Posted on 03/02/2021 9:30:29 AM PST by John Semmens
According to a Washington Times story, John Kerry, former Secretary of State during the later years of the Obama Administration, engaged in shadow diplomacy with Iran during the Trump Administration. Ironically, "shadow diplomacy" was one of the allegations that spurred the appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Prosecutor to investigate Trump during the first two years of his term. After spending $35 million on this investigation no evidence of any crime by Trump was uncovered.
Kerry brazenly asserted that his moves behind President Trump's back were "totally justified. Though we lacked any evidence to prove Trump committed a crime, all of us knew he was bad news for America. The most heroic among us, myself included, went the extra mile to short-circuit Trump's policies before they could do any damage. Because of my efforts, Iran waited out the sanctions Trump placed on them until President Biden could undo the sanctions and allow Iran to resume its efforts to obtain nuclear weapons."
"The imbalance between a nuclear United States and a non-nuclear Iran was both unfair and destabilizing," Kerry argued. "We learned from the cold war between the US and the Soviet Union how important the 'balance of terror' was for maintaining peace. The knowledge that one wrong move by the United States could lead to nuclear annihilation helped restrain its imperialistic attempts at world domination. Trump's insistence on America first undermined the balance of terror that could have developed if Iran got nukes. Now, with Democrats in control of the federal government the prospects for achieving a new balance of terror between Iran and America are most favorable."
Acting on what it said was Kerry's advice, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is demanding that the US "pay one trillion dollars as reparations for the damage done to our country's economy by the Trump Administration's sanctions." Antony Blinken, Biden's nominee to be his Secretary of State expressed some concern about using the word "reparations" for the compensation due Iran. "The President would like to restrict the use of that word to payments made to Blacks for slavery," Blinken said. "I believe he would be open to 'investing' a trillion dollars in the Iranian economy as a humanitarian gesture toward the great nation of Iran."
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Kerry lived very near me in 74-75 on Lost Lake/Knops Pond
in Groton, MA. Not one neighbor liked him.
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