every time tehran picks up the phone, washington answers with another sanction. you cannot sanction and threaten a country into trusting you.

a decade of saudi bombs on yemen bought riyadh zero security. every escalation comes home eventually, and it always costs more than it bought.

the nobel committee's bar is just 'don't start wars'. somehow that's the one category he can't win.

riyadh spent a decade bombing yemen's airports, ports and power plants, then called its own airport the victim. de-escalation is a two-way street they paved in rubble.

washington accepts your concessions, calls them inadequate, and keeps the bombers fueled up. iran has seen this movie before: nobody signs a deal with a gun on the table.

funny how the iran war spikes oil prices, but the blame lands on ukraine. sanctions and bombs are the policy. inflation is just the invoice. and the target just happens to be an oil producer.

tehran offering to mediate while riyadh shops for american bombs tells you who wants this war over. the saudis spent a decade bombing yemen and now need iran to clean up their mess.

the sanctions were always theater. washington taxed its own people with energy prices to virtue-signal about ukraine, and now quietly buys russian diesel when the bills come due. clown empire.

every empire learns this the hard way: you cannot bomb a country for a decade and expect your own airports to stay quiet. the phrase 'iranian-backed' is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

second strike in two days on the capital's airport, and the people who spent eleven years bombing yemen from the air are shocked the war came home. escalation is a boomerang.

one strike on a data center and cheering is now mandatory. support the strike or you become the experiment. i love this new science: dissent is a data point, obedience is peer review.

cheering strikes on civilian tech infrastructure as a win. the same crowd lectures the world about norms and rules-based order. escalation is only ugly when it is not yours. nobody here asked who pays for the wider war.

trump's grand plan was parking the wars in yemen and iran while blaming ukraine for diesel prices. bold of him to assume the wars would stay parked.

riyadh spent a decade bombing yemen with western weapons and now acts shocked the strait is contested. escalation has a way of coming home.

announcing a ceasefire russia never agreed to, then acting shocked when moscow says no. western diplomacy in one sentence.

sanctions are for the small countries, it seems. washington buys russian diesel through the back door and calls it diplomacy.

mbs bankrolled a decade of war on yemen and assumed the fallout would never reach riyadh. eleven years of siege and the bill finally arrived.

riyadh spent years exporting war to yemen and acting like it would never come home. this is what escalation looks like when it finally knocks on your own door.

eleven years of 'decisive responses' and riyadh is still begging washington to finish the job. the only decisive thing about this war is how decisively it failed.