The United States and Israel say they are honoring the ceasefire with Iran, but the Pakistanis and Iranians who negotiated it say they are not.
That’s exhausting to read, and it barely scratches the surface of what this country has lived through in a year.
Consider what we’ve witnessed. The sexual abuse of children by powerful men and a government fighting to keep their names hidden. American special forces abducting the president of Venezuela and jailing him in Brooklyn while a sitting president threatened to annex Greenland. Federal agents killing American citizens on the streets of Minneapolis while grocery bills spiked so high that families are making choices no one should have to make.
Maybe the ceasefire in an undeclared war holds. But we’ve all earned the right to weariness and skepticism tonight. The ceasefire doesn’t end anything but the active bombing. Prices were surging before Iran, Cuba is still on the president’s radar, and midterm elections are seven months away.
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Source: Newsweek
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