The Trump administration is scrambling to deploy troops, warships, and
bombers into the Middle East this week, with top officials talking up
the possibility of attacking Iran, and analysts saying the US appears closer to such a war than any time since Trump took office.
As ever, the US is inching towards a war by taking hostile actions
against Iran, and then convincing themselves that Iranian retaliation
could be imminent. Israeli intelligence has only added to that
perception, unsurprising since the Netanyahu government has sought a
US-Iran war for years.
This has been a steady buildup of tension entirely of America’s making,
with the US taking a unilateral action, like declaring the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard to be terrorists, then predicting Iranian
retaliation, then talking themselves into more hostile unilateral
actions to “preempt” something they only imagined Iran was going to do.
Among administration hawks, these actions make total sense, both because
they’re hostile to Iran in the first place, and because they assume
Iran will react the same way they would: recklessly and ignoring the
consequences.
Even among analysts trying to give the US more credit, the concern is
that the constant US brinkmanship, spun as “maximum pressure” on Iran,
is going to blunder the US into a war that they don’t really want, but
which the administration can’t seem to help itself but to instigate.
Looking for an end to the endless U.S. failures and outright blunders… Ain’t gonna happen the way they want. No telling what is up…!!!!!
Or is it just a distraction for a collosal Venezuela blunder? Niw that Venezuela is taken to a slower path — creating optics, such as refugee camps, currently housing 256 prople, and other gimmicks, like medical ship. Anything to get people to come and use facilities. Soon the facilities will be brimming with everyone — from Guatemala ans Honduras migrants, to Colombian or Nigerian. Just like US southern border. So, with Venezuela being sold as an immunent event, something else myst take its place. What else but Middle East. With Iraq clamoring that troups leave — and Syria 2500 troups in limbo, a major escallation is needed to justify moving full blast back into Middle East.
This will not sit well with US allies there. None if them asked for escallation, and are focusing on economy. This will result in Gulf states and US worsened relations. They may have issues with Iran — but none of them want war. Not one, specialy not Saudis. US had to pull back from attacking Saudi ruler, and is not able to do anything about Qatar’s ties ti Iran and Turkey. Hoping that war drums will make them fall in line — not likely. US has stalemate in Yemen as well, not getting quick resolution on controlling Arabian side of Bab Al Mandeb. Libya not doing well. Turkey committed to buying Russian missile defence, etc. This time around region will not fall in line as they did against Iraq. Entirely different times.
A. Giving rope to neocons.
B. The Deep State.
C. The Mueller report/Russia-gate.
D. Bibi said so.
E. All of the above
Here is a retrospective of John Bolton’s comments on Iran from prior to his appointment as Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.ca/2018/05/john-boltons-musings-on-iran.html
War with Iran is a given.
Translate. We will screw you even more tightly so that you will have no presidency left, except talk of rubbish we stir up. Now, if you do x,y,z, we just may, may leave you some room to breathe.
And considering our ace, Abrams screwed up in Venezuela, now we need a fast and furious distraction. And by the way, telling Iraqis we are not leaving any time soon. And telling Saudi Prince, we will take care of you, soon enough, as we load up the region with hardware. With us or against us? And telling everyone in the Middle East, enough is enough. We have been played fool in Syria, in Yemen in Libya. Every time we are led to believe it is working as supposed –it turns out that something else altogether is transpiring.
So, we are mad. Really mad.
The problem is, what are our soldiers doing there exactly?
While warmongers are expecting FATTER PIE by more taxpayers money flowing into their coffers, what does it mean to us, the people. I do not get it at all. And everybody seems to be OK with that. Both parties, all mainstream channels. Very few are asking for caution.
But with Iran, like Venezuela, which neighboring country in the Gulf, or anywhere in Arab world, or even wider Muslim world — is ready to join US in attacking Iran.
What is happening, is the impotent rage — coming back to Middle East, whether they like it or not. These folks are not young, but are immature, and a person can be immature at any age.
I am betting they DO NOT ATTACK Iran. Just see how much the area can be intimidated into accepting our presence. Attacking Iran will incur serious risks, and hope our military is not naïve nor immature,
“…blunder the US into a war that they don’t really want…” – What is Mr Ditz basing that assertion of non-desire on? Seems like they want it and are doing everything they can think of to get it.
With all the neocons, Christian Zionists, and dominionists Trump has surrounded himself with calling the shots, anything could happen. They’ll send him out on the links and he can hear about what takes place that evening on Fox News. Iran won’t even have to lift a finger as they’ll stage some horrible false-flag event that will provide the pretext for an invasion.
Closing the Straights of Hormuz is pretty much a certainty, throwing the world’s economy into utter chaos. WWIII, coming right up, but f-ing ey… It’s all part of the divine plan, right? Jesus will come flying in on an ICBM and their sorry asses will be raptured up to heaven. Good riddance to them! The rest of us will be left to clean up the mess they made.
Now you know why Israeli duals rigged the election for Trump. Remember that delay in results from key states late Election Night? Just enough.
It is impossible to know how far the US intends to push Iran. But this deployment shows the Trump administration has given up on overthrowing the Iranian regime by supporting the democratic opposition to the regime. The Iranian memory of the US intervention that overthrew Mosaddegh in 1953 is strong. Nothing will unify all Iranians in support of the regime like a US military threat.So the deployment shows US political weakness and frustration that sanctions have not bent the regime or undermined its popular support.
I hope this deployment is just a maneuver designed to increase tension. But with an election coming up, Trump, Pompeo and Bolton may be crazy enough to hit Iran with sorties. Or Israel might attack Iran to force the US into war. That would be disastrous for the US. A war with Iran would close the Strait of Hornuz which would stop the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf.This would be the biggest war since World War II. The US is not ready for this type of war. But the Israelis and their neo-con agents have been pushing for a US war against Iran for over 20 years. I hope they don’t get their wish.
“And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy. Let me make clear that while this law is first applied against German aggressors, the law, if it is to serve a useful purpose, must condemn aggression by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment.”
Judge Jackson at Nuremberg
As Chomsky has noted, every US president ever since should have been hanged if they kept to those rules.
Israel get the US to fight all wars it wants.
Inching? Is that kind of like the cartoon bush that keeps getting up and moving closer every time you look down at your newspaper?
Again, Israel can’t afford a war with Iran until Hezbollah in Lebanon has been taken out (if possible). The only objection to this fact I can think of is if the US intends to attack Iran at some fake “provocation” and simultaneously Israel intends to attack Lebanon and the US has already secretly decided to support Israel in that attack.
In other words, this would mean the US and Israel finally intend to throw the Middle East into total chaos by attacking Lebanon, Iran – and probably Syria – in a full-scale Middle East war. This war will go on for decades and cost trillions of dollars because none of these countries will surrender.
Not to mention that if the US extends the war into Syria – which is an almost certainty – Russia will be compelled to get involved directly in Syria, and probably will support Iran and even Lebanon to some degree as well, with the potential for escalation to WWIII.
If this war happens in this manner, then I’d recommend finding a way out of the US to a country which is unlikely to be nuked because the risk of nuclear attack will be escalated to a major degree.
Pompeo, Abrams, Bolton, Trump.
Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela, Iran.
Two, three, four, many Vietnam’s!
There is no rational behavior in the “Administration” of Trump and the two stooges he has chosen to ensure his own few good ideas are set aside for their dangerous escalation of conflicts.
btw why is it that the EU is not helping Iran as it promised after the US tossing out the JCPOA??