This week’s nuclear deal negotiations in Vienna were supposed to mark the start of drafting the P5+1’s final settlement with Iran. With the US going into the talks steering focus toward non-nuclear issues, the talks made little progress.
Everyone seemed set for the talks, but the US sought to bring in Iran’s conventional military arsenal, insisting that missiles that could hypothetically carry the nuclear warheads Iran doesn’t have in the first place ought to also be strictly limited in the deal.
Iran dismissed that as stupid, and so it went, with the US now faulting Iran, saying the expected “a little bit more flexibility” from Iran on the talks, and that they’d better be aware of the July 20 deadline.
July 20 marks the end of the six month interim deal, which Iran has been abiding by, and while some P5+1 members have talked about extensions, the US seems to be treating it as a firm make-or-break date, preparing to transition back to overt belligerence toward Iran the moment the clock strikes twelve.
I see a chain reaction easily starting this summer, the result of US meddling and troublemaking all over the world. This is how WWI got started.
The US and Israeli gangsters attack Iran after July 20. Hezbollah and Hamas fire rockets into Israel. Russia responds to protect Iran against the US aggressor. US and NATO provocations in Ukraine finally force Russia to mobilize its troops for a Ukrainian rescue mission. NATO responds by massing troops along the Russian border. China responds militarily to US provocations on some unpopulated islands in the East China Sea. The US Navy stages massive joint exercises in the area with its allies Japan, Philippines, and Taiwan.
All that's needed is the match.
US/Israel will not attack Iran. If the US wrecks the nuclear deal, it will be isolated. The US has staked out an untenable position which nobody but Israel can support.
The fact that the US would be isolated and that only Israel would support it is correct, but these two rogue countries seem to have such a death grip on the rest of the world, that they may actually get away with it.
USA/Israel, die already and let the world live in peace.
And The Aftermath by SIPRI is not available any more. Merely being alive in the Andes striving to get some food ? We must try to make them understand that their aggressiveness and new missiles in Eastern Europe leads to Launch On Warning, probably by 2017 and Suicide by mistake.
missiles that could hypothetically carry the nuclear warheads Iran doesn’t have in the first place ought to also be strictly limited in the deal.
At which point you respond: excellent idea! Scrap all your carriers, submarines, airplanes, and large trucks. Then we'll talk.
Most of the Iran-related statements from our government are for domestic consumption. Should the negotiations fail then it is established that "the others" are at fault.
Such statements are hardly for international consumption. The people of most countries other than ours will know exactly who will be at fault.
Nevertheless it is also again made clear that President Obama considers himself to be Chief of World Police who decides which state can defend itself with what.
I can see where Iran is hog tied to a post and is being whipped into submission, eventually they'll cough up those "hypothetically missiles."
Any time the US "negotiates," it uses the same hackneyed play book with the same predictable tactics, designed to ensure that the "negotiations" fail. This failure then provides the FedGov with an excuse to resort unilaterally to military action. At this point, I would hope that no one enters "negotiations" with the US in the expectation of accomplishing anything beyond exchanging verbal volleys in word games and getting themselves set up for "shock and awe."
How does anyone say such nonsense with a straight face? America has gone beyond hypocrisy. Our leaders will say anything that Israel wants them to – we have also gone beyond pride. All that matters is the check from AIPAC.
Happy trigger lunatics are ready to push buttons
Well of course not disarming faster, or properly, or whatever is all Iran's fault.
You can't fault America or israel, or France, Britain, or Russia – they already have theirs.
Why would Iran need or want a nuclear weapon when it can easily neutralize and defeat any Israeli attack with conventional rockets and warheads?
These childish ploys by governments to hatch wars are becoming a little tiresome.
Bearing in mind what Tolstoy said, that –
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful ~ Leo Tolstoy ;
then we can arrive at an understanding and realization of Tolstoy's correct assertions, when we read the simple material to be found part way down the source document linked below, under the subtitled heading –
'SEQUENCE OF DOING BUSINESS USING WRITTEN INSTRUMENTS AS CONTRACTS',
SOURCE DOCUMENT:
THE BUSINESS OF KNOWING YOUR PLACE http://thereisnodebt.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/the…
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