If Nobody Knows Your Iran Policy, Does It Even Exist?

[Dill]

(05-06-2019, 07:45 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Trumps Iran policy is to ignore it until he is forced to say or do something because he has no clue what to do about them.

In Korea, he thought he could bully them and now that there was a bad harvest there, NK is doing what they always do to get food and that's to fire off a few missiles in the hopes that the US will feed them.

He don't know what to do about Russia either.

Let's just say, Trump has no foreign policy until its forced on him then he will ask his advisors on what to do then come out and take credit.

I wouldn't say Trump has been ignoring Iran.

He squashed the Iran Deal, reinstated sanctions, and is threatening sanctions on all who import Iranian oil. Plus declared the Revolutionary Guard, part of an actual state government, a terrorist organization (which widens sanctions and prohibits diplomatic contact with them by our allies), and now he has sent the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Group to the Gulf.

The result of that is a whole lot of diplomatic conflict and close (and irritating for them) monitoring of allies, not to mention a lowered bar for kinetic engagement in Yemen, the Levant, Iraq and the Gulf itself.

I wouldn't say "no clue" about them either, though it is likely Bolton's clue.