Believe Fascists when they tell you who they are the first time.

This is not bluffing, Hegseth and Trump are cowards, but to be cowardly is to seek a final war in order to simplify the complex nuances of life into extremist, reductive black and white terms.

I hope this ceasefire holds but I don’t doubt Trump would use nuclear weapons here and needless to say it would be a disaster for the entire world. There is still a good chance this will happen regardless.