Trump says he will work with Iran for 'very productive regime change, there will be no enrichment'

A turd for a turd

Do not insult us by referring to khamenei as a leader. He was the head of the illegitimate terrorist junta that is occupying Iran. He was the leader of the butcher of Iranians. He was the leader of the IRGC. Not of Iran. His loss is a gain for Iranians and the world.

The Trump family's net worth has increased an insane amount this term. It is blatant corruption, and no one will do anything about it.

I don't think that it's a conspiracy theory when you have repeated evidence lending itself to the theory. Flat earth, adrenachrone and the illuminati are conspiracy theories. Dude's rich off of gaming the system, bragged about his ability to "play the market like a yoyo" says outrageous things over the weekend then course corrects with positive news during the week. It would be a *very* weird coincidence if your theory *wasn't* correct.

When they talk about building wealth - what they really mean is smash things up and get rich stealing the bits and pieces.

Western dominance perhaps, and that only for a limited time. US power is waning because of everything he is doing, and a lot of the results won't be seen until long after he is gone. "Data suggests that 2025 saw a drop in the overall immigration population, the first such decline in over 50 years" Enrollment at universities is down and "Projections suggest a potential one-third decline in international STEM graduates entering the US workforce due to policy actions. Reports indicated a steep drop in international student interest in U.S. engineering programs."  When the US want to make their next fighter jet or go back to the moon, or make the next top OS in the world, they're increasingly going to find that unlike the last fifty years the US is no longer seen as the nr one destination for the smartest and brightest. China on the other hand is starting to lead on research papers, they're already miles ahead on number of STEM students. Money even corrupt president level money doesn't work against centrally ruled countries like China. I guess they're subscribing to the better a ruler in hell than a servant in heaven mindset, and don't care one iota.

That's why whoever gets to be president next needs to do a complete overhaul of the system and prosecute the previous administration immediately. Accountability. Heads need to roll. They must assuredly won't do this because they're afraid of rocking the boat, and that's exactly why America will be hard pressed to regain their standing as a serious country anytime soon.

Less one POTUS 🤞🏼

I wonder why they weren't charging fees for the strait before. Maybe they figured what's happening now would happen if they did.

Haha, I love the phrasing here. “Iran can agree with themselves all they want.”  It’s like MAGA picked up on what Trump has been doing for weeks - negotiating with himself via Twitter - and, as always, projects that shit onto their enemy.  Iran has been saying the same shit for weeks while Trump bumbles around claiming victory and then more threats. The only way “Iran capitulates” is if the US/Israel mount a full scale invasion and force it. Until that happens Iran controls the Strait and thus the negotiations. It’s why no other president attacked them and, instead, chose to use diplomacy. Trump and MAGA are just too f****** stupid to understand this. 

Yeah, but who holds the cards?! They can close the strait and cause a worldwide depression.

If thats the case its the end of the petro-dollar; the strait being opened and ensuring security were guarantees of the scheme for making the US dollar global backing for oil. Since the strait is no longer international water and the US can't protect its allies in the region, why do the gulf states have to accept US dollars for oil when Iran charges them Yuan to ship through the strait?

I figured it would be a finger puppet situation.

That was Trump in his first term. On a good day. When it didn't matter too much if he didn't get it because there were other safeguards in place. Currently we have evil Trump in his second term, where - besides his general cognitive and moral ~~incontinece~~incompetence (sorry, the rectal incontinence was a separate issue) - at the beginning of his term his alertness on a good day was roughly on the level of Bidens alertness on a bad day. And Biden had the decency to have competent advisors in place that weren't total assholes to cover for him. It's so frustrating, I'm almost tempted to write something impolite...

That fuckwit doesn't know what 'farcical' means.

Israel should crack the whip harder, then. Trump would cave. 

We are so close to US ships sinking tankers that don’t pay the protection fee. So tankers will have to pay the Iran toll AND the US protection fee.

Dafuq did you just say?

If you haven’t learned the lesson yet that Trump’s words mean absolutely nothing then I don’t know what to tell you. He will say whatever he wants in one moment and do whatever he wants in another, and those two don’t have to match up at all.

They are a good basis for negotiation. You start with both your wants and move through the list point by point and see where the middle ground is. How else do you think it works?

The human body was not designed to know what the world's worst person is doing every 15 minutes

If only autocorrect could fix Trump

He has completely bought into his lie that other countries pay the tariffs.

Does he realize that the Supreme Court already said his tariffs are illegal?

Yes. IRGC and people most connected to them got more power than before. There might have been even moderates and reformists inside the IRGC. Now they are all gone and the hardliners are 100% in power and are not giving up.

The IRGC faces economic isolation? That is news from before the war. Now we’re at a point where the whole world is forced to cooperate with Iran. The eastern hemisphere is way too reliant on Hormuz to isolate Iran.

And why is that? Because Trump cancelled the deal? Because they just bombed them last year while negotiating? Why are hardliners more and more in power? There were reformists and moderates, but these factions are always pushed into background in extreme cases like war or public unrest. This creates radicalisation. This war actually did a lot to stop any fracturing and created a common cause for IRGC. They killed tens of thousands of people. They control economy. If they give up power, they will hang. Hardliners will not stop and last year forced more and more moderates and reformist either out of power or into becoming hardliners for their own survival. And that they will be in economic isolation and money running out? Dude. They will have more money now than they had before, because they will force Trump into humiliating deal, cancelling sanctions, getting "toll" and economic access they could not even dream about 6 weeks ago. I would wish Iranian people freedom, but from my perspective - Trump is doing for last decade more to keep Iranian regime alive than anybody else since it was established. He forced them into being more hardliners. To give more power to IRGC. He gave them common cause. And now he taught them that they have economic nuke, much bigger weapon than regular nukes.

It's a spectrum, and the USA traded bad for worse, congratulations.

The hardliners were dominant force, for sure, especially after the first attack from Israel and USA last year. And after Trump cancelled deal with Iran. But there were moderates and reformists as well. Those are gone now. Congrats. Basically all whats happening is on Trump 8 years ago and year ago, funny how he created this crisis.