Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Iran Prepares For Peace?" video.

Very interesting opinion and I think you're absolutely right they could be more reliable than Saudi Arabia. The question is after demonizing them for that last 40years after having supported a repressive regime since the 50s that the CIA helped put in place via a coup that overthrew a democratically elected government and then after Trump simply tearing up a treaty in a combination of tempestuousness, childishness, stupidity and lies - WOULD YOU TRUST ANY AMERICAN DEAL IF YOU WERE THE IRANIANS? Lets not forget Trump also whacked a national hero who was on a peace mission at the time or forget that Trump tightened sanctions at the moment Iran was getting hit by COVID or forget the deal Reagan made where he got them to keep Americans hostage to help win an election. I don't doubt your claim they would be a better partner long term, but if you're the Iranians what deal can you make with America that you can trust? Sorry but this is the legacy leaders like Trump & Reagan left America with.
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@progressforward I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I find it very sad to see a great country being dragged down by a very selfish minority who have learned how to manipulate large slabs of a population into believing garbage. Both the DNC and GOP are guilty of that. We don't openly talk about it much here but we do have concerns for our long term security. We just backed our future on the F35 and a few other toys. What if another Trumpist (from either side) gets in and starts tearing up treaties? I was in Canada (for work) when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada. No one and I really do mean NO ONE outside of Trumps circle got what that was about. Its Canada the most polite nation on earth and Trump just turned around and kicked them in the face. There are enormous American investments in Canada. The infamous far right Koch brothers are THE MAIN player in the Alberta Oil Sands. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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@progressforward Yeah and America exported it to the rest of the western world world. In Australia right now we have a overly influential pro-China lobby. They are either miners selling raw material, importers importing crap or housing people selling housing. They make so much money, they will do anything to keep the cash rolling in. If you strip away the the surface its almost identical to the American oil money in terms of influence. I just saw a graph yesterday. In 1921 (100 years ago) America lead the world in iron ore production with 21MTA (million tons per annum). We currently mine over 850MTA most of which goes to China. Just like America has people saying that America needs to break its addiction to oil, our people are saying we have to break our addiction to Chinese trade. AND its the same reason - that addiction produces incredible levels of corruption.
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