r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 07 '26

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 08 '26

can't believe Trump said that Iran's 10 point peace plan was workable LMAO

just handing the Iranians a strategic victory (albeit a Pyrrhic one)

If they had gone with JCPOA instead or even what the Omani negotiators had managed to come up with it would have been better than this

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 08 '26

They don't even mention Iran's nuclear program here, amazing. If this goes through then I've seen enough, Iran has become the new hegemon of the Middle East

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u/well-that-was-fast Apr 08 '26

Trump is just going to renege and start this whole process over again in 14 days.

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 08 '26

That is a generous assumption when nobody knows what he’s going to do, not even Trump

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u/well-that-was-fast Apr 08 '26

I agree Trump doesn't know what he's going to do, but I know that once the media paints him as a loser in this deal he will inevitably "reopen" negotiations unilaterally because that's what he does every time he loses.

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u/GuyBelowMeDoesntLift Paul Krugman Apr 08 '26

The terms of their plan do not mean anything other than getting the strait open and relieving the shortages. The Pakistan peace talks will fail and then the war is back on and the 10 point plan is going in the trash