Incentives. How do they work again?
After J.D. Vance declared the talks in Islamabad dead when Iran predictably refused to negotiate in good faith or any connection to reality, Donald Trump began making plans for the next phase of the war. Those plans began earlier in the day, when he ordered CENTCOM and the US Navy to clear the Strait of Hormuz and remove the limited number of mines Iran dropped in the passage. Iran responded by repeating its claim of sovereignty over the Strait and its determination to “toll” shipping through it.
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