"The aborted Pakistan peace talks were nothing but theatre. Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey are energy dependent, which is why Pakistan cobbled together a peace deal, but presented a different 'deal' to both sides (hence the confusion over wether Lebanon was included in it).
The real reason is firstly that the Americans are using the talks as a stalling tactic while they and the Gulf states rearm interceptors and position the George HW Bush, to carry on the war to the required conclusion. Interceptor stocks are reduced by about 60% so are being supplemented from Greece Taiwan and North Korea. About 800 Tomahawks have been used, another 600 are on their way for round 2"
To this point (from Seafury's) earlier thread, there was a very interesting interview on Sky TV yesterday with USN Rear Admiral Joe Sestak, Formerly Deputy Chief of US Naval Operations, who was speaking about the lack of preparedness by USN and others for asymmetric warfare and the fact that IRGC have been launching hundreds of drones which necessitated response from Patriot and presumably other systems using expensive interceptors to counter the ( relatively cheap) threat. The point he was emphasising was not the fact these systems worked (thank goodness) but the fact that US was rapidly depleting its inventory, he stated that it could take many years to restock the current inventory even if they significantly increased production today and that's just based on round 1 of the conflict, so really how likely is it that US or even the allies plus US can continue to resource this conflict ? and even if they did and prevail ( which inevitably they will) what state does that leave them in to fight any other conflicts ? I can imagine Russia and China are very happy with this situation.