Trump is a lot more generous when it’s not his money. He’ll pay.

He never pays with his money, this isn’t his money and if gas prices go down a fairly large percentage of americans will say “we kicked Iran’s ass”.

It’s not Trump’s money. He’d give them trillion’s of US taxpayers’ money if it made him look better.

• Americans will be bankrupted by the Iran Deal

• Iranians are stupid if they think the Americans will pay what they agree

Somehow these are two bad things that we’re supposed to juggle in our heads simulateously.

Where is the American liberal out saying “Holy fuck, we were wrong to attack and Iran deserves far more than the pittance Trump is offering”? Where is the American liberal saying “The Federal government should not continue to be allowed to welch on it’s debts to the people it has wronged. We must hold future administrations to the task of reparations we’ve agreed to today”?

Instead, it’s just a litany of “Trump Bad! Trump Bad!” as though the rest of the federal system wasn’t rubber stamping this Holocaust from day one.

Looks like the Gulf petrostates will fund it

Unfortunately they won’t care about the $300 billion at all, because it’ll never appear on Fox News or their safe spaces on social media. At most they’ve already signaled it will be completely lied about as an “investment fund” that will imply some value in return without promising, follow-up or accountability.

For reparations NOW. That’s IF we stop bombing them NOW. THIS price will only go UP.

Remember when they illegally sold weapons to Iran so they could illegally fund Contras in Central America?

So the IRGC and the Islamic Republic are still in place

American bombs killed a lot of them. We killed a lot of their wives and kids and friends and neighbors, too. We obliterated their homes and hospitals and highways, which will mean a wave of excess deaths come winter. And we killed a lot of the moderate diplomats interested in peaceful negotiations, so we’ve set the stage for wars to come.

America is paying them to stay in place.

America is paying them to replace all the shit we broke, in the hopes we can once against get access to cheap oil.

The alternative was to keep exchanging salvos - a la Russia/Ukraine - for an indefinite future period in the hopes that… ??? All the conservative Islamists in Iran will… ??? And then we can impose a new regime in Tehran at gunpoint, like we did so successfully in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Syria?

You can only do that so much before people stop trusting your currency. Up until recently, the Saudis sold oil exclusively for USD, now they’ve started selling it for other currencies including yuan.

China sells consumer goods to the US for USD. China gives that USD to the Saudis for oil. The Saudis give that USD back to the US in exchange for bombing civilians in Yemen. That’s how things have worked for the past like 50 years.

If the USD (and the US) stops being seen as reliable, then eventually the whole thing falls apart, and we’re seeing the first signs of that already. The Saudis will start telling us our bombs are too expensive and China will say the scraps of paper we give them aren’t worth it. If we’re not dropping bombs on behalf of oppressive monarchies in exchange for oil, and importing cheap goods from underpaid overseas workers, then what do we even have left, as a country?

It’s probably for the best for the world in the long term that that system falls apart (provided Americans don’t go apeshit and start WWIII, which is a big assumption), and in the very short term of course using the infinite money hack solves a lot of problems, but in the medium term, it’s gonna be rocky.

Fortunately, there aren’t any other major crises we’ve been kicking down the road for short term benefits that are going to reach a head in the near future, so we can focus excluively on that.

Debt isn’t a problem until it suddenly is. That inflation you’re brushing off can get worse, eventually to the point where they’re printing money just to stay afloat. We’re already at the point where $1 trillion goes to just paying the interest on the debt each year.

because it’s actually just a transfer of profit. to a corporation or seven. war is only ever about profit.

For this one thing yeah the small fraction of inflation wouldn’t probably be noticeable. But you cannot do it for everything or every fraction adds up to a bunch.

Everything is a conspiracy when you’re dumb as rocks.

The Iranians closed one of the most important trade routes for several months and then bombed US bases, destroyed aircraft, and deployed drones while holding position. They used a strategic advantage and decades of preparation to cow down a world empire.

In a month we will be feeling this conflict even worse because of the delay in oil production - we’ve been drawing from established strategic supplies that we spent years filling and rotating - and having to buy in a world that’s producing less.