The clear goals Trump has set for Iran

Andrew Sullivan quotes a pithy summary of what Trump has said he wants:

Unconditional surrender. Regime change. Partnership with regime for tariffing the strait. Close the strait. Open the strait. No nukes. Some nukes. No missiles. Some missiles. Civilization wipeout. Ceasefire. War. Peace. And if all that fails, we’ll take the JCPOA.

This isn’t 4d chess. At best it is snakes and ladders.

Sullivan notes:

This is the art of the deal? Please. Day-by-day contradictions, countless red lines crossed and crossed again, weird declarations of total victory, followed by even weirder threats to blow everything up again: at some point, even Goebbels would give up. Five deadlines have been set and five deadlines have passed without Iran capitulating.

Trump appears to be getting outsmarted by a supreme leader who may be in a coma!