@JoshuaBarzon Honestly, that house needs a lot of work. Currently no heating, was previously a 4 unit apt building. If you have some cash and the time it's worth it, but just a normal person can't afford that. Also what's employment looking like in Iowa? Many places like this are all over USA
BREAKING: The proposed US-Iran peace deal includes a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran, per NYT.
The program is being called an international "investment fund," which the US would facilitate in the final deal.
This comes as Iran demands "reparations" to end the war.
@DanBilzerian How’s the campaign going, little man?
When’s that rally going to be rescheduled?
Did you put $1 million into your campaign like you said you would?
Or are you going to be just another Jewish dickrider calling me a fed on Twitter for the rest of your life? Fucking loser.
Even as we hear of negotiations to end the War between the US and Iran, it is clear to me that someone is working hard to ensure that these negotiations fail.
The media over the last 2 days has been filled with reports about a Memorandum of Understanding ('MoU') supposedly close to being agreed between the US and Iran, which would in effect end the war.
Certainly it is true that negotiations are underway, and Pakistan has been taking the lead in them. However it is also clear that there continues to be strong opposition to an agreement in the US.
Over last few days we have had a procession of neocons arguing that agreement with Iran equals surrender. It began with an article by Robert Kagan in The Atlantic. Lindsey Graham, Mike Pompeo and Ted Cruz have since all followed suit, all basically saying the same thing. All these persons argue that anything that falls short of the US's maximalist objectives - regime change plus Iran's humiliation and effective disarmament - amounts to surrender by the US.
The latest briefing to the NYT that Iran is prepared to hand over its nuclear stockpile to the US - something Iran up to now has consistently refused to surrender - has the look to me very much of a further attempt by someone to derail the negotiations.
The Iranians in fact are saying that the MoU makes no mention of the nuclear issue, which is postponed to later negotiations. They specifically deny that they have already agreed to a 10 year halt on enrichment above 3.6%
https://t.co/7vurqjoluZ
They are also say that Iran is holding out for the release of part of its frozen assets as a condition for agreeing to the MoU. https://t.co/jrnWyAtbE7
They say that there is still no final agreement between them and the US over the terms of the MoU
https://t.co/xfKRsDDlI5
and that they are prepared for the possibility that the talks may fail and if so they are ready to walk away
https://t.co/gk9neA9YMi
Much of this no doubt is setting out positions such as normally happens in negotiations. The fact that Iran is serious about the negotiations is shown by the intense activity Aragchi has been engaged in over the last few hours. He has spoken to the foreign ministers of Oman, Turkey, Qatar, Iraq, and Japan.
However the 'deal' is not yet done, and claims that Iran is prepared to surrender something which up to now it has always refused to surrender, at a moment moreover when it believes itself to be in a position of advantage, looks to me very like someone is working overtime to make sure the 'deal' is not done.
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Take a look at what I discovered.
@KYCooperrider The wake up call needs to be on Republican voters— that almost all politicians in the Republican Party are Trump over constituents and principles and rule of law. Thus they aren’t adequately representing their constituents — are they really better then Democrats
If legislators always vote with the President, we have a king.
If legislators always vote with the prevailing wind, we have mob rule.
If legislators always vote with the Constitution, we have a Republic.
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The two parts of what can just about still be called the WESTERN ALLIANCE seem each to be drifting closer and closer towards armed conflict with the two countries they have each chosen to label their enemy: IRAN and RUSSIA.
President TRUMP's rhetoric about IRAN has again become very belligerent. I am sorry to say that does not surprise me, coming as it does directly after a disappointing trip to CHINA.
Renewing the war with IRAN is a terrible idea.
It is not disputed that US arsenals of precision guided weapons have been severely depleted. By contrast, according to US intelligence, IRAN has preserved a large proportion of its missile arsenal, and is busy replacing its drones, which are cheap and easy to produce.
How does the US conduct a war with inventories so depleted? Advocates of doing so never answer this question.
The US did not deliver a knock out blow in March and April. Why assume it can now?
None of the suggestions - attacks on Iran's infrastructure, killing more of its leaders, seizing islands, a ground invasion - seem remotely adequate to the task and all come with enormous risks.
In the meantime energy prices continue to rise, as even Lindsey Graham has noticed. A fresh attack on Iran can only make an already bad situation worse.
In EUROPE there are identical levels of belligerency, this time towards RUSSIA. The folly here however is even greater.
In the case of the US it has a problem of depleted arsenals which can only be replenished over time and at great cost.
In the case of EUROPE it is a case of inventories that are not just depleted but in fact exhausted, with even some of EUROPE's hardest liners (KALLAS, RUTTE) starting to understand that it may not be possible to replenish them in any reasonable timescale at all. It is extremely unwise to invite conflict with a nuclear power. Doing so when one's militaries are so inadequate to the task is beyond reason.
In both conflicts diplomacy is possible. In neither conflict is it happening.
In the case of IRAN, TRUMP's idea of diplomacy is to repeat constantly the same unreasonable set of demands the IRANIANS have already rejected.
In the case of RUSSIA, EUROPE cannot even agree on the person who will represent them in negotiations, much less agree on a negotiating strategy.
Diplomacy is dead, and in its absence I fear war is coming.
https://t.co/UTYtIeiCn4
So apparently Jared Kushner made the decision to remove JD Vance from the negotiation team and replace him with this moron.
In early January the dude literally wrote an op-ed advocating for this stupid war and every single prediction he made about how things would go turned out 100% wrong.
THIS is the guy they are bringing in to “help” with the negotiations.
Unbelievable.