“...he would let housekeeping know when he wanted his sheets done, and he would strip his own bed.”
45* is going to withdraw the US knowing there are still alternatives. It’s another stunt, but with decades of greater risk of military action plus higher gas prices and profits for his Russian oligarchs.
For months European powers have been desperately seeking ways to stop the US scuppering the 2015 accord, which supporters say is crucial to stopping a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
But Mr Trump and some of his closest advisers argue that what he has termed the “worst deal ever” needs to be “fixed” by extending time limits on restraints on Iran’s nuclear activities and cracking down on Tehran’s ballistic missile activities and role in regional conflicts.
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Mr Trump has called on the European signatories of the deal to address what he denounces as its deficiencies: a supposedly weak inspection regime, the expiry of many of the constraints on the nuclear programme and the lack of measures against Iran’s missile programme.
He has also pushed the Europeans to take a tougher stand against what he sees as Iran’s malign activities.These include support for regional proxies ranging from Houthi rebels in Yemen to the Hizbollah militia in Lebanon, alleged cyber attacks against targets in the US and elsewhere, and what Washington says are threats against international shipping.
It would be amusing for 45* to pull a stunt by prosecuting John Kerry over a Hatch Act violation knowing that no one’s ever been convicted.
and in the continuing GWOT...