BREAKING: Obama pours cold water all over Trump’s disastrous Iran War deal — says that it’s “doubtful” that it will be an “improvement” over his historic JCPOA.
This is what total American surrender looks like…
“It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different, or in a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place, and had worked for a long stretch of time before we, the United States, pulled out of it,” Obama said in a “Good Morning America” segment slated to air later this week.
Trump originally withdrew the United States from Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), not for any substantive reasons, but because he wanted to undo a central piece of our first Black President’s legacy. Now, after a war that he lost, Trump is going to sign onto a vastly inferior deal.
The new deal is not even finalized yet, despite Trump hailing it as a massive victory. Final negotiations still need to be conducted, but for now it will extend the ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. J.D. Vance has admitted that Iran will be given $300 billion to rebuild their country if certain benchmarks are met.
There’s MAGA in a nutshell: wasting our money to kill people and blow up their homes, then spending more money to rebuild those homes.
Absolutely nothing was accomplished by this war except the mass slaughter and immiseration of innocent people and the conflagration of our hard-earned tax dollars on the altar of the military-industrial complex. Iran will likely agree not to pursue nuclear weapons, which they were never doing in the first place according to our own intelligence agencies.
Overall, Iran will emerge from this war more powerful, with direct control over the Strait of Hormuz, a massive influx of cash, and an unprecedented PR victory over the United States.
Jeremy Bowen of the BBC described the war as “President Donald Trump’s worst foreign policy blunder – so far.”
That said, this “deal,” if indeed it holds, should be celebrated. Not because it’s any kind of achievement, but because it’s the least bad option on the table right now. Better for America to back down and leave Iran alone, than to continue a pointless, costly, global economy-destroying conflict. There is nothing to be gained at this point by further bloodshed.
“I’m hopeful that bombing stops and ordinary people are no longer suffering as a consequence of the war,” said Obama.
“In retrospect it’s a reminder that on a lot of difficult foreign policy problems, the notion that we can just bully our way, or bomb our way, to solutions may sometimes seem appealing, but the fact of the matter is that taking the time to explore diplomacy and exhaust the possibilities of coming up with deals that don’t solve 100% of the problem but solve 80%, 90% of the problem while avoiding the necessity of going to war, you’d think we would have learned that lesson by now,” the former President added.
“But it seems that every so often we have to relearn that lesson again,” he concluded.
We can tell you one lesson that this country desperately needs to learn:
Never vote Republican.
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