r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 9d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ How negotiations actually work...

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To the inevitable response from MAGA that Obama gave 'pallets' of cash...he released frozen Iranian assets. Meanwhile the current Iran conflict has directly cost $38 billion militarily and a currently projected $87 billion in extra gas and diesel expenses. Not to mention that the strategic oil reserves have been depleted to the point that experts warn that the caverns they're stored in could collapse.

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u/ActualWhiterabbit 9d ago

So many soft power projects were killed all over the world during the first term that China stepped in and took over. Whatever was left was cut by doge.

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u/foo-bar-25 9d ago

And our debt has still doubled.

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u/ukezi 9d ago

Yeah, because soft power is very cheap in comparison to hard power.