larry isn't optimistic on the chances for a deal;

The editor at the New York Post, who signed off on this headline, or came up with it himself, either displayed a profound ignorance of history or was making a snarky observation about Ukraine’s lack of strategic thinking. I think it is the former, but I welcome your thoughts about the latter.

The Japanese attack on December 7, 1941 was intended to destroy the US aircraft carriers berthed at Pearl Harbor. But those ships were not there… they were at sea. Instead, the Japanese decimated and damaged several battleships. This attack launched the United States into World War II. I will defer discussing whether President Roosevelt allowed this attack to take place in order to rally the American public to join the war in Europe.

Japanese Admiral Yamamoto reportedly said the following in the aftermath of Japan’s great victory:

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve….We have won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thereby lost the war.

Ukraine’s destruction of an estimated 10 aircraft of varying vintage changes nothing tactically or strategically to give Ukraine hopes of stopping the Russian offensive on the ground. All it did was enrage the Russian public and further their commitment to defeating Ukraine and NATO. The Russian leadership has played this surprisingly cool. The Russian negotiators met their Ukrainian counterparts in Istanbul on Monday and did not raise the attacks as an issue in the talks..........more..........

 war will be the result if the trump keeps insisting on no enrichment for iran who says they will not give up their rights;

President Trump on Monday contradicted a report from Axios that said the US had delivered a proposal to Iran that would allow Tehran to enrich uranium at a low level for its civilian nuclear program.

“The AUTOPEN should have stopped Iran a long time ago from ‘enriching,'” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Under our potential Agreement — WE WILL NOT ALLOW ANY ENRICHMENT OF URANIUM!”

Other US officials have been publicly demanding that Iran eliminate its enrichment program altogether, a condition Tehran has made clear is a non-starter. But the Axios report said the US is showing flexibility on the issue.

Sources told Axios that the offer put forward by US envoy Steve Witkoff describes “preliminary ideas” to be discussed in the next round of negotiations.

Under the outline, Iran would not be allowed to build any new enrichment facilities and must “dismantle critical infrastructure for conversion and processing of uranium.” Iran would also have to halt new research and development on centrifuges and would not be able to develop enrichment capabilities beyond those necessary for civilian purposes.

Once the agreement is signed, Iran would have to limit its uranium enrichment to 3% for an undetermined period of time. The 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, capped Iranian nuclear enrichment at 3.67%..........more.......

 it seems that a solution to the palestinian war is beyond immediate reach;

This has been the bottom line for resistance factions all along, who have consistently said they are willing to release all Israelis still in Gaza immediately, in one go, on condition of a permanent end to the war and an end to the deliberate starvation and siege on their people.

Even though US officials have at times signaled acceptance of those terms, Israel has consistently refused, wanting only temporary truces so it can retrieve its prisoners, only to resume the genocide at will.

Hamas has shown flexibility by agreeing formulas that preserve these basic principles while allowing the US and Israel to say that the deal does not include – at least initially – a permanent end to the Israeli assault.

According to its latest counterproposal, as Drop Site News reported, Hamas wants “a guarantee that as long as Palestinian resistance forces hold their fire, negotiations for a complete end to the genocide will continue beyond a 60-day initial truce and that this would be guaranteed by the US, Egypt and Qatar.”

This would be accompanied by an immediate resumption of aid deliveries, according to the terms of the US-brokered January ceasefire that Israel shattered in March........more..........

 pcr doesn't understand the putin hesitancy to fight this ukie war;

The latest news on the war front serves to introduce today’s column.

The Ever-Widening War

With Putin focused on useless “peace talks,” Ukraine (or Washington or NATO) attacked four Russian Air Force bases and destroyed a number of strategic Russian bombers. The BBC reports: 

“In an operation said to have taken 18 months to prepare, scores of small drones were smuggled into Russia, stored in special compartments aboard freight trucks, driven to at least four separate locations, thousands of miles apart, and launched remotely towards nearby airbases.”  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r1jv0rn0ko 

If this is true, Russia’s strategic nuclear forces were attacked from inside Russia.  This seems to be a massive failure of Russian intelligence.

Curiously, the Russian English language sites, RT and Sputnik, have little to say this morning about the successful attack that Ukraine claims destroyed one-third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet.  Instead, the news services babble on about the second round of peace talks.

There are also Russian news reports that two bridges inside Russia were blown up resulting in deaths and injuries.  https://sputnikglobe.com/20250601/bridge-collapses-disrupt-rail-traffic-in-russias-bryansk–kursk-regions-seven-dead-and-66-injured-1122163963.html 

It seems that Putin still does not realize that Russia is at war..........more......

 many anticipate a hot summer, politically and such, as does kunstler;

“The Caliphate looms; it is inevitable, and the road to its gates is paved with the skulls of English children.” —Peachy Keenan

Do you hear those alarm bells ringing? Looks like June is bustin’ out all over, as the old Broadway ditty goes. Bedlam is in the air, and in more varieties than Heinz has pickles. Take your pick: civil war blooming in France and the UK, maybe even Germany — if it can shake off its psychotic stupor. World War III flutters over the continent like an answered prayer coming in for a landing. And here in the USA, genuine insurrection ripens with the summer’s peaches.

The Champs Elysees was a battlefield Saturday night as a soccer celebration went all Jihad, leaving two rioters dead and hundreds arrested (unreported inThe New York Times, of course, because. . . reasons). The two Alexanders at The Duran report that a plot is underway in London to deep-six (not eighty-six) Labour PM Sir Keir Starmer, who enjoys the lowest poll ratings in the history of British polling. Ol’ Keir likes to throw grannies in jail for rude Facebook posts while Islamic rape gangs do their thing and knife attacks multiply on the indigenous population. Not a good look. Perennial nationalist irritant Tommy Robinson was released from prison the other day, too, and you can expect fury arising around — and at him — as the sceptered isle day-by-day disappears under a burqa.........more........

 ten minutes with leo kearse on some results from migrants. i find leo to be a great creator of calm smiles;

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 this monday early edition has some goodies;

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