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JD Vance 'humiliated' by Iranian negotiators in stunning spectacle: 'Never looked weaker'
Waiting as Policy: How Diplomacy Becomes Optics TheaterThe SceneThe source gives us a tiny slice of the U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland: Vice President JD Vance leading the American delegation, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi arriving later and reportedly refusing a handshake, and two commentators rushing to declare winners and losers. That is the whole stagecraft.Who Actually Has PowerThe formal institutional power in this story sits with the governments, not the social-media analysts narrating them. Vance is not a freelancer with a microphone; he is the face of American state power…
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