Turns out we didn’t get Armageddon yesterday – Trump TACO’d, perhaps the best outcome. Great fucking job, Donnie. Art of the deal, amiright? After a month of fiscal, ethical and reputational insanity, this is what we end up with.

• A crucial shipping route that used to be open and free now costs approximately $2M per ship passage.
• World energy markets are destabilized, with oil/gas prices likely to soar for months.
• Thousands of Iranians were killed, including hundreds of children.
• A few Americans were killed and many injured.
• We’ve spent billions (most likely more than $100B) on an unnecessary, tragic war.
• We’ve now made Iran our permanent enemy. Not just the religious radicals, but the whole nation. They have plenty of reasons to hate us.
• We’ve shown the world that our leadership is unstable and dangerous. We’ve demonstrated that America cannot be trusted. We were a minute away from committing a boatload of war crimes. Our reputation is shit.
• Iran is arguably stronger than they were before we attacked them. Sure, there’s a lot of rebuilding to do. But Iran demonstrated that drones and strategic thinking can outflank the US’s shock and awe bombing. The calculus of war has changed.

And we’re still doing nothing about the Epstein files. Who will we attack next in Convict Donnie’s desperate wag-the-dog gambit? My money is on Cuba.