The president previously said negotiations were “proceeding nicely.”

“Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”

The strikes come just hours after Trump said negotiations with Iran were “proceeding nicely.”

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      29 minutes ago

      Anyone who thinks President JD Vance is going to end the the war is going to get rug pulled harder than folks holding the HawkTuhaCoin bags.

      • IratePirate@feddit.org
        1·
        12 minutes ago

        I have no illusion things will get better under the other motherfucker. I just want things to get worse for that one motherfucker.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 minutes ago

    I thought all the boats were sunk?

    Hmmm, something seems fishy here. Either we didn’t sink their navy, or we are blowing up fishing boats, or both I guess. good job

  • Furbag@pawb.social
    13·
    3 hours ago

    Every week is like groundhog day. Trump declares victory, claims that peace talks are underway, and then they drop more bombs, without any deal being reached.

    It amazes me that there are still people gullible enough to believe that this isn’t another forever war for us and that gas isn’t going back down any time soon.

    • TrippingBalls@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 hour ago

      It dropped 5% for the holiday weekend. Never seen that happen before. The art of the deal

      There’s a sucker born every minute and 30+% of the population still think he’s a good president

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
        3·
        17 minutes ago

        It dropped 5% for the holiday weekend.

        Off an 80% spike since the year started.

        30+% of the population still think he’s a good president

        As a person in the O&G industry, I regret to say he’s good for me. My salary/bonus is fully outrunning inflation. Nevermind the compound stock gains juicing my 401k.

        Trump’s still shit in my book. But if I started out a Republican, why would I object to any of this shit?

        A Global Crusade Against The Wretched Islam, ballooning profits, violent police actions against all those horrible minorities we don’t like, that cool new ballroom, kidnapping the president of Venezuela, our SCOTUS is rigging the next election, what’s not to love?

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    231·
    7 hours ago

    I’m seeing in the billionaire-owned media that they were “self-defense” strikes. SMH.

  • fodor@lemmy.zip
    19·
    7 hours ago

    Any media that’s pretending to be honest needs to, if they’re going to quote Trump, either precede or proceed the quote with a disclaimer that he lies about everything. That’s basic integrity. Otherwise, you’re becoming the media that’s complicit.

  • droniecarp@lemmy.zip
    48·
    10 hours ago

    What’s most fucked up about this is it is strictly 100% about manipulating the markets and making money, that’s it.

  • RanryuuRain@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    8 hours ago

    Expecting any other behavior at this point is light-years beyond foolish. The word of the president has been proven useless time and time again. He has made it now impossible to deal with the US, as any deals are subject to be altered at his petty whims. We saw this with the tariffs and we will continue to see it.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    11 hours ago

    Isn’t pretending to have peace talks while bombing them a war crime or something

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        8·
        5 hours ago

        Not exactly. Roosevelt scheduled talks with Japan, and then had the diplomats to Japan skip the meetings. He did this multiple times. IIRC that was either the 12th or 13th meeting that the US delegation didn’t attend. At that point Japan decided that the US wasn’t actually interested in peace talks and attacked.

        So in that case, as an American, I am inclined to believe that Japan was genuinely interested in the peace talks. We weren’t, or more specifically our president wasn’t interested in peace talks.

        Wilson also didn’t help matters by setting the stage for WWII.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      10 hours ago

      Weirdly the markets no longer seem to care. Strait is closed? Meh, new all time high.

      No clue what is going on.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
        3·
        35 minutes ago

        There is just no where else to park money in the amounts the markets currently service. That is it, simply that there is so much capital just sitting around in the market that it becomes a self fulfilling cycle.

        Market prices are based off of amount of money put in the market --> There is not another place to get returns on investment as good as the market --> More money is put into the market (stock buy backs instead of hiring for example) --> Markets rise to “new all time highs” --> Those with assets in the market gain as prices are based off the amount of money put in the market --> Those gains have to be used in some investment (otherwise they erode due to inflation) --> There is not another place to get returns on investment as good as the market… And loop over and over.

        The markets are now de laminated from the real economic reality, and as they grow they become more so. Investments in real things (and not wild schemes like crypto and LLMs) becomes less and less desirable compared to just putting the money back into the market. Bonds and other securities used to compete with the stock market and worked as a grounding force to the market, but not anymore. So now all the capital is off in la la land and since the market can’t crash if there is more money always being put into the market, the market will see “all time highs” as long as there is money to be put into the market. How does this cycle end? No idea really, you could have something else show up that gives better returns making the markets finally crash or you could have this continue until functionally money will not exist outside of the market (both situations are so wildly outlandish that it seems nothing will change).

      • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        7 hours ago

        After 2008, what’s the worst that can happen?

        The House is covering all bets.

        They’re gambling with monopoly money.

    • iocase@lemmy.zip
      24·
      14 hours ago

      Fart of the squeal.

      Bakrupts casino

      Decides that’s not big enough

      Bankrupts the US and plunges the world into a depression

        • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
          8·
          12 hours ago

          THREE casinos

          How in the actual fuckity fucking fuck do you bankrupt ONE casino, let alone fucking three of them

          • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 hour ago

            Intentionally.

            Hey guys, invest money in my new casino! It’s a license to print money!

            Cool, now I’ll just pay myself from the casino funds for my contribution to marketing, interior design, management, consulting, and it’s gone. It’s all gone. Oops, bankrupt. It happens, business is risky.

            Hey guys, invest money in my new casino!

            And suppose that the investors were using dirty money for the investments, and trump was giving it back to them after the fact with just a little skimmed off the top for himself, also getting in their good graces and accumulating favors for laundering that money. It sure would explain all the ties between him and the Russian mob, huh?

  • Blurstoftimes@feddit.onlineEnglish
    89·
    17 hours ago

    Always happens when the market’s closed. Drag up the war then say it’ll end by the end of the week. Hope no one notices the Epstein files. Repeat.