International Relations

HU (Telex):

Article on Telex about Vance's visit.

He IS staying at the Ambassador's Residence.   So yes, streets around there will be totally messed up.  And the chairlift will be stopped probably. 

Traffic is totally screwed near the airport - people were having to walk 35m to the terminal from the shopping area nearby.  There are pictures showing lots of people with their bags walking towards T2 near the Aviation Museum.

Not a bad idea to stock up. This seems like insanity but no fear; good always wins over evil sooner or later, it is the later we stress about.Trump looks like a puppet ATM as they all do.Would be nice to know who or What is pulling the strings. Hope the family visit is nice, we must hold on to good times and memories. - @Marilyn Tassy

I don't know what Trump is smoking but it's not looking good for Iran. I am not not sure to what he's referring to when he says it's the end of Iranian civilisation.  They've been there for thousands of years.  Trump is just a bump on a rocky road for all of us.  Maybe he means Islamic Republic.  No-one is a TACO man mind reader.  But the only way he can flatten them forever is to nuke them.  Either way, it'll soon descend into chaos, civil war and misery.   And Cuba will be next. Thanks a lot Donny and your handler Putin.

BTW, Vance says EU is interfering in the HU election.  The irony of him saying that when he's just arrived to give OV a rear end boost by proxy from TACO man.  Bonkers.

HU (BBC): Following talks with Orbán, Vance launched a bitter attack on the European Union and Ukraine. He accused the EU of "one of the worst examples of foreign election interference that I have ever seen or ever even read about... because they hate this guy".  Vance added that "part of the reason" for his visit was because "interference that's come from the bureaucracy in Brussels has been truly disgraceful".

Anyhoo, I think 2am CET, we'll see what DJT is going to do. I reckon he'll back down and do nothing.  There are reports of Iranians surrounding power stations in human chains.  What now then Donny?  Declare victory?

I reckon there's a chance Donny will use a land operation to place a nuclear weapon to destroy one of the Iranian underground nuclear sites.  I am guessing Fordow - click for map.   This will be very "visible" from Tehran.   It'll be limited use of a nuclear weapon and most of it contained underground.  I doubt it will bring down the regime. 

Trump's threat is close, if he actually does anything.

He says he will destroy Iran in one night if the sealane isn't open, but a number of countries have already solved the problem.

These countries have simply rejected US and Israel, declared peace, and their ships have safe passage.

Iran, regardless of what Trump does, has won a victory for the whole world.

Biden started walking down the path that will end US hegemony when he stole Russia's money,  but Trump has got accelerated the process in ways only a certified loony could have imagined ten years ago.

We are now a very few hours from Trump's threat - I wonder how stupid he will be.

US:

2 week ceasefire.   Now we wait.   

Apparently TACO-man been saying "we won", which is obviously not true.

Makes one wonder what it was all about - presumably grabbing and controlling oil there.

No-one seems to know what the plan is or was.