On Monday, the US completed the reimposition of all US sanctions against Iran which had been relaxed under the P5+1 nuclear deal. President Trump withdrew the US from the deal in May, and there was a six month window after the announcement before sanctions could be resumed.
According to national security adviser John Bolton, this is only the beginning. During a Monday interview with Fox Business, Bolton insisted that the administration plans to “even go beyond this,” and that more sanctions are coming.
He was not specific on what that means, but Bolton did say that the administration would not “be content with going back to the level of sanctions that existed under Obama in 2015.” The 2015 sanctions were nearly a full blockade of Iran, and it’s not clear what additional sanctions are even possible.
Administration officials are also claiming they cost Iran “billions of dollars” in oil revenue since May just on the threat of sanctions. They claimed the announcement took one million barrels of oil a day off the market.
It’s not clear this is true, however, as while some companies did indeed back away from trade with Iran during that period, there is no good information on how many planned to buy oil, let alone that Iran wasn’t able to simply sell that oil to someone else.
The cruelty of the US maladministration, and Boltonarsol in particular, beggars belief for an alleged democracy.
Sanctions brought down the evil Soviets. Oh wait…. it wasn’t sanctions. Well then…. sanctions ended the evil Castro regime in Cuba! …. Nope. North Korea then? …. No. Saddam Hussein? Uh no.
The only thing that will satisfy the regime change nuts in DC is complete capitulation followed by a puppet government. The alternative is military intervention followed by destruction of that nations stability.
I hate John Bolton and wish nothing but a slow painful death on him and his ilk. A$$ cancer would be too good for that wretch of a human being.
The US and Russia are fighting each by proxy in the Middle East. If events develop into a full scale war against Iran they will be fighting directly. It is the global connectedness of disparate regional conflicts that is the trigger for world war. The pattern of history is clear: the world is heading for nuclear holocaust.
• Power, (manifested as interest) was present in very conflict in history – no exception. It is the underlying motivation for war. Interest cuts across all apparently unifying principles: family, kin, nation, religion, ideology, politics – everything. We unite with the enemies of our principles, because that is what serves our interest. It is the one thing we will destroy ourselves for, as well as everyone else.
• History shows that every civilization/nation eventually gets the war it is trying to avoid: utter defeat. This applies as much today as any other time in history.
• Leaders and decision-makers delude themselves, thinking they can avoid their fate – they can’t. If survival is threatened, there is no alternative to war, however destructive.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
How exactly is Trump going to get everyone on the sanctions bandwagon that everyone knows is the Crazy Train leading to WWIII? Many countries are already figuring out ways to circumvent sanctions. They know the 5+1 deal was a good deal because it allowed unfettered access and Iran never complained because it had no intention on building a nuke in the first place. For Trump to claim he is draining the swamp while relyinjg on a swamp mutation to run US defense strategy is the kind of stupidity that allowed Trump to pick sessions as the AG. This has nothing to do with Iranian nukes and everything to do with allowing Zionists to steer US foreign policy towards confrontation with Iran, Syria and Russia.
You have a mighty valid point here and I wholeheartedly agree. How’s Trump going to get everyone on the sanctions bandwagon that they all know is the Crazy train leading up to WWIII? As we know, several countries are already figuring out ways to circumvent sanctions. They know the 5+1 deal was good because it allowed unfettered access and Iran never complained. The Islamic Republic had no intention of building a nuke in the first place. As you said, for Trump to claim he’s draining the swamp while relying on a swamp mutation to run US defense strategy’s the kind of stupidity that allowed Trump to pick Sessions as AG. This has nothing to do with Iranian nukes and everything to do with allowing Zionists to steer US foreign policy toward confrontation with Iran, Syria and Russia. That’s suicide, pure and simple.
I thought Obama, Trump’s predecessor, was driving the US toward suicide, but Trump’s the one actually doing it.