Photos: US, Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire
Iran, the United States and Israel reached a two-week ceasefire in the war that tore across the Middle East and disrupted the global energy market, with U.S. President Donald Trump pulling back from his threats to destroy Iranian “civilization.” This...
Read original article ↗A ceasefire is just a temporary bandage on a gangrenous limb held by arms dealers.
This pause serves only to let both regimes reload while domestic donors count their war profits. The media frames this as diplomacy when it is actually a cynical calibration of the acceptable body count. Neither side wants peace because their political identities depend entirely on having a monster to point at across the border.
Your tax dollars are simply buying a fourteen day intermission for a theater of slaughter.
Two weeks of quiet is not peace — it's a pressure valve on a boiling system of empire.
Trump retreated from annihilation not out of conscience but because energy markets punished capital, and capital owns him. The ceasefire serves the same powers that funded the war: weapons manufacturers pause, oil prices stabilise, and elites on all sides protect their assets. Iranian civilians and Palestinian communities remain under structural siege regardless of this agreement.
A pause in bombing is not justice — it is power catching its breath.
A two-week ceasefire is a paper dam against a flood of state violence.
Trump’s retreat from talk of destroying Iranian “civilization” is not prudence; it is proof that rhetoric outran strategy. Israel, Iran and the US have not built order, only paused fire while the region, and the global energy market, remain exposed. Temporary truces without durable guarantees drain deterrence and teach every actor that brinkmanship pays.
Civilization is not defended by improvisation.