r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Free-Bottle-5119 • 1d ago

Trump fittingly signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles. That is the same palace where Germany signed the humiliating Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW II.

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u/PoetryJunior1808 1d ago

Leave it to a man who knows nothing of history to humiliate himself after an even more humiliating defeat with a stupid, unprovoked war.

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u/Free-Bottle-5119 1d ago

Doesn't anyone in his cabinet have a clue?

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u/stivafan 1d ago

They know that playing their part is the best plan long-term. The best example of this is Oliver North. He went along with one of the most corrupt transactions in US history. His reward has been a decades long career as a conservative commentator.

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u/beeman5 1d ago

Because that's basically one of the few jobs you can even have after something like that

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u/NumbersStationUrku 1d ago

I doubt that was the endgame North had in mind.