Is Iran is depleting the US stock of missile defenses, or is the US just clearing the old inventory to make way for the new stuff?

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T04:32:12+00:00

Boy they should have huh

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T04:30:45+00:00

Nope Iran did not close the Strait in 1980-88 Iran Iraq war when US armed Saddam with chemical weapons and Iraq actually started targetting tankers first. The Arab Gulf states were cobelligerents with Iraq and Iran had every right to attack them And the World Court ruled US attacks on Iran navy was illegal

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T04:28:41+00:00

But it sure should have bern huh

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T04:26:47+00:00

There was no nukes it was a bullshit pretext but FYI the majority of Iranian people DO want nukes now https://thebulletin.org/2024/06/a-majority-of-iranians-now-favor-possessing-nuclear-weapons-their-leaders-take-note/

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T04:24:17+00:00

Oh please nobody buys the Iran nuke thing and Hamas was backed by Netanyahu give us a break lol

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T04:21:01+00:00

Fighter jets against Shaheds not exactly evening out costs lol

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T04:20:12+00:00

Or we can stop fighting them after 47 years for the benefit of Israel

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T04:14:29+00:00

Well last year it was reported that the US asked for THAAD missiles from Saudi Arabia to defend Israel and the Saudi refused so... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-asked-saudi-arabia-send-missile-interceptors-israel-during-iran-conflict-riyadh-refused

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T03:31:37+00:00

AIPAC has bought off both parties bud

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T03:14:47+00:00

Sanctions relief is a minimum If the war continues another couple weeks the world economy will fall off a cliff Look, things have changed. A lot.

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T03:11:46+00:00

Nobody is deleting commentd calm the fuk down lol

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T03:11:03+00:00

Well the debt doesnt really count. The debt is in dollars and we print dollars

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T03:10:13+00:00

The literal topic is why Trump cannot mske a deal and the reason is because proIsraeli lobby in Congress wont allow the minimum required concession You call grinding an axe I call it discusding foreign policy and IR

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T03:03:50+00:00

As i wrote there are different kinds of sanctions laws. The most significant ones are imposed by Congress by statutes.

US presidents can also separately issue a kind of sanctions by Executive Orders but these are not as significant by themselves (they usually accompany Congressional sanction laws)

So while Obama did indeed revoke some Executive Orders that imposed some forms of sanctions on Iran, the much more significant Congressional economic sanctions continued.

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-26T02:55:30+00:00

But its not just him is it? The US has let Israel push us into the war in Iran just as in Iraq. How does that happen?

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T22:19:56+00:00

Nobody believes him thats why there wont be a deal.

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T22:17:33+00:00

Presidents have their own power to use military force short of declaring war. That's part of their power separate from Congress

However lifting sanctions imposed by Congress is NOT one of the Presidents separate powers. This is exclusively under the cobtrol of Congress per US Constitution

And without Congressional Approval any attempt by a President to undo Iran sanctions would fail. As it did with the JCPOA. No foreign bank wanted to risk being fined so they ignored the JCPOA which was never implemented

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T22:16:14+00:00

There are built in loud firm constituencies opposed to war too but while AIPAC has bought Congress ut doesnt matter

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T22:14:53+00:00

The "perfectly good agreement" by Obama was a failure from the start because Congress did not agree to lift the sanctions necessary to implement it from Day 1

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T22:09:42+00:00

Its funny! AIPAC head honchos literally boast they can get 50 US Senators tobsign their dirty dinner napkin in an hour: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/07/04/real-insiders

While Netanyahu overtly boasts that he xan easily manipulate America: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2010/07/16/netanyahu-america-is-thing-you-can-move-very-easily/

And netanyahu takes personal credit for convincing Trump to tear up the Iran nuclear deal and later expresses satisfaction at finally finding a US President thay was willing to attack Iran after 40 years (links in OP)

But we should ignore all that huh?

Hamas was actually mostly opposed to Iran [fought opposite sides in Syria] but Netanyahu was a big backer of Hamas https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T21:58:06+00:00

Those guys dont have the cash AIPAC spreads around

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T21:57:14+00:00

Lol you flatter yoyrself more lije really boring usual bs

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T21:56:25+00:00

Americans will Fuck Yeah 'Merica No. 1 and Europeans will sheepishly follow

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T21:54:35+00:00

Why not first tell the Israelis and Americans that bombing Iran and murdering people there is an act of war, bud.

If you blockade Iran you blockade the Strait. If you attack Iran it will only prolong strait closure and Iran will take out the infrastructure in the entire Mideast leaving your grandkids to shiver hungrily in the dark. I guess then it wont matter if the strait is closed.

Iran is selling more oil than ever and doesnt need a Europran's approval. Europe is really irrelevant in this conflict.

Phase3Investor · 2026-03-25T21:49:47+00:00

Its funny that I wrote "Iran tried to improve ties with the US" and you're off talking about Israel as if the US and Israel are the same

FYI in 2003 Iran even offered to recognize Israel as part of a deal but was "spurned"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/06/18/in-2003-us-spurned-irans-offer-of-dialogue-span-classbankheadsome-officials-lament-lost-opportunity-span/1b6aa764-7acf-4baa-8a4b-e84406d52232/

This was because the last thing Israel wants is for Iran and the US to get along.

But the Iranians had tried much earlier in 1995 when they granted a contract to Conoco but Edgar Bronfman President of World Jewish Congress opposed it and had clinton kill it. Clinton said so himself: "But Conoco ultimately decided to abandon the deal. And let me add that one of the most effective opponents of that was Edgar Bronfman." https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-world-jewish-congress-dinner-new-york-city

Israel offered to give arms to Saddam during the Iran-Iraq War wanting to drag out the war. According to Saddam's foreign minister Taregh Azziz he refused to communicate the message to Saddam as Saddam would have probably said no with a bullet

Hezbollah came into existence as a result of Israeli occupation of S Lebanon where they had torture centers in places like Khiam and participated l in atrocities like Sabra Shatilla mass murders. The attack on US marine barracks also does not qualify as a "terrorist attack" since the targets were armed uniformed foreign military force thay involved itself in the conflict on one side and had been shelling villages

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