaza look like Childs play.
Nah, Iran would destroy every oil field and desalinization plant in every Gulf state and possibly Israel as well. There will be no military escalation by Trump anymore.
Lol – Trump isn’t going to set one toe in Iran.
Dear Donald:
Resign now and get JD to pardon you.
We promise not to laugh and point when we see you public.
Why Is Pete Hegseth Purging Women From Command? Doug Wilson Is Why.He preaches holy war, iron discipline, and male dominance. And one of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/the-passion-of-doug-wilson/
I still know people who support Trump and think he’s doing the “right thing” with Iran.
Traffic to Trump’s Truth Social Falls Sharply This SummerPresident Trump’s social media platform has had double-digit declines in visitors in June and July, according to estimates from a widely cited online tracking firm.
I wish they were starting to dwindle but then these polls come out and a 34% still approve and most of those are Republicans. That’s a lot, and it is hard not to think many are still hanging on and doing whatever mental gymnastics are necessary to make it all true.
It’s a cult.
1. Israel is perfectly content to burn the entire rest of the world down, as long as Iran is destroyed in the process.
2. Trump is perfectly content to burn the rest of the world down, as long as he is not personally affected and The Files are not made public.
Are US taxpayers willing to pay for all of these shenanigans?
His supporters are, Israel is and the Republican led Congress is. That’s enough to keep it going forever.
Did that ever matter?
Nobody will ask them, nobody cares what the populace thinks or likes or wants, unless it coincides with elite opinion, in which case The Voice Of The People Has Spoken.
I know everyone is tired of me saying this but the guy is super low IQ. Occums razor, no fancy explanations required, he’s a moron. Amazing that such a loser idiot can dupe so many people, repeatedly.
I fear for my country
Just shows the IQ of the folks who voted for him.
Like George Carlin said decades ago, the average American is an idiot. And half the population is dumber than that.
Half are dumber than the median. 90% are dumber than average.
An effn moron combined with compulsion to lie. this is on childhood vaccines today…
proof #4520
5 separate visits instead of one becuz…, syringes the size of soda bottles…
Trump: “At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I’ve seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child’s body.”
And, pay 5 times to the pharamacist/doctor/nurse and 5 times to Pharma bros. He is looking out for them!
Transport costs, gear used up, preservation of vaccines, time spent, insurance. Incinerating money for no proven basis. Just to hear the sound of his voice.
It is the mental laziness of the voters on display, or their sheer incompetence, deferring to this dangerous, deranged nincompoop.
If you just forgo all that, the kid may die of something and you’re off the hook for child care.
Trump needs to admit that attacking Iran was a mistake and apologize if he really cares about the economy. Lift the sanctions, unfreeze accounts, and pay Iran for reconstruction costs. Get this over with, one and done. Any alternative action plan will ultimately end very badly for the whole world’s standard of living.
The world’s standard of living is the least of the worries of the thugs running the show from the background. This should really be obvious to everyone by now. On the contrary, as the old masonic slogan goes “ordo ab chao” so let chaos reign first then we’ll send in the white knights riding in on AI (Artificial Idiot) cavalry. If they’ve reduced world population by 50% by then S@t@n will be pleased indeed, and Anglo-Zionist capital will have expanded further in exchange for mass sacrifice of humans.
He’s a narcissist. He is incapable of admitting to his mistakes.
He will burn the world down first before admitting he made a mistake.
Or allowing the unredacted Epstein files and videos to be released especially those held by Israel.
… and I need to be dating Scarlett Johansen.
Shades of Jimmy Carter and the Iran Hostage Crisis. Instead of 66 US diplomats, Iran is holding world energy supply hostage. As with Carter, they seem intent on destroying Trump’s presidency.
As energy prices ratchet up over the next few weeks Trump will become increasingly frantic, knowing that a Democratic Congress is becoming a certainty, and that all his sleaze and criminal activity will be exposed.
Trump does not have the intelligence and emotional stability of Carter. He is very likely to do something impulsive, stupid, and really damaging to the world economy. As a narcissist and sociopath he is more focused on his bruised ego and potential criminal liability, than potential damage to other peoples’ standards of living.
He will react badly. We will all pay the price.
This represents nothing. Trump is just rambling, in every sense of the word. His default setting is to lead with distracting noise. He will do some version of it in the memory care home. Pity the caretakers.
Is English Trumps native language?
Something tells me he never passed the fourth grade.
Not far off. There was a post on Bluesky that showed Trump’s grade report from Fordham U ( 1 C, 2 D’s. 1 F) upon his flunking out. That’s why he claims graduating from Wharton. Trump’s IQ is 73 according to postings.
Actually his language is Bully with a narcissistic accent.
With an inadequate supply of conventional weapons, US military doctrine will evolve to earlier use of nuclear weapons, which should fit nicely into Hegseth’s mindset. Human survival on the large scale has become much more tenuous. As strategic oil reserves are approaching their minimum level, oil’s valuation advance will be congruent with a 4 Aug 2026 to 24 August 2026 SPX 3/3 of 6-8/6-8 day :: y/2.5y/2.5y crash devaluation. The president three crashes: Initiation of tariffs; Initiation of the Iran Special Military Operatio; Depletion of strategic oil reserves.
“US military doctrine will evolve to earlier use of nuclear weapons” That will be the last mistake they ever make. I’m with Ted Postol and have no doubt that Iran has nuclear weapons and most likely a system capable of delivering them to the US not to mention Tel Aviv. Iran has 1/4 of our population yet graduates more engineers per year on a nominal basis. Nuclear technology has been around for 80 years, it’s not a big secret anymore, and the world is awash in weapons grade material. One downside of possessing tens of thousand of nuclear devices, some of that stuff is going to “fall off the truck”.
There is no evidence Iran has nuclear weapons.
Iran was foolish not to have gotten them when it could have, as force is the only language the thuggish Americans and Israelis understand.
Right, and there’s no evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons. It complicates things immensely if they admit to having nuclear weapons. But it’s just not that difficult to build or obtain nuclear weapons. We’re not in the 1950’s anymore.
Israeli nuclear weapons are an open secret, one that we all pretend not to know about.
As are Iran’s.
Since Trump’s own CIA was unable to provide any evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons, your argument is a clumsy argument from ignorance.
Mutual Assured Destruction is the doctrine that has prevented nuclear aggression for the last 80 years. Iran needs this capability to shield themselves from nuclear attack by Israel or the US. Whether they have launch ready warheads or just the ability to rapidly produce them may be the only question.
Theodore Postol: Iran Can Now Build 10-20 Nuclear Weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_sp-FY6ZM
On moa:
War On Iran: – ‘New’ Iran Demands Repeat MoU Conditions
U.S. media claim that Iran has set out new conditions to solve the conflict with the U.S. But the new text it has published is just a repetition of clauses the U.S. had already signed on to…
Well yeah, but we didn’t READ them! Readin’s fer faggits!
Reading is hard, between kegs and tattoos.
“SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNY!””
– Walter
The markets will get hit hard tomorrow absent some reason to believe the oil will start flowing. Always interesting to see what lies Trump will spew to keep things afloat.
Trump and the political class are evidently as fully captured by fictitious propaganda narratives as the sheeple.
Trump does the dirty work, the things the uniparty wants done but doesn’t want to be seen doing.
When i was in the 7th maybe 8th grade they used to hire seniors to drive the school busses. My driver joined the marines after graduation and was killed in the Beirut truck bombing. He was a super nice guy. Always think of him when discussing military action. I feel politicians find it way to easy to put someone’s else’s children in harms way.
I have an uncle who fought in Vietnam. His extreme PTSD ruined his life. He still hides in his house for days sometimes, and he just turned 80.
Lebanon and Gaza were destroyed by you know who. Shouldnt they be the ones paying compensation?
Trump is realizing he is backed in a corner, and his personality cannot take the humiliation. If true that Iran is going to wait out Trump for 29 more months, then he will not finish his second term in my opinion as the stress of losing will totally destroy him mentally and physically. In a way, I feel sorry for him in a way, but he alone brought it all upon himself dragging our country and the rest of the free world with him. He may be a clown as depicted in the article, but I characterize him as a compromised fool via his Epstein association and sick dealings with the young girls. It is all catching up with him. A patriot would take the personal hit for the good of the country; Trump is no patriot.
“It is all catching up with him”
Seppuku is one way he could save his family name
“… he will not finish his second term in my opinion as the stress of losing will totally destroy him mentally and physically.”
That would require a conscience, or at least accepting one’s own responsibility.
He’s out there golfing and being slobbered over by MAGA, who are probably blaming Biden.
All the fantasizing about him being so sick, or having health issues, or “the wheels coming off the Trump administration” or him quitting…
It’s just copium.
Get resigned to have this guy in office for another 2.5 years, and hope he doesn’t put us even farther under, or decide to stick around permanently.
I agree, the US should compensate the deaths that they caused in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Gaza!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
President Trump is conducting foreign policy like a distressed property redeveloper. It’s what he knows so on that level, it is at least explainable. The more our President speaks, tweets, or posts, the more he diminishes America’s standing in the world. I am no apologist for the Iranian regime. But our President is doing and saying things that will have consequences…..none of them good!
It’s already too late SamR. In European eyes US is already past the point of no return
Not really. European satraps compete for the privilege of being able to kiss Trump’s ass.
Mark Rutte’s flattery puts any grand vizier to shame.
With each mention of “roadside bombs” it becomes more obvious Trump isn’t aware of which nation he’s “negotiating” with. Is Afghanistan supposed to be at the table?
More verbal vomit from the deranged leader who is trying to take some of the heat off of him for his continued misguided actions.
“Iran should be responsible for the damages and death caused to the people of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza!”
Did trump just snub bibi?
US and Israel-caused deaths in those countries are several orders of magnitude higher than any caused by Iran.
As the Russians so adroitly pointed out during the Biden administration but it applies even more now. The U.S. leadership is negotiation incompatible.
Why would the Iranians negotiate with us after we have surprise attacked them multiple times during negotiations? And have promptly broken any agreements in the past..
The Russians of all people shouldn’t point fingers there though.
Nukes on the coast of cuba. Russia could not allow nato expansion or nazi government in ukraine. We could have avoided Ukrainian casualties by not going to war. But the dems and repubs are both war mongers for diff parties.
So the Russians instead elected to attack Ukraine, which immediately resulted in the expansion of NATO to Finland and Sweden, who previously hadn’t had much interest.
What a huge self-own by Putin.
What agreements has the Russian Federation reneged on?
Territorial integrity of Ukraine borders, in exchange for Ukraine relinquishing former USSR nukes to Russia.
Russia will say this was breached by NATO expanding eastward, in “breach” of a verbal assurance attributed, I think, to James Baker, made in exchange, it is claimed, for Russia accepting all of Germany going into NATO. But just the same.
I could be corrected, I do not have deep scholarship on this. I should have better sources.
The Ukrainian constitution also forbade foreign alliances, which the Americans ordered to be changed after the 2014 coup.
that was the real beginning of ukraine/russia war. thanks to obama and john mccain. and the people that elected them.
Ignorant bullshit, and you shouldn’t need a scolarship on this to know it.
First off the Ukraine (and Belarus and Kazakhstan) NEVER had nukes, the nukes and their control was always Russian, the launch codes were always and only in Moscow and they all returned the nukes to Russia when they exited the Soviet Union (and Russia is the legal successor state of the USSR; it is, for example, the state that paid in full all of the foreign debt that all of the Soviet states had and that remained bound by the international treaties signed by the Soviet Union).
Secondly, the agreement where the territorial integrity of the Ukraine was guaranteed had the proviso that it kept its neutrality, neutrality that was stipulated IN ITS VERY OWN CONSTITUTION. The terrorists and war criminals (a minority who had till then NEVER won an election) put into power by the American organized and financed coup in 2014 changed the constitution, abolished the neutrality article (and replaced it with its opposite: they put into their constitution the goal to join NATO!) and rendered null and void the agreement with the Russians.
History, for those who know it, shows that among the major international players the Russians are at same time the most trustworthy and the ones who have been betrayed the most.
Ahahahaha. Go ask Poland, or East Germany, or Georgia, or Chechnya how they feel about Russia.
Man, this place has so many Russia-lovers it’s incredible.
What broken agreements with the Russians should I ask them about, specifically?
Man, this place has so many uneducated morons it’s incredible.
Poles simply like being America’s poodle. I speak polish every day and have some polish education.
The gripe in germany is that the Östies are too Russia-friendly.
For that matter, Chechnya has supplied many of the troops for the all-volunteer Russian army in Ukraine.
Stop getting your world views from Marvel Comics.
Pres Trump’s Member is carrying a cane.
How can a mushroom carry a cane?
President Lunatic
President Lunatic ramps into cognitive decline on steroids, acid and stress
Trump is not a lunatic. He is simply a sociopath, as are most world leaders.
Power selects strongly for sociopathy.
correct. trump is most similar to napoleon and hitler. he just wants to be the most talked about human on planet. the worse things he does the better. the dumber things he does, the better. he’s a sociopath at the top of the game of historical sociopaths. i suspect we might invade russia in the next winter or two.
What’s the current likelihood that he will start another distraction by invading Greenland?
He’s started the false flag operation already by sending drilling crews into Greenland without Greenland permission. Essentially an invasion waiting for a response.
More likely, invading Puerto Rico, an adversary worthy of “the finest fighting force in the world”.
Trump’s going to make all these impoverished failing states pay for all this winning, right, like the Mexicans paying for the wall? In our fiscal condition, what would we do with PR, Cuba and the rest, on our hands?
Hegseth: “What do you mean the Puerto Ricans just killed 50,000 US Marines! Wait, what? They’re already a US possession? Shouldn’t somebody have brought that up?”
Wake up Donald, it’s your move. Time to show Iran your amazing skills at multi-dimensional chess!
He’s struggling with 1D checkers
Tic-tac-toe may be his strength
He fails at bingo.