So much winning.

Two months ago I wrote a piece entitled “How the Iran War ends.”

Here’s an excerpt…

“the Iranians will:

• keep their uranium,

• not agree to international monitoring of nuclear weapons development except on the most favorable conditions

• continue to exercise control over the Strait of Hormuz, and

• the hardest-of-hard-liners now in control of Iran will gain even more power.”

I write this not to crow about my foresight rather to note even a layperson could see how Trump’s disaster was going to end.

And…here we are. Exactly as forecast.

From the estimable Phillips O’Brien:

…(the) US in the end has so little leverage in these negotiations that Iran will achieve a great deal. Already the Iranians have supplemented their position enormously while the US is in a worse position than on Feb 27. Just as a short list of US concessions, much of which came out of the MOU which I broke down last week. Consider these points:

• The US now has legitimized and promised to support the IRGC government

• The US has given up any attempts to restrict Iran’s missile capacity

• The US has given up any attempts to limit Iran’s military industrial capacity

• The US is standing by as the IRGC executes numerous Iranians who rose up after Trump said he would support the Iranian people.

• The US is now pushing for Hezbollah not to be attacked

• The US is enthusiastically enabling the sale of Iranian oil on the world market

• The US is working to find ways to get billions of $’s sent to Iran

What does this mean for you?

You get the government you deserve, and you deserve to get it good and hard - HL Mencken.