Stalin
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The admission this week by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, echoed by Mike Johnson, speaker of the House of Representatives, that Israel forced Washington’s hand in attacking Iran has rightly caused consternation.
Breathing life into something that would normally be treated as an antisemitic trope, Rubio argued that the Trump administration had been left with no choice but to attack Iran because, had it not, Israel would have launched an attack anyway, exposing U.S. soldiers to retaliation.
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Israel can withstand Iranian retaliation only because it gets a degree of protection from missile interception systems provided and funded by the U.S.
And on top of all that, Israel is regional hegemon only because it gets massive subsidies from the U.S. — worth many billions of dollars a year — to preserve it as one of the strongest militaries in the world.
In other words, Israel would have found it impossible to wage war on Iran alone. It is a paper tiger without the U.S.
Rubio’s comment suggested one of two possibilities: either that the U.S., with the strongest military in world history, is under the thumb of the tiny state of Israel; or that Trump has made his own military, the strongest-ever, servile to Israel.
Whichever it is, it is hard to square with Trump’s repeated assertion that he is putting America First.
This point is so glaringly obvious it is presumably the reason why Rubio was forced to walk back his comments the next day. Meanwhile, Trump hurriedly suggested it was he who had forced Israel’s hand to attack Iran, not the other way round.
Geopolitical Insanity
The more likely truth is not that Israel forced Trump’s hand. It is that he was seduced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s false claim that an attack on Iran would be a cakewalk — if they struck at a moment when they could be sure of killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Such a decapitation strike, Trump was led to believe, would be a repeat of his Venezuela “success,” when he kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro from Caracas to bring him to trial in New York.
In Venezuela, the flagrant flouting of international law by the U.S. was intended to be the equivalent of pointing a loaded shotgun at the head of Maduro’s replacement, Delcy Rodriguez. Do as we say, or the new president gets it from both barrels.
Netanyahu knew exactly how to sell Trump, still giddy on the noxious fumes of this lawbreaking venture, the idea that he could repeat the exercise in Iran. The ayatollah’s successor would similarly be putty in his hands.
Which is why, in this catastrophic war of choice by the U.S. and Israel, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore a little geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, or the U.S. succeeds without paying a fearsome price, god only knows where Israel and Washington will drag the world next.
The world’s fate, in a real sense, is in Tehran’s hands.
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Breathing life into something that would normally be treated as an antisemitic trope, Rubio argued that the Trump administration had been left with no choice but to attack Iran because, had it not, Israel would have launched an attack anyway, exposing U.S. soldiers to retaliation.
...
Israel can withstand Iranian retaliation only because it gets a degree of protection from missile interception systems provided and funded by the U.S.
And on top of all that, Israel is regional hegemon only because it gets massive subsidies from the U.S. — worth many billions of dollars a year — to preserve it as one of the strongest militaries in the world.
In other words, Israel would have found it impossible to wage war on Iran alone. It is a paper tiger without the U.S.
Rubio’s comment suggested one of two possibilities: either that the U.S., with the strongest military in world history, is under the thumb of the tiny state of Israel; or that Trump has made his own military, the strongest-ever, servile to Israel.
Whichever it is, it is hard to square with Trump’s repeated assertion that he is putting America First.
This point is so glaringly obvious it is presumably the reason why Rubio was forced to walk back his comments the next day. Meanwhile, Trump hurriedly suggested it was he who had forced Israel’s hand to attack Iran, not the other way round.
Geopolitical Insanity
The more likely truth is not that Israel forced Trump’s hand. It is that he was seduced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s false claim that an attack on Iran would be a cakewalk — if they struck at a moment when they could be sure of killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Such a decapitation strike, Trump was led to believe, would be a repeat of his Venezuela “success,” when he kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro from Caracas to bring him to trial in New York.
In Venezuela, the flagrant flouting of international law by the U.S. was intended to be the equivalent of pointing a loaded shotgun at the head of Maduro’s replacement, Delcy Rodriguez. Do as we say, or the new president gets it from both barrels.
Netanyahu knew exactly how to sell Trump, still giddy on the noxious fumes of this lawbreaking venture, the idea that he could repeat the exercise in Iran. The ayatollah’s successor would similarly be putty in his hands.
Which is why, in this catastrophic war of choice by the U.S. and Israel, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore a little geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, or the U.S. succeeds without paying a fearsome price, god only knows where Israel and Washington will drag the world next.
The world’s fate, in a real sense, is in Tehran’s hands.
Jonathan Cook: Israel’s Death Cult Grips the US
In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel and the U.S. will drag the world next. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net The admission this week by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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comrade stalin
moscow
