Trump's agreement mirrors what Robert Pape and John Mearsheimer have been saying all along, an agreement that leaves:

- the Islamic Republic standing
- an even more hardline regime intact
- its military leadership in power
- control of its nuclear arsenal
- regional influence intact

Iran would retain missiles, drones and retain much of the proxy infrastructure it has built across Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.

So what did we accomplish for a trillion spent, lives lost, global inflation, and our reduced standing in the World?

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