When Donald Trump launched the Iran war in February, he risked alienating the non-interventionist base he had spent a decade cultivating.
As he now tries to extract himself from the highly unpopular war, it looks increasingly like he might inflame the other side of his base — the foreign policy hawks with whom he suddenly found himself in-league.
While there are few hard details of what’s actually in the memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with Iran, those hawks are openly worrying that Trump gave away too much in the name of trying to end the war. They’ve made no secret that they fear Trump signing on to a nuclear agreement like the one struck by the Obama administration in 2015, which they (and Trump himself) derided as too weak for more than a decade.
It’s the same deal Obama had but worse.
Its just worse than Obama’s deal. They are not comparable.
Obama actually had a finished deal for starters, and was in a far better position than Trump started this mess in, let alone where the US is now.
This is also just the first of a great many steps to an agreement. And given that the reconstruction fund is reliant on countries that have religious conflict with Iran’s existence, that part is already dead.
The 300 billion isn’t coming, at least the US portion. The wording of the agreement makes it pretty clear that the US could wiggle out of it. This is just a way to get the strait open and the bombing stopped in Iran and maybe at least some of Lebanon, which is what both sides most care about, while letting Trump believe whatever he likes and probably take pleasure in stiffing Iran over the reconstruction funds.
No treaty signed by Trump is to be trusted, he’s repeatedly shown himself to be consistent only in his perfidiousness and mendacity.