In new comments at the UN Security Council, Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo called for increased international cooperation against Iran, and
warned against the UN allowing the existing arms embargo and travel bans
against Iran to expire.
Pompeo says that the expiration would leave Iran “unshackled to create new turmoil.”
The measures are scheduled to expire in October of 2020. It’s not
surprising that the US wants to extend them, but it’s not clear that the
rest of the Security Council will support the effort.
Pompeo’s attempt to scare the rest of the council into renewing the
measures probably isn’t going to be an easy sell, particularly with
nations like Russia and China willing to trade with Iran, and that trade
potentially including arms in the future.
Moreover, despite Pompeo’s rhetoric, Iran hasn’t been engaged in an
offensive war in generations, so it’s not clear why they should be
banned from buying defensive arms, beyond the US just not wanting them
to have any.
It’s always so much more fun to attack the defenseless.
Oh, how I long to see America get its arse kicked.
Me too. Here we say ass. It sounds so much better. :- )
can I leave first?
The US regime behaves like a mob of fascist gangsters, because that is what it is.
It’s just more “blah, blah, Iran bad” talk as part of the ramp up to a new war that Trump has been intending all along. Only fools think this guy is some kind of “peace President” – just like all the fools who swallowed the Obama nonsense – that even Gareth Porter spread – that he was “hesitant” about starting new wars – despite having ruined Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.
Get a clue. These guys don’t want to be *blamed* for starting new wars, that’s all. Actually starting them is no problem for them at all. And that applies one hundred percent to Trump as well.
It isn’t DJT who’d be ramping up to a new war .. You’re mistaking him for both Pompous Pompeo and Bonkers Bolton, who are salivating to start a war with Iran. DJT’s mistake is in failing to fire both of these loony warmongers over a year ago. Had he done it and replaced them with experienced diplomats, there wouldn’t be any tensions in the ME with Iran.
DJT hasn’t started any wars and doesn’t intend to do so .. he’d lose re-election in 2020 for sure if he did. If you think he’s that stupid, you simply don’t know him at all. He’s been a businessman for 40 years and that gives him a heads-up when it comes to strategy. His 2 predecessors – G. W. Bush and Barack Obama – can’t even come close when it comes to strategy .. They’ve never been either businessmen or good businessmen.
“It isn’t DJT who’d be ramping up to a new war.” It is DJT’s loyal employees who he appointed, who he supports, and who he retains.”
Fixed, no charge.
You have no idea what Trump is about. He’s like every other President – just doesn’t want to be blamed for starting a war, but has no problem starting one.
And again, even if he did have a preference for not starting one, he will still come to the aid of Israel if Israel starts it.
But no one is stupid enough to try to impose a blockade without being aware that it is an act of war. And Trump has explicitly said he wants a blockade of Venezuela – and that’s only a cover for imposing one on Iran.
He is stupid enough to believe that he will get a “poll bounce” for the 2020 elections if he starts a war with Iran while believing he can blame Iran for starting it – which is what a blockade is all about.
We’ll see. The other possibility is that he will postpone starting the war until after the election – that way it won’t even matter to him, and he can go ahead and support Israel by attacking Iran.
What will you say then?