Most powerful man in the world started a war and then bent over
19h 16m ago by sh.itjust.works/u/FoxtrotDeltaTango in noncrediblediplomacy@sh.itjust.works from discuss.online
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/41297944
America First, everybody 🤡
To be fair, everyone Trump cares about is doing great during the Trump presidency.
I.e. Trump and some of his immediate family.
Not pictured: Tiffany.
On top of the trillion we spent to fly our shit around real fast.
You start from the mindset that government is here to serve the people they govern. This has, historically, generally not been the case.
The government SHOULD serve the people they govern, if not, needs to be replaced with a new government
Good luck with that.
I'm doing that tomorrow morning, enough is enough
He and Pete got tired of playing with the same toys and want new ones now. Instead of cleaning up, replacing what they used up, and fixing what they broke, Two Pump Chump throws other people's money at it and calls it a day. Same old song and dance.
No you don’t understand! We were able to topple an oppressive regime and install an equally oppressive regime!
HEY! Maybe his diaper-wearing ass likes getting fucked. Did you think of that?
What's stopping them from using those billions to attack their enemies and keep the straight closed?
Nothing. That’s because, ya know, the US lost this war. And these are effectively the terms of surrender
I have read a number of different sources on this, lots of contradicting information, which is to be expected because final details aren't publicly available at this time. But from what is known or speculated, that $300 billion isn't coming from tax payers.
Now don't get me wrong, tax payers and really much of the world is footing the bill in the form of higher energy costs, loss of lives, cost of military, etc. That part's true.
It's just that "we" as in presumably to mean "US tax payers" aren't giving Iran $300 billion to the best of my understanding.
of course it is tax payers money… what company is just going to pitch money to clean this mess without the chance of a 200 year lease on some oil field as a reward?
where elese is the money coming from?
The Arab Gulf States, at least in part. To them, this expense is just part of the cost of continuing to do business.
you mean the ones that got bombed by Iran?
That's them.
Well I guess "seeing is believing", not a word can be trusted from the USA at the moment but they are inept enough that something will leak. The source of those funds is likely going to come to light sooner than later
I am still confused if part of it is just frozen Iranian assets or not.
no, those are another 24 billions
I don’t see how releasing frozen assets counts as any sort of reparations or rebuilding.
If those claims are true, that will 100% be tax payer money.
The administration and most of the media they have bought or bullied into submission will be doing everything in their power to keep the public confused about what money is is what, so they can keep saying ‘this is not your money’ and be misleading but technically correct about certain portions of it.
The $300 billion is speculated to be entirely private investment based on the most credible sources I've seen.
There's also some large number ($100 billion???) of frozen Iranian assets that are to be released -- it's already their money just that they were cut off from it and it's a separate pool of money from the $300 billion.
As I said, some of this is speculation as of last I read about out (few hours ago), numbers and sources are subject to change, and these administrations are known for their lies, so don't take my words or theirs as gospel.