• FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Remember when Obama got Iran to give up refining nuclear material then Trump fucked it up horribly?

    Pepperidge farm remembers.

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        Biden tried to restart the deal back in 2021, and has been trying ever since.

        However, it turns out that the US is not the only party involved in international treaties. We can’t just pick up the ball and go home mid game, then come back in a year with a new coach and expect everyone to continue playing like nothing happened

        The original deal was a difficult achievement on its own. Now, we need to not only repeat that, but also deal with the fact that Iran does not trust us to follow through with our end of the deal. Overcoming that needs good negotiation, and a lot of concessions we did not want to make.

        This is why administrations of both parties have historically upheld deals made by the opposing party that they didn’t like. Unilaterally breaking deals every 4 years because of who wins an election makes the US a non-credible partner in negotiations. You can’t just wave a wand and fix that.

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    2 months ago

    Look, it’s the bi-annual “Iran is 6 months away from getting nukes” headline. I wonder which intelligence service came up with this (again).

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    The Middle East is developing deterrence against foreign threats right before us and the US can’t stop it

    If Blinken doesn’t like it, he can always start with his bosses at Tel Aviv and their nuclear weapons

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    2 months ago

    man even americans are starting to regurgitate this isreali party line; gazans are so fucked.

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    2 months ago

    good, Iran needs nukes. especially when a significant portion of the US government holds the opinion “we should nuke Iran”.

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      I mean if you were the Iranian leader and a) saw what the US did to Iraq and Libya and b) saw the total impunity that Israel has in the West to conduct mass killings on civilians, wouldn’t you want a nuclear deterrent?