> the stock market is idiotic if that's what you mean and I agree

I'm referring to elements in the IRGC that consolidate power and wealth through the war. The ones agitatig for autarky.

> I do reserve the right to grow disgusted at whatever was negotiated as the details come out

I'm super curious about the timeline for payouts. If they fucked that up, it's literally in Tehran's interest to start shooting rockets into the Strait right before the midterms to try and get another goody bag.

And let's be clear, we now have a straight throughline to two directly antagonist, racist governed-by autocratic genocidalist nuclear states in the Middle East with weapons ranged for each others' territories, interspersed with a sea of un-coordinated air-defence systems which even in good times have trouble distinguishing friend from foe, thereby making the best-case ending for the next 50 years being Jordan and Lebanon littered with fallout from intercepted nukes.