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originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: musicismagic
Of course, it will sour. Joe Biden will sell himself and the country to the highest bidder in Asia -- China. I doubt Japan will like that much, and that will hang Japan out to dry in the region. In fact, the Hunter emails confirm he's already done it.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: musicismagic
Of course, it will sour. Joe Biden will sell himself and the country to the highest bidder in Asia -- China. I doubt Japan will like that much, and that will hang Japan out to dry in the region. In fact, the Hunter emails confirm he's already done it.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: musicismagic
Yeah , Biden will Drive Japan towards Communism . Happy Now . ?
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If you read my post on the pandemic and disease threads or disasters and pandemics whatever it was you'll find out that I've stated many times that Japan is really really like China in many ways.
You have to live in Japan to understand what I'm really saying is you can't really go by what people are printing and what people are reading about Japan you really have to live here for many years actually to discover what it is that resembles the Japanese government that has pretty much a lot in common like China has.
of course Japan doesn't take their people off the streets and take their organs from them but there's some similarity okay so let's let's hope that you're happy with my answer.
Yep. Biden chooses his allies poorly. Pallets of cash will once again flow to Iran.
The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The settlement, which resolved claims before an international tribunal in The Hague, also coincided with the formal implementation that same weekend of the landmark nuclear agreement reached between Tehran, the U.S. and other global powers the summer before.
“With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,” President Barack Obama said at the White House on Jan. 17—without disclosing the $400 million cash payment.
Senior U.S. officials denied any link between the payment and the prisoner exchange. They say the way the various strands came together simultaneously was coincidental, not the result of any quid pro quo.
“As we’ve made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim…were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said. “Not only were the two negotiations separate, they were conducted by different teams on each side, including, in the case of The Hague claims, by technical experts involved in these negotiations for many years.”
But U.S. officials also acknowledge that Iranian negotiators on the prisoner exchange said they wanted the cash to show they had gained something tangible.
Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas and a fierce foe of the Iran nuclear deal, accused President Barack Obama of paying “a $1.7 billion ransom to the ayatollahs for U.S. hostages.”
“This break with longstanding U.S. policy put a price on the head of Americans, and has led Iran to continue its illegal seizures” of Americans, he said.
Since the cash shipment, the intelligence arm of the Revolutionary Guard has arrested two more Iranian-Americans. Tehran has also detained dual-nationals from France, Canada and the U.K. in recent months.
At the time of the prisoner release, Secretary of State John Kerry and the White House portrayed it as a diplomatic breakthrough. Mr. Kerry cited the importance of “the relationships forged and the diplomatic channels unlocked over the course of the nuclear talks.”
Meanwhile, U.S. officials have said they were certain Washington was going to lose the arbitration in The Hague, where Iran was seeking more than $10 billion, and described the settlement as a bargain for taxpayers.