Spyke

The craziest thing about this is that trump used to call obama a terrorist for making a deal with iran that involved $150 billion. He used that number a lot during his campaign for president.

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This is how reparations work. That's what happens when you lose a war.

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It's funny watching Americans find out that you might have to pay reparations when you lose a war. Surprised Pikachu.

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If you have a strong imagination you could picture an economic system with an interest group invested in perpetual war.

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lemmy.world

Clear enemies are the least to fear. Be wary of those that, like foxes, pretend to be allies so you trust them and stop fighting.

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Not sure foxes are the best metaphor. They’re not particularly friendly in my experience.

They never come say hello, they want to eat my chickens and always run away when I approach.

Their pups sure are cute though!

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lemmy.world

Edit: wrong... As far as I know this is Iran's money that was frozen and the US is just going to allow them to access it

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

No, that was a different thing, it released about 65B of Iranian assets. The 300B was a reconstruction fund independence of that.

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