Iran will make peace -- at a price

Trump talks about "winding down" the war on Iran, but it turns out that Iran gets a vote about that. It wants the US and Israel to pay raparations for the damage they've caused, plus it gets a permanent veto over whose boats can traverse the Strait of Hormuz, with the successful traveler paying a toll for the use of the international waterway.

It's a "risky gamble," says the Wall Street Journal this morning, but apparently the mullahs have absorbed the TACO rule: Trump Always Chickens Out.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation is coming to Washington with an offer to coach Allied militaries in the anti-drone technology the country has honed over the past four years. Last year, Trump and Vance humiliated President Zelensky in the White House, sneering that he "didn't have the cards." Well, it now seems that Ukraine has a few cards of its own, including the 195-mph, $2,500 Sting that has downed 3,900 Russian drones since last May. Sounds like an ace to me!