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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago

Obama looks like a fucking genius now. Holy shit.m

All these moron republican politicians got the thing they wanted for two decades and it was just a bunch of human blood and labor and money set on fire only to accomplish nothing more than an accellerated pathway for an oppressive regime to get nuclear weapons.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

here’s the thing: every country has a right to a nuclear program. if the only country to use them in war tells you “no” you can clearly ignore them.

iran deserves nuclear energy, medicine, etc. Just as much as the US or russia.

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This whole situation guarantees Iran races towards nukes in the future. There is no other lesson in all this for them. You can't negotiate with the US or Israel, you can't trust them. The stockpiled 60% heu is going to end up in bombs. Funny because they only had 3.6% uranium for fuel under the jcpoa, but now they have 60% heu and massive stockpiles of it - and $300B from US taxpayers.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 11 points 16 hours ago

And Ukraine.

"So if we give up our nukes you'll recognise our territory and protect us against the russians?"
"Sure, of course"
"Ok, we'll do it."
{russians attack}
"The russians are attacking. Protect us!"
"Yeah, about that ..."

[–] SlackerPreface57@feddit.online 23 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

So Trump is issuing a complete surrender to Iran.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Surrendered, and paid $300B for the privilege

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

Trump: "Uncle! Uncle! We've had enough!"

Bibi: "the fuck we have?! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE" bombs Lebanon anyways

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 18 hours ago

It's just nuclear energy, though.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 61 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's fascinating just how badly the US lost this war.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 29 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This is one of the greatest military, economic, diplomatic, and political fuck ups of all time

[–] zwerg@feddit.org 5 points 18 hours ago

No, that would be Putin's 3 day SMO.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Can you lose a war if it isn't over yet?

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

This war was lost before it even started.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

One wonders what Republicans in Congress—let alone the international community—will think of Trump’s latest concession. If a final peace deal between Iran and the U.S. doesn’t have any restrictions on the country’s nuclear program, it will be effectively worse than the 2015 JCPOA agreement with Iran.

Everything Obama or Biden did, he just has to do it worse.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not only that, he has to eradicate it. Just "my way or the highway" it.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just "my way or the highway" it.

His kind of highway.

[–] BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Everything Obama or Biden did he says was dumb or horribly done because he didn’t personally enrich himself by holding parts of it hostage or using parts of it to harm others and then extort them, and then inexplicably get into business with them later in some land development deals. Every time he says Obama did something stupid, it means he’s going to destroy it, rebuild and rebrand it and make himself and his buddies money off it, expecting his buddies to wash some of the govt proceeds used in the deal to funnel to himself and his family.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wow

Did they get the files or something?

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe the offered him another FIFA peace prize

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

I can’t believe people are watching fifa and attending.

This is why we can’t have nice things. People look the other way too easily.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

That'd be fuckin amazing if they did

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We all know that a lot of money for the war went into Polymarket that a bunch of wealthy bet on, having insider details, and since it's not restricted or illegal, they probably made millions.

I feel like Polymarket is relatively small potatoes. Who's been benefiting from the high oil prices? non-gulf oil producers. Whoever controls that oil has been making real bank. I don't know which all countries are major exporters, but I know a few of them are Russia, the US, and the US's newest puppet state, Venezuela.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Hax.

  • Get a bunch of fools who are easily parted with their money to hang off your every word.

  • Permit unregulated gambling on things you can control the outcome of.

  • Start a war that nobody wants. Tell your fools it will be quick and easy and victorious.

  • Fools go and bet on the war en masse.

  • Tell a few rich friends that you're forfeiting.

  • Profit.

"Art of the deal" is just magic tricks. He wants you to look at his hands to forget about the whole child sex trafficking thing...but did you notice the moonwalking bear?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 39 points 1 day ago

tHe ArT oF tHe DeAl

[–] tal@lemmy.today 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

After months of insisting that the purpose of the war was to get rid of any nuclear capability, demanding “zero enrichment,” Trump is now saying that the country can use nuclear power for electricity.

Nuclear power generation, not nuclear weapons.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The point is that the electric is cover for the military use of Uranium. Or so was the logic of previous foreign policy.

To be clear, I'm just a messenger here. Not saying its right.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 6 points 18 hours ago

Which previous foreign policy? Obama agreement had inspections and clear limits to enrichments. And it worked.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

iran should have weapons too though. the terrorist states have them, why not iran?

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

We've always been steadfast allies with Eurasia.

[–] kboos1@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Dump is a traitor