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'Sounds a lot like a nuclear threat': Trump floats 'ultimate alternative'
Diplomacy at GunpointThe setupTrump is selling a possible US-Iran memorandum as if it were a clean diplomatic breakthrough, with Pakistan’s prime minister and Iranian officials feeding the same optimistic timeline in public. That is the surface. Under it sits the actual leverage: Washington’s military power, Trump’s war posture, and a negotiation framed by explicit threats.Who has the powerTrump holds the dominant institutional position here. He controls the US state that the source says has already launched an illegal war and issued repeated threats against Iranian civilian infrastructure…
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