Will America’s ground invasion of Iran begin in the early hours of tomorrow? Everybody knows, by now, that Trump likes to initiate action late on Fridays, after the markets close. And late last night, the so-called Pentagon Pizza Watch channel – which monitors late-night food orders from the Pentagon for evidence that something big is afoot – reported a surge of activity, leading to all sorts of prediction-market bets that a new military operation would start this weekend.

Of course, with so much money to be made on war gambling – there’s now a Polymarket “situation room” bar in Washington, DC – the odds of someone trying to dupe the markets are short. Even Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is “aware” of the Pizza Watch account and has said: “I’ve thought of just ordering lots of pizza on random nights just to throw everybody off.” The times they are a-strangin’.

The fear in Washington is that the Iran war has now spiraled out of Trump’s control

The fear in Washington is that the Iran war has now spiraled out of Trump’s control

Still, there’s little doubt that the Pentagon is busily preparing a “final blow” assault – a massive land, sea and air attack designed to crush Iran’s defiance. The question is whether Team Trump’s negotiations with Iran – conducted through Islamabad in Pakistan – will make enough progress to pause the next phase of military escalation.........

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