Posted on 05/13/2019 2:22:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a busy man these days. He’s logging enough frequent flyer miles book free vacations for the rest of his life. Today he’s in Brussels to push back on the European Union as they prepare to try to salvage the Iran nuclear deal without America’s support. By the way… remind me again why we’re so worried about offending the EU anymore? It’s not as if they’re really coming down on the right side of history in a lot of current debates. (Washington Post)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday arrived Brussels in an unplanned visit with European foreign ministers who had been meeting to bolster the faltering Iran nuclear deal against a U.S. assault.
The last-minute decision — announced as he hopped on a plane — set up a confrontation between Pompeo and European diplomats who have been scrambling to save the deal.
Iranian leaders announced last week they would scale back their cooperation under the agreement, in essence forcing Europe to choose between defying Washington or kissing goodbye to the 2015 deal. Europe sees it as key to preventing a nuclear-armed Iran.
Three nations in particular, Germany, France, and the UK, seem to be sticking with current sanctions while trying to save the Iran deal. But how serious of a deal can there be if the United States isn’t signing on? And as long as Iran refuses to allow unhindered access for IAEA inspections, their word shouldn’t be taken any more seriously than North Korea’s. (And I’m sure you’ve seen how far we’ve gotten with them on nothing more than promises and handshakes.)
Iran is threatening to step up uranium refinement if they don’t come out of this with some sort of deal they find palatable. But as far as the west is concerned, we don’t even have sufficient proof that they’re not doing it already. Frankly, it looks as if the west would have almost all the cards in this game right now. If Iran walks away, we’re back to maximum sanctions from almost everyone and Iran loses a lot of their oil exporting business. But if they want to come to the table and make a viable offer that Donald Trump can accept, we could put this behind us. (At least for the time being. Iran will never be trustworthy over the long run unless their current government is removed.)
I wish Pompeo luck in talking to the EU Foreign Ministers, but I’m not terribly hopeful for any real progress. The EU seems determined to undermine the United States in these efforts and that only emboldens Iran to make even more outrageous demands. At the same time, they’re pushing the issue to a jagged edge. It’s suspected that the Iranians went after a Saudi cargo ship last week. And now we have our naval forces cruising around in their neighborhood. If this situation completely blows up, it’s going to be Iran’s fault in terms of the hellfire that follows. It would just be nice if the EU could keep themselves on the side of the good guys here.
Nearly the entire continent gone islamo-insane
What is it: the latest ‘flavor of the month’???
Why isn’t Putin wearing a tent?
I have yet to see the EU make a right decision. Can’t think of one right now.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
I can’t say I blame the EU here. Europe is being overrun with migrants from a lot of countries that the U.S. turned into sh!t-holes over the last 25 years. It’s easy to say the EU doesn’t make good decisions ... but when was the last time WE made one over there?
All of those were done by Saudis - Sunnis
Next to every single international terrorist even since the past 20 years has been done by Sunni terrorists.
The shia are vipers, but they attack the Sunnis. LET THEM
The EU and the US should boycott Saudi Arabia - the trainer of jiahdis with their sponsorship of Wahabbism globally
Islamic state is made up of Sunni Salafist jihadists whose conflicts with Shi’ites dates back fourteen centuries. Sunni Muslims and many of the Muslims they are killing are Shi’ite and all the others of the 73 various Moslem Sects. To the Sunnis, Shi’ite Muslims are infidels and apostates and are therefore a target.
Pro-Sunni Islamist Terrorist groups: Hamas, al-Qa’ida, the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden and the Taliban and more recently, ISIS.
The Sunni ISIS believes that the Shi’ites are apostates and must die in order to forge a pure form of Islam…
On the Shia side you have Hizb’allah. That’s it - and besides the Beirut attacks in the 80s they haven’t attacked any Westerners, and since the 2000s have in fact protected Christians in Iraq and Syria.
They aren’t the good guys, but the Saudis aren’t either — the USA and EU have no “supporter” here - better to let the two sides kill each other and stay out of it.
The EU seems determined to undermine the United States in these efforts “
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Trump and Netanyahu are going to lead the war against Iran. The fools in the EU must make a choice - evil or good.
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