Porteroso said:
Oldbear83 said:
Porteroso said:
Incredible. Old bear calling people names for believing reports that we are agreeing to 300bn, and turns out it's true.
Total, absolute, abject failure of a war. They lost nothing they care about, and gained an incredible amount.
You get your news from a latrine, it appears.
Same place as your candidates.
Have to agree, the people i had to choose from were Donald Trump and Kamela Harris. Or do you think I singlehandedly choose candidates? Ilumiporter? Porterlati?
I do wonder at times.
But you need to take the facts a step further. We are stuck with Trump in the White House until 2029, barring a catastrophic crime or one burger meal too many for his system; like it or not Trump represents the government at the Executive level, and that includes authority for war operations and quite a few executive powers.
I also cannot help but wonder what screaming genius seriously believed Harris was the best choice for the Democrats, although I imagine they were counting on controlling Biden
via the autopen, and he simply gave out on them before they could run out the clock.
But a quick hint as to the money at stake. It's not American taxpayers' money, but money which in fact belongs to Iranian companies.
That's the rub. For a long time now, people making the rules have denied the US the ability to seize the Iranian funds, because they technically belonged to private individuals and companies, even if those companies would be used by the Iranian regime for government purposes. The funds could only be
frozen, and one issue not resolved was for how long that could last.
The Bush Administration (W) tried to find a way to seize the funds, but that failed. They then wanted to lock them up for as long as the Mullahs were in power, but there was no legal mechanism they could use for that purpose. The Obama Administration, fearing the funds might be released against US wishes, decided to offer the release of some funds, in cash, as a goodwill gesture, hoping to open a dialogue, but Iran as it always has simply took the cash and offered nothing in return but a demand for more cash. This move also offended other nations in the region, who saw Iran as dangerous and not to be trusted. By the time Trump took office again in 2025, the issue was a concern for everyone.
Trump's people briefly floated the idea of using the Iranian funds to pay other Middle East nations for harm caused by Iranian attacks, but that failed. So in the end, the decision to release some of the frozen funds as rewards for compliance with the agreement terms is a way to offer incentive to Iran for complying with the agreement, and if Iran breaks the deal they lose that money, the clock starting all over as funds are frozen for a new offense.
Only time will tell if that plan is a bad idea or a tolerable one, but the media accounts are as fake as Trump's last medical report.
That which does not kill me, will try again and get nastier
