It's interesting that the same political enemies sneering at Trump now for not being able to close the final act of the war in our favor, spent the last three months doing everything they could to sabotage his ability to fight the war at all. Between that, and being constantly undercut by other Middle East nations that were supposedly on our side, at some point military options became paralyzed.
Your party spent every waking hour in Washington fighting Trump's ability to wage this war, threatening funding, trying to take away his authority, and God knows what you were doing behind the scenes to sabotage him. It takes a lot of brass balls to jump up now and yell at him for not managing to carry it off as easily as you think he should have.
The JCPOA handed Iran benefits and cash in return for promising not to operate their existing nuclear fuel production systems for a few years. Nothing was dismantled, nothing removed. Iran gained cash to buy conventional weapons in return for hibernating some of its refinement capacity for ten years. Or hiding it.
This was the situation when the recent war was about to start. Note that Biden did not restore or extend the JCPOA in the four years of rapid increase in refinement. Or do anything else to affect the refinement. The only difference between this chart and what it would look like if the JCPOA remained in effect is that the flat part would be a few years longer. Maybe.
It's interesting that Biden's presidency isn't even labeled on this chart.
@BrettErickson28@Mitchzw99 The relations of the U.S. with other nations in the Middle East has probably never been better. Iran has gotten on everyone's bad side. Keep in mind much of whatever deal has been struck involves a lot more nations than just the U.S. and Iran.
@tonymo@SenWarren We can beat anyone in a war. You just wouldn't like it. Look how we beat Germany. Look how we beat Japan. In those two countries, something like 2 million civilians died. We could do that kind of thing in Iran overnight. Do you recommend it?
@SenWarren Nobody is "funneling" wealth, which implies there's a big bucket floating out in space and we just have to sort it out. Wealth is created by productive people. Political parasites create none, but steal it to buy political power.
That's not growing pie, that's stealing somebody else's pie and having politicians pass it around to buy political power. The idea that money in the hands of government is the ideal way to solve problems ends up with most of that money being funneled to cronies and special interests to gain power.