Israeli Army Chief Aviv Kohavi is reporting that the US is increasing military coordination with Israel and some other Middle Eastern countries, with an eye toward “countering” Iran.
Israeli officials are reporting this increased coordination is coming with CENTCOM, and has been ongoing for the last two months, just as the Biden Administration has been negotiating on a nuclear deal with Iran.
Kohavi and other Israeli officials are reportedly keen on using this increased cooperation, and increased vilification of Iran as a way to increase their own ties with the Gulf states — the UAE, Bahrain, and other nations that they haven’t made an official agreement with.
All of this is contingent on advancing the narrative that Iran is some sort of non-specific “threat” to the region. This is virtually the core ideology of Israel, of course, and the US seems comfortable pushing this idea with the newly elected and incoming Raisi government, which has yet to even take power yet.
This has become Biden’s signature. To show his electorate that he is not Trump, he sets up photo-ops with targeted countries — meeting with Putin, Vienna talks with Iran. Egypt’s cease-fire, while not planned, is taken advantage of as if Biden’s genius, sending signals on Yemen, etc. Even talking about meeting Xi. While doubling up on Trump’s sanctions and organizing allies — willing or unwilling — to engage in risky warmongering and brinksmanship. His inner circle, his advisors cum handlers, are all Hillary Clinton people.
They have one recognizable trait — vicious propensity to force their will on any internal objection to all out war military dominance. These elites believe US lost opportunity to permanently weaken Russia after Cold War. And without strong Russia, in their view China would have remained a pliant global factory.
And in their view, Bush has made a mistake in Iraq — never mind they all cheered it at the time. Goal is Russia, Russia, Russia. Cannot bring it down militarily, must have it isolated, primarily from Europe. The theory these men have — Russian upper crust will be horrified by not being able to travel or do business with the “West”, so much so, that “Putin” brand would be tarnished. They are living in the past, becoming more and more provincial by the day.
The world has moved on to see various countries having opportunities for growth, trade, tourism and discovery. World with both warts and beauty. While West has remained in their own perception of importance and self-congratulatory image of being universally envied. These times have passed. Instead of opening up to this immense global diversity — the West, led by US is imposing Westernization as a synonym to modernization and development. Thus, anybody striking out a different path to development is ostracized in different ways.
Examples abound. Best ones are Turkey and Egypt. It is not human rights that disturb Biden’s heart — but the disturbing propensity of those countries to reject exclusivity of Western camp, and place their economic and security issues ahead of Western block solidarity. Both have long, unhappy history of dealings with Western-centric universe. The result is a schizophrenic desire to own relationship with both when convenient — but continuing to gripe against their “authoritarian” behavior. And rooting irrationally for their leaders political (or any other) demise.
Biden’s rule is shaping to be pregnant with dangers. Those around him are contorted by hatred of Russia and its presumed escape from their clutches. Such blind hate is not inspiring to others — rather a massive caution signal to stay away from US designs.
Roping in allies, be that in Pacific, Europe or Muddle East is obviously getting harder. It is looking more and more like trying to corral some slippery eels.
Yet, our ideological warriors see no obstacles they cannot ford, no flashing red lights. And encouraged by corporate greed, they plough on. But tiny Lilliputians around the globe are creating little obstacles, many a smiling face is not as pliant as it looks, and the targeted big fish — Russia and China — further out of reach.
Will it cause the hatred to overflow? To spark and incident requiring military response? The fools running the show do not seem to get it. With todays security challenges, military response may end up being more strategic than the incident provoking it.
All of his strategic policy makers are war mongers. Nuland, et al.
All of his finance advisers come from big corporation and Wall Street.
What can go wrong?
Makes it sound like Iran is running amuck all over the ME and the rest of the world, kind of like us.
When they say that, they mean “with an eye on the US attacking Iran for them.”
I hope not. But with Biden and his bodyguard of hawks, I am not confident.