US plans to to try to extend an arms embargo on Iran at the UN, and potentially to try to force a snapback of sanctions are being rejected by other UN Security Council permanent members, with China now joining Russia in rejecting the idea.
China’s UN mission issued a statement saying that the US had failed to meet its obligations under the Iran nuclear deal in the first place, and “has no right to extend an arms embargo on Iran, let alone to trigger a snapback.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has argued that the US is still technically part of the nuclear deal despite never meeting its sanctions relief obligations and then withdrawing from the deal years ago. The goal is to claim the US can still reimpose sanctions under the deal despite not being truly part of the deal.
Russia is planning to sell Iran defensive arms once the embargo lifts later in 2020, and would certainly prevent its extension. China too now seems set to veto any attempt at snapback sanctions, and while Pompeo has said the US will do this however they can, it doesn’t seem like they have an obvious legal avenue for any of this.
Pompey is military thug in drag as a diplomat. I suppose he is just following orders, but one in America never really knows whether the president runs policy or the deep state military & State Dept. Boys and their corporerat paymasters call the shots…. GOOD NEWS that the Iran sanctions are headed for an ignominous failure. Lots luck getting Russia & China to let this turkey fly…..!!!!! They learnt their necessary lessons in the rape of Libya… with those no fly (no survivors) zones: “USA NOT TRUSTWORTY AT ALL”,
It will take quite a lot of time to get that toothpaste back in the tube……!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President is just a Zombie. He is not aware of what is happening
Don’t make us laugh. He knows exactly what is happening- it is just that the MIC has got him by the short hairs. As thick-skinned as he is, they’ve got pictures.
This is a man who everyone thought was going to shake things up when he came into office. He had pointed plenty of fingers at Boeing, for example, during the campaign, but afterwards meekly signed off on every single massive cost overrun on the Air Force One contract.He was regarded as a conservative promising to balance the budget. Instead, a trillion dollar deficit each year, not a single veto(!!) (but he has the nerve to hang Andrew Jackson’s portrait in the Oval Office- the very man who kept his promise that when he left office, the nation would not be one penny in debt. Not aware of what is happening!
Biden makes Trump look like Einstein. If Trump was such a zombie of the Deep State, the coup wouldn’t have been attempted.
NO ONE makes Trump look like Einstein. It’s insanity to think one of these pieces of sh*t makes the other look better or worse.
When someone is in the throes of Alzheimers, I beg to differ.
And when someone like Don the Con is in the throes of the Kushner Zionists, which cannot be denied, I must really beg to differ.
And that comes from a real NYer and not a rich spoiled billionaire who has over multiple times bankrupted his businesses.
Totally different subject and every Administration since Eisenhower has been in the throes of the Lobby.
Not really another subject since its all inter-related.
Also a small correction sir:
Every American administration since Truman has been in the throes of the Lobby. Truman was one of the first free world leaders to recognize the Zionist entity in 1948.
Ike actually warned us against the MICs and other nefarious groups in his farewell address to the nation in 1960. JFK tried to follow his lead but we all know what happened.
Today no prior American president in the past 60 years (LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan,Bush1, Clinton, Bush2, or Obama) has done more than Don the Con to fulfill the Zionists wet-dreams for a greater Israel.
Beginning with the day that the Trump administration recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and moving the USA embassy to the Holy City. And then with the USA’s trashing of the JCPOA pact with Iran, and its total acceptance of Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights; and now finally culminating in Israeli annexation of the West Bank, which will happen soon; and of course don’t forget the endless ME wars we fight for our dear ally. Which the Con man said he was going to end.
Yeah right! MIGA! not MAGA!
So as an astute observer you must know that our political reality is one in which the system is corrupt and controlled by a foreign government and it ain’t Russia. Also I’m sure you realize that both of the major political parties work hand in hand against the interests of the common people of the USA.
So as Wars wrote:
“It’s insanity to think one of these pieces of sh*t makes the other look better or worse.”
Unfortunately Trump is not who people think he is but neither is the Creeper Biden.
But I am sure you would also agree that the rich Zionist douchebag from Queens who never even wiped his own ass is definitely not the solution for our country’s ills.
I indicated Eisenhower because he sided with Egypt against France, England and ISRAEL in the Suez Crisis. Has any other Administration actually went against Israel in a conflict, land grab, or apartheid policies by that regime, since Eisenhower.
When the train keeps gaining speed by previous Administration’s engineers as it regards Israel’s expansionism (and bombing of neighbors at will) it’s hard to stop, and this is the logical next stop, or the culmination of long standing American policy thru Repub and Dem Administrations and Congresses.
i guess you won’t like it when the capital of northern israel is damascus. we have decided to slice syria into three pieces. turkey gets that western region they covet. the kurds get a central smaller region that will become a country under our guidance of course. israel gets the rest of syria up to and including damascus. of course the removal of the gazans and finding a place for them will be difficult. a proposed march to the sea seems a bit extreme although preferable to many. we will find them some beach somewhere to land on.
Furthermore all billionaires in the US have filed for LEGAL bankruptcies just like George Soros has.
bankruptcies are meaningless. it is all imaginary money anyway. monopoly money, play money. people just keep exchanging it between themselves.
You’d think. Did you watch Trump’s daily briefings? That is what made him look like Einstein compared to Biden? And why is Trump’s continued gaffes passed off as something other than senility? Can he say the flu pandemic of 1918 was in 1917 one more time more? Or how the airfields were secured during the revolution? I’m told continuously how high of an IQ Trump has, so those gaffes can’t be attributed to lack of intelligence. Or is Trump lying about his IQ like he lies about everything else? They both suck equally and anyone voting for either is delusional.
This just in:
And now we have a “super duper missile”. Sure, he’s so much more stable than Biden.
At least he KNOWS what he’s going to say. You are an Einstein too, compared to Biden.
Biden says stupid sh*t because he’s senile and Trump says stupid sh*t because that’s what he means to say. Makes his being an Einstein in comparison rather meaningless.
Let’s just skip the Einstein reference then and say Trump is far more in charge of his faculties than Biden. There, fixed it. And don’t forget, Trump hasn’t STARTED any new wars (yet), like his predecessors including one of the worst ones for that, the Nobel Peace Prize winner. What a joke that was and still is.
I’m going rephrase it. Trump was the lesser of the two evils between Cankles and him, and between him and the Deep Warmongering State who attempted the coup.
What bothers me isn’t that people vote for the lesser of evils, it’s that they start to think their lesser evil is actually someone worth voting for. Especially when they use tripe like he “hasn’t started any new wars” yet. Never mind he has continued the killing(or escalated)in the wars he inherited and sanctioned multiple countries in an attempt at economically destroying them until they capitulate to his demands. His being more in charge of his faculties should mean something positive but it doesn’t. Same old sh*t with less dignity.
Who is your favorite candidate, if any?
“Favorite” isn’t the word I would use. I go bottom up until I get to the least objectional. Trump or Biden will be the most objectional so it’s third party once again. I can proudly say I’ve only voted for one “R” and two “D’s” since 1976. And they were all the lesser of evils other than Obama in 2008. I actually thought we had something different. I was wrong.
Thanks Wars, always nice commenting with you!
Thanks John. The feeling is mutual.
Not “his” demands, insofar as where is all the outrage by the Dem leaders in Congress seeing they had no problems with actually starting armed wars in the last Administration. The warmongering Deep State can’t be stopped by one man./
“His”, as in him being president. I blame Obama for everything that happened under his watch so I do the same for Trump.
Well supposedly we do have three equal branches of government.
Yeah, supposedly.
“Trump is far more in charge of his faculties than Biden”
Not much evidence for that. Both of them ramble incoherently, neither seems to live in the real world. They’re just a pair of handsy, creepy, senile, corrupt, establishment Democrats. The only differences are that one of them has more money and has been pretending to be a Republican for a couple of years.
I’d say it’s around 50% evidence in the latest Gallup poll that had 49% favorable for Trump and 48% unfavorable. Trump does finish his sentences though. When you have that much money you have to kiss a little ass of the political party(ies) in power (at the State and Federal levels) on your way up the ladder, or you won’t be rich for very long. Are there many billionaires who don’t play footsie with the ruling political party at any particular time. Look at Soros, the Koch Boys, Billy Gates, Bezos, etc. Unfortunately that’s our capitalist economic system that China has adopted to grow all those millionaires there. That all said, Trump is still more in charge of his mental faculties than Biden is. Some think that is good (I guess) and will vote for him anyway because of their Trump hatred. I still like less taxes, less illegal immigration, less government regulation and other things that Biden and his socialist cronies would immediately reverse. I know – we already have socialist policies here, but that’s a start.
“I still like less taxes”
The US government taxed its populace about $50 billion more last year than it did the year before Trump became president.
“less illegal immigration”
There was zero illegal immigration before Trump was president, and there’s zero illegal immigration now that Trump is president (the Constitution forbids the federal government to regulate immigration). The only real difference is that Trump throws more money in a hole and sets it on fire pretending to fight something that doesn’t exist and that would be a good thing if it did exist.
“less government regulation”
That would be nice. Sorry to have to tell you that there are more federal regulations now than when Trump took office. Not MANY — after a huge increase the first year and a half or so, they came back down to fewer, and have since risen to not MANY more — but more, and rising.
Trump has done exactly the opposite of what you’ve credited him with doing. He’s basically governed as a tax-and-spend Democrat. No surprise, since that’s what he is and has always been.
Is there any politician who is above and beyond that outhouse?
the people he is governing do not care or know either.
Pompey is military thug in drag as a diplomat. I suppose he is just following orders, but one in America never really knows whether the president runs policy or the deep state military & State Dept. Boys and their corporerat paymasters call the shots…. GOOD NEWS that the Iran sanctions are headed for an ignominous failure. Lots luck getting Russia & China to let this turkey fly…..!!!!! They learnt their necessary lessons in the rape of Libya… with those no fly (no survivors) zones: “USA NOT TRUSTWORTY AT ALL”,
It will take quite a lot of time to get that toothpaste back in the tube……!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fat-face Pompass is exactly what you said – a military thug in drag as a diplomat. Actually, he’s a CIA thug in drag posing as a diplomat, and he isn’t doing a good job at diplomacy at all .. Rex Tillerson did a better job than Fat-face, and he was an Exxon-Mobil CEO before the Secretary of State job.
DJT should’ve left Fat-face in the CIA as its Director .. His successor’s way too bloodthirsty. DJT needs to fire her and put Fat-face back in place. There are plenty of highly qualified diplomats out there he can choose from.
The power of the UN goes only as far as the willingness of states to respect it.
Today, the US has so undermined that the other major powers, China and Russia, are simply flatly refusing. They’ll do whatever they want. The US can manipulate the UN however it likes, and they will ignore it.
This is the inevitable end result of abuses of power, overextension of sanctions and extraterritorial legalisms. China rebels first, due to its hypersensitivity to extraterritorial legal powers, and Russia grabs the excuse.
It is over, until some major concessions from the US rebuild the system. Trump can’t do that. Likely Biden is too lame to even begin. It will await a decade or so, and the major risk is that the UN won’t survive well enough to be repaired.
Given what results the UN has produced such as the Iraq War, maybe that is for the best.
The UN declared that the US invasion of Iraq was illegal.
Interesting, it was the sec generals opinion apparently, but I had not seen that before. Various un security council resolutions laid the groundwork and perception of legitimacy.
the UN is toothless and we do not abide by anything that they declare or rule on. we are exempt from the UN and that IOC court in the hague. live with it.
Why in the middle of this pandemic and the ‘reopening’ of the country does our President spend his time on China, the UN, Iran? To look sufficiently macho for November?
Because he can multi-task. As far as I can tell he’s spending the vast majority of his time on the virus thru the normal bureaucratic, delegated instruments.
No he isn’t. He’s spending the vast majority of his time doing dumb things like telling people to drink bleach.
He didn’t say that, and Dr. Fauci didn’t say you should inject yourself with the corona-virus. But that’s what a vaccine is. Get it now!
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning”
You are correct. It was about injecting, not drinking. Much more reasonable?
No different than using part of the chemical composition of anythign that works, but not directly or that actual product, like clorox, for example. Although there are idiots who drank fish water disinfectant because it contained some of the hexaclorine (or whatever), although the last Iheard the wife of the idiot who died, is under investigation for murder.
Taking part of the chemical composition of the disinfectant that kills the virus, but eliminating the parts that are harmful, is no different than injecting viruses with vaccinations.
Nice spin job.
Thank you. I can only speak the truth. The spin job is the clorox/comet line.
I only said it was a spin job because Trump said he was being sarcastic and the talking Barbie Doll said he was taken out of context. They weren’t smart enough to use the reasonable explanation you put forth. So your truth isn’t their truth.
The US is, as usual, trying to bully other countries into doing what it thinks they should be doing. Good for Russia and China for telling Trump where to shove it.