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Re:Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achiev... by jmcgough on Saturday February 26, 2022 @07:00PM (#30483512)
There will be no restarting - they are even closer to having nuclear arms than before because we abandoned the deal. It wasn't a perfect deal, but it was real progress and would have significantly slowed nuclear development (experts say ~15 years instead of 2 years).

It's hard to have any deal when repubs have pledged to abandon it (regardless of what it is) when they have control again.

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Re:Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achiev... by wyldfire on Saturday February 26, 2022 @07:14PM (#30483701)
A legislature-ratified treaty would hold more weight but it would never get passed, regardless of the terms.
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Re:Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achiev... by toyg on Saturday February 26, 2022 @07:29PM (#30483848)
The modern schizophrenia of the US political system is making things difficult for the whole world. It used to be that US foreign policy could be considered fundamentally consistent across administrations, on the big topics; now, every 4 years, it's a coin toss.
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