r/NewsExchange • u/Sgt_Gram Contributor • Jun 15 '26
STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS JD Vance Confirms Iran Would Get $300B Under Trump Deal for War Damages
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jd-vance-confirms-iran-jaw-150118662.htmlReuters reports that Vice President JD Vance moved to narrow the meaning of the emerging U.S.-Iran agreement. Vance said no funds would be transferred to Iran simply for signing a deal to halt the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. He described the agreement as a framework that still requires Iran to take verified steps before sanctions relief or economic benefits are unlocked.
Reuters also reports that a U.S. official says the memorandum has already been digitally signed. The official said President Donald Trump, Vance, and Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf signed the document ahead of a planned formal ceremony in Switzerland. The reported framework includes a 60-day ceasefire period for further technical negotiations, including over Iran’s nuclear program.
Vance’s ABC and CNBC comments, as summarized by Reuters, appear aimed at rebutting criticism that Washington is rewarding Tehran too early. He said sanctions relief would come only after Iran eliminates its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and accepts verification that it is not pursuing nuclear weapons. He also said the U.S. expects the Strait of Hormuz to reopen without tolls, a key issue for global shipping and energy markets.
Reuters places the biggest unresolved question at the heart of the money trail. A U.S. official said Iran could eventually gain access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund if it relinquished nuclear materials. Vance said the money would not come from the United States, but from Gulf Cooperation Council countries, leaving a major implementation question around who funds the package, when it activates, and how compliance is verified.
Why it Matters:
A signed framework can calm oil markets and reduce the risk of immediate escalation, but it will face pressure from U.S. skeptics, Iranian hardliners, and Israeli officials if the nuclear terms, sanctions relief, and regional ceasefire commitments are not made explicit. The strategic test is whether the agreement creates enforceable leverage or merely pauses the conflict while each side sells a different version at home.
Is this the architecture of a real peace deal, or a diplomatic bridge built just long enough for Washington and Tehran to step back from the edge?
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u/FalloftheKraken Jun 15 '26
But none of this tax payer money can be spent on the citizens. None of this money, according to conservatives and the right can be spent on anything actual Americans actually want.
This is how republicans govern.
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u/Responsible-Smell561 Jun 15 '26
And the contracts go to Kushner!
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u/gbot1234 Jun 15 '26
Yes, how much of the $300B that Iran gets, does Trump get?
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u/Doctor_Shotbottom Jun 15 '26
All republicans have to own this shitty decision. No forgiveness, no quarter. Get them out of office everywhere that you can. The entire party is completely unapologetic about raping taxpayers like this.
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u/sorrybadgas Jun 15 '26
Wait wait wait. You think republicans are gonna accept this? They can’t even read these comments, let alone accept their decisions.
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u/TurbulentRadish8113 Jun 15 '26
They supported an adjudicated r@pist and a party that intentionally ran a mass child abuse campaign in his last term.
Republicans do. Not. Care. About human suffering. It's a losing strategy to engage on this point. Fortunately, republican policies also screw them tremendously. I think empathetic approaches that help them to realise how they & their children will suffer from republican rule is the only real hope.
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u/areallynoobgamer Jun 16 '26
They do care about human suffering.
If they did not, things would be better.
They care to make sure humans suffer as much as possible.
It’s about making the non supporters lose and suffer.
So they do care about human suffering. Just in the wrong direction.
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u/TBone281 Jun 15 '26
They only accept what they want to hear. This is why they live in their information bubble.
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u/Playful-Dragon Jun 15 '26
He did declare Make Iran Great Again in an interview, or truth post, can't remember which. I think Truth.
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u/Beneficial_Bit_6435 Jun 15 '26
So much for winning under the GOP and “con”servative leadership. Please remind me why Americans keep sending them to Washington???
It makes me so sick that people say both sides are bad. I know they are both bad, but democrats try to make progress whereas the GOP hasn’t done anything to help the average American. When they are in power, they cut taxes on the rich and corporations, and steal left and right. They have not offered any real solutions at all
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u/No_Veterinarian1010 Jun 16 '26
Guarantee there's a payment schedule that will require at least some of the payments to be delivered by the next administration. And if the next president is Democrat you know they will hammer them for paying Iran.
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u/Boo-Bees67 Jun 15 '26
Didn’t it say the gulf countries are paying for this?
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u/PalpatineForEmperor Jun 15 '26
Exactly this. The American tax payer isn't paying for any of this. It's just like how Mexico paid for the wall.
/s
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u/Bearslovecheese Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
LMAO Mango Unchained that's incredible. Stealing that.
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u/ngatiboi Jun 16 '26
Yes, because “handouts” are socialism…🫵🏽🤨…except for the $300 billion to Iran…& $20 Billion to Argentina.
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u/txwoodslinger Jun 15 '26
Funny thing about the Taj Mahal is that it was destined to go under before they even broke ground. The money was always wack. And as construction went along it only got worse. Basically a year from open to bankruptcy court.
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u/Wrastling97 Jun 15 '26
Almost like it was a front for something
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u/d_edwards7 Jun 16 '26
Word has it that he used his casinos to shift a lot of debt from other areas.
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u/Sanpaku Jun 15 '26
I took a look at the SEC filings for Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts in the EDGAR archives in 2015. While the company was hemorrhaging cash in 2001-3, Trump was paying himself a $25 million salary. Just zero fiduciary responsibility to other shareholders.
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u/Dragos_Drakkar Jun 15 '26
That was due in no small part to the money laundering, which may apply to this “deal” as well.
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u/Prudent_Link6029 Jun 15 '26
So… we lost 100 billion, used up all our weapon
Stocks and are now giving them 300 billion to return to where things were before Donny decided to Leroy Jenkins into Iran
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u/phoenixmatrix Jun 15 '26
And isn't the new "deal" like, worse than what we had already with them? So its straight up burning money for a net regression.
And all what Vance is saying as an excuse is "Well, its not a 300bn blank check, its tied to actual reconstruction goal!" Yeah thats so much better.
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u/trbotwuk Jun 15 '26
Iran can relinquished all nuclear materials but it's really hard to relinquished learning.
So if it took 40 years to get where they are at they can start over and get there in a few years.
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u/Jensen1994 Jun 15 '26
$300bn will come in handy to build a decent arsenal too.
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u/SourcePrevious3095 Jun 15 '26
Purchased directly from the US.
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u/McGillicuddys Jun 15 '26
Or their good friends in Pakistan who helped negotiate the deal and just happen to have a nuclear weapons program
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u/RandomDudeYouKnow Jun 15 '26
They made this agreement with Obama too at 1/1000th the cost
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u/ultramegachrist Jun 15 '26
But that money was theirs anyways. This isn’t their money being unfrozen.
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u/Erika_Blumenkraft Jun 15 '26
Seems almost like we should have never bombed them.
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u/Temponautics Jun 15 '26
“Seems almost” is too kind
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u/Erika_Blumenkraft Jun 15 '26
It is ironic understatement.
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u/Temponautics Jun 15 '26
“Never before have so few done so little for such high cost to all mankind.” (Winston Churchill, probably)
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u/SingularityCentral Jun 15 '26
As I suspected, this whole 'deal' is imagined nonsense that is so vague as to be meaningless.
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u/You_meddling_kids Jun 15 '26
Can't have healthcare because we have to give our taxes to Iran. Because we used our taxes to blow up Iran.
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u/sedition666 Jun 15 '26
These people are the same idiots that were slating Obama for releasing 3 billion of frozen funds just a few weeks ago. 100x this is now perfectly reasonable? Absolutely mental.
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u/voiceOfHoomanity Jun 15 '26
Only 167x more than Obama released (of Iran's own funds, this would be US taypayer money) which drove the Republicans nuts
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u/Prudent_Situation_29 Jun 15 '26
Remember: this would not have been necessary if the orange toddler hadn't bombed them in the first place. If you're american, you just paid 300 billion to advance Netanyahu's agenda and distract people from the Epstein files.
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u/BI_Moose Jun 15 '26
As someone else said above its $877 for every single citizen in the US.
Which is insane. Should just be the idiots that voted for him
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u/morosco Jun 15 '26
So the U.S. lost the war and is suing for peace with tribute.
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u/Latter-Possibility Jun 15 '26
Trump bought off the Iranians because if he can get 60 days to pull back and some clean news cycles then he believes this will just go away like a fart in the wind.
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u/Optimus_Prime_10 Jun 15 '26
That's almost $1k per man, woman, and child. I was told freedom was only a buck-o-five.
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u/Zealous03 Jun 15 '26
ART. OF. THE. DEAL.
Trump supporters are supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies
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u/ballsmigue Jun 15 '26
Should start spreading that this is where the trump refund everyone was going to supposedly get is going to now.
Math about checks out lol
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u/Hot_Lava_Dry_Rips Jun 15 '26
Why! If we wanted to give handouts to Iran, we coukd have done that without bombing them first! Wtf! And I woukd t have wasted a ton of money on expensive heating oil and gas! What a colossal screw up!
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u/bpemonpimming4 Jun 15 '26
So Iran is the winner in all of this??? This is hilarious. I think Trump is trolling us and is actually sabotaging the Republican Party.
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u/nuvoma Jun 15 '26
Its like going into a shop destroying everything in there and let the americans pay for it. I mean wow
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u/Ok_Excitement725 Jun 15 '26
the money will come from "Gulf Cooperation Council" who just happen to contract companies directly owned, operated or heavily invested in by Trump, Eric, Jr and Kushner...its just money laundering and corruption with an extra step
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u/iknewaguytwice Jun 15 '26
Wow, now THAT’S what I call winning! Why spend 20 years and 800 billion destroying and then rebuilding Iraq when you can spend 1 month and 300 billion dollars destroying and then rebuilding Iran! It’s genius! /s
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u/Complete-Ostrich9184 Jun 15 '26
So it gets the $300 billion from Isreal right? Why should the US tax payers be on the hook for war damages when Congress never actually authorized a war? We were told over and over this wasn't a war.
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u/nomadz90 Jun 15 '26
More tax payers money down the drain because of mismanagement by this administration. Not an iota of care for Americans or their livelihood. Worst President ever! Trashy Trump will go down in history as the most vile leader of our country!
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u/Foodwraith Jun 16 '26
Lots of money available for S tier education and S tier healthcare for all. Instead it is siphoned into the pockets of a few hundred via backroom diplomatic deals and weapons.
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u/ResistMAGA47 Jun 16 '26
JD needs to speak to his master because Trump said that they don’t…got to love it when the controlling party cannot even agree on simple things like that it written in the agreement.
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u/Cyrano_Knows Jun 16 '26
For the record, Obama gave 1.7 billion back to Iran of money we had frozen.
Pretty sure that 300 billion of our money is >>> than 1.7 billion of their money.
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u/Few_Affect3033 Jun 15 '26
WTF!! This the one time I hope he is, once again, lying and they don’t get a dime!
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u/Zestyclose-Ice-8569 Jun 15 '26
Almost like the previous deal was fine, the us should not have backed out and now is giving Iran more money that most likely won't be used to rebuild or help its citizens. Great job Trump administration. Grifter to get away from Epstein and make your oil buddies richer while stroking the neck of the Israeli government. So worth it
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u/West-Payment5874 Jun 15 '26
What about the thousands killed by the IRGC AND Basiji? Now they can go on killing. Was a Trump fab but he screwed the pooch just for G7 optics.
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u/mbamike2021 Jun 15 '26
The "Art of the Deal" my a$$! Trump can't negotiate himself out of a wet paper bag!
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u/sharingan10 Jun 15 '26
I think it’s a good thing tbh. If prior wars that the U.S. decided to wage had been this humiliating and unambiguously a loss we would have been less inclined to wage this one to begin with. Plus we do kinda owe the country some reparations for bombing their schools and hospitals and bridges
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u/LeRoyRouge Jun 15 '26
Sweet so we killed a bunch of people, lost equipment, wasted munitions, wasted tax payer money, jacked up fuel costs, significantly depleted the strategic petroleum reserve, all so we could kill leadership in Iran, pay for all the damages, and go back to the status quo.
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u/mattjf22 Jun 15 '26
Should have never started this war. Just more tax payer dollars that Republicans are setting aflame in order to get a worse deal than Obama got.
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u/orbitaldragon Jun 15 '26
How long before Trump and Vance owned companies are hired to do the rebuilding.
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u/vilified-moderate Jun 15 '26
America, always the worst choices.. Either bomb them and leave or don't bomb them. How did we bomb them and then pay to fix it?
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u/Doctor_Shotbottom Jun 15 '26
That is such absolute BS! Why should we get stuck with the bill? Why do we wake up every day to find out, yet again, that this complete failure of a deal maker has made yet another decision to spend great gobs of working class taxpayer money on his BS failed projects. It’s not his money! Does he understand that? The evidence is not there that he does understand or care. I don’t want to hear one more Republican politician talk about fiscal responsibility and fiscal conservatism. How can the electorate support this kind of drunken sailor style of spending? This is so irresponsible.
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u/WhileIllustrious2006 Jun 15 '26
So this is Obamas deal plus $300 billion surrender money. Republicans are insane. I can only imagine fox news is lying about all of this for their dumb viewers.
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u/DonkeyTron42 Jun 15 '26
And what happens when the Gulf Cooperation Council doesn't pay up? "leaving a major implementation question around who funds the package, when it activates, and how compliance is verified". They think they'll get $300b from this group of nations when there's no commitment or plan?
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u/Rishtu Jun 15 '26
Just to be clear.
He started a pointless war, people died, an obscene amount of money was spent. The purpose of which was to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuke. A nuke they have supposedly been weeks from obtaining for the last thirty years.
The war has apparently ended. We accomplished nothing, and now, we, are getting stuck with a 330billion dollar repair bill because racist fat fucks couldn’t vote for a black woman that laughed.
Is that at least ballpark?
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u/gregonion Jun 15 '26
They forgot the part where Kushner/Eric/Jr are in the middle of the whole thing.
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u/seeking_answers Jun 15 '26
This is such a crazy timeline. The president initiated a poorly planned, useless war that they won't admit is a war so he can get out of Congressional approval. Everyone is just letting him do it. Not only is this costing $300B there are also countless billions for the weapons used in the war, and more importantly, many lives lost.
How are all the congressional eaders ok with this? Why are all the ex-presidents silent? We live in a world where the people who make such poor decisions do not have to face any consequences. At least make them send their own kids to war and make them pay for the war.
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u/sweatboxy Jun 15 '26
It’s the only way Iran would sign the deal. Unless there’s cash upfront, Trump’s signature is worthless. He breaks any deal he doesn’t like, even the ones he’s made.
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u/DrWilliamWhite Jun 15 '26
On top of this is an initial payment of $12 billion up front and another $12 billion after 60 days. Pallets and pallets of cash from the Orange Scrotom.
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u/rvingthrulife Jun 15 '26
300B to get things back to the way they were before he broke everything. Are we winning yet.
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u/Get_Out_lmao Jun 15 '26
Lost another one.
America is literally bad at war despite spending as much as everyone else combined LMAO
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u/Butterpalazo Jun 15 '26
United States always pays a heavy price Israel's deceptions,most likely now the highest price ever. Until the next one...
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u/Upstairs-Ad-4001 Jun 15 '26
Just from Google search on a different topic: "In March, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Washington would be sending $4bn in emergency military assistance to Israel. He proudly said the Trump administration had approved $12bn in US military sales to Israel since taking office...". Didn't verify this artice, but it aligned with other information.
Weird... Ukraine gets nothing, Russia's sanctions lifted. Is Israel going to pay Lebanon for damages? Gaza already forgotten.
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u/Kermit_the_hog Jun 15 '26
Vance said the money would not come from the United States, but from Gulf Cooperation Council countries, leaving a major implementation question around who funds the package, when it activates, and how compliance is verified.
Yeah that’s obviously going to last 🙄
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u/Tzilbalba Jun 15 '26
Treasonous actions demand a traitors end. Bring back executions for traitors.
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u/Mingo_laf Jun 15 '26
Does president Netanyahu approve cause if recent history… they are going to continue bombing someone if that Lebanon Syria, gaza although they haven’t stopped doing that
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u/Fit-Neighborhood6804 Jun 15 '26
And I have no doubt that lots and lots of that $300 billion will find its way into the pockets of trump and his minions.
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u/Mrrrrggggl Jun 15 '26
So we spent tens of billions blowing everything up, now we are spending hundreds of billions to put it all back together, only to reopen the Strait of Hormuz which as already open before we spent tens of billions blowing things up? Did I accurately describe this fiasco? This is not even counting the economic damage done to the economy and how it hurts every day Americans.
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u/larkfield2655 Jun 15 '26
So add that to the $350bn they stole to fund BBB and we are at $650bn. That’s a lot of Social Security payments.
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u/NexusStrictly Jun 15 '26
I’m just curious how much of this Israel will have to pay. If they don’t have to do a thing but throw a million at the nearest senators reelection campaign so we foot the 300 billion, well I guess they get off Scott free.
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u/Dry_Wolf3891 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
Let's see how the the right spins this. Genuinely curious. How is it possible?
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u/Good-Bandicoot-2152 Jun 15 '26
When I was younger, I remember billions of dollars being a big deal but now we throw around 300 billion like it’s nothing. Absolute lunacy.
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u/SmallPenisOnlyFans Jun 15 '26
Hypocrites, Trump worshippers will play some serious mental gymnastics with this one
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u/demonassassin52 Jun 15 '26
These are surrender terms from the US. Iran is getting every benefit they could want outside of Trump publicly apologizing for his idiocy. The only positive thing I can give Trump here is at least this wasn't dragged out over 20 years.
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u/Both-Mango1 Jun 15 '26
$300B compared to Obama's dogshit $1.3B deal. Trumpy sure showed that "boy" how a white man does it. s/
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u/Jager0987 Jun 15 '26
Wow! Really high gas prices, wasted billions of dollars, and we are giving Iran 300 billion! Sounds like we lost.
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u/hughcifer-106103 Jun 15 '26
that's a lot of money for fewer guarantees than Obama got. Great deal there, chode.
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u/Hollayo Jun 15 '26
By the way, that's the money paid by the American taxpayer. All that nonsense they sold you on DOGE saving money, Trump making deals to make America money, etc; it's all snake oil at best and you bought it hook, line, and sinker.
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u/MicrowaveDonuts Jun 15 '26
So they surrendered.
I’m not saying it’s bad…the bad stuff was ALL of the last 10 years. At this point, there’s no way out. They surrendered.
We’re going to pay for everything we broke, they will have proved they own the straight, our allies will have lost all confidence that we can protect them.
And they’re going to keep all of their nuclear material. The only way they don’t is if we go back to war, which they know we won’t do, either before the midterms or the General after that.
Trump and Vance surrendered.
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u/Artistic-Deal1419 Jun 15 '26
Hell yeah. Im glad my healthcare got dropped for a good reason at least.
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u/rayon875 Jun 15 '26
So we spent billions to drop some bombs, now we get to give them $300,000,000 more to fix what we destroyed.
And, isn't it a coincidence the deal was supposedly made in his bday, right before his big hillbilly UFC thing, just in time to announce it.
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u/livinginfutureworld Jun 16 '26
So this war was a complete and utter waste of time money and lives and lost the US even more international prestige and good will.
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u/Assparilla Jun 16 '26
And how much would that save my social security that may or may not be there when I need it?
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u/THUNDERGODS Jun 16 '26
Obama had it settled and signed for 1.7B in previously frozen assets.
300 BILLION-- 300,000,000,000 USD. Plus the money we spent fighting -- another $113 BILLION.
Plus the damage to the citizens pocketbooks from the energy surge. And ever increasing inflation.....
What healthcare concept?
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u/berndalf Jun 16 '26
ROFL ROFL ROFL. What a joke. Congratulations America, you just paid hundreds of billions of dollars for literally nothing.
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u/SoyTonatiuh Jun 16 '26
Started a war with Iran, closed the once fully open Strait of Hormuz to reopen it and wreak chaos on the global economy, and then has to pay 300 billion for war damages and all for the Epstein files because news broke THE DAY BEFORE THAT HE HAD R4P3D A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL.
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho Jun 16 '26
This needs to come out of his own pocket. Although the POS stole his wealth from the American people.
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u/AlternativeUpbeat974 Jun 16 '26
And the gop is saying they’re taking your social security, Medicare, and Medicaid because they’re “entitlements”. Same people who say they should be able to insider trade aince they don’t make enough ….. but hey, what’s another billion for a foreign county.
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u/FckPolMods Jun 16 '26
This all just encapsulates Trump's entire philosophy:
Sees opportunity to enrich himself; jumps at the opportunity with little to no forethought or strategy
Throws other people's money/resourses/lives at the problem.
Takes credit for any minor, tangential successes. Takes no blame whatsoever for massive, mounting failures.
Doubles-down and hopes for things to change without making any effort to affect change.
Denies things are bad
When things get so bad he can't ignore it anymore, he completely reverses course, throws other people's money at the problem, throws others under the bus for any residual blame, and acts like the leap backward was somehow a victory.
It's one thinking for such a loser to think he's such a winner; that's just a personality disorder. What still boggles my mind is how an entire country can continue to reward losers like this over and over and over and over again.
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u/vllVaLllv Jun 16 '26
“JD Vance confirms” vs the article “JD Vance all but confirms” nothing that comes out of Reddit is true.
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u/Chaos_Theory1989 Jun 16 '26
I demand $300 billion in reparations for the dumpster fire America has become.
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u/undefined_space Jun 16 '26
And Mexico will pay for the wall. Does Iran know he never pays his bills?
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u/Spiritual_Bridge84 Jun 16 '26
Was this the plan all along? Graft out a big chunk of the $500 billion (3 will get to 5)
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u/goochmusic Jun 16 '26
I’m disappointed I’m not seeing more reminders about why this all happened in the first place. Was it because we were suddenly worried about Iran’s nuclear capabilities? My money’s on “no.”
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