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And yet France today, contrasting with its approach to the Ukraine situation, has condemned Israel (?)
But it would foul up BRICS Central Asian transports, wouldn’t it, and thus seriously damage the economic plans of Russia and China? So, they can’t possibly allow Iran to fall.
Unless they are already in direct war with Russia when Iran falls, they’ll be looking for a Central Asian southern Russian region in which to foment a Ukraine-type scenario. Or, they may already be looking at Xinjian for fomenting anti-Beijing sentiment there.
Either way, isn’t it more likely that by then the nuclear buttons will have been pressed?
Our blog says the US and Israel want regime change in Iran because, among other things, a friendly Iran would facilitate military action from the south against Russia.
So, are we still saying a nuclear holocaust isn’t on the cards and that the weapons are only for deterrence?
From Al Jazeera:
Israel’s campaign in Iran seen as big win at home for Netanyahu and army
Orly Noy, editor of the independent Hebrew-language Local Call news site, says there is broad support among Jewish Israelis for Israel’s attacks on Iran despite the retaliation they have provoked.“Netanyahu has been building up Iran as the ultimate demon of the world for so many years, so I think in a way now he’s enjoying the fruits of that campaign,” Noy told Al Jazeera.
“There is for sure fear. But at the same time, this attack allowed not just Netanyahu, but the Israeli army to really very quickly rehabilitate their broken image after more than 20 months of this war of annihilation in Gaza that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.”
The army, whose image had faltered as more reservists refused to serve in Gaza, is now seeing a boost in recruitment, Noy explained.
“Netanyahu enjoys bigger support, the army for sure has restored its image. There is fear, but there is also incredible trust in the army.”
If US capital requires this war (and I agree it wouldn’t matter who was President), why is it that only a few of US capitalism’s political representatives are openly supporting it and applauding Trump for it? Are the rest brilliant and convincing actors, happy that Trump is the fall guy for what they secretly wanted themselves, and milking his big “faux pas” for what isn’t a faux pas?
Happy that they
1) have got what they want, and
2) even better: don’t have to take the fall for what they knew would be an unpopular war, and can pass it all onto Trump the sap.Is this so?
The Rt. Dishonorable Sir Snivel. N. Wretch.
The majority have no awareness of history. So they are unable to think chronologically and sequentially. In their minds events just appear from nowhere. For example, in the case of the Ukraine war, it begins for them with Russia’s invasion, which came because Russians are baddies and was completely unprovoked and without antecedents.
Similarly, Iran is bombing Israel because Iranians are evil, not because of any antecedent events, not even Israel’s initial attack.
For most, war is a playground model, where bad kids fight good kids. They don’t relate anything to anything, which is why they never comprehend cause and effect. Their view is the playground one of Goody vs Baddy.So “Got to stop him” is the catchphrase for them, with personalities as the only reality for them: Got to stop the Mahdi, got to stop the Boers, got to stop the Kaiser, got to stop Adolf, got to stop the Rusky, got to stop Saddam, got to stop the Mullah, and so on.
Al Jazeera:
Trump, Netanyahu want a ‘controllable and not free Iran’
Iran could “easily become the hegemonic power in the region in a matter of a few years”, Professor Lorenzo Kamel, an assistant professor of global history and history in the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Turin, tells Al Jazeera.Iran has the second-largest oil reserves in the world, the third-largest gas reserves, and approximately 90 million inhabitants, which creates a very strong internal market he said.
The potential of its oil and gas industry means that Trump and Netanyahu want a “controllable Iran, and not a free Iran”, Kamel explained.
This is not the first time the US had acted to control oil production, he noted, including the events of 1953, when the CIA, along with the UK’s MI6, orchestrated the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, who had moved to nationalise Iran’s oil industry from the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
