In a stunning departure from decades of established US foreign policy, President Donald Trump revealed that a forthcoming peace agreement with Iran will likely allow the regime to retain its conventional ballistic missiles.
Standing before reporters at the G7 meeting in France, the President argued that a complete ban is unrealistic because ‘they got to have some.’
‘What am I going to do? Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles, but they can’t have them?’ Trump said during the briefing. ‘Missiles aren’t the problem. They hurt a little location, but they don’t blow up the planet.’
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This looks good to me. If Iran is left defenseless, Israel will bomb them again. I also like the last paragraph of the article above: ‘Rather than focusing strictly on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, the sweeping agreement reportedly encompasses almost every critical geopolitical pressure point in the area, including Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz, sanctions policy, maritime security and the future presence of American forces in the Middle East.’ It looks like Trump is trying to establish a working economic confederacy in the ME without Israel being the hegemon. A working confederacy in which all players in the region have an economic stake will make future wars less likely. ABN