The EU's Shameful Total Appeasement of Iran's Mullahs

by Majid Rafizadeh
July 30, 2022 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18755/eu-appeasement-iran

In 2015, the European powers -- France, Germany and the United Kingdom -- changed their Iran policy from imposing pressure to adopting diplomacy. The diplomatic route included lifting oil and gas sanctions on Iran as well as removing some Iranian individuals and entities from the list of countries to be sanctioned.
According to the preface of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: "The JCPOA will produce the comprehensive lifting of all UN Security Council sanctions as well as multilateral and national sanctions related to Iran's nuclear programme, including steps on access in areas of trade, technology, finance, and energy."
The EU immediately allowed transfers of funds between Iranian and EU persons and entities, banking relationships between Iran's banks and the EU financial institutions, financial support for trade with the Islamic Republic, financial assistance and concessional loans to the Iranian government, the import of Iranian oil, petroleum products, gas and petrochemical products, investment in the oil, gas and petrochemical sectors, as well as export of gold, precious metals and diamonds, among others.
The EU continued with this policy even though the Iranian regime was found to violate the JCPOA.
Just as Europe disregarded warnings that relying on gas from Russia would leave them open to Russian blackmail, they are again ignoring warnings that a nuclear Iran will leave them open to Iranian blackmail.
Iran will not even have to use any nuclear weapons to persuade the leaders of Europe to do whatever it likes; the threat alone should do the trick. The mullahs might even sell or give a few to their terrorist militias. The tea leaves are not that hard to imagine; one only need look at Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq.

Thanks to the EU's complete appeasement policy towards the Iranian regime, it is now capable of building a nuclear bomb. In 2015 France, Germany and the UK changed their Iran policy from imposing pressure to adopting diplomacy. The diplomatic route included lifting oil and gas sanctions on Iran. Pictured (L-R): Then French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, then German FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier, then EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and then Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna, Austria on July 14, 2015. (Photo by Joe Klamar/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Thanks to the EU's complete appeasement policy towards the Islamist mullahs, the Iranian regime is now capable of building a nuclear bomb.

Kamal Kharrazi, a senior official and adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a rare statement, revealed to Al-Jazeera TV:

"In a few days we were able to enrich uranium up to 60 percent and we can easily produce 90 percent enriched uranium.... Iran has [now] the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb."

The current capability of the mullahs to manufacture a nuclear bomb is most likely a culmination of the EU's appeasement policy towards the Islamic Republic, particularly since 2015.

In 2015, the European powers -- France, Germany and the United Kingdom -- changed their Iran policy from imposing pressure to adopting diplomacy. The diplomatic route included lifting oil and gas sanctions on Iran as well as removing some Iranian individuals and entities from the list of countries to be sanctioned. According to the preface of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action:

"The JCPOA will produce the comprehensive lifting of all UN Security Council sanctions as well as multilateral and national sanctions related to Iran's nuclear programme, including steps on access in areas of trade, technology, finance, and energy."

The EU immediately allowed transfers of funds between Iranian and EU persons and entities, banking relationships between Iran's banks and the EU financial institutions, financial support for trade with the Islamic Republic, financial assistance and concessional loans to the Iranian government, the import of Iranian oil, petroleum products, gas and petrochemical products, investment in the oil, gas and petrochemical sectors, as well as export of gold, precious metals and diamonds, among others.

The EU continued with this policy even though the Iranian regime was found to violate the JCPOA. For instance, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), revealed in its annual report a year after the nuclear deal was reached, that Iran's government was pursuing a "clandestine" path to obtain illicit nuclear technology and equipment from German companies "at what is, even by international standards, a quantitatively high level." Germany's BfV also stated:

"Against this backdrop it is safe to expect that Iran will continue its intensive procurement activities in Germany using clandestine methods to achieve its objectives."

Even during the life of the nuclear deal, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), warned that the Islamic Republic violated the nuclear agreement at least twice.

After the Trump administration pulled the US out of the nuclear deal, the EU did not change its course. Instead, Germany, France and the UK doubled down on their Iran policy. The three countries established a mechanism called the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) which was primarily created to skirt US sanctions. Heiko Maas, Germany's then foreign minister, pointed out:

"We're making clear that we didn't just talk about keeping the nuclear deal with Iran alive, but now we're creating a possibility to conduct business transactions."

Did the Iranian regime reciprocate the EU's favors? Instead, they gradually reduced their compliance to the nuclear deal to a point where, according to the IAEA, they violated all terms and restrictions of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Later, the Iranian government also switched off several surveillance cameras that had been installed by the IAEA in Iranian nuclear sites.

Iran has continued to enrich a substantial amount of uranium -- up to 60% purity, a short technical step away from the 90% purity level required to build a nuclear weapon.

The EU's soft-on-Iran policy remained undisturbed even after France, Germany and the UK warned that the Iranian government's latest action was "further reducing the time Iran would take to break out towards a first nuclear weapon and it is fueling distrust as to Iran's intentions."

In spite of all these developments, the EU is still trying to revive the failed nuclear deal while it continues to trade with the Islamic Republic. According to the Tehran Times:

"The value of trade between Iran and the European Union, reached €4.863 billion in 2021, registering a nine-percent growth compared to the previous year.... According to the data released by the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCIMA), Iran exported €554 million worth of commodities to the union during the said nine months, while importing goods valued at €2.7 billion".

Just as Europe disregarded warnings that relying on gas from Russia would leave them open to Russian blackmail, they are again ignoring warnings that a nuclear Iran will leave them open to Iranian blackmail.

Iran will not even have to use any nuclear weapons to persuade the leaders of Europe to do whatever it likes; the threat alone should do the trick. The mullahs might even sell or give a few to their terrorist militias. The tea leaves are not that hard to imagine; one only need look at Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq.

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US Foreign Policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu

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cammo99 • Jul 31, 2022 at 08:54

To this day the social justice left running the DNC based their opposition to the Iraq War as President Bush's "Oil War." Despite the fact at the time and in 1991 Oil from the Gulf was considered a basic National Security Issue. If Biden and the Euros were on tack like they claim to go green then this should not even be a debate. The double talk of the Democrats and the Biden White House is despicable even though the DNC excels in such speak. They push diplomacy with Iran because both Obama and Biden had determined the false way to green abandoning the evil oil in the same manner they approach guns as if things in themselves are evil not the people wielding them. And Iran is run by evil men who oppress their population on a scale the Saudi's could not hope to equal in many respects, like feeding their peoples. Iran is an intolerant and terrorist nation. In this respect the Obama Biden shift is a rejection of liberty as a "cause" for action.
Biden is also protecting the Obama legacy of anti-American actions. Look at Biden's dismal record on withdrawing from Afghanistan, or Obama's own leaving of Iraq to AQI and ISIL. Biden's extreme measures in Afghanistan and the withdrawal from the oil market and energy independence: was it planned or merely the lack of impulse control in a feeble old man? Obama's withdrawal from Iraq also exacted a high price. But then America's media corps anxious to get a seat at the banquet and all the other goodies that come from writing the politically correct narrative for America's apologists and stuck in the mire and backwardness of "just war revisionist" thought have been building to this crescendo since Vietnam and the First Gulf War when protecting access to oil was a National and NATO security issue in the face of a potential Soviet push into the oil fields.
A fit definition of a Just War Revisionist is made by Seth Lazar from "Just War Theory: Revisionists Versus Traditionalists" May 2017 online.
"....a skeptic that generally challenge the permissibility of national defense, and the moral standing of states more generally , argued for expanded permissions for military intervention, questioned civilian immunity, argued that combatants fighting for wrongful aims can not do anything right besides lay down their arms."
That is where Biden's head is today as he wanders aimlessly forward down the his anti-America first ideology the ideology of fools.
The Cost of the war and the lefts actions is still killing American Veterans.
20 Veterans a Day
I've been called a baby killer by women who aborted their own.
A torturer of POWs by the same people who call January 6th veterans protesters, insurrectionists; protesters held without access to lawyers and tortured by long term isolation.
Ashli Babbitt denied honors the only shot dead, where are the songs like Ohio?
Veterans who volunteered and enlisted are told their life was wasted for the promises of liberty, God and Country.
Revisionists have turned just wars into injustice and question the right of OUR nation to defend itself.
Even our own borders.
They boast we fought for immoral ends Freedom.
And we did not do anything right and should never have picked up a gun.
It is in the words of a host of media journalists that
need a story and spin to fit a political narrative and accuse us of being the ideologues.
And refuse to print the truth, from the facts.
Its not the brutality of war causing death by one's own hand
It's bad leadership and dishonor visited upon us by activist fools
And their inanity
They believe they are on the fast track forward
But the bridge over which they must travel goes nowhere.
The VA keeps getting bigger budgets
And we are still bleeding 20 good Americans a day.
Government for the government is not why we volunteered.
And we keep losing 20 veterans a day.

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Harvey L • Jul 31, 2022 at 08:40

Wherever you get socialism sooner rather than later it tips over to communism which can only survive by a strong military presence. I have always found it funny that after the 2020 election a strong military presence was established in Washington DC to deter who? the 81 million people that voted for the present WH occupant? As regards the EU and it's supporters I find whores more honourable than the EU leaders they are more particular about their clients than this bureaucratic unelected cabal.

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Black Knight • Jul 30, 2022 at 20:33

The global balance of power has shifted almost totally in favor of the new axis of evil - Iran, Russia and China. Who's to challenge them? The EU is a joke and the U.S. under the Biden regime isn't that far behind. A new world order is forming and it will be aggressively antagonistic to judeo christian values and ethics.

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Rob Porter • Jul 30, 2022 at 19:39

The spirit of Neville Chamberlain lives on. Why did Britain exit from Europe only to continue embracing the same visionless, stupid, unprincipled and cowardly policies? The world's chief exporter of Islamic terrorism and instigator of Middle East conflict that has nothing of civilized value or culture to offer Europe and the U.K., gets rewarded for being a threatening criminal and uncivilized regime. I guess that once Iran has a nuclear weapon, like the man feeding the crocodile hoping it will devour him last, these stupid fools are hoping Iran will bomb them last.

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w. a. carr

Rob Porter • Aug 1, 2022 at 05:30

Chamberlain was not the only one involved at the time, the French PM Daladier appeased Hitler also with the Munich pact but he is never mentioned. One has to look at the zeitgeist of the time. WWI memories were still fresh. People were still grieving the loss of their loved ones. UK had lost many thousands of young men. The maimed were still in hospital, too horribly disfigured to be seen in public. Many of the current politicians had served in the war as young men. My father was one and he was a pacifist. The horrors of the 'war to end all wars' were too fresh. The politicians would do almost anything to avoid another war. Have the people of USA forgotten 9/11 when 'only' 3000 died? That was just over 20 years ago too. In WW1 millions died. Sixteen million combatants and a total of 37 million in all.
The UK and French politicians believed in diplomacy, they did not understand that Hitler was a
dissembling scoundrel who in fact wanted war all along. WW1 was the formative period of his life. Hitler was literally a failure until then. He wanted to restore the 'honour' of Germany as did many Germans, and he lusted for revenge. Munich was just to buy time, he had no intention of honouring it. Hitler could also be very charming when he chose to be (like most sociopaths), a factor usually forgotten. There also was in UK (also in USA) a substantial body of opinion particularly among the upper class against another war and many of them in fact admired Hitler for his achievements, which were considerable and well publicised, in bringing back Germany from the dire straits it was in in the post WW1 period. The Duke of Windsor was one of them; of course they did not know the real conditions in Nazi Germany; just as the Socialists who visited Soviet Russia did not know the realities there either.
The staging in !936 of the Olympics in Berlin was pure propaganda for the Nazis.
The French and British were quick to honour their treaty with Poland and declare war on Germany; and I have always believed that if they had attacked Germany in response to the invasion of Poland, WW2 might have been avoided, as what was needed was for other countries to stand up to Hitler. Hitler and his generals were able to practice their tactics on a militarily weak Poland and the lack of action in the West emboldened Hitler to subsequently invade France and the low countries.

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Rob Porter

w. a. carr • Aug 3, 2022 at 05:01

w.a.carr. A good comment. The U.K., French and others were desperate to avoid war. "The politicians would do almost anything to avoid another war."
And yet Churchill, knowing all you have pointed out, instinctively knew that Hitler's aim was war - and revenge. The Western world was visionless and again it is visionless and this time really stupid when considering allowing a nuclear weapon in the hands of evil men whose goal is more destruction and dominance of Islam.
The West, having abandoned its Judaeo-Christian values, is abandoning the greatest civilization ever and gullibly, visionlessly and stupidly panders to Islam in which there is no beauty and seeks destruction of the West so it can rule.
Do so few Westerners study Islam's history after in 634AD the Arabs rampaged out of Arabia and began the murderous expansion and conquest?

Do they not study history and note Charles Martel's defeat of the Muslim invaders in 732, the Ottoman defeat by a Crusader army outside Vienna in 1683, Austrian Prince Eugene's series of victories over the cruel Muslim Ottomans that drove them out of south-east Europe to become 'the poor man of Europe'?

Do they not read the Qur'an and see its intolerance, hatred and bigotry?

And now these Europeans who once fought so valiantly for freedom from Muslim rule, with their pitiful American allies seek peace at almost any cost - and look pitiful. But it will not bring peace - or oil. The Americans - and Canadians under really stupid, infantile leadership (or what passes for leadership) - have their own oil, now they just do not extract it.

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Percy Bauri • Jul 30, 2022 at 10:57

-- The title of this article says it all.
-- It is a shame that the EU is going that low to appease the Iranian Mullahs.
-- In my opinion that the EU had a very good strong diplomatic point of view to get the Iranians to agree to the EU's point of view.
-- Unfortunately EU caved in.

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Linda Goudsmit • Jul 30, 2022 at 10:29

It seems to me the EU appeasement of Iran is far more about oil than nuclear weapons. The Europeans are far more worried about their oil supply this winter if Russia turns off the supply, than they are about a nuclear Iran. It is a matter of which is the greater existential threat to Europe.

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Scep Tic

Linda Goudsmit • Jul 30, 2022 at 15:56

They were appeasing the Mullahs long before Putin invaded Ukraine...

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Linda Goudsmit

Scep Tic • Jul 31, 2022 at 16:25

True, but one is appeasement in the moment, and the other is ongoing long-term appeasement by the globalists who run the EU. Everything is connected. The EU operates under the dictum: My enemy's enemy is my friend. The EU was sold to the Europeans as a way to push back against America, but in fact it was a deceitful ploy to collapse Europe with open borders, and catastrophic immigration policies that deliberately destroyed the national sovereignty and individual cultures of each sovereign European nation.

The goals of every globalist elected official are elimination of national sovereignty, social collapse, and the replacement of national sovereignty with a globalist planetary managerial state where people will be reduced to serfs in a binary feudal system of one-world governance. It is lipstick painted on the same old feudal pig. BUYER BEWARE!

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Hamish MacDonald • Jul 30, 2022 at 08:46

The mere fact that the EU is pro-choice is in itself a betrayal of the member states interests - for family building. Hungary is using a tax-free for life for those who have four or more babies, by way of contrast, and Poland is pro-life also.
These countries are the future of the EU. Germans have to listen to the muezzin call and cop two gang rapes per day, while French welfare is paid out of taxpayers pockets, whose churches are desecrated at the rate of two per day.
Does the secular media discuss this?
Its a little bit like the Cod industry of Canada that failed because the media told lies to save the politicians skins.
Now more mischief: "....nuclear Iran will leave them open to Iranian blackmail." This is highly likely when Iran sees itself in a stronger position as will Islam if it is not stopped.

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Bazz • Jul 30, 2022 at 08:21

Don't the Europeans understand that if Iran uses the bomb on Israel or the US that the retaliation that Iran receives from the US and Israel will wipe out Iran, but that means Iran wins !
Shiites believe they are all instantly in Paradise and the rest of the world is in Hell !

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JohnB • Jul 30, 2022 at 07:05

Most of the terrorism in Europe has been from Sunni groups, not Shia groups. This is more to do with the Saudis afraid that the Iranians will eventually nuke Saudi Arabia. The Islamic civil war between Shia and Sunni continues unabated. The west's concern is entirely the effect such a conflict would have on oil supply and prices.

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tiki • Jul 30, 2022 at 06:54

European "wisdom" with JB who doesn't want to stay behind.

If it wasn't so frightful, it would be funny.

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Stevenl • Jul 30, 2022 at 06:13

Very early on, France, Germany and Britain gave a pass to the mullahs in the hope to get access to the Iranian market.
The rest is history.

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Ernst • Jul 30, 2022 at 06:11

Europe is digging its own grave. Taqiyya, requirement in Islam to lie to kafirs (non-believers), makes Iran a uniquely unreliable entity for trade or any other agreement. When Iran has fully developed nuclear weapons, no place in the world is safe, and Europe happens to be the closest Christian area. At least it will still be predominately Christian for a few more years. Get ready for dirty bombs delivered by terrorists. Sunni countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc. from where the world gets most of its oil is also at great risk. We may be going down the path of green energy sooner than we think; the cost of this will be many millions of lives.

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Rob Porter

Ernst • Aug 3, 2022 at 13:50

Erst, a big part of Europe's problem is that it is already no longer Christian, essentially has no spiritual beliefs and really believes in nothing, thus a spiritual vacuum exists with no real morals structure. Hence no moral outrage against Muslim rape gangs in Germany, stabbings and murder, even decapitations in France and imposition of what is sharia law.
If the U.S. and Canada would pump oil and supply Europe, it could not be held ransom by Russia or oil-rich Muslim countries, but dimwitted North America is on the green energy track to nowhere and jeopardizing the West.

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Ernst

Rob Porter • Aug 4, 2022 at 09:31

True.

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Ruckweiler • Jul 30, 2022 at 05:56

After two devastating world wars and particularly the pre-1939 obliging of Hitler, the Europeans have learned nothing regarding appeasement. The Iranians are probably laughing themselves silly over how easy this was. In the US the "administration" isn't far behind in delusion regarding the mullahs.

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Jeff Page • Jul 30, 2022 at 05:53

I consider the EU to be a terrorist entity. The stupid decisions made are astounding. The EU leaders care nothing for their own people. They've allowed millions of Muslims into Europe with disastrous results, there are parallel societies now because Muslims will not integrate. The EU leaders know this but refuse to acknowledge the idiocy of their decisions. I just hope the US doesn't fall into the same trap because there are groups within the US administration that will do whatever it takes to bring the US down. The EU is finished as a credible organisation. The only reason they are still operating is because of the security cordon around them, keeping the people from ripping the fools to pieces!!

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Morris Givner • Jul 30, 2022 at 05:47

We all should remember that major companies and corporations throughout Europe and the U.S. helped fund and trade with Nazi Germany from 1933 -1939 and some traded throughout the war although they all knew about the horrendous crimes of the fascist regime. All nations assume that they are immune to the terror and criminal actions of the nations with whom they trade and the only explanation are infinite stupidity and zero principles of human morals.

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Scep Tic • Jul 30, 2022 at 05:44

In one word, money.
Once again, I'm afraid that Trump was 100% right...

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Bastardo

Scep Tic • Jul 30, 2022 at 14:24

Why are you '...afraid that Trump was 100% right...'
It seems to me a good thing, that one world leader is right. We Europeans seem to constantly elect other types.

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Perccy Bauri

Scep Tic • Jul 30, 2022 at 15:32

-- Scep Tic, you are so right about Donald Trump.
-- He should be brought back.

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Scep Tic

Bastardo • Jul 30, 2022 at 15:49

The European politicians and press hate Trump with pure, biblical hatred.
None of our politicians have the guts or character to admit they were wrong and he was right. I remember how they sniggered behind his back when he rightly complained that the European countries were not meeting their financial obligatios to finance NATO...
So to put it clearly, Trump was again right.
Today I read that Biden has authorized the resumption of the Mexican border wall construction.
I'm waiting for the howls of protest from the Dems and especially their supporters, but I won't hold my breath waiting...

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Scep Tic

Perccy Bauri • Jul 30, 2022 at 16:13

One of the problems with Trump is that he is a loose cannon.
Another problem with him, as Nikki Haley aptly put it, is that Trump is missing a speed bump in between his brain and his mouth...
Come to think of it, I think that Nikki Haley would make an excellent Republican presidential candidate !

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Steven

Scep Tic • Jul 30, 2022 at 16:49

They only hated Trump because he empowered the Republicans who had the ambition of limiting government, energizing private enterprise and reducing (cutting red tape).
Of course they all hate Trump because these are the exact things they stand for, unlimited government, eliminate private enterprise and replace it with socialism and collectivism, and regulate everything, meaning everything is under state control.
Iran is largely a socialist country, but also a theocracy, although there are high levels of institutional and systemic corruption, however the largely socialist leaning governments of the EU find the socialist government of Iran, despite it being a theocracy with high levels of corruption, less of an existential threat than individualism, private enterprise, ownership rights and limited government and regulatory powers.
Resorting to Biblical imagery, which has transitioned into common parlance, "By their fruits will you know them".
If Biden is authorizing completion of the border wall, started by Trump, he's denying it, and they news media isn't covering it.
Biden only acknowledged Trump for doing one thing, having some role in COVID vaccine development, one time, and since then has said vaccine wasn't available when he was elected.
The vaccine wasn't approved until a few days after the 2020 election.

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Scep Tic

Steven • Jul 31, 2022 at 08:28

I'm hoping that the new UK PM will have less bluster and (figuratively speaking!) bigger cojones than Boris. Besides that, the November mid term elections promise to be a day of reckoning for Biden's puppeteers...
Roll on November!

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Percy Bauri

Scep Tic • Jul 31, 2022 at 13:21

-- You are definitely entitled to your opinion.
-- I for one disagree with your opinion.

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Rob Porter

Scep Tic • Aug 3, 2022 at 14:00

Through her own misjudgement and self-aggrandizement Nikki lacks the trust of many. She was supportive of Trump and then not so supportive. Nikki Haley is for Nikki Haley

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Scep Tic

Rob Porter • Aug 3, 2022 at 23:46

So is she any different from most of the other politicians?
At least she is literate and as ambassador to the UN, stood up to the rabble rousers there and gave them both barrels. That made a refreshing change...

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Rob Porter

Scep Tic • Aug 4, 2022 at 12:12

I'm under the impression that Texas's Governor Greg Abbott began completing the Texas section of the wall some time ago. Someone needs to tell me why Abbott didn't make this an urgent priority once it became evident that Biden would not finish the wall. Abbott is no hero for doing a 'Johnny- come-lately' exercise. Now you need to round up the 3 million who entered illegally and throw them out.

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VictorMc • Jul 30, 2022 at 05:41

What a surprise, I am totally staggered. I need a lay down in a darkened room.
Years ago when the other fraud Obama was in power Israel AND the US military had everything in place to remove these people from the map. Obama stopped Israel so HE is the one to blame for today's (predictable) mess. Israel could probably have dealt with the crackpot Mullahs alone but they needed the backing of American power in the gulf. Times have changed with Saudi and others who hate Iran and all it stands for are ready to go.
I suggest you closely inspect the Obama family tax returns and everything connected to them. Yes, I know....YAWN yawn BUT that is the way it works.

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Rob Porter

VictorMc • Aug 3, 2022 at 16:05

Yes, as I recall, Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli military aircraft if they tried to stage an attack on Iran. Charming to have such a miserable ally!

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