America extended a ceasefire then boarded an Iranian tanker because words don't mean things anymore.
Extending a ceasefire so the other side can make a unified proposal is the diplomatic equivalent of asking someone to draft their own surrender terms while you reload.
▸ Wikipedia — United States president Donald Trump announces that the ceasefire will be extended so that Iran can make a "unified proposal", upon Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and fielNothing says 'we're honoring the ceasefire' quite like boarding the other country's tankers on day one.
▸ Wikipedia — The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command announces that it stopped and boarded a stateless tanker, M/T Tifani, which it says is connected to Iran. (Stars and Stripes)Thirty days for destroying a Jesus statue with a sledgehammer suggests the military justice system has a surprisingly granular sentencing matrix for iconoclasm.
▸ Wikipedia — Two Israeli soldiers are sentenced to 30 days in military prison for destroying a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in the Christian village of Debel, Lebanon. (The Guardian) (Th