One of four things seem true at this point:
1) The Trump admin knows that despite Iran's outward bravado, they are internally weak and decimated and they have privately expressed they will give up their nuclear program and their proxy war and seek some type of international normality even as they keep their internal revolutionary patina.
2) Both Iran and the Trump admin are talking past each other and their contradictory claims will ultimately become irreconcilable and this deal will fall apart, in months, if not weeks, if not days.
3) The Trump admin knows this deal will not work and is trying to punt the issue past the midterms where they will have more space to deal with it and a better plan to deal with Hormuz and the oil issue.
4) Trump is relying on is favorite weapon for this deal to succeed -- The Power of Positive Thinking -- despite all evidence.
There will be no final Iran deal. This phase one is about getting oil back to market at the lowest possible price paid to the regime. We’ll find out what that price is over the next 30–60 days.
There is no phase two deal. Soon enough, President Trump will be back to relying on American power, not the regime’s false promises.
At that time, the strategy needs a missing pillar: maximum support for the Iranian people. Economic and military pressure can weaken the regime. The Iranian people can cripple it. Together, they offer the only path to a durable solution.
The alleged dirty trick by Democratic and Peltola supporters would have split Sullivan’s vote through sheer confusion. Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher disqualified Dan J. Sullivan, putting an end to it this week...https://t.co/7nNd0svuHT
@SenSanders We’re arming Israel as much as we’re arming anyone who buys our military hardware. We aren’t “integrating” the US and Israeli military. That’s literally Kremlin disinformation. You’re the socialist Senator from Vermont. Why are you so obsessed with Israel?
In a shock to very few:
“During [meetings], Trump and his team discussed intelligence gathered by several U.S. intelligence agencies which showed that the way Iranian officials were discussing the deal among themselves was inconsistent with what they were telling the mediators and the U.S., two sources said.
Ratcliffe and Rubio said that based on that intelligence, they doubted the Iranians would agree to take the nuclear steps the U.S. was seeking, according to two sources.”
More crass criticism by @realDonaldTrump of Israel’s war against terrorism along with a bizarre suggestion that Syria (under the presidency of a former al-Qaeda leader) may be better suited to defeat Hezbollah.
lol you absolute clown.
You’ve been selling people non-stop on the idea that Trump is controlled by Israel and the Israeli lobby because he felt the interests aligned for those months and acted accordingly.
Now instead of admitting you were completely wrong and pushing an obvious lie, you spin it as a problem with people critical of him for siding with the Vance wing on the deal.
In 2019, New York eliminated cash bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.
Researchers later compared people released under the reform with statistically similar people held pre-reform.
For most defendants, re-arrest rates dropped.
But for one subgroup — people charged with a violent felony who already had a recent violent felony arrest — the same studies found pretrial violent felony re-arrest rates went UP.
From Japan I have to ask:
In what universe do you release someone whose most recent prior arrest was for armed violence — and call it reform?
My initial reaction to Trump's statement was "that's insane." But on second thought, he's probably right.
Syria's government would do a better job wiping out Hezbollah, because they aren't constrained by a moral code. Unlike Israel, Syria doesn't care about civilian casualties.