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Trump threatening to “take out the entire country in one night” and bombing Iran’s power plants and bridges was actually one of his greatest plays of all time. I’m not exaggerating.
But most people lost their minds over Trump’s recent comments and post. And that’s because they lack a negotiation filter to make sense of him.
Trump has been aggressively scope-setting–establishing a ceiling so high and gruesome that everything below it would eventually look like a reasonable outcome.
I would even argue that this ceasefire wouldn’t have seemed reasonable at all had we not have had Trump’s Easter post. Think about it.
Imagine Trump never having threatened to blow Iran off the map, and the world spending 48 hours ruminating about it.
A ceasefire would’ve seemed mediocre. Not anymore.
It feels like Trump stopped WWIII. He put the image in everyone’s head that Iran was going to get sent back to the stone age. That didn’t happen, so a ceasefire and more negotiations seem like such a big win.
And here’s another move that nobody is talking about. Each time Trump extended a deadline (and he extended four of them) he wasn’t just buying time. He was letting the architecture get bigger.
Deadline one: US-Iran bilateral. Reopen the strait or face strikes.
Deadline two: Pakistan enters the channel. The conversation is no longer two parties; it’s three.
Deadline three: Pakistan hosts Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey in Islamabad. Now it’s a regional table.
Deadline four: the “Islamabad Accord” framework–a named document with regional backing and two phases.
By the time tonight arrived, Trump hadn’t just been negotiating with Iran. He’d been building a coalition of every major regional stakeholder around a shared interest in the outcome.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have wanted Iran contained for decades. Egypt and Turkey wanted regional stability and a seat at the table. Pakistan wanted the credibility of brokering a historic deal.
In tonight’s post, Trump did something extraordinary: he announced the ceasefire “on behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East.”
He’s not brokering a US-Iran deal anymore. What he’s doing is positioning himself as the representative of a regional coalition–Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan–all behind the framework that’s now being finalized.
The permanent deal, when it comes, won’t be Trump versus Iran. It’ll be Iran versus a bloc that includes every major power in the region, with Trump holding the pen.
Again, Trump went from a Strait of Hormuz negotiation to a Middle East security architecture. A week ago this didn’t seem possible. Even a few days ago it didn’t seem possible. And yet here we are.
Trump kept the ceiling high enough that the deal had room to grow into something much larger than where it started.
Trump is on an all-time run.
https://x.com/AmericanDebunk/status/2041713625174266175
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There is a plan for this war and it’s working out exactly as America wants it to. Trumps post tonight is yet more proof of it.
The prevailing narrative is that America doesn’t know what it’s doing. That argument is BS.
This isn’t about Iran. America is resetting the global order and moving forward quickly with the Greater North America plan.
It is the end of globalism as we know it.
1. Middle East
– Iran is now choking the strait (tolls, threats) causing Middle Eastern oil to become less desirable (not a reliable source). Ramifications of the war will continue for years. Iran has attacked other Middle Eastern powers, now all on edge and openly aggressive. Iran weakened enough it can’t get nukes, but not enough it can’t cause serious problems. Continued chaos in the Strait for the foreseeable, bad for oil business in the Middle East (see oil leaders mtg Trump). Great for American oil.
2. Europe
– As energy crisis hits, Europe becomes more reliant on American oil and gas (due to above), good leverage for negotiations and long term debt ceiling (initially a worry) as europe is forced to buy more US debt if it wants energy deals. Ukraine war good long term as it knocks out Russia as energy supplier to Europe and keeps Russians weakened in attrition. Who does Europe turn to for oil? Only supplier left is America who now controls one of the largest oil producers in the world, Venezuela.
3. China
– America is in a serious trade/tariff war with China, its biggest rising global threat. 45% of China’s oil comes from the strait. Venezuela’s largest oil buyer was China (50%-80%). Who now has the upper hand in that negotiation? Mid-term, China has to play USA’s game.
4. Greenland
– NATO allies predictably failed to help, proves Trumps point they can’t be relied upon protect Greenland (take UK battleship already out of commission as an example) – don’t forget allies were all briefed that the war in Iran was coming, they walked into the trap. UK is a prime example, ask why so much focus from Trump on its failure to help? Because it’s a massive European power and the “special relationship” is a symbolic target.
5. South America (separate from Iran war but part of the same plan)
– USA has already begun working on removing enemies and anti-US regimes. See recent Shield of America’s mtg, financial support for Argentina, Venezuela and threats to Cuba. USA is securing is back garden and forcing China out permanently.
If you think all of that looks like America losing, then you’ll hate to see what winning looks like.
Their plan is working. This is the Greater North America project is in full swing, it’s part of a massive reset of the global order.
ALEX ARMSTRONG UKs GBN NEWS
https://x.com/alexarmstrong/status/2042059768508879305?s=46
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I am pleased to report that we C&Cers aren’t barking in the wilderness anymore. We are no longer the only ones noticing that President Trump has been working from a long-term plan, as though directing construction from a complicated blueprint. More and more, people are starting to connect the dots we’ve long seen. Two quick examples.
On Tuesday, UK’s GB News (a conservative outlet) ran a segment connecting the “impeccable timing” of both the Venezuela and Iranian operations. “America is now controlling the vast swathes of oil that China needs; Europe is also getting hit hard,” anchor Alex Armstrong said. “That puts America in a very strong position.”
CLIP: GB News’ Alex Armstrong lays out Trump’s long-term master plan (5:50).
Armstrong also connected the dots from oil supremacy to US withdrawal from NATO, to a revived American continent, and even to Greenland. He ended by warning that Britain risked entering a new dark age, although, let’s be honest, how would you tell? “If you think all of that looks like America losing,” Armstrong said, “then you’ll hate to see what winning looks like.”
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Also on Tuesday, Victor Davis Hanson (also a rock-ribbed conservative) described how the Trump Doctrine has —in a single year!— successfully purged America’s two geopolitical opponents from the most difficult and sensitive places on the globe. (To be fair, VDH has been a consistent voice noticing a thread of logic connecting Trump’s first year. But he’s putting it all together now.)
https://x.com/MichaelARothman/status/2041721663679819901?s=20
“Our Chinese and Russian adversaries are in a much weaker position,” Hanson explained. “They’ve seen the display of American expertise. It’s a deterrent factor.”
True, but it’s not just a deterrent factor. It is also a degrading factor. How about the so-called BRICS? Remember them? (Portlanders: BRICS is the rival economic bloc started by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.) Nearly Biden’s entire term was a noisy drumline hammering away about BRICS. BRICS is making a new digital payment system. BRICS is adding more member countries. BRICS is having another swanky conference and the U.S. isn’t invited. BRICS this, BRICS that.
You don’t hear too much about the BRICS these days. It’s practically passé.
That wasn’t an accident. Last summer, Trump threatened countries supporting BRICS: “Any Country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS, will be charged an ADDITIONAL 10% Tariff. There will be no exceptions to this policy.” The result: not one country has joined BRICS since Trump issued his threat. India’s Prime Minister Modi quietly rebranded BRICS to ‘Building Resilience and Innovation for Cooperation and Sustainability.’
The party is over. Good luck finding any trad-media recognizing that achievement.
In a Charlie Brown sort of way, we conservatives keep falling into an approval trap. We keep hoping that corporate media platforms will one day recognize how much the President has actually won, that he’s not just winging it, or that a former real-estate developer was actually the quintessential choice to lead America into a cultural, economic, and military renaissance.
The hard truth is: they will die screaming before they cough up one syllable of praise. It will never ever happen. We must release that forlorn hope. They will resist to the bitter end, no matter how cheap gas, rent, and eggs get. Eggs could be free— and they would still complain. That’s why the modern Democrat party must be dismantled, since it has shifted so far leftwards, so fast, that physicists call it a blue-shift.
Instead, we need to beat back the buffoonish left-wing narratives and collect conservatives onto the same intellectual continent, if not into a neighborhood of agreement. And it increasingly looks like our mission to do just that is working. Smart people and social media chatterers are finally beginning to recognize that Trump isn’t just winging it. (Here’s another example: “Trump is on an all-time run.”)
Progress.
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