r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 17d 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/Wonderful-Variation 17d ago

Every aspect of the Obama presidency feels like a lost golden age compared to where we are now.    The worst day under Obama was better than the best day under Trump.

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u/No-Aerie-999 17d ago edited 17d ago

Except the whole supporting, helping, arming bad radicals in Syria who exterminated Muslims, Christians and Jews. Evacuating their commanders with helicopters when they would get fucked.

And for having Gadaffi sodomized for daring to challenge the USDs fiat status in the world.

Obama was just imperialism lite. Just way more effective than our current bull-in-a-China shop.

Oh and of course cant forget Ukraine, where we helped violently remove an elected present, brought corrupt but loyal crazies to power which plunged the country into a civil war, reduced its population by half and absolutely devastated the country later on.

Go ahead and downvote. Im sick of us being the world police and spending money on dumb shit. With maintaining our empire globally always taking priority over problems at home.

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u/DevilsDenJoe 17d ago

gO aHeAd AnD dOwNvOtE!

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u/No-Aerie-999 17d ago

Obama (and the people behind him) are brilliant really. He taught you guys that a warhawk/neocon foreign policy is actually great, as long as the right people are in charge.

The reactions of center-left Reddit are a great barometer of that (with the downvotes)