The Neocons Wanted To Split MAGA
From the Tom Woods Letter:
I just finished recording an episode of the Tom Woods Show with Scott Horton on the situation in Iran.
If you are of the “this time it’ll be different, honest,” and “this time I promise I’m operating on reliable information,” and “this time the neocons really do have a good point” schools of thought, you and I will have to agree to disagree.
Journalist Aaron Mate just responded to a post by Vice President J.D. Vance, in which Vance said, “I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use.”
Mate replied:
The argument is that Trump broke the original Iran nuclear deal, which capped Iran’s enrichment at the threshold for civilian use. By killing that deal, which Iran was adhering to, Trump sent the message that the US would not accept Iran enriching even for civilian use.
So Iran — as it was allowed to under the deal, given Trump’s violation of it — increased enrichment in the hopes of convincing the US to return to the deal and abandon its crippling sanctions that strangle Iran’s economy. What were they supposed to do, wait for Donald Trump, Joe Biden and then Donald Trump again to change their minds?
If one wants to argue that the original deal that Trump broke was flawed because it was set to expire, well Trump could have tried to renegotiate it. He didn’t. He simply
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