That's a weak take, Snake. Diplomacy is diplomacy, and clearly hardline Republicans suck at that

Well the War hawks would have us invade, that I’m against

I don’t want a out right war with Iran

But I completely stand by what I said, you can put 1 million reactions on my commentary, but that doesn’t actually explain anything.

The principle is that if we’re going to stick around and *not* leave, we might as well as get them to bow down to us.

Because again, if we for whatever reason stick around, at least try making Iran stop making moves.

We shouldn’t fight to have equal or fair, we should fight to have better.

Any reasonable nation will agree

But it's not like we can stop them from making moves

the point of negotiations is to come out of that spat in good terms

avoiding near conflicts

Well that’s the point of negotiating, is to try and get that objective. If we give them some lee way they might strike a deal, or maybe if we’re hardass then allow some things to slide

But still you should always try to get a better deal

Giving them leeway to negotiate back and forth, which can't happen if we're acting in bad faith

Uh sure it can, we could easily tell them to do something in return of this other thing, and then fuck them over

no it really can't

Iran is already distrustful of our govt

But even if you can’t have both, we have infinite power compared to them so we can choose

Ok and? Who fucking cares about how Iran feels ?

we're not gonna be able to trick'em

Really what I’m saying is that we have the guns, we can order them around, and they know it. So why not use that advantage?

yeah no, that's not how it works

us having power doesn't matter

and if anything it would only make us seem arrogant and/or evil as fuck

That’s exactly how this works, three frigates and one sortie I could have the US military make Iran get on her knees.

yeah no

that's not good enough

Yes it is. Their analysts say so

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three ships ain't shit

Because they have one specific island where 85% of their oil and gas goes through. That’s where the one sortie comes in. And three frigates too close and block off the Persian gulf, cutting off their oil exports

We’re oil and natural gas independent

So we don’t need any resources coming through

more like three ships get swarmed with attack boats and missile strikes

Bruh

I’m not putting them inside the Persian gulf

I don’t need too

and yet you'll be putting them in missile attack range

No I won’t

yes it would

Well sure a few missiles