Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open would mean extending the military mission
WASHINGTON—President Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, administration officials said, likely extending Tehran’s firm grip on the waterway...
“No, they don’t have to make a deal,” Trump says in response to the question in the Oval Office.
“When we feel that they are… put into the stone ages and won’t be able to come up with a nuclear weapon, then we’ll leave whether we have a deal or not,” Trump says. “It’s irrelevant now.”
It’s unclear if the US unilaterally ceases fire that Iran would follow suit.π
Trump...said earlier Tuesday that he isn’t focused on Tehran’s stockpiles of highly-enriched uranium, so it’s unclear what else Trump is looking to accomplish militarily.π
..."in a fairly short period of time, we’ll be finished, and they will not be able to do a nuclear weapon for years,” he continues.
“Maybe in a long time from now, [they’ll be] able to do a nuclear weapon, you ’ll have a president [who] will be like me, and he will go there and knock the hell out of them again,” Trump says, acknowledging that the ongoing war with Iran may not be definitive.
Just three weeks ago, Trump had made a nearly opposite statement, saying that he wanted to “make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it.”
What a buffoon.
What a liar.
What a coward.
What a non compos mentis fool.
What an asshole.
The worst president in U.S. history hands down. The worst leader in the West since the end of World War II. The worst, most dangerous, most comical leader of any nation since Idi Amin.
8:54 am:
Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz
Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open would mean extending the military mission
"All of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He added that the U.K. and other countries will have "to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us."
"Go get your own oil!"
"France has been VERY UNHELPFUL with respect to the 'Butcher of Iran' who has been successfully eliminated! The U.S.A. will REMEMBER!!!"
"I break it, you fix it." What about Iz, 9/11 Land, UAE, et al, Dumb Fuck? Do they have to start learning to fight for themselves?
The Atlanta Majestic Soaring Birds of Prey, formerly the Pigeons, ne "Hawks" drafted star Trae Young with the fifth pick in the 2018 NBA draft. Young became a four-time All-Star and third team All-NBA point guard with Atlanta. In his eight full season Young averaged 25.2 points per game.
But Atlanta went only 221-272 over Young's career. On January 9, 2026 Atlanta traded him to the the Washington Lizards, formerly the "Wizards, ne "Bullets" in exchange for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert.
It is conventional wisdom in evaluating trades involving multiple players that the team that gets the best player wins. Five cups of weak coffee do not make a pot of strong coffee. By this measure, D.C. won the trade. The Lizards are tanking and have shut Young down for the season in pursuit of the abyss. McCollum has averaged 19.5 ppg over a thirteen-year career, and is 34 years old. Kispert, 27, is a career 10.9 guy.
But the CW was wrong this time. The trade of Young was addition by subtraction for Atlanta. 19-21 at the time of the trade they have soared to a 24-12 record without him and the sixth spot, in the playoffs without having to go through the play-in, in the Middle East. Atlanta won this trade.
Gulf allies privately make the case to Trump to keep fighting until Iran is decisively defeated
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against Iran, arguing that Tehran hasn’t been weakened enough by the monthlong U.S.-led bombing campaign, according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials.
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Officials from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain have conveyed in private conversations that they do not want the military operation to end until there are significant changes in the Iranian leadership or there’s a dramatic shift in Iranian behavior, according to the officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Why can't any fucking country in the Middle East handle their own security problems? Why is it the U.S. that is always dragged in?
8:10 am:
The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran.
Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business,’ we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!). This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year 'Reign of Terror'.
-The Toilet Peoples Choice. An example to the world of the kind of people Americans are.
The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran.
Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business,’ we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!). This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year 'Reign of Terror'.
-The Toilet Peoples President. The instantiation of who the American people are, for all the world to see.
"Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
America is built on those worn out. not able to make a living elsewhere, and homeless. Americans are combined wretched refuse of others gathering hopeless on others' shores, taken in by this new country that needed bodies, able or not, intelligence and morals irrelevant. America has accumulated 200 years of garbage and are thrilled to elect one of their own. Garbage does not take itself out and toilets do not flush rhemselves. A new species of humanity, the ignorant, easily fooled Toilet People have taken root, flowered and spread their pestilent seed all across the land. Americans are the worst of the worst, laughed at by Iran, at the United Nations, by the world, who would flush them if they could, and may yet.
They are "marks", easily fooled, ignorant dullards. The world sees.
Bruh, did you see all the splosions? America, fuck yeah!
Because American marks might be fooled by this,but the world’s political, military, and economic leaders wouldn’t be.
The world LAUGHS at them:
[The president chosen by the American people twice] also jabbed at Ireland’s President Catherine Connolly, when asked about her criticism that the U.S. and Israeli operations have been “deliberate assaults on international law.”
“Look, he’s lucky I exist,” Trump said of Connolly, who is a woman.
The Iran war is "a big chess game at a very high level — very high-level chess, the highest.”π
Not since the swiss-cheese brain of Idi Amin has any nation's leader been so mocked for his cognitive deficits. Never has a people so convincingly proved themselves too stupid to make democracy work than has the American people. They chose (twice) the Caddyshack president, The Apprentice president, the Saturday Night Live regular. Americans truly are the "wretched refuse" of humanity, as their national statue is inscribed. The world would be a cleaner, safer place if these Toilet People and the Toilet Nation they comprise were flushed from the surface of the Earth.
Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’
(...and always have been)
March 3, 2026, 2:41 pm:
Pressed for answers on Iran, Trump is betrayed by his limited attention span
Monday offered the president an opportunity to explain and justify the war he’d started. He appeared far more interested in the White House decor.
Feb. 21, 2026, 6:17 pm:
"There's hatred there."--Brady Tkachuk, Team USA on Team Canada, who play for the Olympic gold medal tomorrow.
As the Chief Justice put it, "Having just fought a revolution motivated in large part by taxes imposed on them" by the King of England without their consent...
The most absurd cause of revolution in the history of humanity. Born in a temper tantrum, die in a temper tantrum.
And on...
[Trump's racist Obama meme is] something which had, for many years, been confined to the dustbin of history, while still very much a part of the vocabulary of white supremacists.
But something has changed.
Maybe it's social media, maybe it's something else, but something has changed. We are in a new reality where, for more than 12 hours, Trump's White House thought this was OK.
Trump: "I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine. Nobody knew that that was at the end."
When asked if he would apologize for an overtly racist video clip of the Obamas posted on President Trump's Truth Social, the president said Friday, "No, I didn't make a mistake."
Trump said he looks at "thousands of things" when he spoke to reporters on Air Force One en route to Palm Beach.
413,793 KitKat candy bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland
“Whilst we appreciate the criminals’ exceptional taste, the fact remains that cargo theft is an escalating issue for businesses of all sizes,” KitKat said in a statement.
Israel’s military suspends deployment of battalion involved in West Bank incident with CNN
A photojournalist was placed in a chokehold and slammed to the ground and rifles were pointed at the team, which was documenting the aftermath of a settler attack in the area.
Israel’s government is pressing ahead with new settlements in the occupied West Bank and attacks by settlers have intensified as attention shifts to the Iran war, Palestinian authorities say.
That is EXACTLY right. Trump's misadventure in Iran is the white phosphorous smokescreen that the Israeli fascist state is using, in the West Bank, and in Lebanon as well.
Pacers blast the Heat 135-118 and put together their best offensive night of the season. They shot 58% and finished with seven in double figures. It's the Pacers second win since the All-Star break and first win in Indianapolis since January. They're up to 17-58.
No "Magic" in Ontario State. "Raptors" lead 38-20, end 1Q.
Miami's realistic High Ceiling is 8th. They have 8 games left (7 after today). They are currently 10th. They are 2.5 out of 6th, the final playOFF spot, where the high-flying "Hawks" are perched.
Russia is sending upgraded drones used in the Ukraine war to Iran
Russia is sending a shipment of drones to Iran including upgraded versions of the drone technology that Tehran originally supplied to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine, U.S. and European officials told The Associated Press this week.
...While Iran has its own stocks of Shahed drones, Russia has made improvements to the design during the war in Ukraine, including adding better navigation capabilities.
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Russian specialists have adapted and refined the Shahed drone by creating decoys with no explosives that are designed to overwhelm air defenses. They also have variously added jet engines, cameras, advanced anti-jammers, radio links, AI computing platforms or Starlink internet devices.
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More advanced drones create problems for the U.S and its allies
The delivery of advanced Russian drones to Iran could challenge the ability of the U.S. and its allies to intercept incoming drones, depending on how many Russian drones are sent or what Iran does with the more advanced Russian technology, the official said.
Jet propelled drones are faster and therefore significantly harder for the U.S’s anti-drone system currently in the Middle East to take down without relying on limited stocks of expensive high-end weapons.
People in Lebanon are being cut off from care as Israeli attacks intensify
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 23 March, more than 63 attacks on healthcare facilities have been reported, with 40 healthcare workers killed and another 91 injured.
Last season Sensitive City lost 18 games total. This season with 9 games left they have lost 28. Their season win percentage decimal is .616. They are 6-4 in their last 10, as close to .616 as you can get over 10 games. Last season after humiliating Miami in the first round they were gentleman's swept by Yellow in the second. This season Drunk Toby Altman intentionally ignored November and December to better prepare physically and mentally for the playoffs. Maybe they will be. With the regular season winding down however, they are not surging but meandering.
A day after we rose from 10th to 8th by beating Sensitive City.
Queens beat Mamdani City and Magicschizoid beat "Kings" There is now (there was once a four) a three-way tie on records, Orlando, Queens, Miami in the Middle East. Orlando on top of both on tie-breakers, Queens ahead of us on same.
I called the Orlando schizoid. They were 7W from March 3-14. Then they were 6L March 16-24 before winning tonight.
The "Heat" are 1.5 games behind Ontario State for the sixth and final playOFF spot not earned via the playIN. Ontario State has a game in hand.
Trump interrupts a Cabinet meeting dealing with the Iran war and rising prices to talk Sharpies
During a Cabinet meeting Thursday that discussed the war in Iran, record-long security lines at many of the nation’s top airports, rising oil prices and skittish stock markets, the president interjected by holding up a custom-made black and gold Sharpie and offering a long story about how his preferred marker came to be a White House fixture.
“See this pen right here?” Trump said at the start of a roughly five-minute, on-and-off diatribe on the Sharpie. “This pen is an interesting example.”
It was one of several lengthy asides the president made during the meeting that sometimes felt especially jarring given how many more important things his top advisers could have been discussing.
The Sharpie monologue came after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered sobering comments about missile strikes, Tehran’s uranium enrichment efforts and the U.S. troops that remain in harm’s way.
The president offered the winding tale as an example of how his business sense can lead to better, cheaper outcomes in federal spending. He was also seeking to drive home his broader, long-standing criticism that renovations to the Federal Reserve building in Washington are too expensive.
“We’ve gotta get our priorities straight,” Trump said.
Money is all it is to him. In this war, in the presidency, in life. Money. He's not the absolute worst person on Earth, but he is in the bottom one-tenth of 1%.
9:29 am:
Iran and the US harden their positions as Tehran tightens its grip on the Strait of Hormuz
Using Pakistan as an intermediary, Washington has delivered to Iran a 15-point ceasefire proposal, which includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
A day after saying Iran wants to cut a deal, Trump posted on social media Thursday that Tehran needs to “get serious soon” on negotiating an end to the war “before it is too late, because once that happens there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!”
He did not elaborate, but said Iran should be negotiating because “they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview on state TV that his government has not engaged in talks to end the war and does not plan to.
Araghchi said the U.S. had tried to send messages to Iran through other nations, “but that is not a conversation nor a negotiation.”
Press TV, the English-language broadcaster on Iranian state television, said Iran has its own five-point proposal, which included reparations and recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
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