Let me cut to the chase. Every single world leader knows Trump's full of shit. Even more importantly, the citizens of their nations also know it. Everyone with a functioning brain understands that pulling out of the Iran deal has nothing to do with terrorism, nuclear bombs or any other fairytale propagated by U.S. neocons. This is simply about the existence of a non-U.S. client state in a key strategic region sitting on massive oil reserves. It's about empire -- global games of power and money fueled by a desperate attempt to hold on to a unipolar world where the U.S. bosses everyone around.
A global empire will keep pushing and pushing until something snaps. The leaders of empire become convinced of their invincibility right before the end, and the U.S. is no different. Given the rise of China economically and militarily, as well as Russia exerting its influence in Syria, the writing's already on the wall as far as where the world's headed. Towards a multi-polar planet in which the U.S. will still have influence, but far less than it's enjoyed since WW2. While shifts are already well underway beneath the radar, American leadership refuses to admit it. A serious decline of U.S. global power as a result of major mistakes related to Iran will begin to play out publicly from here.
It's important to understand what a massive mistake pulling out of the Iran deal is. Irrespective of your opinion on its merits, it's a deal agreed to by all major global powers. The U.S., Iran, France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia signed it. There's only one country in that wants to scrap it (and did so today), the U.S. This is no small event and the long-term repercussions are enormous. What Trump just did, in no uncertain terms, is tell the entire world that no deal signed with the U.S. means anything. Why even bother negotiating with the U.S. if agreements can just be canceled unilaterally with no evidence of wrongdoing?
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