💬 Opinion Apr 9, 2026 · David Dayen

The War Is Bad. The Cease-Fire Doesn’t Exist. The Future Is Awful.

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The War Is Bad. The Cease-Fire Doesn’t Exist. The Future Is Awful.
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It took not even 24 hours for the tollbooth on the Strait of Hormuz to snap shut. Israel, whose desires to act as a saboteur and trap the United States into the war it desperately wanted us to conduct couldn’t be more obvious, spent Wednesday pounding central Beirut with airstrikes, hitting 100 targets in ten minutes, with at least 112 dead. Iran and the U.S. have very different conceptions of whether Lebanon counts as part of the nascent cease-fire. After Donald Trump confirmed that in his view

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