The fall-out from Trump’s late-night Tweet of Mass Destruction (TMD) has been a howler.
That’s one for the Art of Diplomacy annals. Especially coupled with fanatic hawk Pompeo describing the Iranian leadership as a mafia.
Soooo, The House of One Saudi then is a Christian charity. And the Exceptionalists themselves are a pious Jesuit college.
Not to mention that Pompeo touting the interests of “the long-ignored voice of the Iranian people” is worthy of a lousy Sopranos rip-off.
Let’s go back to the basics here. The Trump administration has issued what amounts to a DECLARATION OF ECONOMIC WAR on Iran and will go no holds barred to squeeze the Islamic Republic out of the global oil market –
complete with threatening Europe with secondary sanctions unless they cut ALL imports of Iranian oil by November 4.
Talk about Mafia.
And the whole soap opera gets even more pathetic when Beltway “experts” pose as extras. One of them is saying there are only two outcomes: Iran capitulates or the “regime” implodes.
Any clown saying Tehran will capitulate knows ZERO about how things work in Tehran. My best sources tell of a mood not only of defiance but scorn about any verbal missile issued from Washington.
And any clown stating there will be regime change in Tehran is basically parroting the official, explicit, wishful thinking US “policy”.
The neocon foreign policy establishment that brought us the Iraq war should have been buried six miles under – but like The Walking Dead they persist.
Surely at the moment there’s one character who’s singin’ and dancin’ in Tel Aviv like everything is going according to plan.
But the geopolitical game here is way more complex. The Exceptionalistan priority is disruption of the New Silk Roads between China and Europe. And the key economic connectivity corridor goes through Iran.
It’s all in synch – and totally Kissingerian Divide and Rule, as explained by the serial war criminal to Trump.
The fundamental “enemy” is China. But to “work” on it, first there’s got to be an attempt to lure Russia into some sort of entente cordiale. And destabilization is a must in what the Cheney regime used to describe as “the great prize”.