No amount of President Donald Trump's pre-dawn social media crowing about how his fierce military won the war in Iran can distract from the blatant reality of U.S. capitulation.
Iran weathered two months of relentless bombardment by triple-digit billions worth of deadly U.S. munitions to emerge from Trump's "war of whimsy" with access to billions in frozen assets and its nuclear ambitions largely intact.
To stop the war he started and partially resurrect the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that Trump scuttled in 2018, his negotiators agreed to lift withering U.S. sanctions curbing Iranian oil exports, release Iran's frozen hard-currency reserves and provide at least $300 billion in reparations to rebuild the civilian infrastructure the Pentagon blitzkrieg destroyed.
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No amount of President Donald Trump's pre-dawn social media crowing about how his fierce military won the war in Iran can distract from the blatant reality of U.S. capitulation.
Iran weathered two months of relentless bombardment by triple-digit billions worth of deadly U.S. munitions to emerge from Trump's "war of whimsy" with access to billions in frozen assets and its nuclear ambitions largely intact.
To stop the war he started and partially resurrect the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that Trump scuttled in 2018, his negotiators agreed to lift withering U.S. sanctions curbing Iranian oil exports, release Iran's frozen hard-currency reserves and provide at least $300 billion in reparations to rebuild the civilian infrastructure the Pentagon blitzkrieg destroyed.
The...