Here's how Trump fumbled the Iran issue.
It appears that after two months of fighting and relatively minimal losses, Trump grew tired of winning so much and decided to start losing a little to try and balance it out.
The biggest mistakes Trump has made:
1. Not using the negotiations process itself as a tool.
We came to the table with no preconditions while Iran successfully made their very participation in those negotiations contingent on compliance with other demands.
2. Sounding desperate to make a deal.
When you're negotiating, you must come from a position of strength. When you sound desperate to make a deal, you are automatically coming from a position of weakness, regardless of your position on the battlefield.
3. Letting Iran tie the deal to the Hezbollah issue:
We should never have let Iran dictate the terms and tie themselves together. They are two separate issues as far as we are concerned, and if we accept this new equation whereby Hezbollah gets to fire at Israel, and Israel is not allowed to respond because Iran's feelings might get hurt, it's a massive win for terrorism.
4. Even discussing the financial issue without complete capitulation.
The frozen funds and sanctions shouldn't be tied to just the nuclear issue. Iran would be able to spend those new funds in a variety of other nefarious ways, including their ballistic missile program and terrorist proxies.
I don't have TDS. I'm a three time Trump voter. It's just impossible to see this any other way. We are snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Iran has incurred some damage in the war, but if by the end of it, they come out in a stronger position than before the war, it's hard to see this as anything other than a win for them.
We are the stronger party. We have the upper hand on the battlefield. And yet we still let Iran play us for fools. We can't even blame them, because it's working. It's incomprehensible.
QATAR’S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD CHAPTER MUST BE DESIGNATED AND SANCTIONED IN THE USA
America must sanction the Muslim Brotherhood in all its forms. Qatar presents itself as a U.S. ally while funding Al Jazeera, a media network that promotes the Brotherhood’s ideology to millions. Its message seeks to undermine Western values like liberty, democracy, and equality while advancing the Brotherhood’s core slogan: “Islam is the solution.”
Ban the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Jazeera for lasting peace.
Watch as Hussein Abdul-Hussein @hahussain explains why 👇
Your beloved "refugees" include literal convicted murderers who will gangrape a British woman on Brighton beach while filming it, and show zero remorse.
You are scum and you are lying.
43000 Muslims on the Terror Watchlist and the government/mainstream media are trying to make Tommy Robinson the face of terrorism.
They think we’re all stupid.
They’re playing an old game in a new world.
The times have changed wankers, we see you.
@KTHopkins@PoliceScotland@freddiesayers You’re a joke. Always hiding and speaking from a safe place. No boots on the ground. Only words, blah blah blah blah blah and blah.
Look at this entitled chauvinist trash on the streets of Canada who thinks he’s entitled to tell this woman how to dress. 🤮
Typical Islamic republic / free Palestine scumbags