Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – June 19, 2026

Mark Armstrong — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:39:33 +0000

Greetings from Tyler,

At this hour, talks go on with Iran. I don’t know whether all these talks will do any good. Arabs are nice people, but you don’t want to get on their bad side.

The media is growing more bold in their criticism of Donald Trump. I wouldn’t be too quick to jump. So far, I think he’s ahead of the media. He tells them after the fact. He never gives them a chance to ambush him. Those idiots never give up! They just make up a new story you hadn’t thought of. The media, excepting those that attend press conferences, is against him. They never miss a chance to poke fun. So far, at least, he’s having the last laugh.

Trump signed the agreement to agree. Good luck. I doubt it’s final. Gas prices are supposed to come down, otherwise we’d never know we’d been in a war. I don’t know what kind of leverage we have, we’ve already destroyed everything. We’d hoped another faction would come to power, maybe friendly? But it doesn’t look like that will happen. I guess we’d better get used to the idea of Iran being an enemy.

Canada is cratering, and you can read all about it. They’ve never had the strength or resolve of the United States. They’ve let every Tom, Dick and Harry come in and at this point I don’t think we’d want it. How Canadians are putting up with the insults coming from the Oval, I don’t know. The media is largely against Trump, you don’t need me to tell you that. They are criticizing everything he does and thinks. He doesn’t care.

They’re chasing us around about AI. They say that pollsters are asking AI instead of the people. That’s a good way to get steered wrong.

Markets are about 7 moves ahead of the investor, they claim. Oil is coming down, now that we’ve paid penance. Maybe we won’t feel so guilty every time we fill up the car.

You hardly hear anything about the Ukraine war. First we were on Zelensky’s side, then Trump kicked him out of the White House. I don’t know what to make of it, but I don’t like Zelensky. He had the misfortune of Donald Trump’s presidency, and doesn’t know how to handle it. Ukraine has hit Russia with missiles and the other shoe has yet to drop.

Mark

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Israel awaits Trump Iran decision

The Australian Jewish News — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 04:49:42 +0000

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images

ISRAEL is out on a limb, as the international community waits for Donald Trump’s decision, expected any day, on the fate of the Iranian nuclear deal.

Jerusalem has been trying hard to find influential allies who will support Trump if he tries to scrap the 2015 agreement between the West and Iran, alter the deal, or toughen the approach to enforcement.

“Either fix it, or cancel it; this is Israel’s position,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last month.

Facing recent questions about Iran, Trump said that all will become clear, and then gave a timescale to clarify his intentions which corresponds to next week.

The main options he is considering are believed to fit Israel’s demand to “fix it or cancel it”. Trump has called the deal an “embarrassment” and it is thought possible that he may seek to kill it altogether, change details, or to “decertify” it, meaning withhold his quarterly endorsement and set the stage for Congress to reimpose sanctions.

But to Israel’s disappointment, diplomats from Jerusalem have failed to persuade other powers that backed the deal to join Trump in the sceptics’ camp, and the other signatories, Russia, China, Britain, Germany, France, the European Union and Iran are still strongly behind the agreement. British Prime Minister Theresa May has just given short shrift to her Israeli counterpart Netanyahu.

According to May’s staff she told Netanyahu that Britain is “firmly committed to the deal” which she regards to be “vitally important for regional security”.

Netanyahu argues the opposite, and believes that the deal leaves the door open for Iranian nuclear capability.

But May’s office takes the view that while Iran engages in “destabilizing” activity, the deal “neutralized the possibility of the Iranians acquiring nuclear weapons for more than a decade”.

Eldad Pardo, an Iran expert at the Hebrew University, told The AJN that some European powers may secretly be more open to a hardline against Iran, but will be keeping quiet because of their own interests.

He predicted that with or without enthusiasm from other Western countries, Trump is likely to wield his strength against Iran, and lay out a path that is more to Israel’s liking than the current situation.

“You have a totally unpredictable president when it comes to the tactics, but the strategy is clear,” Pardo said. “It’s based on an understanding that Iran needs this deal 100 times more than the US does.”

NATHAN JEFFAY

Source: https://www.jewishnews.net.au/israel-awaits-trump-iran-decision/69747

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