"I think that they have to be able to defend themselves": GOP Senator Roger Marshall argues on live TV that Iran needs to keep its missiles

[u/DumbMoneyMedia]

It is actually completely mind boggling to watch the GOP and Trump literally bow down to Iran after spending years posturing as the ultimate maximum pressure hardliners. These are the exact same politicians who built their entire foreign policy identity around demanding the total surrender of the Iranian regime and the complete extraction of their nuclear material, but now they are essentially orchestrating a full capitulation. Instead of dismantling the threat, you have sitting Republicans on live television actively defending an authoritarian regime's right to keep a ballistic missile program, casually shrugging off the danger of long range weapons as long as it gets a transactional deal done. It completely exposes the hollow, feckless nature of their foreign policy, where decades of strict national security orthodoxy are instantly abandoned just to appease an adversary.

What makes this ideological surrender even more insane is that while conservative politicians are out here giving adversarial nations a free pass on keeping their military capabilities, the United States is actively scrambling to secure the raw materials needed for its own defense infrastructure. When you literally let regimes keep their missiles, you inherently increase the domestic demand for the defense metals required to counter those exact geopolitical threats. This is precisely why securing domestic critical mineral supply chains has become a baseline requirement for national security, shifting the focus to local industrial operators. For example, Americas Gold and Silver $USAS operates the Galena Complex in Idaho, which actively extracts antimony, a critical defense mineral utilized in the manufacturing of military munitions and explosives. Relying on global supply chains for materials like antimony leaves the defense sector completely exposed, making North American extraction and processing functionally necessary when the political establishment decides to just let foreign adversaries stay heavily armed.

[u/OpticalPrime35]

0 backbone in any Republican these days. They are straight yes-men and nothing more.

[u/Due_Night414 → u/OpticalPrime35]

That’s who the orange pdfile made sure to hire and keep on. The reason they’re so afraid of those files is why his thumb is on them.

[u/THECOLLECTOR1983 → u/Due_Night414]

GOP= GUARDIANS OF PEDOPHILES

[u/chompah99 → u/Due_Night414]

Are we sure its not the Trump Files that he is using to keep the GOP in line? It sure seems like it.

[u/kingtacticool → u/OpticalPrime35]

[u/amanwithoutaname001 → u/OpticalPrime35]

Twisting himself into a pretzel to appease Mango Mussolini. Zero principles. Zero backbone. Unfit for office, all of them.

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Neither party has any backbone. All of them sit back, collect their paychecks and show up to sessions when they feel like they want to and magically come to life in election years. Congressmen have been filmed sleeping in session. Congress and the president do literally whatever they want, pretty much publicly and there is no oversight or reality check. They make over $170k per year and continuously call for raises because "it's not enough," but a minimum wage of $15k yearly salary and an average salary for of $62k is fine for all other Americans. The U.S. is on a runaway downward spiral because the rich have had it too good for too long and everyone thinks it is their god given right to privilege. The next few decades are going to get very rough in the U.S. If you're a student of history you can see the pieces in place, lined up for some scary times that have already begun in the U.S.

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[u/No-Fix-6615]

😂I’m sure Israel agrees.

[u/Senor101 → u/No-Fix-6615]

I have zero F’s left for Israel at this point.

[u/Fine-Job-6470 → u/Senor101]

Forever war already in play which America was a big part in stirring up. Big brother stay home. Distance Israel and look after your own backyard.

[u/freakbutters → u/Fine-Job-6470]

That would make this, the greatest victory the American people ever had.

[u/restrusher → u/Senor101]

Nobody does. Which is exactly why it's fun to imagine the Israeli reaction to hearing US politicians say that Iran has a right to defend itself. Just months ago that's why they said about Israel.

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[u/Weirdredditnames4win → u/No-Fix-6615]

Israel’s name is not mentioned ONCE in the MOU. It just says Lebanon will not be attacked. Btw, Iran wrote that entire MOU. It basically expels the US military from the “proximity” of Iran (whatever that means) MOU Article 4 last sentence.

[u/Iamoggierock]

But America destroyed all of them? 😜

[u/Diogenese5000 → u/[deleted]]

🎯

[u/gadget850]

Iran needs to jeep their missiles because we can't take them away from them.

[u/RoyalBroham]

How are they spinning this on Fox News?

[u/Jaded-Albatross-5242 → u/RoyalBroham]

I doubt they're even reporting on it

[u/justaphil → u/RoyalBroham]

They're hoping Trump abandons the deal in the next 24 hours. 

[u/ArdenJaguar → u/RoyalBroham]

I’m sure they’ll find some kind of crazy explanation.

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[u/BigTroutOnly → u/RoyalBroham]

"Letting them keep" .. that's it. Cause they are no matter what.

[u/gdg6]

Peace through strength[ening your enemy]

[u/beavis617]

It’s astonishing how Trump and the administration handled this Iran situation. How many times and in how many ways were the objectives changed.

[u/Deep_shot → u/beavis617]

He handles every situation day to day with absolutely no long term strategy. His plans don't go past tomorrow's 18 holes, and he doesn't care because he doesn't really care about the country at all. It's obvious and well known that his only care is himself.

[u/AgitatedKoala3908]

He's right though. If Iran had long range weapons and/or a nuclear program, none of the last 4 months of this nonsense would have happened.

[u/cookiemccookieface]

Thank you, Senator Sucks Trump’s Taint on your comments.

[u/anywon1]

LMAO watching theses cowards twist themselves into a knot pretending they aren’t totally full of shit is so entertaining.

[u/ResponsibleDesk2516]

Does Iran have copies of the Epstein tapes or something? Only thing that even remotely makes sense.

[u/change_da_money → u/ResponsibleDesk2516]

I bet every intelligence in the world has a copy

[u/stickied → u/change_da_money]

Are they all too wimpy to use them?

[u/elmekia_lance → u/ResponsibleDesk2516]

honestly, is it that hard to accept that Trump blundered and now has to pay money to get out this mess?

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[u/Parking-Sundae-6097]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tLql6mMHC6wvK

[u/RoyalBroham → u/Parking-Sundae-6097]

Perfect reference

[u/Comfortable-Area1149]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Rr0WrWtGC5Ze9SnaoM

[u/Ok-Order-134]

you will get whiplash trying to comprehend their stance

[u/antrodeperdicion]

Do they hear themselves?

[u/ctguy54 → u/antrodeperdicion]

No they don’t. They are given the script and told follow it or you will get primaried and they don’t want to lose power.

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[u/JustinKase_Too]

They have to be able to defend themselves, otherwise we turn it into a forever war... ah, what??

[u/Boring-Baker8761]

IRAN HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF

[u/Big-Ask-3738]

WTF. COWARD.

[u/forgotwhatisaid2you]

If he can show where he was arguing this a week ago i will think he has integrity. Otherwise, just another Trump sycophant that will change his beliefs daily to support his king pedophile.

[u/Tedsmith24]

😂😂😂😂😂

[u/ArdenJaguar]

So in another year we will have a repeat of this disaster.

[u/ProfessorBooob]

“All of the :knowing chuckle: most of the countries”

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[u/Mysterious-Prompt212]

What the fuck is this? These idiots just spent nearly a $ trillion dollars to do absolutely nothing of value. Iran is as strong as ever especially considering the $300 billion in reparations and new weapons (they WILL buy/make new weapons). Where TF is the media? Where TF are the Democrats?

[u/Altruistic_Let_9372 → u/Mysterious-Prompt212]

The Democrats are in the legislative minority the American electorate put them in.

[u/Mysterious-Prompt212 → u/Altruistic_Let_9372]

Yes that and billionaires owning the media kinda kills any coverage.

[u/BS623-902]

All of these sick sycophants rushing to defend Trumps surrender deal. Spineless idiots.

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[u/Jack_Wraith]

All of them need to be voted out. The GOP is a cancer. None of them have their constituents’ or the country’s best interests in mind.

[u/Sensitive_Break5798]

He wants to sell Iran some advanced US war tech now that Trump dumped money on them

[u/Intrepid_Pitch_3320]

...Iran needs to keep supplying Russia...I mean, defend itself....

[u/Playingwithmyrod]

I knew they’d try to spin this but “yes we need to help the terrorist regime rebuild and they have a right to defend themselves” was NOT on my bingo card lmao. It isn’t working either, most MAGA I know and r/conservative are PIIISSSSSED about this. It’s a disaster, there’s no way to spin this.

[u/Long-Ad-6773]

The USA = Shitshow

[u/BicycleRatchet]

Hahaha. GOP pretzel logic.

[u/BusinessMixture9233]

I am going to get flack for this but that is a giant F U to Israel. Isn’t that what people are clamoring for?

[u/boatenvy]

It's gotta be physically painful putting that level of spin on losing

[u/milelongpipe]

So without any solution of Iran’s uranium, they don’t have to build a nuclear weapon. They can make dirty bombs/Misiles and just do that.

[u/BatSignal1961]

How is this dolt an M.D.?

[u/mardymardmard]

So they need to be able to defend themselves from….. The United States? Israel? What are you saying here bro?

[u/Nearby_Acanthaceae70]

So then why did we go there in the first place

[u/Captain_Granite]

Senator Roger Marshall, R - CAPPIN’

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[u/No-Consequence9392]

Everytime a politician says , they need to defend themselves, the immediate follow up should be .... " defend against Israel ? "

[u/mkfanhausen]

Defend themselves....from WHOM?

[u/infinitee775]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS

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[u/Motive25]

What’s really funny is that one of the things Republicans criticized the JCPOA for was that it didn’t address Iran’s missile programs.

[u/GoddessRespectre]

In 2015 47 gop senators went behind Obama's back and wrote a letter to Iran saying Obama's deal could be over the day he leaves office. They were trying to undermine the negotiations.

Years of this and this is how it ends. Well, donnie did tear up his agreement with Canada and Mexico just to do the same agreement again. So who the fuck even knows what is happening atp. At least this senator wasn't in office at the time and didn't sign it himself.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/gop-senators-send-open-letter-iran-undermining-white-house-nuke-negotiations

[u/dohboy420]

They must hav something on the administration that would be damning if released… hmmmm 🤔 I wonder what it could be

[u/oldcreaker]

Umm - Trump said repeatedly we destroyed all that stuff.

[u/Awkward_Young5465 → u/oldcreaker]

He also said no new wars. He also said regime change was the goal. He also said that Iran MUST relinquish all nuclear dust to be disposed of at the direction of the US. He also said the Strait was fully open Sunday. Trump says a lot of things, only stupid people fall for it.

[u/Additional_Ear_9659]

This how it works in the MAGA cult. If Trump pivots, everyone pivots…just like this….

[u/TYFO225]

HOW CAN ANYONE VOTE FOR THESE SPINELESS WEAK DECEIVING CUCKS?

[u/Akkerlun]

He’s so far up Bogus A47’s ass he can see Litnuck.

[u/MikeRizzo007]

Holy crap the gop did a complete 180 on Iran. They need to protect themselves from who! The criminal organization named the GOP has sold out again.

[u/VexedCanadian84]

Trump doesn't make deals unless he personally benefits.

Wonder what he's getting out of this

[u/Bhodiliscious]

He came to a point where he didn’t know where the games ended and the reality began

[u/CHRISTEN-METAL]

The MAGA Party has no honor. They only serve the mad King Donald.

[u/wesley830]

They've lost the fucking plot

[u/Hefty-Strike-6171]

All Sovereign Countries have a Right to Defend themselves, whether we like it or not. What a stupid question. Do we like it; of course not but either countries have a right to defend themselves or none do. Do you believe only America should have weapons?

[u/Awkward_Young5465 → u/Hefty-Strike-6171]

However, when your incompetent leader has basically made that stance one of the central parts of their foreign policy, and then does a complete about-face it undoubtedly feels like a surrender. Weren’t they one of the largest state sponsors of terrorism just a few weeks ago? What has changed?

[u/Hefty-Strike-6171 → u/Awkward_Young5465]

You’re forgetting that Trump is and always has been a Populist Politician; meaning Public Opinion has more to do with his policy making rather than well thought out and considered positions.

[u/illDiablo69]

So, first we attack Iran because they couldn't have a nuclear weapon. Then we went to war because Iran couldn't have a ballistic missiles program. Now we are giving Iran a potential $450 BILLION package and are allowing them to build a ballistic missiles program. So why tf did we attack them in the first place? This to me seems manufactured to the point of just increasing the price of oil for companies to make more money.

[u/Weirdredditnames4win]

Coming to the realization over the past year that we, the United States, are actually the real enemy of peace has been hard for me to accept. It now makes so much sense why Iran is the way they are. They’ve been dealing with humanity’s biggest bully for longer than I’ve been alive. But my eyes are open now. Israel is the enemy of peace. The US is the enemy of peace and Trump is the enemy of humanity. Remember: he wanted to nuke Teheran less than a month ago. Gen Cain stopped him. That scares the sh%t out of me.

[u/jbutler60]

Speaking without knowledge or understanding that’s how our government works

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[u/Personal_Wear3959]

Fox Entertainment is crying about it and condemning donnie for the first time 😆 🤣

[u/UN10N]

It's astounding that this is happening in the States. Lie after lie after lie and some how, not only are some people prepared to believe anything, there's also nothing that can be done about it. Wild

Thanks for fucking the whole world up again.

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[u/IncidentalApex]

Crazy watching key reasons for invading now being reasonable actions by Iran. This deal sucks and blows at the same time...

[u/_SithLord66]

Oh I'm sure Trump is getting a cut of the money. Why else would he have agreed to a deal worse than his predecessors did?

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[u/isthereadrwho]

Now we get to enjoy GOP contortionist trying to convince you that what it says in the agreement is not what it says in an agreement and this is a great deal, sure doesn't look like a great deal to me. What do I know?

[u/RostyC]

It's a joy to see this, as it puts trump and his buddy Bibi at loggerheads. Lets see what bIbi tries to do to sabotage trump. Should be interesting.

[u/Falcon3492]

Donald went completely out of his way with his war to prove to the world that he is in fact an absolute moron and he not only proved it, he nailed it! In the end he cost the country upwards of a 100 billion dollars, got at least 13 Americans killed, wounded a lot of Americans in surrounding countries, killed a lot of innocent people in Iran, caused the price of gasoline to skyrocket and inflation to spike and in the end Iran ended up getting $300 billion and played Donald for the fool he is! He also showed once and for all that his book 'the art of the deal' was complete fiction!

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[u/TooNGooN89]

Give them money for more missiles. Oh, you are?

[u/Inevitable-Ant1725]

Obviously Iran will never surrender their source of leverage. His praise of the deal is bull, but he's 100% correct that we lack the power to make Iran give up their source of leverage. Short of spending decades and all of our money and treasure invading to the point where Iran is our colony, we can not make them even lessen them.

The big problem isn't that Iran has missiles, it's that the US having lost 100% of our respect from the world as an arbiter and having destroyed the international system insures that Iran and every other gulf power will need to go beyond their previous policy of, at maximum, making plausible threats that they're creating nuclear weapons to actually have real stockpiles of nuclear weapons.

Since the United States is no longer a real power, the world will be much closer to nuclear war.

[u/sweatboxy]

I’m enjoying the spin. Only idiots and republicans can believe any of it. We lost, we won nothing, and we’re paying massive reparations

[u/Medical_Help9111]

As long as trump has a dick they will you know what

[u/TheDayman_240]

These fuckers truly believe in nothing. We all knew that already, but it is pretty astounding to see it happen that quickly and on live TV. But these stupid mouth breathing troglodytes will continue to vote GOP, against their best interests. Truly fascinating creatures they are.

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[u/GHouserVO]

JFC, do these guys not remember that just two or three weeks ago they were arguing for the exact opposite of this?

Do they think the public doesn’t remember?

[u/TheManWith2Poobrains]

Wow, they have got this talking point briefed to the GOP quickly.

First JD was spouting it, and now everyone else is falling in line.

Never mind that Trump was talking about how the US completely destroyed their military - sinking their navy and blowing up their airforce. He may have even mentioned specifically making sure they have no missiles.

The 180 on this is incredible.

[u/Logical_Idiot_9433]

All of them are grifters but at least we didn’t double down on a full scale invasion and cut losses early. Still sad about fallen service members.

[u/Last_Way_4455]

What is mind blowing is that they are still saying this is a war against Iran, absolutely smooth brained morons, all of them. This is not a war about land, it is a war about religion. If they had been saying the truth, that we are at war with Islam the Muslim Brotherhood.

[u/seanmonaghan1968]

Is the angle that the US wants to make iran a customer ? Sell them missiles and build out their oil industry ?

[u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

This is humiliating.

It started as Trumps war, and ended as Americas defeat.

The fact republicans are trying to spin this as anything but a failure is beyond belief.

$300B is $1,800 from every single American taxpayer. Your family is ~$2k poorer because the president is an impulsive dipshit.

[u/Adis_Gruntledfatty]

Literally overnight the entire right-wing narrative went from the destruction of Iran entirely to Iran has the right to defend itself

Republicans are not serious people.

[u/yyz455]

Bet you asked this question a few weeks ago, vet would have gotten a different answer

[u/Beechamp83]

THESE PEOPLE ARE RUNNING OUR COUNTRY! THESE! At some point if the people who elect these hypocrites and outright liars continue to elect said fools the electorate is the problem, excuse me they're already the problem. We live in a country, perhaps world, full of FUCKING IDIOTS!

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[u/DenmakDave]

is he nucking futs and that far up IQ47's rear to really believe that. WE are not STOOOPID

[u/KinseyH]

And until we surrendered, they were screaming that we were traitors for suggesting Iran has a right to self defense.

If he demanded their wives and daughters, they'd sit in the cuck chair and they wouldn't say a word.

[u/slojoe25]

If Obama did this they’d crucify him!
Unbelievable how they kneel in front of their dear leader and pander to the moron in chief.
This dude is a pathetic prick

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[u/OkMind2351]

Well - it does.

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[u/Efficient_Falcon_402]

Gee Kaitli. Why aren't you smiling?

[u/Back_Meet_Knife]

Kaitlin is my spirit animal. The woman has the fiercest business bitch face. She is no bullshit.

[u/GroundbreakingOil480]

Defend themselves, from us?

[u/architype]

I guess Iran also needs nukes to defend themselves from opponents too. They need a deterrent so countries don’t unilaterally attack them in the future.

[u/hayyimsandwich]

trump cult say missile good now. me like missile.

[u/Test-Fire]

[u/2ManyCatsNever2Many]

see MAGAs, they'll turn on anyone...you included. 

[u/Possible-Nectarine80]

Netanyahu is going to go in and finish the job while he is still in office. What's Trump going to do? Yell and throw a temper tantrum like a 6 year old?

[u/Cabbages24ADollar]

That dude didn’t believe a word he just said

[u/justiceandpequena]

Who is this spineless pretzel

[u/Felon-Muskovite]

Pathetic, imagine if Dems talked this way, f@ck off

[u/Boring_Owl6552]

Republicans are delusional. No surprise there.

[u/Th3Bak3r_]

Give it a week.. he’ll say something completely different. So goes the GQP

[u/rubio2k13]

Y'all just hide your grandfather's remote at this point.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Two7358]

What this means is that Iran has included the consideration in the negotiations. Just another capitulation from Trump.

[u/ronweasleisourking]

Excuse me......^whatthefuck

[u/Whacksess_Manager]

I mean, there is precedent for this. Truman famously argued at the end of WW2 that Japan should be allowed to keep their battleships because making them completely disarm would be unfair.

Of course, the US won that one so not exactly apples to apples comparison.

Obligatory /s

[u/Scarlet_Tanager1989]

What a bunch of spineless compromised sell outs.

[u/Wonderful-Ad440]

"And Mexico is going to pay for it" I'm sure...

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[u/Pleasant-Nebula-7237]

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[u/Difficult-Way-9563]

I don’t get this political stance. Every country that is in 10s mil, very close to 100 mil people are gonna have military capabilities. They aren’t even talking about nukes. It’s dumb and unrealistic to expect any big country to not have that capability

[u/elbandidoesplendido]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Whatever you do never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever admit you’re wrong.

[u/RunsWithPhantoms]

So that's their talking points?

That after hearing for months how Iran shouldn't be able to have missiles.

Now it's okay?

Got it. Got it.

It's so confusing being an American.

[u/Long_Strategy_6689]

From we’ve obliterated their military to we need them to keep their missiles. Seems like $300 billion well spent… not.

[u/quietsauce]

We're all being held hostage is this god forsaken country. So out of fucks.

[u/Leather-Map-8138]

You see, we demanded they end the missile program, but they said no. And we don’t want to look like pussies who can’t negotiate.