“All
empires fall, eventually.” “But
why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their
power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn
power are replaced by those who have known nothing else. Who have no
comprehension of the need to rise above base desires.” ― Max Barry
The latest Deep State B-Team’s false flag attacks in the Gulf
of Oman are just the latest attempt to instigate war against Iran in order to
accommodate the neo-Zionist agenda of world domination. The false flag attacks took place as Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Tehran attempting to negotiate a de-escalation
between the U.S. and Iran with Trump’s blessing. This latest lame attempt to drag America onto
another war will only hasten empire’s collapse.
A war weary world is turning against the Deep State’s
constant unprovoked attacks against people of the free world. However the ignorant, brain-deadened American
people, after decades of lack of free press and a bought-and-paid-for
millionaire dominated congress, are unable to recognize what is obvious to anyone
with internet access and a few brain cells.
From Fred Reed at The BurningPlatform:
Excerpt:
The View from Abroad
Americans are brought up to believe that the United States is a shining
city on a hill, a light to mankind, that the world envies us for our values
and freedoms, and hates us because we have them. This is ground into us from
birth. Those of us now long in the tooth remember the Fifties when Superman
jumped out of a window while the announcer spoke of a strange visitor from
another planet fighting for “truth, justice, and the American way,” then
thought to be related.
As one who has traveled much and lived in several countries, I can tell
you: It ain’t so. The world does not regard America with admiration. Today the internet profoundly affects the
world’s view of America. The Web makes graphic and easily found things that in
earlier times would have been out of sight from abroad.
For example, people in Kathmandu and Moscow can see horrifying and entirely truthful
photos of the homeless living in piles of garbage in Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and dozens of other American cities. They can
read of trade conventions avoiding San Francisco because of needles and
excrement on the sidewalks. Such scenes are rare even in most upper-Third World
countries. To the orderly Japanese, accustomed to spotless cities and
responsible government, such things are, in the strict sense of the word,
incomprehensible.
Home of the brave, land of the
free, the envy of the world. Just ask us. The estimated homeless population of
LA is 58,000 and climbing. Swarms of
flea-carrying rats, which certainly exist, are said to cause outbreaks of
typhus, a medieval disease. Anyone with a smartphone can see this.
The frequent mass shootings in the
United States astonish most of the world. Opening fire on a country music
concert, randomly shooting to death people in a gay nightclub, seems to most of
the world a breakdown of civilization. It is.
Many of these matanzas involve
children gunning down their classmates. Even in a country like Mexico,
accustomed to recurring slaughters of narcos by other narcos, the school
shootings are a shock.
Americans are now used to things that in any other country would be
unthinkable: bulletproof backpacks for high-school students, police walking
the halls, metal detectors, proposals to arm teachers, “active-shooter” drills.
To the rest of the world (or to
Americans who were in high school in the Sixties) this is insane.
But normal in the Indispensable Country… This is the country Americans believe the
world wants to imitate. No. From outside, it seems more a country in political
and cultural freefall.
To everyone else, the militarism
of the United States, its absurd military expenditures, its huge number of
nuclear weapons, its desire to upgrade them, to develop small tactical nuclear
weapons, its preparation for nuclear war with specialized flying bunkers–seems
nutty. No other country does this. None
wants to. In Mexico people roll their eyes. What the hell is wrong with the
gringos?
““Affectionately known as the
“doomsday plane,” the modified Boeing 747 is used to transport the Secretary
of Defense and is born and bred for battle. It stands nearly six stories tall, is equipped with four colossal
engines, and is capable of enduring the immediate aftermath of a nuclear
detonation.” The language is that of a
little boy of twelve watching Star Wars. It is the attitude of much of America.
Easily found online: the racial
disaster in the US, the dozens of cities with domestic Sowetos in their hearts,
the huge, hopeless, entirely black regions where whites dare not walk. In these, entirely black schools turn out
millions of barely literates who for the remaining fifty years of their lives
will be unemployable…
Freedoms? More sophisticated readers abroad know of our intensifying
censorship, the words that can get you fired, the controlled press, the
surveillance. Americans know what you can’t say and who you can’t say it
about. We know the police are militarized and out of control. We see the
cell-cam videos of beatings. So does the world.
America’s foreign policy makes it
hated in most of the world. It seems murderous, thuggish, brutal, a menace to
everyone. For example, the U.S. killed
over a million people in Iraq. This does not bother Americans. Since
2000 it has destroyed Iraq, Syria, Libya, enters its eighteenth year of
butchering Afghans, bombs Somalia, sends troops to Africa. It militarily threatens North Korea,
Venezuela, Iran, seeks to destroy the economies of Iran, Venezuela, Cuba,
Russia, China. It sanctions Europe. No other country does this…
NUMBER OF WARS STARTED SINCE
2000 BY IRAN: O. RUSSIA: 0. CHINA: 0. NORTH KOREA: 0. AMERICA…? Number
of countries openly running torture sites while talking of human rights? 1.
The country with the largest prison population? The answer is left to the
reader as an exercise.
Even today, many Americans speak of
American Values, of the country’s devotion to democracy and human rights and
freedom. Maybe Americans believe it. No
one else does. The United States has a horrendous
history of installing or supporting hideous dictators, supporting repressive
regimes, overthrowing elected governments. Human rights? In Saudi
Arabia? Israel? The world is not blind.
Americans, self-absorbed, perhaps the most historically ignorant of
First-World peoples, shrugs such things off. “Oh, get over it.” Whatever it
was. The nations involved do not shrug them off…
From abroad, America is a feral, amoral, remorseless empire, rotting from within,
willing to do anything to maintain its dominance. From inside the U.S., it
seems otherwise. Do you, an American reader, want to kill Afghans? Buy another
trillion dollars of nuclear weapons? War with Iran? Russia? But Americans have no influence over what
Washington does, and the world judges by what it sees.
Ouch, but so very true. “Americans have no influence over
what Washington does” if we did we would be able to change directions by going
to the polls and voting. Why would a
Deep State that overthrows the elected governments across the world allow
Americans to choose their government?
They don’t, the election of Donald Trump as American president was a
shock that the Deep State has yet to get over.
However, Trump has been neutered and the foreign policy is firmly in the
hands of the Deep State’s thuggish goons who are completely out of
control. From Caitlin Johnstone at Consortium News:
Excerpt:
7 Reasons to Doubt US Version of Gulf-of-Oman Incident
In a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo has wasted no time
scrambling to blame Iran for damage done to two sea vessels in the Gulf
of Oman on Thursday, CITING EXACTLY ZERO EVIDENCE.
“This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the
level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian
attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has
the resources and proficiency to act with such a high-degree of
sophistication,” Pompeo told the press in a statement.
“The United States will defend its
forces, interests, and stand with our partners and allies to safeguard global
commerce and regional stability. And we
call upon all nations threatened by Iran’s provocative acts to join us in that
endeavor,” Pompeo concluded before
hastily shambling off, taking exactly zero questions.
Here are seven reasons to be
extremely skeptical of everything Pompeo said:
No. 1: Pompeo is a
known liar, especially when it comes to Iran.
Pompeo has a well-established
history of circulating blatant lies about Iran. He recently told an audience at Texas A&M University that when he
was leading the CIA, “We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training
courses.”
No. 2: The US empire
is known to use lies and false flags to start wars.
The U.S.-centralized power alliance has an extensive and well-documented
history of advancing preexisting military agendas using lies, false flags and
psyops to make targeted governments appear to be the aggressors. This is
such a well-established pattern that “Gulf of Tonkin” briefly trended on
Twitter after the Gulf of Oman incident. Any
number of government agencies could have been involved from any number of the
nations in this alliance, including the U.S., the U.K., Saudi Arabia, the UAE
or Israel.
No. 3: John Bolton
has openly endorsed lying to advance military agendas.
I wrote an article about this last
month because the Trump administration
had already begun rapidly escalating against Iran in ways that happen to
align perfectly with the longtime agendas of Trump’s psychopathic Iran hawk
National security adviser. At that time people were so aware of the
possibility that Bolton might involve himself in staging yet another Middle
Eastern war based on lies that The Onion was already spoofing it.
On a December 2010 episode of Fox
News’ “Freedom Watch,” Bolton and the show’s host Andrew Napolitano were
debating about recent WikiLeaks publications, and naturally the subject of
government secrecy came up.
“Now I want to make the case for
secrecy in government when it comes to the conduct of national security
affairs, and possibly for deception where that’s appropriate,” Bolton said. “You know Winston Churchill
said during World War Two that in wartime truth is so important it should be
surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.”
“Do you really believe that?” asked
an incredulous Napolitano.
“Absolutely,” Bolton replied.
“You would lie in order to preserve
the truth?”
“If I had to say something I knew was false to protect American
national security, I would do it,” Bolton answered.
This would be the same John Bolton who has been paid exorbitant speaking fees by the
pro-regime change MEK terror cult, promising the cult in a 2017 speech that
they’d be celebrating regime change in Tehran together before 2019. This
would also be the same John Bolton who
once threatened to murder an OPCW official’s children if he didn’t stop getting
in the way of his Iraq war agenda.
No. 4: Using false
flags to start a war with Iran is already an established idea in the DC swamp.
Back in 2012 at a forum for the
Washington Institute of Near East Policy
think tank, the group’s Director of Research Patrick Clawson openly talked
about the possibility of using a false flag to provoke a war with Iran,
citing the various ways the U.S. has done exactly that with its previous wars. “I frankly think that crisis initiation is
really tough, and it’s very hard for me to see how the United States president
can get us to war with Iran,” Clawson began…
“So if, in fact, the Iranians aren’t going to compromise, it would be
best if somebody else started the war,” Clawson continued… We could step up the pressure. I mean look
people, Iranian submarines periodically go down. Some day, one of them might not come up. Who would know why?
[Smattering of sociopathic laughter from the crowd.]
We can do a variety of things, if
we wish to increase the pressure (I’m not advocating that) but I’m just
suggesting that this is not an either/or proposition — just
sanctions have to succeed or other things. We
are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get
nastier at that.”
No. 5: The US State
Department has already been running psyops to manipulate the public Iran
narrative...
State Department officials admitted
to congressional staff at a closed-door meeting on Monday that a $1.5 million troll farm had gone “beyond
the scope of its mandate” by aggressively smearing American critics of the
Trump administration’s Iran policy as propagandists for the Iranian government,
according to a new report from The Independent. That “mandate” had reportedly
consisted of “countering propaganda from Iran,” also known as conducting
anti-Iran propaganda.
“Critics in Washington have gone
further, saying that the programme
resembled the type of troll farms used by autocratic regimes abroad,” says
The Independent. “One woman behind
the harassment campaign, a longtime Iranian-American activist, has received
hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State Department over the years
to promote ‘freedom of expression and free access to information,’” the report
reads.
No. 6: The Gulf of
Oman narrative makes no sense.
One of the ships damaged in the
attacks was Japanese-owned, and the other was bound for Japan. This happened just as Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe was in Tehran attempting to negotiate a de-escalation
between the U.S. and Iran with Trump’s blessing, and just after Iran had released a prisoner accused of conducting
espionage for the U.S. in what many took to be a gesture of good faith.
Iran has been conducting itself with remarkable restraint in the face
of relentless sanctions and provocations from the U.S. and its allies. It wouldn’t make much sense for it to suddenly abandon that
restraint with attacks on sea vessels, then rescue their crew, then deny
perpetrating the attacks, during a time of diplomatic exchanges and while
trying to preserve the nuclear deal with Europe. If Tehran did
perpetrate the attacks in order to send a strong message to the Americans, it
would have been a very mixed message sent in a very weird way with very odd
timing.
No. 7: Even if Iran
did perpetrate the attack, Pompeo would still be lying.
Pompeo’s statement uses the words “unprovoked” twice and “Iran’s
provocative acts” once, explicitly
claiming that the U.S. empire was just minding its own business leaving Iran
alone when it was attacked out of the blue by a violent aggressor. SOMETIMES
THE THINGS PUT OUT BY THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT FEEL LIKE THEY’RE CONDUCTING
EXPERIMENTS ON US, JUST TO TEST THE LIMITS OF OUR STUPIDITY…
Either way, we have seen exactly zero evidence supporting Pompeo’s
claims, so anyone you see hastening to blame Iran for the Gulf of Oman
incident is either a war whore or a slobbering moron, or both. Knowing
what we know about the U.S.-centralized empire and its pre-existing regime
change agenda against Iran, there is no reason to believe Pompeo and many
reasons not to.
“the Pentagon should start using Huawei
cameras for better video quality”.
My, my my. Caitlin is
so right and I admire her grasp of the English language to put it so
succinctly, “things put out by the U.S. State Department feel like they’re
conducting experiments on us, just to test the limits of our stupidity” and “anyone
you see hastening to blame Iran for the Gulf of Oman incident is either a war
whore or a slobbering moron, or both.”
So speaking of those believing the State Department’s propaganda either
being a “war whore” or “a slobbering moron” Zero Hedge is reporting on the
mothership of war whores and slobbering morons who are buying this crap.
Excerpt:
Senators Switched Key Votes On Gulf Arms Ban Hours After Tanker Attacks
A brief report from AntiWar.com's
Eric Garris suggests Thursday's tanker
attack incident in the Gulf of Oman which the United States promptly blamed on
Iran has directly impacted bills placed before the Senate which would ban US
arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar.
Garris wrote of the vote which came
hours after the Gulf tankers incident: "Both votes were considered highly
likely to pass up until they were rushed to the floor today. The timing appears almost certainly to have been related to Thursday
tanker bombings in the Gulf of Oman, and shifted a number of Senators’ votes in
favor of continuing the arms sales." He noted THAT "SOME SENATORS
SWITCHED SIDES TO KILL THE BILLS" FOLLOWING NEWS OF THE TANKER ATTACKS.
The vote, according to Defense
News, indeed came very close:
The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected Sen. Rand Paul’s measures to
block sales of munitions to Bahrain and Boeing AH–64E Apache helicopters to
Qatar.
The vote on Bahrain was 43-56 and Qatar 42-57, after Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim
Inhofe, R-Okla., announced their opposition Thursday. The White House
earlier this week threatened to veto the measures.
The Kentucky Republican and prominent Libertarian argued passionately
that the US should not be supporting authoritarian governments who are known
backers of extremists and who are conducting mass atrocities in Yemen. Sen.
Paul has repeatedly called on Congress and the White House to "stop
arming radical jihadism".
“Dumping more weapons into the Middle East won’t get us any closer to
peace,” Paul said. “A ‘yes’ vote today is a vote for sanity. A ‘yes’
vote is a vote to quit sending arms to people who abuse human rights.”
Paul especially targeted Saudi
Arabia in his floor remarks, according to Defense News:
“What are they doing with all the
weapons we give them? They’re bombing
civilians in Yemen,” he said. “They have been using our bombs and up until
recently they were refueling their bombers with our planes. We’ve got no
business in the war in Yemen. Congress never voted on it. It is unauthorized,
it is unconstitutional and we have no business aiding the Saudis in this
massacre.”
Meanwhile the White House has
defended its threat to veto on the grounds that such gulf nations remain
crucial "security partners" and places where US troops and naval
assets are stationed.
The idea of a block on US arms sales to Saudi Arabia — though long
a little noted project of libertarians and non-interventionists — gained unprecedented momentum and
visibility following last year's brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by
a Saudi hit team at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul.
However, at a moment the push to block arms to despotic gulf nations was
gaining broad public support, the new flare-up in the Persian Gulf based on
Thursday's mysterious twin tanker attacks has likely now caused such efforts to
be shelved for the foreseeable future.
Yep, that was the State Department’s intended target, “war
whores and slobbering morons” and it was a direct hit. As Fred Reed aptly put it, “America is a
feral, amoral, remorseless empire, rotting from within, willing to do anything
to maintain its dominance” that is what is left of America after the 2000
neo-Zionist coup.
Unfortunately for America these war whores and slobbering
morons who are in charge of our foreign policy are very stupid and the world
knows it. Iran as well as the rest of
the world are playing “rope-a-dope” with them and they are too stupid to see
their own limitations. They are
incapable of deep thought or remorse for their actions. Trump was a fool to ever allow them near the
White House and now he’s in a world of hurt, with few options. From Tom Luongo at Gold Goats and Guns:
Excerpt:
Did the B-Team Overplay its Hand Against Iran?
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad
Zarif has a term of endearment for Iran’s enemies, “The B-Team.” The
“B-Team” consists of U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, Israeli Prime
Minister (nee Dictator) Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman
and the UAE’s Mohammed bin Zayed.
When we look seriously at the attacks on the oil tankers in the Gulf
of Oman this week the basic question that comes to mind is, Cui bono? Who
benefits? And it’s easy to see how
the B-Team benefits from this attack and subsequent blaming Iran for it. With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
in Tehran opening up a dialogue on behalf of U.S. President Donald Trump the
threat of peace was in the air.
And none of the men on the B-Team profit from peace in the Middle East with
respect to Iran. Getting Trump to stop hurling lightning bolts from the
mountain top the B-Team guided him up would do
nothing to help oil prices, which the Saudis and UAE need/want to remain high.
Bin Salman, in particular, cannot afford to see oil prices drop back
into the $40’s per barrel. With the world awash in oil and supply tight,
even with OPEC production cuts, Bin
Salman is currently on very thin ice because of the Saudi Riyal’s peg to the
U.S. dollar, which he can’t abandon or the U.S. will abandon them.
Falling oil prices and a rising
dollar are a recipe for the death of the Saudi government, folks. Iran knows
this. Netanyahu and Bolton don’t want peace because the U.S. fighting a war
with Iran serves the cause of Greater Israel and opens up the conflict in
the hopes of regime change and elimination of Iran.
Bolton, as well, is finally
feeling the heat of his incompetence and disloyalty to Trump, according to
John Kirakau at Consortium News.
Of course, a more rational person
might conclude that Bolton has done a
terrible job, that the people around him have done a terrible job, that he has
aired his disagreements with Trump in the media, and that the President is
angry about it. That’s the more likely scenario.
Here’s what my friends are saying.
Trump is concerned, like any president is near the end of his term, about his
legacy. He said during the campaign that he wanted to be the president who
pulled the country out of its two longest wars. He wanted to declare victory
and bring the troops back from Afghanistan and Iraq. He hasn’t done that, largely at the insistence of Bolton. Here we
are three years later and we’re still stuck in both of those countries.
Second, my friends say that Trump wants to end U.S. involvement in the
Yemen war, but that Bolton has been insistent that the only way to
guarantee the closeness of the U.S. relationships with Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates is to keep providing those countries with weapons, aerial
refueling planes, and intelligence support.
So, couple the attacks on these tankers with the timing of Abe’s visit
and the vote on Rand Paul’s bill to end selling arms to the Saudis in support
of their war in Yemen (which flew through the Senate thanks to this attack
getting a number of senators to change their vote at the last second) and we have a perfect cui bono.
That’s the entire B-Team’s motives distilled down to a couple of drones
flying in to create a casus belli which saves Bolton’s job, keeps the
weapons flowing to the murderous Saudis and creates an opportunity for Netanyahu to feed Trump bad information via his
‘intelligence’ services.
The rush to judgment by the usual
suspects in the Trump administration should be all the proof you need that
we’re looking at a set up to get Trump to fly off the handle which he, so far,
hasn’t done. Remember, Trump wants lower oil prices. He wants a weaker dollar and
lower interest rates.
He needs the frackers in Eagle Ford
and Permian to keep raising output but they keep bleeding red ink. He’s fighting the Fed as well as former
directors of the FBI, CIA and ODNI via his new attorney general, William
Barr.
His approval rating is high and he’s going after his political enemies
now. But a potential war in the Middle East is a real problem for him.
And this is where Moon of Alabama’s
Bernard comes in with his excellent analysis of the current situation vis a vis
Iran. The whole article is worth your time but the money-shot, as it were, is
right here:
To say that the attacks were provocations by the U.S. or its Middle
East allies is made easier by their evident ruthlessness. Any accusations
by the Trump administration of Iranian culpability will be easily dismissed because everyone knows that Trump and his crew are
notorious liars.
This cat and mouse game will now
continue and steadily gain pace. More
tankers will get damaged or even sunk. Saudi refineries will start to explode.
UAE harbors will experience difficulties. Iran will plausibly deny that it
is involved in any of this. The U.S.
will continue to blame Iran but will have no evidence to prove it.
Insurance for Middle East cargo will become very expensive. Consumer
prices for oil products will increase and increase again. The collateral
damage will be immense.
All this will gradually put more pressure on Trump.
Don’t forget that the U.S.’s
sanctions on Iran makes it difficult for Iran to insure its cargoes. So, even
if a company or country wanted to still do business with NIOC, they can’t
because they can’t get insurance on the cargo
It’s been a real problem that Iran had to solve by having its own
fleet of tankers which it also insures domestically to keep what oil it can
export flowing. So it only makes sense
to begin hitting the rest of the world via the same weapons being used against
Iran.
But as Trump has ratcheted up the
pressure he’s put Iran in the exact position that makes them the most
dangerous. Acting through deniable proxies Iran can now drag this out as a
low-grade conflict far longer than Trump can bear politically. They
don’t need to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. They just have to screw with its
enemies’ ability to make a living.
The political pressure that will
come to bear on a global economy
imploding because of instability in the flow of oil is not something a butcher
like Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is capable of handling.
Bernard calls Trump’s administration ‘notorious liars’ and that’s the
key. People can look no further
than the ludicrous and inept handling of the regime change operation in
Venezuela and see the mendacity first hand.
That operation was so bad, culminating in the pathetic “Bay of
Fat Pigs” coup attempt, that it has left
every country that backed Bolton and Pompeo’s play there, including Trump
himself, looking like morons.
You don’t embarrass the narcissists who inhabit high-level government
offices and not suffer in some way. This is why I give a lot of credence to
John Kirakou’s conclusion that Bolton being one approved candidate away from
unemployment.
Firing Bolton and having Abe and
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas go to Tehran are good will gestures. But Trump has let his B-Team badly mismanage
this situation in the same way that he let Bolton and Pompeo mismanage Kim
Jong-un and North Korea. No one
believes he’s capable of peace or showing shame. He’s left himself in no
position to climb down from this position without the help of Iran itself.
This is exactly the argument I made
in April of 2017 after his missile strike on Syria over a “beautiful piece of
chocolate cake.” He revealed himself
to be both tactically and strategically incompetent.
He has to come groveling to them
now. But he won’t. And Iran and its
benefactors, Russia and China, have no incentive to come to him. He can’t
keep his promises since he’s not really in charge of policy. As Ayatollah Khamenei
pointed out on Twitter (oh, the irony):
Khamenei.ir
@khamenei_ir
We do not believe at all that the U.S. is
seeking genuine negotiations with Iran; because genuine negotiations would
never come from a person like Trump. Genuineness is very rare among U.S.
officials.
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.@AbeShinzo U.S. president met
& talked with you a few days ago, including about Iran. But after returning
from Japan, he immediately imposed sanctions on Iran’s petrochemical industry.
Is this a message of honesty? Does that show he is willing to hold genuine
negotiations?
Khamenei.ir
@khamenei_ir
After the nuclear deal, the first
one to immediately breach the JCPOA was Obama; the same person who had
requested negotiations with Iran & had sent a mediator. This is our
experience, & Mr. Abe, know that we won’t repeat the same experience.
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Trump thought the B-Team was giving him negotiating leverage. But
what happens to your leverage when the other person takes his chips, walks away
from the table and says, “No. I won’t deal with you.”
So now the screws will be put to
everyone. Trump pushed Erdogan of Turkey
away over the S-400 and Putin called in his marker forcing Erdogan to end his
support for Al-Qaeda in Idlib. That campaign will be slow and excruciating
but it will eventually grind them out.
Iran has been handed all the cards
they need to become the exact thing Pompeo, Trump and the B-Team have been
accusing them of being but now with the cover of deniability and asymmetry. All of the things Moon of Alabama laid out
are now going to happen even if Trump fires Bolton, pulls troops out and lifts
the oil embargo on Syria, etc.
Netanyahu will scream bloody murder and up the ante until Putin slaps
him down. Because now that Trump has made it clear he doesn’t want war with
Iran we know there’s a limit to what Bibi can incite. If Trump was serious about war with Iran it
would have already been declared. The smoke, however, is blowing in a different
direction.
Iran will retaliate here just to
make the point that they can. They will
make Saudi Arabia and the UAE pay the biggest price directly while Trump
finally has to start thinking things through or his presidency will end badly
next year.
The war of attrition against the
fragility of the Western financial system will enter the next stage here. Iran, China and Russia will now, sadly,
activate the weapons they have been holding back for years, hoping that Trump
and his B-Team would come to their senses.
This is what happens when you let the B-Team overplay your hand for you
against people who are 1) smarter and 2) more patient than you are. And, frankly, I don’t blame them one bit.
Because as the only thing that American power brokers understand is strength.
And you have to hit them between the eyes with a stick to get them to respect
you.
Yes indeed Max Barry is right, “All
empires fall, eventually. It’s not for
lack of power. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined.” Has there ever been a more undisciplined
bunch of “war whores and slobbering morons” than those who seized power in
America December 12, 2000?
There is no
difference between the Democrats and Republicans in congress they are almost
all self-professed “Zionists” who serve the interests of the war whores who
have seized control over the government of Israel. I have no doubt that the people of Israel,
just like the people of America do not share the bloodthirsty empire lust of
their leaders. Yet it is they and us who
will suffer when the chicken hawks come home to roost.
This is a very interesting read!
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