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Has Trump Made a Bad Choice of War?
Paul Craig Roberts
The propaganda that Americans are receiving about how hard Washington and Israel are hitting Iran does not seem to be backed up with evidence. It seems that the US Navy that Trump was going to use to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has had to be moved away outside of the range of Iranian missiles. It seems that the American bases in the oil city states are no longer functioning and that the US will be operating out of far away Italy. Moreover Trump’s rhetoric doesn’t support the war propaganda. He is now speaking of the war in terms of months instead of a few days, but the US and Israel, stupidly expecting Iran’s quick collapse, did not inventory enough missiles for a war that last months. So Trump has started mentioning “troops on the ground” which he previously said was not in the picture. Considering Iran’s large size– Iran is larger than France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom combined–the United States hasn’t sufficient troops, and it is doubtful that Israel would risk any of its own. The Israelis cleverly used western gentile troops against Iraq and Libya and Arab forces to overthrow Syria.
Even the few commentators, many of them experienced military men, speak of Russia, China, or India mediating the conflict and bringing it to end with mediation. Apparently, they have never considered how a conflict can be mediated when one side, the Israeli American side, intends the destruction of the other side. How does Iran go about mediating its destruction? This is for Iran an existential conflict. The survival of Iran as a sovereign nation rest entirely on an Iranian victory. An Iranian government that submitted to mediation would be submitting to the erasure of Iran as a country. It would be a government of traitors.
I have never understood how the Iranian government could be so completely misinformed as to think that the issue was whether or not Iran enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons. The nuclear issue was never more than a pretext to be used to destroy Iran. The real issue has always been to clear Iran out of the way of Greater Israel. The previous pretext was the “war on terror” that the Zionist Bush and Obama regimes used to destroy Iraq and Libya and that was used to destroy Syria. Zionists have been extremely clear that their agenda is Greater Israel. Netanyahu himself and several Israeli ministers have held up maps on television of Greater Israel, a territory that encompasses the Muslim Middle East. This new phrase of the 21st century American war for Greater Israel has been launched by the Zionist regime of Donald Trump. How is it possible that the Iranian government thought Washington had any interest in negotiating a non-nuclear weapon agreement with Iran? Just as Russia and China seem incapable of comprehending the Wolfowitz Doctrine, Iran seems incapable of comprehending the agenda of Greater Israel. There is no possibility whatsoever of any Iranian government negotiating its way out of Greater Israel. But watch Iran again give up a winning hand and return to negotiation.
According to information I have, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff warned President Trump not to initiate a war for which sufficient stockpiles of weapons had not been accumulated. But Trump convinced by someone, perhaps Netanyahu, that it would only take a few missiles and bombs and the collapse of the Iranian government would allow the imposition of a puppet ruler such as the son of the former American puppet ruler of Iran.
As my faithful readers know, my concern has always been that the Zionist neoconservatives allied with Israel, who have been in control of American foreign policy since the regime of George W. Bush, are pushing too hard against Russia, against China and against Iran. The Zionist American neoconservatives’ agenda of American world hegemony and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East are roads to nuclear Armageddon.
It is my opinion that Russia, China and Iran have been poorly led by leaders who prefer their hopes to reality, and therefore have failed to understand that they are targets in the way of American and Israeli hegemony. It is almost as if they have never read the Wolfowitz Doctrine or have any awareness of the Zionist doctrine of Greater Israel.
I try to hold onto optimism. But Russia and China, which are supposed to constrain American neoconservative aggression, have totally failed their responsibility. Consequently, Putin is at war that he refuses to win in Ukraine. China pretends that it can avoid war even as its oil imports are reduced 50% by war that China could have prevented. The Iranian government trying to avoid a war, which was obvious to any intelligent person was unavoidable, submitted a second time to American “negotiations” and was again deceived and surprise attacked. Russia, China and Iran do not seem to be led by competent people in touch with reality. By the time Russia and China wake up to reality, will their only option be nuclear?
Glenn Greenwald points out the hypocrisy of President Donald Trump and his Make Israel Great Again supporters when they say that regime change via bombs and missiles is not a war. But the real question is who’s regime will be changed? Iran’s or Trump’s? https://greenwald.substack.com/p/trump-iran-war-is-an-open-ended-regime?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-452ec0cd-bcf6-41ff-856e-f8181a6ac7a8
Trump’s claim that Iran is a “house of cards” that would collapse has already been proven incorrect. If Iran’s missiles outlast Trump and Israel’s, American bases and Satanic Israel will be pummeled, unless Iran has an incompetent government with no comprehension that it is in a fight for Iran’s existence and stupidly agrees to a cease fire. Oil flows will be stopped and Trump will be blamed. American inflation rises, employment drops, stock market declines wipeout wealth, and if Trump can’t bribe some stupid country to invade Iran, not that it would make any difference, the only alternative Trump has to losing face is to nuke Iran or to have Israel do it with President Trump’s approval.
If Trump has to save his bacon with nukes when we were promised a three day non-war, Trump and the United States are finished. Trump is also finished if he loses a war of choice that he stupidly started in a midterm election year.
Of course, we are not supposed to speak this way, but facts are facts.
Meanwhile the Trump regime continues to assert its authority over the rest of the world. Trump is even more brazen in his assertion of Washington’s hegemony than are Zionist neoconservatives who have controlled American foreign policy for Israel in the 21st century. A Deputy Secretary of State has declared that Washington will not allow India to become a strong rival to America like China. So much for Indian national sovereignty. https://www.rt.com/india/633990-us-wont-allow-india-to/
Trump declares that “I have to be involved in the appointment of Iran’s next leader.” According to Trump, he is establishing democracy in Iran, but the people cannot choose their own leader.
Trump declares that regime change in Cuba “is just a question of time.” First Trump will change the regime in Iran and then he will change the regime in Cuba.
In other words, the “Peace President” has become the “War President.”
It is losing Trump supporters. Trump’s base is split. Trump has lost Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas Massey, his most effective supporters in Congress. Trump has lost Tucker Carlson, his most effective support in the media.
If it turns out that Trump has allowed the satanic Israeli Prime Minister to goad him to start a war that Trump loses in a midterm election year, there is no one to defend Trump from impeachment.
You tell me if this is a sign of an intelligent president of the United States.
This war that Trump has started for Israel has many risks, one of which is that to avoid defeat Trump and or Israel might use nuclear weapons.
Remember, the United States could not defeat the North Koreans and Chinese in the Korean War. The United States lost the Vietnam war. The United States in Afghanistan could not defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban. The chance of the United States defeating a country as large, and it seems as cohesive, as Iran is not high.
Every country is complete with traitors, including Iran, which has “progressives” bought and paid for by Washington and Israel. Possibly these “progressives” can succeed in selling out the Iranian people. If they were to succeed and Iran falls, the boost to Trump’s ego will place the next targets on Russia and China.
Both Putin and Xi have set their countries up for Trump’s attempt to overthrow them. Either Putin or Xi could easily at little cost have prevented the Israeli American attack on Iran.
This was so simple to do. All Russia, China, and Iran needed to do was to announce a mutual security agreement. An attack on one is attack on All. Even egotists like Trump and Netanyahu know that they cannot go to war with Russia, China and Iran simultaneously.
But Iran for a second time trusted negotiations with Washington, which again were used for a sneak attack on Iran. Putin believes that his “special relationship with Donald Trump” will deliver to Russia a mutual security pact that ends the Ukrainian conflict. The Chinese leadership apparently cannot think beyond trade agreements. Therefore, if this is a correct picture of the leaderships of Russia and China, and Trump prevails over Iran, Trump will likely start larger wars.
For a quarter century, actually longer, I have watched the stupid Arabs, preoccupied with fighting and selling out one another, be massacred by the Zionist American forces arrayed against them by Israel. For a quarter of a century, I have watched Russia, China and Iran fail to recognize the deadly threat to their national existence posed by Washington and it’s NATO puppet states. Russian commentators, ever so progressive in their thinking, have deceived themselves in the belief that somehow Russia has achieved a split between America and Europe. What nonsense.
Except for Alexander Dugan, it is extremely difficult to find intelligent comment in Russia about the challenge that the country faces.
China seems lost in the belief that China prevails by doing nothing and waiting out the aggressor. This only works if the aggressor cooperates.
Perhaps Donald Trump, Israel’s tried and true wartime operative, will be removed from office after the midterm elections. If so, the prospect of nuclear war lessens in the intermediate term. If not and Iran has staying power, the United States for the second time in history is likely to resort to the use of nuclear weapons. This, I think would finish America.