Will Trump visit China this week? Illustration courtesy Sonar21
Good Monday morning beloved sentients. Well, as my mother used to say…”It’s time to either fish or cut bait.” Or, to use a cruder metaphor: “It’s time to either sh!t or get off the pot.” Trump has been dallying for weeks now with his “ceasefire” while he figures out how to continue to comply with puppet master Netanyahu even though he holds a losing hand in this self-inflicted failure of a War on Iran.
It’s pretty bad at the moment….as readers will glean from reading the series of links and video clips below. Please review and I will have more comments thereafter.
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From Suliaman Ahmed’s X account earlier this morning:
https://x.com/i/status/2053875455753625960
BREAKING: IRAN 10 POINT MESSAGE ON PERSIAN GULF & STRAIT OF HORMUZ
US military presence is described as the “main source” of instability
American bases are portrayed as “unable to secure themselves”
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz should be free of the US
Tehran describes a “shared destiny” with Gulf countries
Foreign powers are declared unwelcome in the Persian Gulf
Iran says its growing influence is part of a new regional order
Controlling of the Strait of Hormuz is explained as key to security
Iran says it wants to end “hostile exploitation” of Hormuz
New rules and management are promised to boost regional prosperity
Tehran says the new strategy would benefit the Iranian economy President
Trump: “I don’t like it.”
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Greencrow continues: Trump has rejected the above Iranian peace proposal in his usual crass, insulting and toxically corrosive manner. How did this psychopath ever get into office–wonders the entire world.
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Iran’s response to US peace terms ‘totally unacceptable’ – Trump
Tehran has delivered its counterproposal to Washington’s conditions for ending the war via Pakistani mediators
https://www.rt.com/news/639845-trump-iran-totally-unacceptable
“US President Donald Trump has called Iran’s response to Washington’s latest proposal for ending the war “totally unacceptable,” after Tehran insisted it would not surrender its strategic leverage in the Strait of Hormuz without concessions.
The details of Iran’s response have not been made public, but according to US media reports, Tehran’s counterproposal focused on ending the war and securing guarantees that hostilities would not resume, while offering none of the nuclear concessions sought by Washington.
“I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. He previously told Axios that the Iranian reply was “inappropriate,” but did not elaborate….”
“…Trump has repeatedly extended the ceasefire, arguing that Iran’s leadership is divided and unable to produce a unified response. Iranian officials, however, have publicly rejected Washington’s terms as an ultimatum, accusing the US of trying to turn negotiations into surrender talks after failing to achieve its stated goals on the battlefield.
Tehran has also made clear that it views control over the Strait of Hormuz as a central bargaining chip, with Mohammad Mokhber, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, comparing the waterway’s strategic value to an “atomic bomb” and vowing that Iran would not “forfeit the gains of this war.”…”
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Greencrow continues: Trump can’t wrap his tiny toxic pea brain around the idea that:
a) Iran won the war; and
b) Iran was/is a proxy for Russia/China who, ergo, ALSO WON THE WAR!
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Russia and China are Serious About Replacing the US as the Persian Gulf Power Brokers
9 May 2026 by Larry C. Johnson
Russia and China are Serious About Replacing the US as the Persian Gulf Power Brokers
Putin, Araghchi, and Yi (AI Generated)
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Greencrow comments: When/If Trump goes to Beijing and meets with Xi I hope the Chinese President will break it to him gently Xi…we don’t want any “Orange glows”.
Remember folks, the moment when the partner in a marriage finally realizes the abused partner is leaving is the most dangerous time for the victim of abuse. Luckily, Iran has two strong supporters now that it is finally leaving the 50 year abusive relationship with the US. But these are very dangerous times indeed. The psychopath is coming up against the reality that he has been humiliated worldwide and it is only going to get much worse from now on. If the US ever gets its act together, Trump might and should end up in jail for treason in doing the bidding of Israel instead of acting in the best interests of the US. As former CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson writes….Iran, with the support of Russia and China have already moved on…they’re already setting up another Strait of Hormuz security architecture/alliance/arrangement.
This is the equivalent of the abused wife setting up a new household with a new partner right under the nose of the abuser….catch my drift?
From Sonar21:
Russia and China are Serious About Replacing the US as the Persian Gulf Power Brokers
9 May 2026 by Larry C. Johnson 310 Comments
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Remember the word: “Security architecture.” Security architecture in the Persian Gulf, was used by President Putin and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi when speaking to Iran’s Foreign Minister during his visit to Russia on April 27 and to Beijing on May 5–6, 2026. The phrase refers to a multilateral, regionally led framework for long-term stability in the Gulf and broader Middle East.
The term “security architecture” in the Persian Gulf is not new diplomatic language invented for these visits. Russia has been proposing a “collective security architecture in the Gulf” since at least 2019, with Foreign Minister Lavrov reiterating that proposal as recently as February 28, 2026, the day the war began. China has backed Russia’s proposed collective security concept, which would replace the Gulf’s US defense umbrella and position Russia as a power broker alongside — or instead of — the US.
During his conversation with President Putin, Foreign Minister Araghchi said that Iran “supports the establishment of a new post-war regional architecture that can coordinate development and security.” In a subsequent meeting China’s Wang Yi, the Chinese Foreign Minister stated that Beijing “supports the establishment of a regional peace and security architecture by which regional countries jointly participate, safeguard common interests, and achieve common development.” S&P Global
Wang Yi also called the US-Israel war on Iran “illegitimate” and articulated three essential Chinese positions: support for all of Iran’s reasonable claims, support for the withdrawal of US military bases across the Persian Gulf, and active participation in the post-war order.
The term “security architecture” is diplomatic code for a fundamental restructuring of who provides security in the Gulf, on what terms, and who gets excluded. The concept has several concrete components:
First, removal of US forces. The core demand — shared by Iran, Russia, and China — is that the United States withdraw its military bases, carrier strike groups, and security guarantees from the Gulf region. This would include bases in Bahrain (home of the US Fifth Fleet), Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
Second, replacement with a regional framework. The proposed coalition would include the Gulf states, Russia, China, and other stakeholders in a multilateral framework, with Russia arguing its advantage is that it maintains good relations with all parties — including Iran — unlike the United States.
Third, Iran as a legitimate regional power. Araghchi told Iranian media that “our Chinese friends believe that Iran after the war is different from Iran before the war. Its international standing has improved, and it has demonstrated its capabilities and power. Therefore, a new era of cooperation between Iran and other countries is ahead.” The architecture therefore formally legitimizes Iran’s dominant role in Gulf security rather than treating it as a threat to be contained. ING THINK
Fourth, management of the Strait of Hormuz. The PGSA and Iran’s transit permit system described earlier is effectively the first concrete institutional manifestation of this architecture — Iran asserting sovereign-style administrative authority over the world’s most critical chokepoint.
Fifth, linkage to the broader multipolar order. The Russia-Iran-China triangle has emerged as the driving force behind what its proponents call “Eurasian integration and multipolarity,” with the Gulf security architecture as a microcosm of the new global order China is driving at a macro level.
The US-led security architecture in the Gulf, built over decades through bilateral defense agreements, military bases, and carrier presence, would effectively be dismantled under this framework. Gulf states face a difficult strategic dilemma: they cannot afford to sever ties with the United States, yet cannot comfortably maintain an alliance structure that exposes their security to decisions made beyond their borders. IFPRI
Many Gulf Arab states are apprehensive about the conflict and have concerns about US reliability as a guarantor, even as they are also apprehensive about Israel’s increased regional influence following its strikes on Qatar in September 2025. Wisfarmer
In short, “security architecture” is a polite phrase for the eviction of American power from the Persian Gulf and its replacement with a multilateral framework in which Iran, Russia, and China are co-equal — or dominant — players. It is arguably the most consequential geopolitical ambition to emerge from this conflict.
I received another piece of evidence today that the Russian/Chinese vision for a new security architecture is real and may be progressing. While chatting with a new friend who is well connected to Pakistan’s intelligence service (i.e., ISI), he told me that a very senior official in the ISI — his personal friend — told him earlier this week that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are going to cut security ties with the US… They reportedly want to move under a security umbrella offered by Russia and China. If true, this will mark further erosion in the US status as hegemon.”
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Greencrow continues: LOL…and as a blessed bonus from the war that USrael started…Iran has got its weather back. I was well aware of the weather war that USrael was waging against Iran for decades. This alone and in and of itself was worth Iran’s infrastructural losses during the war.
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Iran’s first victory against the climate conspiracy
AN ABNORMAL DROUGHT THAT DRAGGED ON
About fifteen years ago, the then-President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, repeatedly claimed that Western powers (under American influence) were “stealing” rain from Persia and much of the Middle East (including Iraq). Naturally, at that time, almost everyone in the West considered the strongman of Tehran a crackpot, a conspiracy theorist who, moreover, had the misfortune, it was assumed, of being a notorious historical revisionist.
Westerners continue to silence or deny what Mahmoud had calmly stated. In 2018, Iran officially accused the United Arab Emirates and Israel of stealing its rains, when the senior official of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, declared: “Israel and another country are working together to prevent Iranian clouds from raining.”
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Greencrow continues:
From Suliaman Ahmed’s X account this morning
“BREAKING: TRUMP IS MEETING WITH HIS NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM RIGHT NOW TO DECIDE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IN THE IRAN WAR”
- Axios
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From What Does It Mean
“….Earlier today, this report concludes, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced: “At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump will pay a state visit to China from May 13 to 15”—and to make it absolutely clear to President Trump who he will be facing when he arrives in China, it saw Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun forcefully proclaiming: “In recent years, under the strategic leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese-Russian relations have maintained a high level of development, bringing significant stability to a world full of change and uncertainty…China is willing to continue to uphold the spirit of unwavering good-neighborliness, comprehensive strategic coordination, and mutually beneficial cooperation with Russia, continuously strengthen cooperation in various fields, and promote the construction of a more equitable and rational global governance system”.”
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Greencrow concludes; My bet is that Trump will NOT travel to China. He will, instead, heat up the war again and use the reactivation of the so-called “kinetic” war as an excuse to for his cowardly avoidance of going hat-in-hand to China…after taking such a thrashing from “little” Iran.
The only real solution for America is to [very quickly] flush the turd. Why their constitution does not have provisions to allow immediate removal of office for insanity and thus avoid and prevent such a fiasco/debacle/humiliation is beyond reasoning.
Maybe if Trump heats up the war again–the thrashing that America gets this time will be so great it will finally wake up the somnolent TV watchers and get them out in the streets.
Stay tuned.
Greencrow as the crow flies 