[ExI] My prediction on how the Iran war will end

[Adrian Tymes]

Europe is finally getting a fleet together to end the blockade.

I can see them ending Iranian blockade efforts with little preamble.

But then they're going to realize their mission includes all such
blockade efforts - and so their combined task force may have to ask
the Americans to back off.

Trump may try to spin it as, "NATO finally stepped up, just like I had
been asking them to."  Which, technically, he had: Europe turned him
down at first.  His pride might override his greed at that point,
facilitating an end to any further American blockade of that strait
(for now).

On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 5:49 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> 1) Iran will make a vague statement that someday somehow it will start thinking about maybe not having a nuclear weapon, but there would be no inspections and no penalty for noncompliance because there will be nothing specific that Iran is required to do.
>
> 2) The US and Iran will agree to become pirate nations. Henceforth any ship that wishes to pass through The Strait of Hormuz without being attacked must hand over protection money, the extorted payments being split between the US and Iran.
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> 3) He Who Must Not Be Named will try to spin this devastating defeat into "the greatest victory of all time".
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> 4) His spin will be successful, at least among his hard-core followers, because they are hardwired to always believe anything he says.
>
> I could be wrong but that is my guess, I'd be interested if anybody else has one.
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