Mark Wauck: Facing Defeat, Trump Launches Victory Tour?
We’re in clown world territory. For lack of coherent instructions from his controllers, Trump is out on a victory tour. Most of this stuff doesn’t even reach the level of damage control propaganda. For example, Trump yesterday was saying that the Strait of Hormuz is “in great shape”. He said that even as three ships were on fire there.
Philip Pilkington @philippilk
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Now we have good footage of the Iranian boat drones. They are pretty serious weaponry. And they can clearly just torch an oil tanker. If one of these hit a US Navy warship filled with ammunition it would kill a lot of people.
Clash Report @clashreport
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WATCH: The moment the U.S.-linked oil tanker Safesea Vishnu was hit in the northern Persian Gulf after allegedly ignoring warnings from Iran’s IRGC Navy.
One Indian crew member was killed.
Meanwhile Trump “dances” to Lindsey!’s theme song. He obviously doesn’t even have talking points to speak of.
Danny Davis isn’t amused—less than ten minutes:
The real situation?
THE ISLANDER @IslanderWORLD
 Trump is begging via Oman for Iran to accept a ceasefire. Ali Larijani, Iran’s security chief, looked directly at Donald Trump and posted publicly: “Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation. Be careful not to get eliminated yourself.”
Foreign Minister Araghchi made it plain: Iran didn’t ask for a ceasefire last time either. “It was Israel who asked for an unconditional ceasefire after 12 days.” They’re doing it again. On their knees. Again. The Epstein coalition with 5,000 (many civilian) targets, 170 schoolgirls, the most expensive military on earth is sliding messages through Oman begging for an off-ramp. There is no off-ramp. Iran will only accept humiliation and defeat for the Epstein coalition.
Parliament Speaker Qalibaf said: “We are definitely not looking for a ceasefire. We believe the aggressor should be punched in the mouth so he learns a lesson and never thinks of attacking our beloved Iran again.”
Qalibaf went further — Iran intends to “break the cycle” of war-negotiation-ceasefire that Israel uses to reset and rearm.
The Strait stays closed. Wave 37 landed devastatingly hard on Tel Aviv and Haifa. The Omani mediator who said negotiations were making “significant progress” right before Washington launched the opening strikes now sits watching the rubble of everything he built. Trump betrayed him too. Trump betrayed everyone in this story except Netanyahu and Netanyahu played him like a casino chip.
