The way you describe the alternative option seems not very good faith.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-...
> Washington CNN — The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.
Obviously Republicans decried it with bad faith bullshit because reality and sanity don't matter to them.
With that money they chose to massacre their own people and fund terrorism across the region.
Now we're spending a multiple of that literally every day for this war. And screwing the global economy in the process. Is this a better deal?
Delivered in August 2016.
> ...they chose to massacre their own people...
In 2025-26 according to your link.
I dunno, that's a big chronological gap to bridge for implying a causal relationship to work.
We're looking at 5x that this time around (so far) and no deal in sight. Not sure this admin is doing the smart thing.
"I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it rather than sending palettes of cash on an jet to radical Muslims."
Point is you can mock Trump with your minesweeper game and jeer from the sidelines, but it's a better policy than sending bad guys money.
The corruption and incompetence are both unprecedented, but you keep doing your dance!