@marcthiessen I guess @POTUS Trump has had so much winning that he’s tried of winning!!!! So he decided to turn over the reins of foreign policy to the isolationist known as JD Vance @VP, whose political advisor is the totally unhinged @TuckerCarlson He should be consulting with @gen_jackkeane and not @VP !
"Recover and rebuild!"
Watch @gen_jackkeane express scepticism on Trump's appeasement deal!
This deal will be a disaster for both the Iranian people and global security! There is no putting lipstick on this! 🤦
"We're not going to make the perfect deal with these guys, because they're not going to implement it. Let's get on with the 10 to 14 days that we need to finish them militarily." - Retired Four-Star General Jack Keane
(@gen_jackkeane) is hesitant Iran will comply with a peace deal.
@geraldposner@gen_jackkeane The US military needs to stick around, locked and loaded.
One of the strangest saying I hear every so often is "We can't negotiate with a gun to our head."
Wrong. That is the only way to negotiate at times, and this is one of them.
Vance says Iran threatened to launch “a large number of missiles at the Israelis” during the final hours of negotiations.
Hegseth declared in early April that Iran’s ballistic missile program was “functionally destroyed” and said Iran had “no ability to replenish your offensive or defensive capabilities”
Someone’s math doesn’t add up.
And then there’s the Hezbollah wrinkle. Israel was so completely cut out of the negotiations that Israel reportedly resorted to spying on U.S. officials just to find out what was being discussed. Yet the deal requires Israel to stand down against Hezbollah — the 900-lb terror gorilla Iran has armed, funded, and directed for decades. And that is before international sanctions are lifted on Iran and it has billions more to bolster Hezbollah.
So the country most directly threatened by Iran’s missiles had no seat at the table. The country whose cities Hezbollah has been rocketing wasn’t consulted. But Israel is expected to honor a deal that leaves Hezbollah intact and gives Iran a ceasefire window to dig out its surviving missile launchers — which, by U.S. intelligence’s own estimates, is roughly half of what they started with.
I’m withholding judgment on the full deal until I see all the details. But the gap between what we were told was destroyed and what Vance just admitted Iran still had ready to fire — that’s not a rounding error.
Before any Iran deal celebration — @gen_jackkeane's reality check this morning:
The Islamic regime's goal is to "survive, recover and rebuild," then reverse whatever they sign.
"That is who they are."
That does not change with any agreement.
"We know for a fact they lie and they cheat. We know even when they talk about a deal, they're somewhat inconsistent." - Retired Four-Star General Jack Keane (@gen_jackkeane) does not trust the Iranians to uphold their end of the deal with the U.S.
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