“We’re going back and forth on a couple of language points,” says US Vice President JD Vance.
Can someone decipher that headline for me, pls?
I’m not a native Enolish speaker, but usually Iconsider my skills to be passable. But headlines just throw me off completely sometimes. it just doesn’t follow the same rules.
Headlines have their own, unique grammar rules in English. They elide a lot of words to save space.
In general, the semi-colon joins two distinct clauses that could each stand alone as sentences, but it implies more of a relationship between them than a period would. In this headline the implication is that they have not finalized the deal despite good progress because of the President’s hesitation. In contrast, colons join two clauses with the explicit meaning that one clause introduces, or elaborates on, the other. Here, headlinespeak kind of abuses that usage to show that the ideas expressed in the first clause are explained as originating from Vance. It’s much more common to put the name of the person first, like, “Vance: Iran and US…”
So, the headline is saying that according to statements by JD Vance, Iran and the US have made good progress on a deal, but [REDACTED] hasn’t approved it yet.
JD Vance tells reporters that the US and Iran have made ‘a lot of progress’ towards a ceasefire extension, however, Trump is ‘not yet ready’ to approve said ceasefire extension
Basically the “: Vance” at the end is showing that the reporters are quoting JD when they say ‘a lot of progress’ and ‘not yet ready’
I hope that helps clear it up a bit
That means there is no progress. Vance is just lying as usual.
So when is the Pope going to excommunicate that cunt?
Have you noticed that he seems to be quietly pointing his finger at Trump more and more?
He’ll be ready on Sunday. Then bomb them on Monday.
They’d better hurry up, or else Trump will be forced to give them another month.
They have no fucking clue what they’re doing. They’re clearly outclassed in every way by Iran. It’s like a group of brothers who broke grandmas urn while their parents are away and trying to figure out how to come out of it without getting in serious shit.
he wants one or two more turns of stock market manipulation. The $750 million he made in the first three or four false alarms wasn’t enough.
lol Even Vance has to hold water for the fake peace deal?
Iran won’t accept a deal until Israel agrees to stop bombing everyone, and the US will never agree to cowing Israel and limiting its war capacity.
Trump, Vance, etc. have no answer because any answer involves a confrontation with Israel’s policy and power brokers.
Trump and Vance want the genocide and the Iran war and have no issue with Israel running amok just like the US has been doing. The only pressure on them is some bleating from the Saudis and Gulfies who wanted the war too, but don’t like it now that their cities are being hit.
The US is actually greater israel.
We see eye to eye on that.
