Tuesday’s highlights in the NYT live blog: ‘At the beginning of this meeting, [Friedrich] Merz said that in today’s meeting with Trump, “we will talk about the day after” in Iran, and what would happen “if they are out.” It was a sign of the nervousness around the world about the seeming lack of a clear plan for what will happen in Iran after this war ends.’

More: ‘Trump also just asserted on oil prices, “as soon as this ends, those prices are going to drop I believe lower than even before.” It’s an indication that Trump may see higher prices at the pump as a vulnerability in this midterm election year.’

War as a beautiful or not so beautiful accident.

The liberators are not even feigning that the to-be-liberated people are a concern to them.

The Trump-era is a time of honesty. Brutal honesty. Sort of.

(a sf 2070)