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You’d have to be insane to still defend this Iran disaster Trump started
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Anonymous 9w

Explain. We had few good options. Obviously, the campaigns not gone as well as we hoped, but hindsight is 20-20. Sometimes fate just isn’t on our side. This could have just as easily gone the other way

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Anonymous replying to -> rational_republican 9w

And had it gone the other way, I guarantee you’d be saying “I knew it”

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Anonymous replying to -> rational_republican 9w

Everyone sounded the alarm in 2017 that him getting rid of the JCPOA would lead to war and they were proven right. We had a verification scheme in place and an Iran that was rejoining the global economy. Trump threw that all out and assassinated their top general in 2020 which was there this current hostility started

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Anonymous replying to -> rational_republican 9w

These people are never going to trust us again and the recent negotiations showed. They now have a stranglehold on the strait that only a full scale invasion can break and Trump will never do that

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Anonymous replying to -> rational_republican 9w

Now there’s word of central command shuttering their gulf bases, all of which are exposed to Iranian fire, and relocating to Israel.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9w

I agree withdrawing from JCPOA was a mistake, with the important nuance that although it worked in preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, Iran used unfrozen assets to fund terrorism. During that period, Iran supported Hezbollah and Houthi terrorists more than ever before. Again, I still mostly agree we should not have withdrawn from JCPOA, but I’m saying at the beginning of this year, we had few good options. As I understand it, the JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Trump debated options.

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Anonymous replying to -> rational_republican 9w

Ok I guess you actually are rational Republican lol

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