Well, Yeah, There’s That… 🤔

To make "We broke it you own it" policy, as @WSJ reports Trump admin is considering, would shred our reputation & relationships and hand Iran a major strategic victory. https://t.co/hPBRgQeiAl

— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) March 31, 2026

But it might open the Strait of Hormuz and lower gas prices, and, let’s face it…

Trump has already fucked our reputation and relationships, and we’re not correcting that anytime soon. There’s also the little matter of the $200 billion Xmas in April gift Lockheed and a few other defense contractors could be expecting, that would go away (I mean, eventually they’ll get it, but do we really want to do that right now?). The damage has been done. It’s sacrificing the country to the sunk cost fallacy to say we can’t stop now what we never should have started. 

Although Trump has done more damage to the country’s reputation than Vietnam did across three Presidencies, that’s no reason not to pull the plug sooner rather than later. 

It’s not like there’s a scenario where this turns the corner, after all.