I've been meaning to ask, what do you think a sane normal US administration, Democrat or Republican, that got into power a few days ago, should do/have done? What are their strategic goals and what are their steps to get there, given the Trump mess that already occurred?

April 08, 2026 - 16:10 UTC

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Keep in mind that a sane, normal, US administration would have stayed the hell out of this mess. Even Reagan and G.W. Bush declined getting sucked into open war with Iran.
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Of course, the premise of my question was what an entirely new administration that came in after the situation was created would do.
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Tell the American people that opening Hormuz is required for gas prices to come down in the long term and to make that happen we need to put pressure on Iran, then declare a blockade, with a promise to remove it if Iran allows free and unrestricted transit of the strait.
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The winning offer for the US would be to offer a complete Israeli pull out from the Occupied territories (Gz, WB & Lebanon) in exchange for the reopening of Hormuz & a ceasefire. That would be a win for Iran, a win for the US and a necessary lesson to the Israelis not to keep electing fascists.
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Then trade away sanctions for free passage of the Hormuz at the peace table.

It's still losing, but not losing as badly.
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So... The argument is we need to fuck up the world economy so the Iranians will stop fucking up the world economy after we fucked with the Iranians.....

And the Iranians will accept this because we fucked with them during negotiations twice now and unilaterally pulled out of a deal before.
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