Donald Trump is saying that he's going to review Iran's new peace proposal. He posted on Trisosial, I will soon be reviewing the plan that they've sent, but can't imagine that it would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they've done to capital H humanity [00:00:15] and the capital W world over the last 47 years. Thank you for your attention this matter. So they haven't paid enough price, which that's how wars are supposed to end. It's whether one deranged decaying leader thinks the other side hasn't paid a price. Even though supposedly [00:00:32] according to Trump, they lost their leader, they lost their Navy, they lost their Air Force, they lost their air defenses, they can't rebuild for 20 years. We killed a bunch of their schoolgirls. I feel like they've paid a pretty high price, however you slice it, but not enough for Donald [00:00:50] Trump. So we must remain. possibly the dumbest war in American history for longer. And you and your family should continue to pay more not only for gas, but for every product that's transported with gas, which is basically all of the products. Because he doesn't feel like they've paid enough of a price yet. Well, that said, let's try to figure out what we [00:01:09] think of the plan at the very least, supposedly according to NPR. Key points of the plan include a demand to resolve all issues and end the war within 30 days, which would be great. Instead of observing a two month ceasefire as the US had proposed, other demands listed by the Iranian outlets include guarantees against future military aggression, which you can't have those with [00:01:29] Trump. There's no deal he can sign that you would have any reason to trust past the moment it's signed. But sure, get it in writing if you can. The withdrawal of US forces from Iran's periphery, so out of the straight of Hormuz, an end to the naval blockade, obviously. The [00:01:44] release of frozen Iranian assets, payment of reparations, the lifting of sanctions. an end to fighting in Lebanon, and a new mechanism governing the Strait of Hormuz. That last point is obviously very vague. What is the new mechanism governing the Strait of Hormuz? If they want [00:02:00] to continue to have control over it, I'm imagining Trump is not gonna find that to be acceptable. It might also be necessary. And one of the stupidest consequences of this stupid war is that it might actually end with Iran being permanently in control of the Strait of Hormuz. In terms [00:02:15] of the unfreezing assets, payment of reparations, the lifting of sanctions, some combination of those things is likely to happen as part of the final deal. And it kind of even makes sense that it would, but just bear in mind, that is one of the main things that the right [00:02:31] performatively had an issue with the JCPOA negotiated back by Barack Obama. And it looks like we're going to have a new version of it. Now you'll notice, of course, Yaz, there's nothing about nuclear deaths. missiles or future testing or enrichment or anything in there. So I do [00:02:47] feel confident predicting that Donald Trump is not going to accept it, cost or otherwise. What do you think? Yeah, no, I'm not confident that he's going to accept any of this. And it is frustrating because we did have an Iranian nuclear deal in place whenever Trump, I'm sorry, when Obama was president. And that included the lifting of the sanctions and then they [00:03:06] weren't able to enrich and blah, blah. And Trump said this is a terrible deal. He pulled out of it almost immediately once he took office during his first term, and he never replaced it with anything. So now it looks like we're on track to getting a second version of the [00:03:21] Iranian nuclear deal. It looks as though it's probably going to be a little bit weaker than the first one that we had. uh But it took Trump all this time to finally replace it with something or even get around to talking about replacing it with something. And in the meantime, so many people have already died. So much destruction has already happened. The entire global economy [00:03:42] has been thrown into flux because just so Trump could circle all the way back around to get us back somewhere close to where we were. In the meantime though, Israel was able to accomplish quite a bit, right? They were able to make a lot of moves in Gaza without having to worry about Iran on their back. They were able to move into Lebanon now without having to worry [00:04:01] so much about Iran being on their back, right? So they were able to accomplish quite a bit. because of Donald Trump. And also just one more thing, when we talk about geopolitics, the geo part of that is very important. We can't leave that out, the geography informs [00:04:19] the politics. And this whole thing seems kind of like Trump is just mad at geography. He's mad that Iran just happens to be right there by the street. So geopolitically, they have an advantage there. And I don't know how you win that. I don't know how you beat geography [00:04:35] into submission because usually that doesn't work out very well for people. Yeah, well, I mean, Trump is implying that we'll just take control of it. Yeah. I mean, good luck. Obviously not feasible. But yeah, no, you're totally right about some of the consequences that are already true on the ground. You're dead right about that, as you so often are about matters of [00:04:53] politics, but not pop culture. But I would also point out that regardless of whatever happens, and this is my last point, we could end the war tomorrow. We could end the war in six months. We could control, they could control, whatever. The oil companies have already made massive [00:05:08] profits. They have already made a massive return on the investment they put into electing Donald Trump multiple times over and maybe forever. Maybe the oil prices never go down again. So you might be screwed until the end of your days, but they are making off like the bandits that they are.