Trump willing to end Iran war without nuclear deal – WSJ
WASHINGTON—For weeks, President Trump had been laying the groundwork to declare victory in the Iran war should Tehran fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, even floating the idea privately to senior aides that he’s willing to walk away without a nuclear deal, U.S. officials said.
So it was all for..........nothing.
The main bargaining item now is the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which was already open before all of this.
Arguably worse. It would legitimise a nuclear program.
And Iran gets to toll the straight. And US international reputation is (even further) destroyed. And US spent tens of billions worth of munitions.
So, the very thing the nuclear pact that Obama had Kerry work 3-4 solid years on achieving, which measured and prevented nuclear weapons from occurring, that Donald shredded his first year in office his first term?
What a brilliant waste of trillions of U.S. tax dollars, oh and countless expired human lives in vain, conservatives!
However, because of this war, Iran knows it has its own porcupine tool even without nukes. Closing Hormuz was largely hypothetical. They saw it as a card they could play, but the US has long been unchallenged for its ability to force open international waterways militarily in a lopsided manner. Now Iran knows it can play that card successfully whenever it wants and that accomplishes a lot of the same things as a nuclear weapon would in terms of putting off anyone who might want to militarily force a regime change. Any future US president will weigh the option of tolerating some level of IRGC bullshit versus gambling the loss of their seat of power because the voters hate what happens next.