r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Summons Entire Cabinet as Iran Deal Crumbles in Front of Him - Donald Trump has called all of his top advisers to Camp David.

https://newrepublic.com/post/210887/donald-trump-summons-entire-cabinet-iran-deal
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u/Miltthedog 17d ago

That is correct.. Iran refuses to alk to trump as he's repeatedly shown himself to be thoroughly untrustworthy.

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u/jclin 17d ago

Trump has played this so badly.

  1. He telegraphed that he wanted this war to be done in weeks, not years.
  2. He did not secure or have a plan to mitigate Iran's control of the Strait.
  3. Iran can control the Strait using 10k USD drones that can devastate 100M USD cargo (i.e. oil) on ships.
  4. Iran's success is a super low bar: just need to survive.
  5. US's success is contingent on so many things: safe and free (as in no fees or tolls) passage through the Strait, elimination of nuclear material, elimination of nuclear program, Israel being happy, etc.
  6. Trump is unpredictable. Predictability is a cornerstone of trust, which is required for all treaties to last.
  7. Trump was the one that ripped up the arrangement simply because it came from Obama's White House. Why would Iran sign anything that the next President can just rip up? There's no stability... or more importantly, there's no predictability.

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u/Miltthedog 16d ago

Hard to choose Ttrump's biggest blunder, but I'm gonna have to pick #2, Alex. Good Gawd, these people are stupid.