BTW, the conflict is unlikely to resolve soon.

The US has literally never honored a deal with Iran. Iran has no reason to negotiate with the US. The US either has to back down, put boots on the ground, or sit and wait.

If the government survives, they had a quiet infrastructure investment from China they can activate to rebuild their damaged facilities.

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toasty228 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The US has literally never honored a deal with Iran.

It'll be better now, they killed the dad/wife/son/etc. of their new leader, this will 100% make them eager to negociate in good terms

	▲	legitster 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is the story overall of strategic bombing campaigns. All they do is strengthen the resolve of the recipient country and rally people to the flag. Before using the nuclear weapons on Japan, we literally firebombed every city in Japan BUT Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And arguably the only reason they surrendered when they did was because Russia was beginning a large scale invasion of their own. People who call themselves "foreign policy experts" but advocate for regime change through bombing are not serious people, and the fact that we have treated them as such for so long is an indictment on our collective intelligence.

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WarmWash 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Iran has Trumps balls in a vice.

Trump took a high risk gamble, that he would destabilize Iran and the people would overthrow the remnants. That didn't happen, and now Iran gets to inflict severe pain on the US.

I myself am delighted though, because everyone needs to get the fuck off oil, even if it's economically painful for a few years.

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lesuorac an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't it just Trump that doesn't honor deals?

What did Bush / Obama / Biden do?

	▲	legitster an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Going all the way back to the hostage crisis, the US never really held up their end of the deal. We were also quietly making inroads with the revolutionary government of Iran and then secretly backed Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war in 1980. But the elephant in the room is Trump and the JCPOA. We just backed out and gave them nothing in return for them holding up their side of the bargain. Furthermore, we made such an embarrassment out of the other signatories that such a deal amongst western powers will never happen again either.