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How the Trump Administration Inflicts Misery on the Iranian People

Our adversaries have taken Syria for their own and you don't care about that. Why is that? Israel was created. Should we dissolve that agreement too? Should all our blood and treasure always amount to nothing or worse than nothing? Who decided that? A U.N. resolution could be negotiated for the Kurds if our President was not compromised by Putin.

The United Nations does not have the legislative authority to "create" new countries, it has only the legislative authority to "recognize" existing countries. After all, the capital of China was located in Taipei until 1971 and the PRC simply didn't exist - right?
 
4) Without our air support the Kurds will be annihilated . You know this but still pretend we are not deserting them. Assad does not control all of Syria unless we cut and run.

The orders have already been issued.
 
All our national security agencies signed off on the deal. U1 has no strategic importance. It's minuscule production amounts to less than 2% of our yearly use and was Canadian owned. It's a really stupid and debunked meme.that only blind sycophants use in desperation.
Couple of things.

So what did Director of the Federal Bureau of Matters tell CFIUS members that "signed off on the deal" about the extortion, bribery, kickbacks and money laundering done? Is that why they, the DOJ, gagged the whistle blower, threatening him with jail time if he spoke about it?

So since you went all around the question, understandably as it is traitorous, YES, it is a national security asset and the FBM never properly informed the CFIUS about the criminal activities. That is just the tip of the iceberg.

If this had Trump's name on it, you would actually have the crime committed that you are so desperate to find...he would be in an orange jumpsuit already... we both know it. But since it has the Muel, Rosensteinks, McCabes, and the fat lady and hubby's names all over it... it simply cannot be an indictable crime.

Your post is a joke. You know nothing as illustrated here, you really don't care. So what, eh? Lefties really don't like the US anyhow, you enjoy helping the Russians and Putin, you folks just don't like admitting it.
 
LOL Uranium One was a Canadian "asset" that produced less than 2% of our yearly needs. Most of our Uranium comes from Russia and has for decades and its for electric power not bombs.

Actually 35% of the nuclear fuel that the US imports comes from Canada and only about 18% comes from Russia. About 7% of the uranium delivered to U.S. reactors in 2017 was produced in the United States and 93% came from other countries. [LINK]
 
Proving you know absolutely nothing about U1. Do you even know if it, Uranium, was/is classified a national security asset?

Did you know that Uranium One did not have a permit to EXPORT even a gram of Uranium to Russia?

Did you know that Rosatom sold off all of the assets previously owned by Uranium One that were located in the United States of America and only retained the much more valuable Uranium deposits in Kazakhstan?

Did you know that what Roxatom wanted when it purchased the Canadian company that owned both American and Kazakhstan assets was the Kazakhstan assets?

Did you know that the US government does not have the legislative competence to prevent a non-American company from purchasing non-American assets from another non-American company?

Did you know that the US imports around 90% of the Uranium it uses every year? Isn't that fact distressing to you? Shouldn't Mr. Trump declare that the reliance on imported Uranium is "harmful to America's national security interests" and impose whacking great duties on those foreign producers who are exploiting the United States of America by selling their Uranium on the open market and thereby forcing American Uranium mines and processing facilities to shut down?
 
Couple of things.

So what did Director of the Federal Bureau of Matters tell CFIUS members that "signed off on the deal" about the extortion, bribery, kickbacks and money laundering done? Is that why they, the DOJ, gagged the whistle blower, threatening him with jail time if he spoke about it?

So since you went all around the question, understandably as it is traitorous, YES, it is a national security asset and the FBM never properly informed the CFIUS about the criminal activities. That is just the tip of the iceberg.

If this had Trump's name on it, you would actually have the crime committed that you are so desperate to find...he would be in an orange jumpsuit already... we both know it. But since it has the Muel, Rosensteinks, McCabes, and the fat lady and hubby's names all over it... it simply cannot be an indictable crime.

Your post is a joke. You know nothing as illustrated here, you really don't care. So what, eh? Lefties really don't like the US anyhow, you enjoy helping the Russians and Putin, you folks just don't like admitting it.

What is this "Federal Bureau of Matters"? I've never heard of it before.
 
From The American Conservative

How the Trump Administration Inflicts Misery on the Iranian People

Secretary Pompeo offers some insincere wishes for the prosperity of the Iranian people:
As the proud people of #Iran celebrate the longest night of the year & the victory of light over darkness, I wish for them prosperity and freedom. As the Persian poet Nezami said, “even in hopelessness there is hope; at the end of a dark night there is light.” Happy #Yalda!
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) December 21, 2018

Iran hawks seem to enjoy feigning interest in the welfare of the Iranian people at the same time that their preferred policies are impoverishing and strangling them. It is so obviously two-faced that no one can miss the contradiction:
Pompeo says he wishes the Iranian people "prosperity" at the exact same time as he is promoting a sanctions regime that is preventing Iran from importing food. https://t.co/qoxznbBAPd https://t.co/4qpvf1E917
— Nicholas Miller (@Nick_L_Miller) December 21, 2018

It is bad enough that the Trump administration is trying to strangle Iran’s economy in a cruel policy of collective punishment. For some reason, administration officials also feel compelled to add extra insults to the injuries they are inflicting by pretending that they want Iranians to prosper when their actions show that they intend exactly the opposite.

COMMENT:-

What do those left-wing, liberal, pinko, socialist, commies know about anything?
Seems like the leaders of Iran have much more to do with their people's misery that the US. But Nicolas Miller speaks and you obediently post.
 
Not at all surprised.

You see, you would have to be keeping up with things, paying close attention... and have a sense of humor.

In short, there is no such thing as the Federal Bureau of Matters and that means that your implied claim


Director of the Federal Bureau of Matters tell CFIUS members that "signed off on the deal" about the extortion, bribery, kickbacks and money laundering done? Is that why they, the DOJ, gagged the whistle blower, threatening him with jail time if he spoke about it?

is total BS.

Colour me surprised.
 
Did you know that Uranium One did not have a permit to EXPORT even a gram of Uranium to Russia?

Did you know that Rosatom sold off all of the assets previously owned by Uranium One that were located in the United States of America and only retained the much more valuable Uranium deposits in Kazakhstan?

Did you know that what Roxatom wanted when it purchased the Canadian company that owned both American and Kazakhstan assets was the Kazakhstan assets?

Did you know that the US government does not have the legislative competence to prevent a non-American company from purchasing non-American assets from another non-American company?

Did you know that the US imports around 90% of the Uranium it uses every year? Isn't that fact distressing to you? Shouldn't Mr. Trump declare that the reliance on imported Uranium is "harmful to America's national security interests" and impose whacking great duties on those foreign producers who are exploiting the United States of America by selling their Uranium on the open market and thereby forcing American Uranium mines and processing facilities to shut down?
Sources?

Where did the Uranium go? Now let me get this straight, what you are saying is nobody ever transports contraband without a permit. But they do actually, don't they? There are also never ways to get around having an express export license, right? :lamo

Neither Uranium One Inc. nor AMRZ holds a specific NRC export license. In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the exports of uranium for use in reactor fuel,” then-NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko wrote to Barrasso.

The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so engrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post’s official fact-checker site this week. “We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not be exported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have,” the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons — from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of any exports since then.

NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 and 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license — which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal — the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.

The move escaped notice in Congress
https://thehill.com/policy/national...deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show

All during the slenderfella's misadministration. Huh? How could this happen?

Next... thanks, you are there again confirming that the Russian firm Rosatom did indeed purchase the US national security asset. Hat tip.

So... I am supposed to care about that somehow, why?

I think we, the US, can prevent a great many things going on in other countries either through legislative, executive or covert actions. But it is also why the slenderfella misadmin. should never have let this, our national security asset, ever get out our direct control... so thanks again for assisting my arguments. You are being damned helpful, thanks.

If we are importing 90%, then it would be in direct conflict of our national interests to sell off 20 to 25% of a needed national security asset. Thus proving my point again... hey, you are getting really good at this. I would hire you but its not a paying position. Better luck next time.
 
Hey, slenderfella handed over a cool $150 billion, let them use that for their own people instead of funding terrorism worldwide...eh?

You think our government countering the Number 1 State Exporter of Terrorism by any and all means is bad? Would you rather us war with them?

What is your solution?

BTW, I wholeheartedly agree with that last comment... hat tip.

Obama gave them 150 billion? I missed that. The true story is that, to a certain extent, we got what we deserved in Iran, as in Cuba and Nicaragua. Dickens put it well in “Tale if Two Cities” explaining the excesses of the French Revolution ... “crush mankind out of shape with similar hammers,” and it will respond in the same manner. The nightmare under the ayatollahs was preceded by nightmares under the Shah. Batista and the US using Cuba as its whorehouse produced Fidel. “When will they ever learn,” said the poet.
 
In short, there is no such thing as the Federal Bureau of Matters and that means that your implied claim


Director of the Federal Bureau of Matters tell CFIUS members that "signed off on the deal" about the extortion, bribery, kickbacks and money laundering done? Is that why they, the DOJ, gagged the whistle blower, threatening him with jail time if he spoke about it?

is total BS.

Colour me surprised.

No, that is another wrong, rather lame supposition on your part.

You see, in another semi related matter having to do with another fat lady corrupt area of concern that was being dealt with by the DOJ and the FBI, the corrupt Attorney General at the time under the slenderfella misadmin, Loretta Lynch, when asked by Comey if he should let on of an ongoing criminal investigation into the fat lady, she said not to call it an investigation, to call it a matter. Comey said he replied, "Why would I do that?"

To me that day, at that level of the FBI, it became the "Federal Bureau of Matters".

See for yourself:

Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch requested he call the Clinton investigation a "matter," partially leading to his decision to make his now-famous statement about the results of that investigation.
Comey said what "capped" his decision to make his public remarks about the conclusion was a publicly reported meeting by Lynch and former President Bill Clinton as their planes were on the same tarmac. He said he decided he had to "protect the credibility of the investigation."

That was public knowledge and drew criticism at the time, but Comey also revealed that Lynch had previously given him instructions on the investigation into the use of a private server by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- which "concerned" him.
"At one point, the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me," Comey said. "That was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we're to close this case credibly."
He later explained that it felt "silly" to not acknowledge the investigation publicly as both presidential campaigns were speaking publicly about it -- but said the Clinton campaign was using "euphemisms" for it, including a "matter."
James Comey hoped leak would lead to special counsel on Russia
James Comey hoped leak would lead to special counsel on Russia
He said he asked the attorney general, in the likelihood they would both have to testify, if he could confirm there was an investigation.
"I wanted to know, was she going to authorize us to confirm we had an investigation, and she said, 'Yes, but don't call it that, call it a matter,'" Comey said. "And I said, 'Why would I do that?' And she said, 'Just call it a matter.'"

Comey said he didn't push back.
"I said (to myself), 'This isn't a hill worth dying on, OK."
But he said the matter gave him a "queasy feeling."
Comey was testifying Thursday before the Senate intelligence committee on the government's investigation into Russian meddling in the US election and his firing by President Donald Trump
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/james-comey-loretta-lynch/index.html

Hey, gotta keep up... yano?
 
Obama gave them 150 billion? I missed that. The true story is that, to a certain extent, we got what we deserved in Iran, as in Cuba and Nicaragua. Dickens put it well in “Tale if Two Cities” explaining the excesses of the French Revolution ... “crush mankind out of shape with similar hammers,” and it will respond in the same manner. The nightmare under the ayatollahs was preceded by nightmares under the Shah. Batista and the US using Cuba as its whorehouse produced Fidel. “When will they ever learn,” said the poet.
Yeah, missed that did ya?

Not only that but:
The Obama administration has admitted paying $1.7billion to Iran entirely in cash to settle a decades-old aborted arms deal.

The payments were made on January 22 and February 5, officials said, weeks after the release of four American prisoners detained in Tehran.

Officials previously admitted flying $400million in pallets of Euros, Swiss francs and other currency to Iran on January 17, the same day the prisoners were released.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ll-CASH-little-known-fund-taxpayer-money.html

Might be better to keep up with current events at a political debate site...rather than the fictional ramblings of a no doubt respected author... but your extrapolations of what he said are a bit suspect to say the least. Fidel just wanted all the Cuban women to himself and his Ruskie pals, I suppose. Trading one master for another granting even fewer freedoms is not an improvement.

Yano?
 

To use your favoured tactic - go and look it up for yourself.

Where did the Uranium go?

What Uranium?

There wasn't any Uranium.

The company owned valuable mining concessions in Kazakhstan that Rusatom wanted and that is why Rusatom bought the company. The American holdings were completely unimportant to Rusatom and that is why Rusatom sold them to American buyers.

Now let me get this straight, what you are saying is nobody ever transports contraband without a permit.

I never said that but feel free to fantasize if you want to.

If you think that it is easy to smuggle bulk Uranium ore in quantities that make it worthwhile, you are deluded.

But they do actually, don't they?

Yep, small volume high value items.

There are also never ways to get around having an express export license, right?

There most certainly are. Why Rusatom could simply label several trainloads of ore as "Christmas Decorations" and ship them across (and out of) the country with absolutely no difficulty at all.

https://thehill.com/policy/national...deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show

Quite right.

Everyone knows that "Canada" is Deep State code for "Russia" and that "Europe" is Deep State code for The Commies" so your

from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe

REALLY **P*R*O*V*E*S** your case that Hillary Clinton personally delivered tonnes of nuclear weapons grade Uranium to Vladimir Putin.

All during the slenderfella's misadministration. Huh? How could this happen?

What you think happened didn't.

Next... thanks, you are there again confirming that the Russian firm Rosatom did indeed purchase the US national security asset. Hat tip.

Where did you ever see me denying it?

So... I am supposed to care about that somehow, why?

You most certainly appear to care about it without facts.

I think we, the US, can prevent a great many things going on in other countries either through legislative, executive or covert actions. But it is also why the slenderfella misadmin. should never have let this, our national security asset, ever get out our direct control... so thanks again for assisting my arguments. You are being damned helpful, thanks.

The "Americannational security asset" was the AMERICAN assets owned by Uranium One (which was not an American company). The remainder of the assets owned by Uranium One was NOT an "American national security asset".

Why you would believe that assets owned by a non-American company in a country other than the United States of America even remotely qualify as "American national security assets" is beyond me - unless, of course, I were to believe that you were totally ignorant of both fact and law at the same time as you felt compelled to spout tripe.

I choose to remain mystified.

If we are importing 90%, then it would be in direct conflict of our national interests to sell off 20 to 25% of a needed national security asset. Thus proving my point again... hey, you are getting really good at this. I would hire you but its not a paying position. Better luck next time.

Since the American assets (which the Russians didn't want in the first place) were resold to American buyers, exactly what harm was done?
 
Actually 35% of the nuclear fuel that the US imports comes from Canada and only about 18% comes from Russia. About 7% of the uranium delivered to U.S. reactors in 2017 was produced in the United States and 93% came from other countries. [LINK]

Sources vary by the year like all internationally traded commodities but what stays the same the tiny amount that U1 produces. What is 20% of 7%? BTW the Kazakhstan uranium production is controlled by Russia too

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Sources?

Where did the Uranium go? Now let me get this straight, what you are saying is nobody ever transports contraband without a permit. But they do actually, don't they? There are also never ways to get around having an express export license, right? :lamo

https://thehill.com/policy/national...deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show

All during the slenderfella's misadministration. Huh? How could this happen?

Next... thanks, you are there again confirming that the Russian firm Rosatom did indeed purchase the US national security asset. Hat tip.

So... I am supposed to care about that somehow, why?

I think we, the US, can prevent a great many things going on in other countries either through legislative, executive or covert actions. But it is also why the slenderfella misadmin. should never have let this, our national security asset, ever get out our direct control... so thanks again for assisting my arguments. You are being damned helpful, thanks.

If we are importing 90%, then it would be in direct conflict of our national interests to sell off 20 to 25% of a needed national security asset. Thus proving my point again... hey, you are getting really good at this. I would hire you but its not a paying position. Better luck next time.

We have plenty of nukes already, enough to level the entire Earth many times over. The Uranium we use every year is strictly to refuel our nuclear generating plants and it is traded on the commodity exchanges like oil or natural gas. It is not a "strategic" asset to us and our production meets less than 10% of our demand and UI at most provided 20% of US production or less then 2% of our yearly needs. Now you are going to say it is Obama and Hillary's fault that the the U.S. mainland was not blessed with extensive high value uranium deposits. Right? ;) I bet I could tear up all your silly CT's about Obama and Hillary in a similar manner but it is not worth my while. Putin paid good money to get you to believe those lies so why should I do this for free? :lol:

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Yeah, missed that did ya?

Not only that but:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ll-CASH-little-known-fund-taxpayer-money.html

Might be better to keep up with current events at a political debate site...rather than the fictional ramblings of a no doubt respected author... but your extrapolations of what he said are a bit suspect to say the least. Fidel just wanted all the Cuban women to himself and his Ruskie pals, I suppose. Trading one master for another granting even fewer freedoms is not an improvement.

Yano?

My impression was that the money sent Iran was theirs. Also, used to work with an anti-Castro Cuban guy, an exile. “I hate Fidel, but the US got what it deserved in Cuba.” Read your history or watch Godfather II and you’ll understand. Platt amendment and all that.
 
To use your favoured tactic - go and look it up for yourself.



What Uranium?

There wasn't any Uranium.

The company owned valuable mining concessions in Kazakhstan that Rusatom wanted and that is why Rusatom bought the company. The American holdings were completely unimportant to Rusatom and that is why Rusatom sold them to American buyers.



I never said that but feel free to fantasize if you want to.

If you think that it is easy to smuggle bulk Uranium ore in quantities that make it worthwhile, you are deluded.



Yep, small volume high value items.



There most certainly are. Why Rusatom could simply label several trainloads of ore as "Christmas Decorations" and ship them across (and out of) the country with absolutely no difficulty at all.

https://thehill.com/policy/national...deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show

Quite right.

Everyone knows that "Canada" is Deep State code for "Russia" and that "Europe" is Deep State code for The Commies" so your

from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe

REALLY **P*R*O*V*E*S** your case that Hillary Clinton personally delivered tonnes of nuclear weapons grade Uranium to Vladimir Putin.



What you think happened didn't.



Where did you ever see me denying it?



You most certainly appear to care about it without facts.



The "Americannational security asset" was the AMERICAN assets owned by Uranium One (which was not an American company). The remainder of the assets owned by Uranium One was NOT an "American national security asset".

Why you would believe that assets owned by a non-American company in a country other than the United States of America even remotely qualify as "American national security assets" is beyond me - unless, of course, I were to believe that you were totally ignorant of both fact and law at the same time as you felt compelled to spout tripe.

I choose to remain mystified.



Since the American assets (which the Russians didn't want in the first place) were resold to American buyers, exactly what harm was done?
Part 1


Bro, I request sources not to have you look it up, I am supposing you already did so...no, its for you to prove to us where you get/got such unadulterated crap... So, sources?

There certainly was some ****ing Uranium, my source indicated just how much in yellowcake form was shipped off to points unknown in Europe for ****sake. Marshall the facts man.

You are pulling **** [and there seems ample suppy] outta your ***. Show me, with your sources, where you are getting all this information on the motives of Russians within Rosatom? Were you a principle in this transaction yourself?

You stated that "Uranium One did not have a permit to EXPORT even a gram of Uranium to Russia?" like it was supposed to mean something...important? What was your point then? I proved that they didn't have to smuggle it, just do a lot of shifting between company and national labels, three card Monty style, at least under a misadministration like slenderfella helping out a fat lady... and shaaaazammmm, you get yellowcake off to who knows where. How truly naive does one want to express oneself so openly?

If you weren't saying that, what exactly were you trying to convey then?

Again, see how much was shipped off, as sourced previously "7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.”

Only in small quantities? Is over 12 million kgs/26 million pounds a small quantity to you? Try hiding that in your pocket.

Yes, after it got out of our control, almost anything was possible... which is EXACTLY why the corrupt slenderfella misadmin should never have sold off this national security asset to our enemies.

Yup, while pretty broad brush in that flip description, pretty much... I mean it was silly to include the fat lady actually ever doing anything approaching manual labor, but to imply that I stated she personally delivered the U to Russia was rather juvenile... being proven wrong over and over in every instance... getting under the skin I suppose, eh? It was a quid pro quo, bro...look it up.

The hell it didn't happen. Get a clue.

No, where did you ever see me denying you were denying it. Reread it, I said you were again confirming the fact. This was also confirming the fact that the original poster, from whom you took the completely in the dark baton, did not have any idea what he was talking about...and you confirmed that. Wake up wake up.
 
Part 2

I am supposed to care about Russian additional interest in Kazakhstan... why exactly? I have already shown the proof of what they got outta us, proving you wrong. You can go on some wild goose chase if you want, my focus is on the corruption by the fat lady and slenderfella.

The American national security asset, Uranium, was sold to Russians, then becoming not American anymore... yes. What is your point, please? It was exatly that sale of our national security asset and the transfer of ownship to the Russians that is the BONE OF ****ING CONTENTION HERE. As an aside, its annoying enough dealing with your tonnes v tons and favoured v favored... but do try to keep your subject verb agreement in a bit better shape...eh?

Good lord are you lost... so lost its hard to follow where you went off the cliff. So I totally 200% agree with your statement that you choose to remain mystified... but that you would try to drag us into that utterly muddled confusion is a travesty.

Sources and proof of that last statement? Bro, the Russians were not handing out bribes, kickbacks, money laundering, hiding what they were doing for nothing, bro. That would be beyond naive to think. Besides, as already sourced, we know yellowcake was transfered not just out of country, but out of continent.
 
Question...

What do those left-wing, liberal, pinko, socialist, commies know about anything?
A question that cannot be answered but...they don't.
 
Right, but the Shah was there because of US (and British) meddling and proved to be a brutal dictator backed by the US From that point anti US sentiment grew and allowed for the fundamentalists to grab hold. The thing to remember too is Iranians may love American culture, but have very mixed views (and distrust) of US policy. No matter which way you try to paint it, mistrust for the US is based on pretty clear reasons since the Shah was put in to power in order to prevent Iranians to be in control of their own natural resources. Pushes for regime change now will likely be viewed in the very same light.

The Shah was a beacon of light, progress and good government compared with anyone who ruled Iran either before or since. (I lived in Tehran from 1967 to 1969 and know whereof I speak).
 
We have plenty of nukes already, enough to level the entire Earth many times over. The Uranium we use every year is strictly to refuel our nuclear generating plants and it is traded on the commodity exchanges like oil or natural gas. It is not a "strategic" asset to us and our production meets less than 10% of our demand and UI at most provided 20% of US production or less then 2% of our yearly needs. Now you are going to say it is Obama and Hillary's fault that the the U.S. mainland was not blessed with extensive high value uranium deposits. Right? ;) I bet I could tear up all your silly CT's about Obama and Hillary in a similar manner but it is not worth my while. Putin paid good money to get you to believe those lies so why should I do this for free? :lol:

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Tell that to our government [not the corrupt ones, however], they seem to think slightly differently than do you about our Uranium.

Additionally, we want to keep it out of the hands of our enemies, yano? Nope, you are wrong about everything including this. See article by former Energy Secy Spenser Abraham.

Today, that national security concern has been solved through a combination of American ingenuity, technology and fully embracing our abundant natural resources. But now, we face a similar national security challenge. The U.S. nuclear fleet, generating 20% of this country’s electricity (and about 60% of our carbon-free energy) has become almost entirely dependent on foreign uranium, much of it from countries with elevated geopolitical risks.

At its peak in 1980, U.S. uranium production stood at 43.7 million pounds, enough to supply all of our U.S. reactors and a substantial portion of our allies’ requirements.

In 2017, U.S. uranium production was less than 2.4 million pounds, accounting for about 5% of the nation’s requirements, even though our uranium reserves are sufficient to meet our domestic demand.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...rity-nuclear-energy-russia-column/1344801002/

Bro, you are the one agreeing with the sale, assisting Putin in obtaining our national security assets... so check your own allegiance... mine is as an American patriot, through and through. The hidden and corrupt sale of such assets to our enemies is traitorous, condoning it and trying to hide the facts would be similarly unAmerican.

So tell us, where do you actually stand. With us, the patriotic Americans... or with your pals slenderfella, the fat lady and Putin... eh?
 
My impression was that the money sent Iran was theirs. Also, used to work with an anti-Castro Cuban guy, an exile. “I hate Fidel, but the US got what it deserved in Cuba.” Read your history or watch Godfather II and you’ll understand. Platt amendment and all that.

Cuba is ripe for deep internal change. Everyone there knows that socialism -- that is, state ownership of the economy -- doesn't work. The economic embargo on Cuba is the only excuse the hardliners have for the dire state of the Cuban economy, and it's wearing thin. Fear of American armed hostility is their main excuse for political repression. And the hardliners, or some of them, are not stupid. When Obama recognized Cuba and things began to thaw, there were plenty of warnings from hardliners about the dangers that this represented to Cuban socialism.

It's hard for outsiders to understand how a country can change from within, without a violent revolution. But it does happen -- in fact, it happens more often this way than through violent revolutions. The hardliners become more and more isolated -- their children become 'liberals', more and more of the people who run things in society -- the educated middle class -- become discontented ... and slowly a consensus grows that things need to change.

It's different for each country, but it would be useful to study how Franco's Spain -- a one party, near-Fascist dictatorship -- made a peaceful transition to democracy. Likewise the Greece of the Colonels, many many Latin American countries, South Africa, Taiwan, South Korea ... and, the prize of them all, the Soviet Union. I believe you will find that in every case there was a slow, invisible, molecular shift of opinion -- and that this was reflected also among the men with the guns. They realize that they can change, must change, and this will not mean that they lose their heads or even their jobs.

Socialism doesn't work, with or without a trade embargo. In fact, the US could send a billion dollars worth of foreign aid to Cuba every year and their socialism still wouldn't work. And everyone there knows that.

We should resume normal trade relations with them, flood them with American tourists and entrepreneurs looking to make a deal to turn Cuba's abundant natural resources into sources of wealth for both Cubans and Americans. We ought to offer scholarships to Cuban teenagers to come spend a year in the US to perfect their English. The only reason we don't is the pernicious influence of the Cuban exile lobby.
 
My impression was that the money sent Iran was theirs. Also, used to work with an anti-Castro Cuban guy, an exile. “I hate Fidel, but the US got what it deserved in Cuba.” Read your history or watch Godfather II and you’ll understand. Platt amendment and all that.
Oh, I am sure we could figure out what they owed us out of that... for one thing we should have backed out of that money that which the US taxpayers had to pay to hostages, American hostages, held in violation of International law the compensation when they were awarded damages by the court. Then the families of those of our soldiers killed by IEDs planted by Iraqi insurgents and supplied by the Iranian regime...

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-nucle...s-families-stephen-flatow-barack-obama-418770

After that, well, you know smart governments don't give money, hand over hundreds of billions to the Number One State Sponsor of Terrorists [ even if slenderfella could not pronounce the word]...yano?

Yes, I taught US History for years, so am quite familiar with the Spanish American War and its aftermaths in PR, Cuba and the Phillippines. We librated Cuba et al from the Spanish... and so we got privileges for a while. No real harm done as those things go...and we later gave them total independence, with a few minor exceptions like Guantanamo.

Yeah, no offense to your Cuban pal, but I do not see what America deserved that we got in Cuba. I think we covered this before, but am not reading fiction to get to the truth, sorry. What was the gist of what we, the US, did and what we deserved from his vantage point?

Fidel was not an improvement, no true socialist/communist ever is...and what he saddled his own country with was downright traitorous... plus near disastrous in worldwide consequences.
 
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