WakeForestRanger
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Remember when our foreign policy wasn’t run by loudmouth jackasses?
Trump announced that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders were in the Saudi Embassy in Turkey the day Kashoggi was murdered. MBS had nothing to do with it.
The Trump Riyadh will break ground next week and Ivanka was granted 300 Saudi patents and trademarks. But all of this was pure coincidence.
What’s the rationale for going to war with Iran - or prodding Iran incessantly until they do something that Bolton can use to coerce Donald into supporting a war with Iran?
What’s the rationale for going to war with Iran - or prodding Iran incessantly until they do something that Bolton can use to coerce Donald into supporting a war with Iran?
What’s the rationale for going to war with Iran - or prodding Iran incessantly until they do something that Bolton can use to coerce Donald into supporting a war with Iran?
Trump’s anger over what he considered a more warlike footing than he wanted was a main driver in Pompeo’s decision last weekend to suddenly cancel a stop in Moscow and on short notice fly instead to Brussels, where he sought meetings on Monday with the European nations that are parties to the Iran nuclear deal, two officials said. Pompeo was not accorded the symbolic welcome of joining their joint Iran-focused meeting. Instead, he met with foreign ministers one by one.
Pompeo’s visit was meant to convey both U.S. alarm over the recent intelligence on Iran and Washington’s desire for diplomacy, not war, two officials said.
But European leaders, who have been watching the febrile atmosphere in Washington with alarm, have not been convinced, according to conversations with 10 European diplomats and officials from seven countries, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive assessments of Washington and Tehran.
Pompeo “didn’t show us any evidence” about his reasons Washington is so concerned about potential Iranian aggression, said one senior European official who took part in one of Pompeo’s meetings. The official’s delegation left the meeting unconvinced of the American case and puzzled about why Pompeo had come at all.