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The side paying reparations is the side that lost the war.
by JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
The side paying reparations is the side that lost the war.
- AnimalMuppet 5mo agoThat's usually true. And yet... after WWII, the US paid a lot of money to rebuild Germany and Japan. Do I think that's what's going on here? No, I don't. Nor do I think that the money is real. (If it is, it sounds like it's coming from the Gulf states - essentially "please stop blowing us up" money.)
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- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoA third of it is probably frozen assets [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_frozen_assets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_frozen_assets
- Cpoll 5mo agoArticle makes some distinction, though the $25MM number doesn't match your link. > In addition to the U.S. and its allies paying $300 billion in reconstruction funds, Iran reports that the U.S. has agreed to release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoI’m wildly speculating that the amount of funds unfrozen will be higher. (I’ll add to that speculation by guessing some fraction of it will wind up with Trump, Kushner and Witkoff.)
- jerlam 5mo agoThe governments of Germany and Japan were completely destroyed, their nations were then occupied and then rebuilt to be friendly to the US and other Western nations to fight against communism. But here, Iran's government has not been overthrown nor their nation occupied.