Time to stock up on sunscreen SPF 9,000

[SilverFang01]

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Iran nuclear deal: Trump pulls US out

[Pyeknu]

Wow! And people wonder why folks abroad don't trust the United States anymore?

Way to go, Twumpy!

[robkelk]

David Barrows protests outside the White House Tuesday as Trump announces the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran deal. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

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Associated Press: Iranian president says uranium enrichment may resume if nuclear deal fails

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CBC Analysis: What's next for the Mideast and the world now that the U.S. is out of the Iran deal

As Suzanne Maloney, deputy director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institiution, noted in a phone briefing with reporters, the deal isn't a treaty; it's an international political agreement. That means the U.S. voluntarily bought into it, and it doesn't necessarily mean the whole thing falls apart.

"One of the peculiarities of the agreement," Maloney told reporters, is it "does not include mechanisms for withdrawal."

The timing is awkward, coming just as North Korea needs to know whether it can trust the U.S. to keep its word ahead of a summit on denuclearization.

[SilverFang01]

My thinking is that the nations of the world will trust the US less and less and look for ways of doing things without their participation, which will bring opportunities to China, Russia, and Europe.

Also, by pulling out of the deal, the US just added gasoline to the Middle East.

[Labster]

I'm not sure why the rest of the world expects the U.S. to honor treaties, anyway.  Just ask some Native Americans.

@SilverFang01: The gasoline was already in the Middle East, that's why there are so many wars there.

I'm waiting for the first country to announce retaliatory sanctions against the United States.  That's when the fun will really begin.  But it's not even clear what the sanctions will be from the U.S. -- or if we even have anyone in charge of creating sanctions any more.

[Matrix Dragon]

Guys, honest confession time. Most of the world already didn't trust the USA to honor deals. Your government's been waving its size and power around for decades, burning through massive amounts of goodwill to get whatever it wants. Trump is just a lot clumsier about it, and bases his goals around burning down anything his predecessor achieved.

[robkelk]

Reporter asked Trump twice in a row "How does this make America safer?", was ignored the first time, received the answer "This will make America much safer" the second time.

It was a non-answer that only served to confirm the suspicions of Suzanne Maloney, deputy director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution.

"He couldn't answer. He didn't explain. He doesn't have an answer to that," Maloney said. "If he's convinced the restrictions imposed were insufficient, or the monitoring of the regime was insufficient, how does the absence of these measures and restrictions provide greater security for the U.S.?"