Peter Beck
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Peter Beck
looks page taken tehran
It looks like Tehran has taken a page out of Pyongyang's brinkmanship playbook.
expected faces feared mean north piece reinforced ripping shove within
This has reinforced everything we feared about North Korea's promises, but no one expected them to shove it in everyone's faces within 24 hours. It doesn't mean they're ripping up the piece of paper, they just like to keep everyone guessing.
darker moving north slowly towards
It's getting darker by the day. We are slowly moving towards a showdown with North Korea.
demands lack peace progress worried
That's a non-negotiating point. It's demands like these that have me worried there may be a lack of progress in the peace process.
inherently likely nature reforms sweeping
The very nature of sweeping reforms would be inherently destabilizing to the regime. So it's more likely they would be halting reforms.
alter costs course expect greatly large potential risks three
The potential costs and risks for all three governments are too large to expect any one of them to alter course greatly
believe both help imports loosen mexican parts south southeast supply
We believe that's going to significantly loosen up imports of Mexican cement, which I think will help not only with construction of hurricane-ravaged parts of the gulf, but also the South and Southeast both with supply and pricing.
interested rather taking
What I'm interested in is who he's taking with him, rather than where he's going.