Worked

Posted originally on Oct 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

(Donald Trump speaking SEVEN years ago at the United Nations)

Former President Donald Trump calculatedly weakened Iran’s economy to the point that it could not fund proxy wars. In May 2018, Trump withdrew America form the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal. The Trump Administration cut Iran off from receiving arms by reactivating an embargo through the United Nations. Sanctions only work in extremely rare situations, Trump’s sanctions on Iran were one of those exceptions. The Iranian economy crumbled under US imposed sanctions of crucial sectors such as energy. Donald Trump declared that these measures would prevent “illicit terrorist and nuclear activities.”

The United Nations reared its head and began to question whether Trump’s actions were legitimate. The world turned against Trump once again, with America’s own allies, including the European Union, openly opposing these sanctions, which they felt were too harsh. Trump was accused of waging unnecessary economic warfare and abandoning diplomacy.

The establishment quickly undid Trump-era sanctions to embolden Iran. The neocons needed their opponent to fund the proxy war, after all. Bien waived sanctions on Iran and attempted to revive the Iranian nuclear deal, as did the European Union. In March 2023, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released over $10 billion in frozen Iranian assets held in Iraq and South Korea. Biden-Harris insisted that Iran needed humanitarian aid and that these funds would help rebuild the Iranian economy. Despite active terrorist groups running the nation, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lifted the terrorism designation for the Houthis before later reimplementing at the request of Israel. Iran has been permitted to rebuild its military, which it has always intended to use against the West.

Look what happened. Iran has launched over 200 ballistic missiles at Israel and is fully prepared to fight the West in a proxy war. “I’ve been talking about World War III for a long time, and I don’t want to make predictions, because the predictions always come true,” Trump said at a recent rally. “But they are very close to global catastrophe.” He accused “the two incompetent people running our country” of pushing the United States to the “brink of World War III.” “We have a non-existent president and a non-existent vice president who should be in charge, but nobody knows what’s going on,” he said.

Our weakened leadership only further emboldened Iran. Joe Biden is eating ice cream on a beach in Delaware and cannot form a coherent sentence. Kamala Harris has no original ideas, simply warning Iran, “Don’t.” Iran is not a small child. Donald Trump was seen as a loose cannon but other nations feared his unpredictable actions. He did not coddle Iran or attempt to maintain diplomatic relations with a terrorist state. Iran KNEW it had to refrain from making any missteps because President Donald Trump was prepared to destroy them without hesitation. Harris, on the other hand, boycotted Israel’s recent visit to the US and showed Iran that America is no longer a superpower.