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Friday, 19 June 2026 (Happy Juneteenth), and nobody seems to know what the hell is going on. Is Trump’s ‘deal’ with Iran — or capitulation to Iran — to end the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz on or off? Israel and Hezbollah have signed another truce, maybe, possibly?
This is one sick, tragic joke, and these Middle Easterners are going to be killing each other for the rest of time in spite of any efforts to stop it.
Here we have this US president and his entire cult following bellowing about putting ‘America First’, but this sure as hell is not it. Isolationists are going to get a major boost out of this, because what the hell is America doing in the Middle East at this point? Israel is going rogue, the Islamists shall never be tamed, and the Saudis and the oil barons will continue buying up everyone and everything.
At this moment, and speaking as one who is hardly an isolationist and believes we must engage with the world, I am thinking that it is bloody useless, and that the former United States ought to retreat from any and all efforts in the Middle East, begin moving away from fossil fuels in earnest, and get serious about fixing its own house.
None of that is happening at this moment, but ‘y’all’ keep pretending this hath always been about putting America ‘first’, when it hath always been about harming all the people and groups in society whom ‘y’all’ do not like. The #MAGA rank-and-file may not be happy about the intervention in Iran, but they shall continue to suffer any indignity so long as they continue to hate the immigrants, and gays/lesbians/trannies, anyone with a brain, so forth.
— Arthur Newhook, 19 June 2026.
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