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News & Current Events Apr 12, 2026 at 3:58 AM

Failure of US-Iran talks is a blow to hopes of finding an off-ramp to crisis

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Failure of US-Iran talks is a blow to hopes of finding an off-ramp to crisis | CNN
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Failure of US-Iran talks is a blow to hopes of finding an off-ramp to crisis | CNN
The two sides were simply too far apart, not just in substance, but in style and temperament. To end the talks without a deal marks a fundamental blow to nascent hopes of finding a diplomatic way to end the war.
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StrangerFew2424 Apr 12, 2026 +97
Everything involving Trump & his administration is always a shit show..
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HobbesNJ Apr 12, 2026 +47
That's what happens when every single person in your administration is either evil or incompetent, with the vast majority being both.
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drinkduffdry Apr 13, 2026
Holy f***, are we best friends now because that's exactly where I'm at.
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Technical-Motor3546 Apr 12, 2026 +5
The_Donald is just playing 5-D chess.
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StrangerFew2424 Apr 12, 2026 +8
I mean, acting crazy is part of his known negotiation tactics... doesn't mean he's acting here. I truly think Trump has dementia at this point.
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Green-Palpitation901 Apr 12, 2026 +6
I’m getting tired of the dementia Trump take. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t. He’s still an a****** regardless. Oh, what’s that? He did some crazy shit again! Dementia! When are people going to stop making up excuses for this poor piece of protoplasm.
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StrangerFew2424 Apr 12, 2026 +3
I literally said he acts crazy, regardless of whether he has dementia.. he has no excuse for being a POS.
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Technical-Motor3546 Apr 12, 2026 +1
"negotiation tactics"
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CannonAFB_unofficial Apr 12, 2026 +2
What a place that was. I all but forgot about it.
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Technical-Motor3546 Apr 12, 2026 +1
Yeah, thankfully nothing really ever came of it
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jpk195 Apr 12, 2026 +2
Turns out if you add enough dimensions you end up back at checkers.
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planetarybum Apr 12, 2026 +19
I see the announcement is all "the US wants this", no talk of interim plans for Hormuz, no world view.
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YellingatClouds86 Apr 12, 2026 +10
IMO Trump just leaves and cedes this mess to the future.  We exit this situation weakened and that is going to embolden more aggression from the Russia, China, and Iran nexus.  Maybe even North Korea too.
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SureWouldForest Apr 12, 2026 +11
Do we think Israel will let us leave? Sincere question but also "let" was intentional.
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YellingatClouds86 Apr 12, 2026
Believe me, Trump will not care.
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Expert_Company_9902 Apr 12, 2026 +17
Crazy, I could have sworn Trump said the Iranians were "begging" for a deal......
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SuperDoubleDecker Apr 12, 2026 +8
Which in trump speak means the opposite
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R3D4F Apr 12, 2026 +9
Get rid of trump and I bet this whole thing resolves itself.
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mr_birkenblatt Apr 12, 2026 +2
Well, you need to get rid of a lot of people in this administration
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Remarkable_Watch_321 Apr 12, 2026 +16
Wow, what did that last like 3 hours?
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k_realtor Apr 12, 2026 +7
could have been an email. They did the old school thing of dressing nice and greeting each other, getting the long formality and speeches just to say, nope. bye.
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Bewis_123 Apr 12, 2026 +3
Maybe JD wanted to visit good ol Pakistan for a vacation you know
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AppleTree98 Apr 12, 2026 +2
JD says I can't talk about these private negotations. Reports ask what was the sticking point. JD reports that they won't give up any nuclear plans in the long and distant future so the conversations ended. SMH
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Wolfclaw359 Apr 12, 2026 +1
They're not asking Pakistan to give up their nukes, they're talking about Iran and the supposed nuclear program
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84Cressida Apr 12, 2026 +2
21 hours
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k_realtor Apr 12, 2026 +8
All that time to travel and talk...could. have. been. an. email. LOL.
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monotvtv Apr 12, 2026 +4
“Constructive talks” → back to square one.
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Sophia_Shin Apr 12, 2026 +4
Is there any way we can impeach him like South Korea? Cuz what Trump's doing's so similar to Yoon.
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[deleted] Apr 12, 2026 +11
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dope_sheet Apr 12, 2026 +6
A crisis the didn't exist until Trump decided to go to war. What a complete failure of vision.
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wrathmont Apr 12, 2026 +3
Always worst case scenario with these fucks
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TriXter69 Apr 12, 2026 +7
Obviously they failed, Trump assembled the perfect team of morons to run the country
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Adavanter_MKI Apr 12, 2026 +5
I'm truly more terrified at the fact he's still got such solid support from his base. Like... what else can the guy do to try and lose them? I've never seen someone try so hard to piss off everyone... and somehow they stand by him. Use to think it was ignorance... now I'm starting to suspect insanity.
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Grrreat1 Apr 12, 2026 +5
Until Trump gives Iran everything they've ever wanted, and then goes on Fox and declares his capitulation a victory, this shit will continue.
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planetarybum Apr 12, 2026 +2
He already said today, no matter what happens, America won.
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Friendly-Profit-8590 Apr 12, 2026 +23
So devils advocate here. Iran doesn’t have to fire on the U.S. navy they just need to attack a transiting ship to effectively grind shipping to a halt again. What then?
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Keeltoodeep Apr 12, 2026 +2
In the long term? GCC bypass pipelines. In the short term? Higher oil prices and shipping redirects to USA and Canada (and Venezuela).
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meechmeechmeecho Apr 12, 2026 +1
The devils advocate to the devils advocate, is that the US has to show some semblance of restraint because of how unpopular this war is both domestically and internationally. Right now the threat of attack is more optimal than actually following through it. If the international opinion turns on Iran, I think we’d expect a lot more bombings that muddy the line of what’s a true military target.
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Sreg32 Apr 12, 2026 +2
And the uranium? Wherever it is. Obama had an agreement in which it was being monitored, torn up by Trump because…well, Obama did it. Now everything is a mess
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SuperDoubleDecker Apr 12, 2026 +1
Such a catastrophic failure. The distraction worked for a while. Now back to those files!!!
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Keeltoodeep Apr 12, 2026 -2
Iran’s economy has fallen 50% according to some estimates. They no longer have a navy or Air Force that could defend their own shipping from GCC nations if uae or KSA wanted to blockade Iran at the gulf of Oman or Kharg. GCC nations have been surprisingly patient but I’m not so sure if that patience is infinite.
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TechnicallyCreative1 Apr 12, 2026 +7
Patient with whom exactly? Iran can and will continue to leverage their asymmetrical advantage here. Don't be crazy. The real question is the economics of their response. Gulf states are going to have to weigh the cost of incrementally corporation with Iran (paying their toll) or suffer irregular extreme events you can't effectively defend against and cost virtually nothing to kick off.
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Keeltoodeep Apr 12, 2026 +1
KSA does not need to. Almost all their export capacity has been bypassed. UAE similar but needs to expand current pipelines. Both would blockade Iran at Kharg and Oman gulf before they allow Iran to blockade them. Iran doesn’t have an Air Force or navy anymore.
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redfoobar Apr 12, 2026 +1
Economic sanctions (or equivalent) never worked to get a regime change. The people will suffer and the regime will stay in place. Many many examples of this.
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AK_Panda Apr 12, 2026
That'd result in pretty strong backlash on the GCC nations. Unlike Iran they aren't economically, diplomatically or militarily insulated from the West. There's also the risk that all those nations end up in a shit fight, wreck all the oil and gas infrastructure, blow up the desalination plants and millions die.
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imaginary_num6er Apr 12, 2026 +2
At what point are countries like Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE going to have regime change due to not having any exports in their export economy?
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anonking1181 Apr 12, 2026 +2
The only place where that would even be a slim possibility would be Bahrain. None of the ruling class in any of those countries is going anywhere
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0x476c6f776965 Apr 12, 2026 +1
You better not hope for that. Once GCC aid to Middle Eastern countries disappears, you’re going to see a refugee crisis that will make 2011 look like a joke. Expect hundreds of thousands per day going to Europe and other countries.
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snoopingforpooping Apr 12, 2026 +1
And now the U.S. is doing Irans job for them by blockade the strait.
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VexedCanadian84 Apr 12, 2026 +1
Trump wants to be claim that he won. Iran wants money and freedom from Israeli and American threats.
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Different-Taste8081 Apr 12, 2026
The Iran regime is terrible but why would they not go for nukes. They've been attacked twice while "negotiating" with the US in the recent past.
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