How does the US blocade fit in this argument? Iran is not moved towards peace nor negotiations, as today's attacks of tankers in the Gulf demonstrate. Itself a retaliation for the boarding and destruction of an Iranian vessel outside of the Gulf. And how in God's name have Kushner and Witkoff ever demonstrated their negotiation skills? I have missed that part too.
I think that the blockade is a measure that can be enforced strictly or loosely or not much at all. A stand off can have some tensions and skirmishes, often the case in fraught conflicts, but there is a basic determination not to escalate to war.
How does the US blocade fit in this argument? Iran is not moved towards peace nor negotiations, as today's attacks of tankers in the Gulf demonstrate. Itself a retaliation for the boarding and destruction of an Iranian vessel outside of the Gulf. And how in God's name have Kushner and Witkoff ever demonstrated their negotiation skills? I have missed that part too.
I think that the blockade is a measure that can be enforced strictly or loosely or not much at all. A stand off can have some tensions and skirmishes, often the case in fraught conflicts, but there is a basic determination not to escalate to war.