Anonymous ID: 0c06a7 May 24, 2018, 4:53 p.m. No.1532837   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>2847 >>2906 >>3202 >>3328

The U.S. has the leverage with Iran and North Korea

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By Victor Davis Hanson - - Wednesday, May 23, 2018

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

There has been a lot of misinformation about both getting out of the so-called Iran deal and getting into a new North Korean agreement. The two situations may be connected, but not in the way we are usually told.

Getting out of the Iran deal did not destroy trust in the U.S. government. Our departure from the deal does not mean that North Korea cannot reliably negotiate with America.

In 2015, the Iran deal was not approved as either a Senate-ratified treaty or a joint congressional resolution. Had the deal been a treaty, President Trump could not have walked away from it so easily and with so little downside.

Former President Obama knew that he did not have majority congressional support for his initiative. Therefore, he desperately sought ways to circumvent the constitutionally directed authority of the Senate and redefine a treaty as a mere executive order.

Mr. Obama got the deal approved by the Iranians in part by paying them ransom for hostages through huge nighttime cash transfers.

A cynical North Korea knew only too well that in the past, Mr. Obama either entered into agreements or avoided them based on his therapeutic notion that human nature was both changeable and essentially noble.

Anonymous ID: 0c06a7 May 24, 2018, 5:16 p.m. No.1533057   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3086 >>3163

>>1533020

AL-Waleed/Dopey had a huge chunk of Twitter also [@Jack]. As for disney, link related

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-alwaleed-disney-20171106-story.html

As for Snow White, there's a board for that (which I admittedly still haven't finished reading it all) Pic and link related โ†’ >>370247

Anonymous ID: 0c06a7 May 24, 2018, 5:32 p.m. No.1533218   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>1533162

Ok. Was there any statement of WHEN "RR must recuse or forcefully terminated"? No. He asked

>When does the clock run out?

That was our cue to do what we doโ€ฆnot to presume that today's meeting alone would bring that boom.