• FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    21 天前

    He hasn’t actually managed to secure that deal yet. He might easily get something worse.

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      21 天前

      Agreed. Why would Iran trust him to stick to a deal like we had before? That deal required having a lot of trust in the US government to abide by our deals.

    • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
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      21 天前

      It’s almost for sure worse. JCPOA was great (except for time limits) - I doubt they’ll give up nuclear ambitions and allow inspectors

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        At this point, it seems pretty obvious that the only way to ensure the US and Israel don’t try this again, is if Iran does get a nuke.

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          21 天前

          That might actually be the solution.

          I’m pretty much against the proliferation of weapons, and a country where the government is basically a maniac at the reins of a regressive death-cult, shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon.

          But since the US already has a bunch, I can’t see why Iran shouldn’t be allowed to have at least one.

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            Israel has them too, and I don’t really trust them at all. It’s crazy to me that Israel gets to demand Iran doesn’t get nukes, supposedly because Iran will attack them, yet they invade anyone the can. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If it’s good for Israel to have nukes, it’s good for their adversaries.

            My opinion is that no one should have them, but we’re far past that point. I don’t really know what happens in a world where everyone has nukes, but I can’t think of a good argument that these other nations, who invade whoever they want, should be the arbiter of who gets them.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      21 天前

      It’s already going to be a worse deal because it gave Iran the defacto option to mine/close the Strait of Hormuz anytime it wants more cash.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe
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        21 天前

        Oh yeah, it’s already going to be a worse deal, the Obama deal was great, kind of crazy they got it, actually.

        It’s just a matter of how BAD the Trump deal will be.

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          20 天前

          Hundreds of state department employees probably worked for 30 years on sanctions, diplomacy, and building trust to get that agreement. Trump blew it all up (including inflation and the economy) because that’s how racist he is. Can’t let a black man get a win, under any circumstances.

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            Also that those brown Iranians are practically cavemen, and will completely surrender at our technological might, as if they’ve never seen a motorized vehicle before, and they can be manipulated and scammed like the sub-human animals he thinks they are.

            Meanwhile, most of the Iranian government leadership holds PhDs, while Trump holds a press conference to announce he was able to identify four animals, three whole times.

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        Right? Two months ago, closing the Strait was unthinkable, it was a thread that nobody would believe. Now it’s any day. Well done.

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    What about the war crimes and the thousands of Iranians the U.S. is murdering? What about the more than a hundred schoolchildren who were torn to pieces by bombs during a direct U.S. attack on a school? Of course, those aren’t worth mentioning to this guy - only the U.S. “service members” and gas prices matter.

    All too typical. This country makes me sick…

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        It is, but unfortunately a vast majority of Americans don’t seem to care unless it affects them directly (at the pump).

        And 1/3 will believe any lie told to them.

        Honestly having a hard time coping rn

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        It’s all Biden’s fault. He did it too, you know, why don’t you complain about that?

        Edit: I guess I should have included /S. I thought it was so ridiculous that anybody would know it was sarcastic, but after all this time, I should know better.

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          Maybe because he wasn’t on the news every fucking day hearing about some bsllshit half baked cunning plan on how to fuck over everyone who doesn’t have an American Eagle tattoo so I don’t know what he did or didn’t do to fuck up the world.

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            21 天前

            I mean, he was pretty bad, but none of this is his fault. Just in case you aren’t kidding

            • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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              Honestly, no idea. Our news didn’t keep track of minute by minute what he was up to like it seems to with the Orange Murder Monkey you guys keep electing. He might have done something crazy for all I know, and just not tweeted about it at 4 am in a dementia fueled rant.

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      I agree with you on the first topic.

      But with the second topic, how does this country make you sick? We live in a time of plenty not money wise but in technology, and our rights. We have the right to speak, the right to bear arms, the right of religion, the right to far trial. We still have all these gifts to thank God for.

      • DandomRude@piefed.social
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        This country is ruled by a serious criminal and pedophile who not only shamelessly embezzles billions in public funds and imprisons thousands of people in concentration camps, but also plunges the world into terror and war.

        This monstrous regime commits so many repulsive crimes that it is impossible to list them all.

        One of the tools the US employs in this is precisely the technology you mention: One example is Palantir, a diabolical corporation whose founder is an open fascist, with the kind support of both the US government and the butchers in Israel. The groundless, comprehensive mass surveillance offered by these monsters is, in turn, being rolled out to other countries by U.S. lobbyists with government support, in order to curtail the very civil liberties you speak of.

        God has nothing to do with this; rather it is the lack of consistency, for US citizens remain largely passive in the face of all the crimes of their regime. Now and then, as on May 1, there are symbolic protests that, due to their one-off nature, naturally remain ineffective. And so the criminals at the top of the U.S. oligarchy can simply continue to terrorize the world, since U.S. citizens -who are the only ones who could put a stop to it - don’t even rise up against their own exploitation.

        If the U.S. does indeed have the extensive rights you claim, how is it possible that the country is still run by organized crime? How is it possible that, despite all this, the citizens do not go on strike until the fascists are removed from power?

        That is what I despise: The U.S. is a country that demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that even the most horrific crimes go unpunished for the billionaires who commit them. In doing so, the U.S. sets an example for all the monsters of this world - and not only that, because the U.S. regime also actively and intentionally undermines international law, since it stands in the way of their crimes.

        Why do you think the US has never recognized the International Criminal Court and has always actively obstructed its work?

      • ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world
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        We live in a time of plenty, we have enough food to ensure no one goes hungry. We have medicine to cure things like turburculousis that has been killing humans as far back as we know. We choose not to share this plenty fairly, but you have the right to bear arms so I guess that makes everything ok?

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            You know an American’s rights to speak, to freedom of religion and a fair trial are being challenged and denied right now by the current administration, correct?

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              “current administration” womp womp

              (rights to speak and fair trial were all out of the window long before Trump ever took office)

              (freedom of religion? Fine… anyway, the only ethical thing to do is to tax them, which isn’t happening any time soon)

      • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
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        Who’s we? And i dont want the right to religion, i want the right to NOT have religion!

        Right to bear arms? How about the right to shoot them? Is that really freedom, the freedom to hide a gun in your pants and if you ever actually use it govt agents kill you?

        Right to speak? But reporters are getting sued by the government for calling out our alcoholic fbi chief for being an alcoholic.

        And which god are you thanking?

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    It won’t even be as good of a deal, just any deal. But the important part is that it will be Trump’s deal. That’s all he cares about. That his name is on it.

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    He is not getting anything close to Obama’s deal. Also we get to keep the high gas prices.

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    At this point, why would Iran give up any nuclear ambitions on a promise from the United States? Our promises are clearly not worth the ink they are written in.

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    No, it’s actually worse than Obama’s deal and yields a lot of concessions and leverage to Iran

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      Not to mention the fact that this gave Iran the perfect opportunity to test out their theory on whether or not they could control the strait of Hormuz. Until this year it had only been a crackpot idea in their military circles. Now it’s official policy for that country.

      So, thanks Trump.

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        Also
        - less oil is traded in USA dollars,
        - the USA national debt reached highs that just beg for a rating downgrade,
        - quite a few NATO allies now see buying USA weapons as a liability,
        - the stock market atm is just AI (I mean that as a big volatility factor at an inopportune moment),
        - China publicly gave 0 fucks about USA’s shenanigans & the USA was forced to ignore it,
        - and public opinion is now finally switching against USA companies.

        Maybe the USA will have a crisis the will be the perfect moment for a coup. By the existing rulers. So not under new management.

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        Well, there isn’t a deal at the moment, so no one has died as a result of it yet.

        But with “self-defense strikes” having just occurred by the US on Iran, I don’t think the deal is working out. Maybe though, who knows.

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    But Trump managed to prevent Netanyahu from releasing what’s in the E files about him unredacted - for now anyway

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    I’m still laughing that I was banned from a community for saying Harris wouldn’t have invaded Iran.

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      You gotta speak the language of the people you’re trying to get through to.

      Would still be nice to mention the hundreds of children and thousands of innocent Iranians too but it’s completely possible the people who need to be convinced this is bad would actually like that

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      I really don’t understand the American number system. How much is that in dead brown school children?

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    Somehow it always feels like an ad-campaign for nuclear weapons when countries with some attack countries without any.

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    It’t not even close to Obamas deal. So far it is just a big fuckup, as usual with Trump.