Former ambassador for the UK Chris Murray is onto something when he asserts that Trump’s plan is, and was all along, to utterly destroy and defeat Iran:
The attack on Iran was always planned by Trump. He was not “bounced into it” by Israel. It had been in gestation for months. That fact had been held within a very tight circle to avoid both political opposition and institutional opposition from the US military and intelligence community.
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Trump’s naval blockade of Venezuela’s oil has secured a US monopoly of its sale and distribution. As with Iraq, only US-approved contractors can buy the oil and payments are made to a Trump-controlled account in Qatar, from which revenue is given to the Venezuelan government entirely at Trump’s discretion.This audacious imperialist grab of the world’s largest oil reserve further insulated the USA against the effects of the forthcoming closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Again, the narrative is being spun that Trump did not foresee the closure of the Strait by Iran. That is plainly a nonsense – every commentary on a potential Iran war for half a century has focused on the Strait of Hormuz. The only possible explanation is that Trump does not mind the closure.
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Trump’s thrashing about to articulate objectives for the war in Iran is performative, a blind to cover his true and steadfast objective – simply the annihilation of Iran as a functioning state, the infliction of the maximum amount of death and infrastructural damage, the reduction of Iran to the condition of Libya.
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Destruction of Iran on the scale envisaged will take years of hard pounding. Again, it is planned – you don’t ask Congress for an installment of $200 billion for a war you plan to wrap up in a month. Again, Trump’s taunts about having already won, objectives being achieved and about possibly finishing soon, are all just smoke and mirrors. The scale and horror of what is planned for Iran has to be obfuscated to limit a public revulsion that would be echoed in parts of the state apparatus.Netanyahu yesterday revealed an interesting part of the endgame – construction of an oil pipeline that brings Iran’s oil out to be shipped from a Mediterranean terminal in Israel. That is a breathtakingly audacious plan, but absolutely aligns with Netanyahu’s and Trump’s actions.
Let me encourage you to read Murray’s full argument
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Hua Bin humorístico, certeiro:
One wonders whether it is the fog of war that’s corroding his brain or Trump simply never has any idea what he is talking about -
- A week ago, Trump claimed the war is “very complete, pretty much”. At the same time, he is sending Marine expeditionary forces from Japan and California to the Gulf, ostensibly for ground invasion.
- On Friday he said that he wasn’t sending ground troops to Iran, but added: “If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you”.
- Trump announced Iranian air defense is “100% obliterated” in the first week of the war, but a F-35 – the crown jewel of US air power – was shot down 2 days ago.
- He claimed repeatedly the Iranian military is “gone” and “completely wiped out”, but drones and missiles are still striking targets in Israel and the Gulf region.
As of yesterday, targets have extended as far as the joint US-UK base in Diego Garcia in the Indian ocean.
- Trump also said opening the Strait of Hormuz is a “simple manoeuvre”, but refuses to send US warships to ensure safe passage.
He asked for others to help but vassals such as UK, France, Germany, Australia, and Japan all said no. Interestingly, Trump never asked Israel to send ships to open Hormuz. I guess he knows who is boss in that relationship.
The most shocking and idiotic Trump request has to be asking Beijing to send its navy to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
For the Fox “News” commentators celebrating Trump’s brilliant chess move to chokehold China’s energy supply with the Iran invasion at the start of the war, his desperate call to Beijing for help is a slap on the face.
The absurdity is hilarious.
In my last essay, I predicted Trump will beg President Xi to intervene to end the war. He went further with the call for rescue with Hormuz.
Trump has lost any attachment with reality and rationality – Chinese ships can transit safely through Hormuz; Iranian oil continues to flow to China; and Iran announced it will permit Yuan-denominated trade safe passage.
Why on earth would China step in to pull US’s chestnuts out of the fire when it is not affected by Iran’s blockade and it is also the indirect target of the illegal war to start with?
Has Trump lost all his marbles or he never knows how to tell his head from his ass?
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