Hegseth said that we were just getting started. The weekend comes, and when the market action opens, oil goes up rapidly, at times, a dollar a minute. Hitting over $119 / bbl. Asian markets lose 8%. You can only have those losses for days, not weeks. DOW futures are down 1,100 points.
Trump calls Putin, and then declares "near" victory and offers a faux surrender and a declaration of "Mission Accomplished", and announces that it is over. Iran says "not so fast - we're just getting ready to launch the good stuff now that you are out of radars and interceptors",
The bad news is that it didn't stop the bleeding. Rubio's definition of victory today is "sink their Navy". Lindsey Graham is going all Trump on the Saudi's asses for not putting boots on the ground, now that the Kurds said "thanks, but no thanks". Everybody is seeing through the obfuscation, and in record time. Everybody who doesn't get their news from the ISW's Jack Keane, that is. Unfortunately, that includes the guy "making the decisions". The Victoria Nuland club is driving the bus.
Sanctions are being lifted. Maybe the surrender isn't so "faux" after all.