Don’t get us wrong. We were comfortable with the President’s brief remarks this morning disparaging the Iranian response to his offerings of peace from late last week. He says the Cease-Fire in the conflict is on life support, and wonders what it will take to bring the lunatics to an agreement.

Which according to the Iranians is not going to happen. What we have here is a demonstrated failure to communicate that is better characterized as a miscommunication in diplomacy. We had a short meeting with brilliant bright light coming in the eastern facing big glass windows.

“The IRGC hard-liners apparently think that Trump is under pressure and can’t maintain the naval forces to enforce the blockade. They think if they can just hold out for a month or two the Americans will collapse and withdraw.” Miles seemed comfortable with the failure.

“Is that true?”

“Maybe. There is more going on here than it appears. The Iranians are running a pretty effective campaign with domestic groups which are affected by that strange derangement thing and would prefer to lose a war overseas in order to improve their chances in the coming elections.” Vic seemed pensive.

“Now that is kinda weird, isn’t it?” said Rocket with a frown.

“It is all communications, good and bad,” said Miles. We will see if Mr. Trump can ride out the next couple days before something slips back into a demonstration of some kind. The IRGC may not understand how hungry the people are getting in Tehran. The zealots may accept martyrdom but we suspect they will be hearing from their folks back home before Mr. Trump does.”

“It is all a question of what people will put up with, Remember? The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is headed home now from the Mid-East. She has been gone with her thousands of Sailors and Airdales nearly a year.”

“Longest since Vietnam, and beat the record we set back in the start to this in 1979.”

“We have two carriers still out there and they can stay another four or five months if Ford’s cruise is any example. The smaller ships will stick around for supplies.”

“”And communications,” said Splash with a laugh. “we’ll see who is listening.”

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