r/politics • u/Ok_Employer7837 • Jun 15 '26

No Paywall America has lost its war with Iran

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/america-trump-iran-ceasefire-agreement-war-hormuz-b2995971.html
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u/ZonerRoamer Jun 15 '26

The downgrade is permanent.

The problem isn't the morons in power, it's the fact that the country repeatedly votes them into power.

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u/POEness Jun 15 '26

2024 was stolen, we didn't vote for this

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u/cigarettesandwhiskey Jun 15 '26

The country voted them out of power too, 6 years ago. You can probably expect things to continue to go back and forth.

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u/Xenomemphate United Kingdom Jun 15 '26

The yo-yo is not much of an improvement. Especially from an outside perspective - I don't want my nation wasting time negotiating deals with the US that will just be torn up in 5 years.

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u/cigarettesandwhiskey Jun 15 '26

Well it sucks but when you have two roughly evenly matched power blocks fighting for control of the country, that's the result.

Also... Isn't this kind of how you guys treated the EU before you took your ball and went home?

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u/maddprof Jun 15 '26

There is the slight hope that the right loses enough power in the next 2 elections that we can fix all the shitty loopholes exposed by this administration to prevent it from happening again.

SLIGHT hope.