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The only response he ever gives is "it's worth it so Iran can't have a nuclear weapon". He probably isn't even aware in his demented brain that... we already had that, nor that his and Biden's handling of the economy these last six years has increased people's poverty exponentially.
It was an "inexpensive price to pay" to let Iranians have their own unfrozen assets back in return for de-nuclearizing.
Trump is the one who withdrew the US's involvement from the Iran Nuclear Deal, which specifically prevented them from building nuclear weapons.
The irony of the US constantly justifying it's actions in dysregulating the middle east is nuclear arms when the US has some of the most nuclear arms and is one of the last countries on earth that should
And even worse, we only really oppose nuclear proliferation because for other countries to have nukes would decrease the value of our bully pulpit. North Korea has demonstrated that nukes are now essential if a country wants to be left alone.