There’s a chance, of course, that Israel is acting at Trump’s bequest: If you’re trying to get one side to agree to a deal, it might be useful to “intensify” their pain-points.
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In fact, maybe Trump is on the phone with Supreme Leader of Iran and explaining how things work in the Big City: “Yeah, y’know that deal we offered yesterday? Subtract $20 billion from it, ‘cuz now you’ve got less stuff to trade.”
So maybe Israel and America are (unofficially) working together: Call it the Crassus school of bartering. Since Israel and America both want the same outcome, it would make sense to collaborate tactically — and sometimes in geopolitics, plausible deniability has its purposes.
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Especially when you’re in highwire negotiations.
“Better agree today,
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