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  • > “Well, our expectation is that the strait is gonna be opened in a toll-free way for the long term, and that’s the sort of thing that we’re gonna figure out in these technical negotiations... You know that there are a lot of very important details to figure out, that we’re actually gonna sit at the table and discuss together and figure out a path forward on these details.”

    This is the kind of thing you say when the deal is ready to be signed Friday.

    by cosmicgadget
  • Surely such a deal would have to be approved by Congress, right? Would they really have the votes?
    by 3eb7988a1663
  • what, so you go and bomb them then now u pay them hahaha
    by jiwidi
  • This would be an incredible $1,800 from each taxpayer sent overseas to the Iranian regime. On top of what’s already been spent and the inflation caused. In any other time in history just this alone (ignoring all the other scandals) would lead to something like a landslide 100 seat swing in the house. The fact polls show we’ll be lucky to see 10 seats switch shows how incredibly broken our information environment has become.
    by erentz
  • I would campaign that the deal be fulfilled with private money instead of public funds.

    (Or, act to show - roots and consequences - that this should be the proper procedure.)

    by mdp2021
  • Why was it bad for Obama to release much less than this to assure the earlier joint agreement? We heard a lot about how bad that was. Pallets of cash they said, real bad.
    by bediger4000
  • > reconstruction fund

    Literal reparations:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations

    > War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war.

    Another war lost by the USA, despite its infinite military supremacy. Weird.

    One observation that comes to mind is that a lot of people in the world realize that the interests of the US and of Israel are not aligned, but American policy makers keep pretending they're one and the same. This was completely self-inflicted and it's not the first time. (The Iraq war cost what, trillions?) It's quite incredible.

    by ekjhgkejhgk
  • USA has a weird concept about the future as it were something already known, so they may declare now what will happen, even if the actual future depends on other agents.

    From TFA:

    > U.S. officials have said Iran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz permanently without tolls, while Tehran said the agreement is to allow free passage for the next 60 days during another period of negotiations led by Vance.

    > When asked about the confusion during a Monday appearance on CNBC, Vance said “Well, our expectation is that the strait is gonna be opened in a toll-free way for the long term, and that’s the sort of thing that we’re gonna figure out in these technical negotiations.”

    by adrian_b

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