The US and Iran are taking a break from fighting, mostly
It turns out even global adversaries need a long weekend every now and then.
For the second day in a row, the US and Iran have decided to just... not shoot at each other. It is almost like a polite silence in a high-stakes standoff.
Both sides are currently leaning into an informal pause in hostilites while everyone scrambles to get back to the table for an interim ceasefire. Apparently, the secret to de-escalation is just stopping the hitting for forty-eight hours and seeing if anyone notices.
Diplomacy is just two sides of a global conflict playing a game of chicken and occasionally hitting the brakes to check if they still have gas in the tank.
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