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Day eight of Operation Epic Fury and President Trump posted four words that defined the entire second week of this war. Make Iran Great Again. In the same breath he demanded unconditional surrender from Tehran, promised to personally help select Iran's next Supreme Leader, and declared there will be no deal of any kind until Iran can no longer fight.

Iran said it will never capitulate. Its security chief threatened to kill and capture thousands of American troops if they set foot on Iranian soil. Its deputy foreign minister warned European nations they will become legitimate targets if they join the conflict. And Iran launched its twenty-third wave of strikes against Israel and United States military targets across the Gulf.

Russia has been providing Iran with intelligence on the locations of American warships and aircraft. Britain pledged fighter jets, helicopters, and a destroyer to defend Saudi Arabia. The United States Treasury reversed its own Russia sanctions policy within seventy-two hours to allow India to buy Russian oil after Gulf energy supplies were cut off. Qatar's Energy Minister warned the war could bring down the economies of the world. Brent crude hit ninety-one dollars a barrel. South Korea's stock market suffered its worst crash since two thousand and eight. Three hundred and thirty thousand people are displaced across the Middle East. And the United States has now struck more than three thousand targets inside Iran in eight days — more targets than any military campaign in recent decades.

Two sides. Two absolute positions. No diplomatic off-ramp in sight.

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