Thatβs quite impossible, Matt, seeing as from March to July, the Iran war ended over 22 separate times according to you.
Fuck it, I'll do it now.
The Iran war's effect on the economy is why Republicans lost. Nobody would have cared about Iran if it hadn't affected energy prices. Nobody actually cares about your Israel conspiracy theories or bombed schools full of Iranian schoolchildren or other insane gobbledygook. Just like nobody cared about Iraq until it hit their bottom line; Lynndie England was running a one-woman femdom show at Abu Ghraib and it had fuck all effect on Bush's reelection because the economy was good.
If Trump had ripped off the Band-Aid and turbonuked Iran months ago, we'd be in a far better position. We've WON, but energy prices are still up and nothing is happening. It doesn't LOOK like we've won to many people.
The blame for this is with JD Vance, since the MOU and these other bullshit negotiations are his baby. There may have been a diplomatic value in showing that Iran is unreasonable even when we give them a good deal, but if there was, it's long gone.
There's a lot to like about Vance, but he really fucked up here and it's probably going to spike his presidential ambitions.