Donald Trump started a war with Iran, nearly crashed the global economy, and now wants credit as a peacemaker for a deal worse than the Obama agreement he tore up.
Remember what the old deal did. The 2015 agreement capped Iran’s enrichment below 4 percent and cut its stockpile by about 98 percent, dropped its centrifuges from roughly 19,000 to about 5,000, and put inspectors on the ground.
Now look at what Trump signed. Iran keeps enriching. Its stockpile refined to 60 percent purity, a short step from weapons-grade, stays intact. No inspectors. Nothing dismantled. The whole nuclear question shoved into 60 days of future talks.
This is not a resolution. It is a ceasefire with a victory speech bolted on.
The thing the war was supposedly about, around 440 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium, is sitting exactly where it was before the first bomb fell.
This is the man who swore he would deliver something far better than Obama’s. What he handed over was a memo brokered in secret through Pakistan, signed without Israel in the room, bought with tens of billions in direct military spending and more than $100 billion drained from US households
And he chose every piece of it.
He launched major combat operations on February 28. Within a week, US crude posted its biggest jump since the futures contract began in 1983, and the global price of oil hit a four-year high near 126 dollars a barrel.
Families ate that at the pump while economists warned the war could tip the country toward stagflation.
More than 7,500 dead, most of them in Lebanon and Iran. A blockade that choked off a fifth of the world’s oil. A war almost nobody wanted, sold on a nuclear threat his own deal leaves standing.
JD Vance pointed at falling oil prices and called it a new era for the Middle East. Trump declared that many presidents tried to make peace with Iran and all failed before him.
He bombed a country, spiked your gas, ran up a body count, and walked away with less than Obama got without firing a shot.
Then he stood on the rubble, turned to the cameras, and called it the win of the century.