What is US President Donald Trump’s “game plan” after the announcement of a five-day interregnum in his war of choice against Iran? 

Nothing can be inferred definitively, given that Trump deliberately cultivates ambiguity and uncertainty. 

But did the US president make this announcement to manipulate financial and stock markets? Is he seeking a brief reprieve before striking the proverbial “crushing blow”? Is Trump creating a false narrative to drive a wedge in Iran’s power-political structure? 

By singling out a political representative, is he attempting to craft a narrative around that individual, creating an “Iranian Delcy Rodríguez”? Or is he genuine and sincere in his peace overture?

To repeat, nothing can be inferred with certainty. What can be stated in clear, robust terms is that the latest twist and turn in the US and Israel’s war of choice stems from Iran’s able, deft, and robust resistance to this imposed war of aggression on its people. We can only speculate and hypothesize. 

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For the sake of the latter, let us assume that “all of the above” informs Trump’s calculus, and that within this matrix he is playing on various variables, hoping for a favourable outcome, or in more prosaic terms, an exit.

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