Sincere thanks to the three of you for stepping up to do a live broadcast on a Saturday evening to discuss Drumpf’s shocker announcement.
Want to share with you and fellow listeners some brilliant comments made this evening by Karim Sadjadpour, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, quoted by The New Yorker’s David R…
Sincere thanks to the three of you for stepping up to do a live broadcast on a Saturday evening to discuss Drumpf’s shocker announcement.
Want to share with you and fellow listeners some brilliant comments made this evening by Karim Sadjadpour, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, quoted by The New Yorker’s David Remnick. As I listened to you, I had one piece of what he expressed, swirling in my head—I.e., that Drumpf saw an opportunity to either steal from or share with BB the spotlight in an historic moment that might—if the ploy worked—bring about regime change in Iran. Sadjadpour rounded out my half-baked thought—and so much more, in ways that I hadn’t even considered. A taste follows, along with the link.
“Trump came to the Presidency with a Nixon-goes-to-China idea where Iran is concerned,” Sadjadpour said. “He wanted to build hotels there. And now he has dropped a thirty-thousand-pound bomb. He was frustrated that he hadn’t solved Gaza or Ukraine. The nuclear deal that Obama worked out with Iran and the rest, the J.C.P.O.A., was a two-year-long negotiation. He had no patience for that. And when Khamenei wasn’t agreeing to his terms very quickly, and when he encountered Netanyahu’s persistence and Khamenei’s resistance, he changed. The morning after the Israeli invasion, Trump wanted to associate himself with that success. He didn’t want Netanyahu alone to have a Churchill moment. He wants to be remembered for destroying nuclear facilities. But it means the next President will be faced with the same challenge.”
Sincere thanks to the three of you for stepping up to do a live broadcast on a Saturday evening to discuss Drumpf’s shocker announcement.
Want to share with you and fellow listeners some brilliant comments made this evening by Karim Sadjadpour, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, quoted by The New Yorker’s David Remnick. As I listened to you, I had one piece of what he expressed, swirling in my head—I.e., that Drumpf saw an opportunity to either steal from or share with BB the spotlight in an historic moment that might—if the ploy worked—bring about regime change in Iran. Sadjadpour rounded out my half-baked thought—and so much more, in ways that I hadn’t even considered. A taste follows, along with the link.
“Trump came to the Presidency with a Nixon-goes-to-China idea where Iran is concerned,” Sadjadpour said. “He wanted to build hotels there. And now he has dropped a thirty-thousand-pound bomb. He was frustrated that he hadn’t solved Gaza or Ukraine. The nuclear deal that Obama worked out with Iran and the rest, the J.C.P.O.A., was a two-year-long negotiation. He had no patience for that. And when Khamenei wasn’t agreeing to his terms very quickly, and when he encountered Netanyahu’s persistence and Khamenei’s resistance, he changed. The morning after the Israeli invasion, Trump wanted to associate himself with that success. He didn’t want Netanyahu alone to have a Churchill moment. He wants to be remembered for destroying nuclear facilities. But it means the next President will be faced with the same challenge.”
Here is the entire article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/donald-trump-bombs-iran-and-america-waits
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