>>17772
>US and Iran can't even get past an issue of who pays the bill before they can start negotiating
Yeah this shit's not happening. This should be a no-brainer. The US could even concede completely with the stipulation that Iran has to "keep this shit quiet" until after the negotiations are finalized. You would think Trump would jump at any opportunity to end this given how low the oil reserves and artillery reserves are getting.
I'm not sure why Trump keeps announcing these negotiation "breakthroughs" that turn out t be nothing. Possibilities:
>just naked market manipulation
But if it this then it's got to have cutoff point before everyone notices and the markets stop responding. Trump would have to know that.
>Trump has gaslit himself into believing that Iran is in collapse and is just looking for the US to give them an off ramp and make the war end.
Possible since Trump doesn't seem to understand that war isn't Yu-Gi-Oh and doesn't end when you make the other guy's life points go to zero. He keeps going on about how Iran has no navy or air force left and THEY JUST HAVE TO GIVE UP. He seems genuinely confused and angered by it, like he's playing a chess game with Iran and he is declaring checkmate and Iran refuses to acknowledge it and keeps playing.
>Trump is literally being lied to by the people surrounding him
Effectively same as above but worse in all possible ways because it means actually DOESN'T have all the information (or any of it) of what's going on in the war. I'm beginning to lean toward this explanation, in part, because of how he kept attacking reports in the press reporting that Iran isn't about to capitulate and that still have fight in them. Like he was claiming that he has inside knowledge that contradicts what they were saying. The likes of Heagseth and all the neocons would absolutely obfuscate or outright lie to finally have John McCain's war. Bennet is another snake too and seems to want to be some kind of economic Svengali or something.
I don think this isn't a Netanyahu thing because Ben doesn't want a deal at all. He wants Iran to be crushed. The Israeli government has outright stated that they'd rather have no deal than a bad deal because they could just start the war up later when it more advantageous for them.