Putin helps Biden with nonsensical Iran deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces invade a sovereign country, target civilian buildings on the thinnest possible pretexts, and now twice violate a ceasefire intended to help civilians flee a city under heavy Russian bombardment. So you would think we would have learned our lesson about Russia by now, but we haven't.
One of the things former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley brought up in her Meet the Press interview this morning is that Joe Biden's State Department is still sitting around the Iran nuclear deal table with Putin's Russia and Xi Jinping's China. Setting aside the dubious merits of restoring that deal in the first place, Russia's continued involvement is an embarrassment that should end now. If Russia cannot be practically removed from the room, talks should at least be halted until this invasion is abandoned. Or perhaps the entire framework of the talks needs to be revisited.
Putin has demonstrated not only aggression but also extreme deceit. This has been true in Ukraine since at least 2014, in his bombing of hospitals and aid convoys in Syria and in his assassination attempts against British nationals, to name just a few of many transgressions that predate this one. Any involvement on Russia's part in Iran should be considered hostile — an effort to skew whatever deal emerges in order to improve Putin's position globally in whatever way he can. Given his recent actions, there is no argument left for including Russia so as to placate it or avoid creating ill feelings. Putin thinks we're already at war with him — perhaps we should start treating him as if we were.
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There are zero merits to a new Iran deal and there are zero reasons to allow Putin to negotiate it.
See, also:
Joe Biden Spits on US Allies to Secure a Deal That Makes No Sense
Biden is compounding the idiocy of an Iran deal by also normalizing relations with the Venezuelan regime. He keeps adding charges to the potential impeachment proceedings.
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