Well guess what? Rand Paul SUPPORTED Obama's Iran Deal for this very reason: hey it got us out of the region, right? Who cares what happens to it? He was VERY upset Trump was going to scrap it to form an alliance with Saudi Arabia & the GCC in opposition to Iran.

And no, I'm not making this up:

politico.com/story/2017/09/…

At the time Obama was making the deal, Paul said he was against it. Once Trump started talking about ending the Deal and forging an alliance with Saudi Arabia, all of a sudden Rand Paul was everywhere trying to save the Iran Deal.

cnn.com/2018/05/15/pol…

Paul was against what he called any new Middle East entaglements. No new alliances, no new NOTHING was his policy.

usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

So by the time Trump was elected & started making overtures to Saudi Arabia, Paul had done a 180 on the Iran Deal & was now saying a Russian-backed nuclear Iran with a hegemony over the entire Middle East was just fine with him.

Threats - especially NUCLEAR threats - don't go away just because you insist on a policy of isolationism and abandon your allies to deal with the threats themselves.

This is why Rand Paul or anyone holding to his FP views needs to be kept away from any real say an FP.

Trump is about the furthest thing from a war mongering neo-con there is, but I don't think Rand Paul can see that.

Keep this in mind as Paul spends the next week or so loudly calling for abandoning Saudi Arabia & staying in the IMF treaty.

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And here's Wictor's take on this news that Trump is telling Putin we're thinking of pulling out of the INF treaty:

gab.ai/Thomas_Wictor/…

truthisaforceofnature Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit That's a satire website.