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peed on some of the key points of that to form an opinion because I don't yet have an opinion whether the deal we have is a good one or a bad one. No, I read the criticisms and I understand that there are lots of smart people who say oh my God this deal is horrible and I don't discount that. But I also haven't seen the reasons yet or at least not consolidated in a place where I can see the pro and…

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liminary opinion which I could quite easily get moved from — my guess is that we've got a 75% good deal and that the 25% we don't have is pretty important. And it would be completely reasonable, and in fact I would expect it, for people like Bolton and Trump to say now we're walking away. It's the worst deal in the world. We'd rather be in a nuclear confrontation than to accept this deal.

So keep in mind that there's a positioning thing going on here that conceals some of the objective facts. I'll tell you one thing I would say for sure. If Iran as a public government preference is still saying let's end Israel, so the way that Iran talks about Israel and what they're doing with Hamas and all the things that they're doing to bring trouble and/or an end to Israel, if all those things are happening then I would say there's no such thing as a good nuclear deal. If it leaves out anything. So the only deal with Iran there would be a good one in the context of them actively trying to end Israel is a hundred percent. You got to stop doing all of it. Yeah there's no such thing as okay you're 90 percent good but only 10 percent you're trying to destroy Israel. That's no good. You can't leave 10 percent on the table of 10 percent trying to destroy a neighboring country with your long-range missiles or whatever you're doing. So you kind of have to go for a hundred percent certainty on your deals of what you're not allowing because of the way they're talking.

Now imagine if Iran had completely changed its government or its opinion on Israel and said all right we give up. Israel's there. We're gonna recognize you and support you. Would you then be okay with the Iran deal? Let's say Iran stopped funding Hamas. That's not gonna happen but let's say they stopped funding Hezbollah. They stopped being anti-Israel. And let's say Iran recognized Israel. It recognized the right to exist. Did it publicly and officially. Would you then still have a problem with them having long-range missiles? Probably yes because they might have problems with Saudi Arabia or somebody else. But you would certainly look at it differently.

So I think as long as Iran is talking against Israel there's no such thing as a deal that's good enough. Yeah there's no such thing as well it's pretty good. That just won't be a concept if they're still talking about destroying Israel.

But remember the Golden Age is when we realize that most of our problems are psychological. The problem with Iran and Israe

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l is entirely psychological. And therefore I believe that President Trump is maybe the first president who ever had at least a chance of making something good happen there. We've never had the right team in place. Now we do. We'll see what happens. Is there any other way to support me other than Patreon? Thanks for asking. By the way my Patreon account got pretty active yesterday after the Kanye…

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