Or vice-versa.

On Saturday, the White House announced that Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who were set to leave for Pakistan to undertake further negotiations with Iranian leaders, wouldn’t be going anywhere after all. It seemed that Iran’s chief negotiator, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, wouldn’t be there to meet with them.

He was, instead, on his way to St. Petersburg, Russia, for a meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

With his usual false bravado, Trump responded by telling Fox News:

“If they want to talk, they can come to us, or they can call us. You know, there is a telephone. We have nice, secure lines. They know what has to be in the agreement. It’s very simple: They cannot have a nuclear weapon; otherwise, there’s no reason to meet.” [RFE/RL, April 27, 2026.]

But it appears that Tehran had already “hung up” on Washington.

These on-again-off-again “negotiations” between Iran’s seasoned professionals and Trump’s pair of poseurs are clearly going nowhere. Donald Trump, anticipating another Venezuelan cakewalk, started a war with a region about which he knows less than nothing, and without seeking the prerequisite consent of Congress or consulting any of his military, intelligence or diplomatic experts. It is a war that need never have been launched, if he hadn’t torn up the agreement that was already in place.

He knew not what he was doing then; and he hasn’t the foggiest notion of how to squirm out of it now without totally losing face.

But that’s what happens when you’re all ego and no substance.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
4/27/26