So 8 PM Eastern Time tomorrow (today, I guess) is the deadline for the deal and then he “will blow everything up” if there is no deal. Crazy stuff, but here we are. The man sounds desperate, so he will either give up or do something very stupid. The bet is, of course, on the latter. The deadline is on a trading day, so another extension is more than likely (not sure what the exercise is for though). The market is flat, the oil keeps climbing up. Delay to next week, strike on Friday evening, hope all works out by Monday? Sounds like a dumb plan so it probably isn’t. I guess one way to open the strait is make it irrelevant by destroying the infrastructure producing the exports. Bet on Iran being unable to do the damage it promises before being bombed into submission? Dumb plan again. Some kind of deal has to be made to find a way out.
Trump said that Iranian people want this to happen. He said that they worry when the bombs stop dropping, not when they keep falling. One begs to question whether he believes it himself or just feeds the garbage down the pipe. Either way, this is indicative. Iranians keep trolling:
Whoever makes the movie about all this in years to come, these scenes are must-haves:
“I am good at language” Yeah, that would be one and he can hardly speak it. There is an occasional desire to slap myself into waking up… if only it was a dream though.
