Eve Ottenberg (@eveottenberg.bsky.social)

Roaming Charges: Mad Mouth, Bad Man; Mad Man, Bad Mouth + If, in fact, the war is over (don't count on it), then Iran wins by surviving two massive bombing campaigns by the US and Israel (both nuclear-armed states) in the last year. Iran wins even bigger by keeping the Islamic Republic in power under the control of a younger, more militant leadership with the Republican Guard largely intact. Iran’s victory grows larger when you consider that it keeps its nuclear research program and uranium stockpile. The victory becomes almost total when you factor in its ongoing control over the Strait of Hormuz and the fact that Trump was ready to call it quits in less than two months–not the 20 years it took to realize it had been defeated in Afghanistan. https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/10/mad-mouth-bad-man-mad-man-bad-mouth/