Trump demands unconditional surrender in what is not a war, legally speaking
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A friend remarks that if you can demand unconditional surrender in what isn’t a war, you have achieved Buddha nature:
“MIDDLE EAST
March 6, 2026 3:53 AM UTC
After a week of war, Trump demands Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’
SummaryNo deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!’, US president writes
Earlier Trump demanded right to help name new Iranian leader
Iran’s president says countries have begun mediation efforts
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U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender” on Friday, a dramatic escalation of his demands a week into the war he launched alongside Israel, which could make it more difficult to negotiate a swift end to it.
Trump made the remarks on social media just hours after Iran’s president announced that unspecified countries had begun mediation efforts, one of the first signals of any diplomatic initiative to end the conflict.“There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump wrote.
“After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.”The surrender demand, and the likelihood that this would complicate any quick path to ending a conflict that has interrupted global energy supplies, caused immediate shock in financial markets. European share markets, open at the time of Trump’s post, suffered a sudden swoon. Wall Street opened sharply lower soon after.
Crude oil prices are already going through the roof, and will go even higher if you pay any attention to what Qatar is saying about what’s going to happen to production in the Gulf States. The good news about this is that while the US public just yawns when Trump and Hegseth choose to murder hundreds of schoolgirls in a straight-up Nazi-style massacre — there is no evidence whatsoever that this was unintentional — that same public will scream in outraged agony if gas goes to four dollars per gallon.
As for what the “long term plan” actually is in Iran, even asking this question is just more sanewashing. The idiot polity decided to put Donnie from Queens — the loud-mouthed moron at the end of the bar, who thinks we should just nuke the ragheads, and also the Jets should trade a fourth-round draft pick for Josh Allen — in the Oval Office, and this is the result.
I just had the wild thought that if this goes on for a few months and there’s a severe recession as a result, and then Trump invades Cuba, which he’s already said he’s going to do, maybe JD Vance will screw his courage to the sticking place and actually try a 25th amendment removal of the mad dictator. Vance is enormously ambitious, is a true isolationist to the extent he’s anything, and knows he has zero chance of becoming president without some serious constitutional hanky panky. I mean stranger things have happened — like Donald Trump getting elected president twice.