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Phil Gordon
@PhilGordonDC
When Obama sent Iran $400m + $1.3bn in interest in 2016 Trump called it "insane" and he and others spent a decade mocking the idea of "pallets of cash" even though it was Iran's own money, American prisoners were released, courts were likely to require the U.S. payment, and Iran had just agreed to significant and verified reductions and restrictions on its nuclear program for 15+ years.
Now Trump is giving Iran up to ten times that amount of revenue one of the most significant measures of sanctions relief provided to the Islamic Republic since its founding in exchange for marginal and temporary relief from the big increase in oil prices his actions have caused, without any concessions from Tehran, and even as Iran continues to target the United States, its allies, and world oil supplies.
No way to read as anything other than desperate recognition of the situation Trump's own actions have created and the lack of available alternatives for dealing with it.
Link to tweet
True Dough
(26,537 posts)Link to tweet
Joni Askola
@joni_askola
Going to war with a country, then immediately floating the idea of lifting sanctions on its oil to prevent your own economic collapse, is the definition of strategic failure
Solly Mack
(96,895 posts)wnylib
(25,873 posts)Deuxcents
(26,704 posts)CTyankee
(68,151 posts)He is like a plague that keeps revisiting.
wnylib
(25,873 posts)To me, he is Freddy Krueger, always returning to terrorize.
CTyankee
(68,151 posts)wnylib
(25,873 posts)"No more elections. I alone can save the US from our enemies."
It depends on how long his fascist backers and handlers can keep him pumped up on medical cocktails to perform. They might just pull him from being their public face to the world and replace him with someone else. His replacement would then be the one to openly declare a dictatorship.
big loser when it comes to making deals.