Wondering what the Yankees reading feel about forking out $300 billies to Iran.
What do I want? Depose the "leaders" who started this war, and make them face justice for their crimes. From that place of honesty, negotiations can start. A pipe dream, of course.
And I think that what people want is to send there someone actually experienced in diplomacy and negotiations. Witkoff and Kushner must be the two least capable most incompetent negotiators in the world.
I have a feeling that he's going to try to strong-arm Europe into partly paying for this. Not that it will work.
Of course, point 1 (which includes immediate stoppage of the fighting in Lebanon) isn't happening -- which sort of renders the rest of the thing moot anyway.
But, there's another way to see this: if you pay someone money, you end up with a lot of say in what they can or can't do. That money does not come with any guarantee; the party offering the money will keep the money flowing based on their own perception of good behavior of the party receiving the money. The post-Trump administrations will find themselves in the possession of a tremendous amount of leverage with Iran.
Paying your enemy $300bn to repair their country while you do not even take of your own would be the end of any other president, yet here we are.
