Thing is I don't see any off ramp here for the US. There's no reason for Iran to do another ceasefire at this point. Their best play is to push the US out of the region entirely.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Perhaps the contradictions between Israel's interest and Trump's voter base's would finally reach a breaking point and the US would slap Israel and ragequit the war?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago

At this point, they'd have to leave the whole region. I don't see why Iran would stop when they're winning.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I could see this playing out. Already, people in the admin and media are saying that we started this war to protect Israel (or because of Israel, or even dragged into war by Israel) and that seems like the first step to an off-ramp.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Combine that with the sharp pain this is about to bring:

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

The whole stock market has shaved off 2%, with the Dow down 900.

I wonder if we'll see the markets trip their circuit breakers tomorrow and halt trading.