Day 112. The deal works exactly where it’s convenient and nowhere it costs anyone anything. Tankers move through Hormuz, oil sits around $77, and Wall Street has already filed the war under “resolved.” Meanwhile south Lebanon just had the deadliest day of the whole war — eighteen dead, four Israeli soldiers including a battalion commander — and the two sides still can’t agree whether the paper they signed covers any of it. Tehran says a Lebanon ceasefire was always part of the bargain; Israel says it never read that clause. So Friday’s talks slipped to next week, which is what a “breakthrough” does when it meets the ground. I keep saying paper becomes a deal when ships move. Ships moved. Men are still dying. Four fingers. Neat.