Iran

[Pergamos]

So the conflict with Iran keeps being announced as over, and then not really being over.  This most recent surrender at Versailles looks the most like a real end of any of them for a while, but I am seeing a lot of folks saying it isn't going to actually end anything.

Anyone want to weigh in?  Cain maybe?

I'm personally very frustrated by Schumer saying he will keep reparations from being authorized by congress if he can.  I do think that money should be coming directly from Donald Trump's funds, rather than the government, but we have absolutely, as a country, acted in awful ways that need to be compensated for.  Iran deserves reparations for the damage we have done.  Having a reconstruction fund will encourage more interaction between our countries, in ways that will create more opportunities to directly support Iranian people and their own, on the ground, struggles for freedom.  It's also a big fat pork barrel, which isn't a great thing, but should be motivating Schumer and others to get their fingers in the pork.

[Abbot Mythos]

In simple terms, the Iranian theocracy has won this little war. And, they know they are now stronger than they've ever been. And so, it's now just a matter of them extracting the reparations they want from us, and they also know time is on their side.

The POSOTUS believed he had the military capability to force a regime change in Iran simply by ordering a short bombing campaign. But, the result of his failed bombing campaign is that the Iranian theocracy now has the capability to severely weaken the Turd Reich. And, although the Iranian theocracy can not actually destroy the Turd Reich outright, they can easily weaken it by occasionally restricting the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz.

Therefore, I see no reason for the Iranian theocracy to come to any kind of a final agreement with the Turd Reich prior to the U.S. Midterm elections.

[Faust]

The current phase of the deal is verifying it:
The condition is Isreal immediately cease all attacks on Lebanon, they didnt so the straight was closed again, this is a test, they want the US to intervene and reign in Isreal, probably permanently.

This is far more damaging to the US then the 300 billion rebuild funds, as it will force the US to undermine its ally there, even if its in their best interests as well as everyone else

[Faust]

Its times like these I really miss Cain's opinion