Britain had to unilaterally withdraw from the Middle East, that seems *very* unlikely here and we still don't know *what* is going to happen with tolls, Israel, uranium, etc.

My *guess* is that the US functionally traded Khamenei's head for tolls, which is moronic but much less one-sided.

April 08, 2026 - 16:08 UTC

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Pete Hegseth has announced a Greater America hemisphere plan, where the US withdraws and focus on defending the northern hemisphere.
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I think you meant "western" hemisphere. This, in a way, in fact represents a return - after the 80-year period beginning in 1945 - to traditional U.S. aversion to becoming involved in European affairs.
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There's a difference between "the country is run by a clown who thinks he's getting a great deal" and "the country is now the vassal state of another country" and the US has not in fact been vassalized by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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You might be right. In a few years we can check the history books and see if this is a recorded as any sort of win for Trump, or indeed the most historic, humiliating International policy failure in history.

Could go either way...
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This ain't over
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