The Iran Deal
- Thread starter Runnin
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Yeah...blames the US for backing out of the Iran deal. If anything, backing out of a deal where the counterparty fails to deliver puts you in a stronger position in future negotiations.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Yeah. This is an excerpt from an interview with a former ambassador that I posted in the global thread:
But if the U.S. pulls out of the Iran nuclear agreement — which Trump has repeatedly called a bad deal for the U.S. and threatened to pull out of or renegotiate — that could make it much more unlikely for North Korea to even contemplate coming to the table, he said.
“That would be a message to Pyongyang that the U.S. could be fickle, that the U.S. may sign into agreements and walk away from those agreements,” DeTrani said, adding that North Korea may understand “enhancing the agreement, rather than cutting it.”
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
I think it had to embolden Iran, the current NK regime, and everyone else we've had similar dealings with. The world has figured out that we typically go for the flash of anything we can term a victory. Sign the agreement, make the sanctions go away, then keep on with business as usual. Our bark is bigger than our bite and our priorities tend to be badly misplaced.