Did JD Vance Get Publicly Humiliated in Switzerland? - The Bulwark

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Sam Stein and Will Saletan take on the messy first day of U.S.-Iran talks—Trump's threat to seize the Strait of Hormuz and kill negotiators, JD Vance appearing to get publicly snubbed, and the Lebanon clause that may have handed Hezbollah a veto over the whole deal. - 06/21/2026.

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1. Um you need self awareness to be humiliated

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[rampartd]

2. they invited gen Suleimani to peace talks

and killed him at he airport. why would anyone negotiate with this guy?

A flag of truce is a white flag carried or displayed to an enemy as an invitation to conference or parley — that is, to engage in communication or negotiation during an armed conflict Merriam Webster. Under international law, particularly the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, the bearer is considered a parlementaire and is entitled to inviolability — meaning they cannot be fired upon or attacked while carrying the flag Wikipedia.

civilized people do not do this, but i wonder how many chiefs had to die before they found some one who would sell manhattan.

i picture those beads that paid for new amsterdam as plastic mardi gras beads but i suppose wampum did have valuta among the wampnogs.

copilot needs to brush up on new york history and his (? what are an ai's pronouns???) gilders to inflated dollars conversion software might need an upgrade. and nothing about beads????

n 1626, Peter Minuit, the director of the Dutch West India Company, is credited with acquiring the island of Manhattan from local Lenape tribes. The commonly cited price of $24 is derived from a historical conversion of 60 guilders, which was the actual amount exchanged for the land. However, this conversion is often debated and may not accurately reflect the true value of the transaction in today's terms

doesn't the original deed to manhattan exist? don't we know who accepted the guilders and put their X on the line for all of the "local lanape tribes?"