Impeachment

The UK papers are already releasing images of tomorrow’s front pages. Here’s the Mirror, expressing the psychic whiplash we’re all feeling:

(Yes, the Home Office blocked Kanye West from entering the country to headline a music festival in London this summer. Focus, people.)

Finally, there’s a multi-byline extravaganza of a news story up at the NYT (which appears to be unpaywalled), “How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran.” It clearly relies heavily on interviews and leaks with VP Vance, Suzie Wiles, and several others—though Stephen Miller is curiously absent. Benjamin Netanyahu is shoved to the front, however, and all but blamed for Trump’s decision to start bombing.

Mr. Netanyahu and his team outlined conditions they portrayed as pointing to near-certain victory: Iran’s ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks. The regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz, and the likelihood that Iran would land blows against U.S. interests in neighboring countries was assessed as minimal.

Besides, Mossad’s intelligence indicated that street protests inside Iran would begin again and — with the impetus of the Israeli spy agency helping to foment riots and rebellion — an intense bombing campaign could foster the conditions for the Iranian opposition to overthrow the regime. The Israelis also raised the prospect of Iranian Kurdish fighters crossing the border from Iraq to open a ground front in the northwest, further stretching the regime’s forces and accelerating its collapse.

Mr. Netanyahu delivered his presentation in a confident monotone. It seemed to land well with the most important person in the room, the American president.

Sounds good to me, Mr. Trump told the prime minister.

Later in the article, CIA director John Ratcliffe is quoted as saying Netanyahu’s regime change scenarios are “farcical,” which he then explained in terms Trump could understand: “Bullshit.” Now, now, sir. I’m sure the lady who follows the President to print out praise-tweets for him to read had the finger puppets ready to explain what that word meant to him without the vulgarity.

While it looks like this may turn out to be another TACO Tuesday, a very red line was crossed today. This lady in Georgia sums it up well:

Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-04-07T17:01:19.489Z

“It’s giving war crime,” indeed. See you all on the other side of the deadline.

Open thread.