Mike Whitney argues that the goal of Oct 7 wasn’t a military victory. Hamas’s former military chief Yahya Sinwar wanted to provoke an Israeli response, an excessive one. In this he succeeded and now Israel is increasingly isolated and at odds with the world
The American people appear to be entirely unaware of the extraordinary damage that Trump’s policies are doing to the country. Far from ‘making America great again’, he seems intent on presiding over the nation’s terminal decline
Mike Whitney argues that only an Iranian nuclear weapon will deter further Israeli attacks
The U.S. and Israel failed crack Iran with extensive bombing using conventional explosives. So unfortunately, we agree with Scott Ritter when he says that the West is maybe months or even weeks away from using nuclear weapons as a last resort
Amid signs that the war could resume at any time, Israel has two options: Either it draws the United States deeper into the conflict (including the deploying of ground forces) or it ‘goes nuclear’. There is no third option.
The man who campaigned on the promise of no more wars has brought America to the start of its biggest war this century
Trump doesn’t really want an accord with Tehran. That’s why Trump’s original demand was that “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon”. (Iran has agreed to that demand.) But now, he has sneakily changed the wording to “no enrichment” as if the two things are the same
“There are very few Trump voters who’d support a regime change war in Iran”, writes Tucker Carlson. “Trump ran for president as a peace candidate … It’s why he won. A war with Iran would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters. It would end his presidency”. The question is, will Trump listen to Carlson’s counsel?
As one Chinese observer recently put it: “The most dangerous time for China is when the decline of the U.S. reaches terminal velocity & parasitic Western/Zionist billionaires look for a new host”.
In contrast, (to the US model) the Chinese government prioritizes productivity and growth over financial engineering, asset stripping or profiteering. They see the financial system as a means to an end, and that end is the creation of a prosperous and harmonious society in which “all boats rise.”
US-Iran negotiations were set up to fail, writes Mike Whitney. In fact, the plan to create a justification for war required that the talks fail and that’s what is happening.
One of the oddities of the tariffs dust-up, was the fact that the Trump team never anticipated China’s retaliatory response. It’s actually amazing. The administration lives in such an information bubble that they thought China would cave in after their comical “Liberation Day” announcement. What were they thinking?