Friends + Interlocutors:

We are at an impasse. A dead end. Trump being Trump and Netanyahu being Netanyahu, there is no hope of an agreement. Sooner or later, “Unconditional Surrender” Trump will probably end the U.S. embargo of Iran to avoid a global depression. But he can’t go further than that. Tel Aviv would block it from behind the curtain.

Netanyahu and the Israel Lobby regard Trump and Washington as captive entities. At the end of the day Israel may launch a nuclear strike on Iran. Who could stop it? Who in the Trump White House would seriously oppose it? Obsessed as they are, some in Washington and in the American media might actually applaud it.

Patrick

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