Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review Aug 10, 2021
In the United States we now live under a government that largely operates in secret, headed by an executive that ignores the constitutional separation of powers and backed by a legislature that is more interested in social engineering than in benefitting the American people. The US, together with its best friend and faux ally Israel, has become the ultimate rogue nation, asserting its right to attack anyone at any time who refuses to recognize Washington’s leadership. America is a country in decline, its influence having been eroded by a string of foreign policy and military disasters starting with Vietnam and more recently including Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and the Ukraine. As a result, respect for the United States has plummeted most particularly over the past twenty years since the War on Terror was declared and the country has become a debtor nation as it prints money to sustain a pointless policy of global hegemony which no one else either desires or respects.
It has been argued in some circles that the hopelessly ignorant Donald Trump and the dementia plagued Joe Biden have done one positive thing, and that has been to keep us out of an actual shooting war with anyone able to retaliate in kind, which means in practice Russia and possibly China. Even if that were so, one might question a clumsy foreign policy devoid of any genuine national interest that is a train wreck waiting to happen. It has no off switch and has pushed America’s two principal rivals into becoming willy-nilly de facto enemies, something which neither Moscow nor Beijing wished to see develop.
Contrary to the claims that Trump and Biden are war-shy, both men have in fact committed war crimes by carrying out attacks on targets in both Syria and Iraq, to include the assassination of senior Iranian general Qasim Soleimani in January 2020. Though it was claimed at the time that the attacks were retaliatory, evidence supporting that view was either non-existent or deliberately fabricated.
Part of the problem for Washington is that the US had inextricably tied itself to worthless so-called allies in the Middle East, most notably Israel and Saudi Arabia. The real danger is not that Joe Biden or Kamala Harris will do something really stupid but rather that Riyadh or Jerusalem will get involved in something over their heads and demand, as “allies,” that they be bailed out by Uncle Sam. Biden will be unable to resist, particularly if it is the Israel Lobby that is doing the pushing.
Perhaps one of the more interesting news plus analysis articles along those lines that I have read in a while appeared last week in the Business Insider, written by one Mitchell Plitnick, who is described as president of ReThinking Foreign Policy. The article bears the headline “Russia and Israel may be on a collision course in Syria” and it argues that Russia’s commitment to Syria and Israel’s interest in actively deterring Iran and its proxies are irreconcilable, with the US ending up in an extremely difficult position which could easily lead to its involvement in what could become a new shooting war. The White House would have to tread very carefully as it would likely want to avoid sending the wrong signals either to Moscow or Jerusalem, but that realization may be beyond the thinking of the warhawks on the National Security Council.
To place the Plitnick article in its current context of rumors of wars, one might cite yet another piece in Business Insider about the July 30th explosive drone attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman in the northern Indian Ocean, which killed two crewmen, a Briton and a Romanian. The bombing was immediately attributed to Iran by both Israel and Washington, though the only proof presented was that the fragments of the drone appeared to demonstrate that it was Iranian made, which means little as the device is available to and used by various players throughout the Middle East and in central Asia.
The tanker in question was the MT Mercer Street, sailing under a Liberian flag but Japanese-owned and managed by Zodiac Maritime, an international ship management company headquartered in London and owned by Israeli shipping magnate Eyal Ofer. It was empty, sailing to pick up a cargo, and had a mixed international crew. Inevitably, initial media reporting depended on analysis by the US and Israel, which saw the attack as a warning or retaliatory strike executed or ordered by the newly elected government currently assuming control in Tehran.
US Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who could not possibly have known who carried out the attack, was not shy about expressing his “authoritative” viewpoint, asserting that “We are confident that Iran conducted this attack. We are working with our partners to consider our next steps and consulting with governments inside the region and beyond on an appropriate response, which will be forthcoming.”
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) also all too quickly pointed to Iran, stating that “The use of Iranian designed and produced one way attack ‘kamikaze’ UAVs is a growing trend in the region. They are actively used by Iran and their proxies against coalition forces in the region, to include targets in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.”
Tehran denied that it had carried out the attack but the Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was not accepting that and threatened to attack Iran, saying predictably that “We are at a point where we need to take military action against Iran. The world needs to take action against Iran now… Now is the time for deeds — words are not enough. … It is time for diplomatic, economic and even military deeds. Otherwise the attacks will continue.” Gantz also confirmed that “Israel is ready to attack Iran, yes…”
New Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett also made the same demand, saying Israel could “…act alone. They can’t sit calmly in Tehran while igniting the entire Middle East — that’s over. We are working to enlist the whole world, but when the time comes, we know how to act alone.” If the level of verbal vituperation coming out of Israel is anything to go by, an attack on Iran would appear to be imminent.
After the attack on the MT Mercer Street, there soon followed the panicked account of an alleged hijacking of a second tanker by personnel initially reported to be wearing “Iranian military uniforms.” The “…hijacking incident in international waters in the Gulf of Oman” ended peacefully however. The US State Department subsequently reported that “We can confirm that personnel have left the Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess… We believe that these personnel were Iranian, but we’re not in a position to confirm this at this time.”
So, the United States government does not actually know who did what to whom but is evidently willing to indict Iran and look the other way if Israel should choose to start a war. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan is right to compare the drone attack on the Mercer Street to the alleged Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964, which was deliberately distorted by the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration and used to justify rapid escalation of US involvement in the Vietnam War. Buchanan observes that it is by no means clear that Iran was behind the Mercer Street attack and there are a number of good reasons to doubt it, including Iranian hopes to have sanctions against its economy lifted which will require best behavior. Also, Iran would have known that it would be blamed for such an incident in any event, so why should it risk going to war with Israel and the US, a war that it knows it cannot win?
Buchanan observes that whoever attacked the tanker wants war and also to derail any negotiations to de-sanction Iran, but he stops short of suggesting who that might be. The answer is of course Israel, engaging in a false flag operation employing an Iranian produced drone. And I would add to Buchanan’s comments that there is in any event a terrible stink of hypocrisy over the threat of war to avenge the tanker incident. Israel has attacked Iranian ships in the past and has been regularly bombing Syria in often successful attempts to kill Iranians who are, by the way, in the country at the invitation of its legitimate government. Zionist Joe Biden has yet to condemn those war crimes, nor has the suddenly aroused Tony Blinken. And Joe, who surely knows that neither Syria nor Iran threatens the United States, also continues to keep American troops in Syria, occupying a large part of the country, which directly confront the Kremlin’s forces. Israel wants a war that will inevitably involve the United States and maybe also Russia to some degree as collateral damage. Will it get that or will Biden have the courage to say “No!”
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org
A false flag, certainly, but probably not Israeli. If it was, it would have been far more efficient. It was so clumsy that it was either the US or another Arab state.
Johnson of Britain,that is Boris Johnson is a crypto jew.
Ditto Johnson as in LBJ was also a crypto jew.
He was the perfect president after JFK was murdered…..he turned around JFKs impartial policy toward Israel 180°.
Were JFK and his brothers murdered by the Jewish fiends?…certainly looks like it.
The Kennedy story effectively came to an end when JFKS son died In a plane crash….COHENCIDENTALLY the eldest son (of Joe Kennedy) died in a plane crash.
If you oppose Jewish power it would make sense to avoid aircraft travel……particularly small single engined planes…..or gliders.
BIGGEST EVER FALSE FLAG ATTACK
Nicolai Ivanovich Yezhov was just 5 feet tall and he became boss of the NKVD the forerunner to the KGB and as a youngster he was severely bullied for his small stature, he made up for this by being very cruel to animals and smaller children, he was to become the worst tyrant and torturer of the Soviet Union.
Yezhov was Joseph Stalins sadistic chief of the great purges, the mass murders of millions of Christians, his knickname was the Bloody Dwarf and this awful period became known as “yezovshcina”
Yezhov dismissed his love of torturing and killing with his saying “when you chop wood, chips fly”
Under Pres Putin a new openness with wartime files has been helped by freedom of information requests here in the west,
Most FOI requests are redacted, but pieced together with documents in the British library and published wartime Venona decrypts we have discovered the following.
It should be said that a prospective Soviet defector Soviet Vice consul Constantin Volkov in 1944 told British embassy he wanted political asylum and handed over some documents and said in exchange he would give info on 250 British communists and agents working against Britain and also the names of 80 possible agents from ordinary men to high ranking politicians, Winston Churchill is believed by Soviet bloc agent sweet William to be one of these agents working for Russia against Britain, and a document signed by Yezhov instructing the plan for the attacks on jewish businesses in Germany.
In one of the worst blunders and total incompetence in British intelligence history, Volkov and his wife were taken hostage by the Soviets horribly tortured and killed before this amazing information could be passed over, we have the word of the writer of Spycatcher Peter Wright T Stokes and Alexandre Solzenitsin to thanks for part of the information which follows.
On November 7 th 1938 Herschel Grynzpan on the orders of Yezhov a relative of the worlds most powerful banker Alan Greenspan walked into the Paris German embassy and shot 3rd secretary Ernst Von Rath, it was already planned that he would be defended in court by the top French lawyer Gerald Swab who would later along with the other jewish judges give out death sentences to German wartime officials at Nuremberg trials.
Recently released archive documents from British intelligence show all people involved in these plots this were jews,
the assassination of the German 3rd secretary, the boycott of all German goods and the mass purges of Christians all instigated by Yezhov and the jews in the USSR were to set the stage for Krystallnacht false flag attacks where 265 jewish synagogues were attacked and 700 businesses had their windows broken, previously believed to be the work of the German people we now know this was a Yezhov active measure to get the world against Germany for supposed attacks on the jews, and in the coming retaliation by jews, 30,00 jewish male activists were rounded up and put into the work camps, this fell right into the hands of the worlds press who blamed the German people for the crystal night attacks, Winston Churchill became the unelected Prime Minister and used the false flag Krystallnacht attack to build hate against Germany, it was said that the insurance money was enough to build a huge new synagogues after the war.
In this “incident” at least six ships off the coast of the UAE broadcasted warnings that they had lost control of their steering. Six vessels announced around the same time via their Automatic Identification Trackers that they were “not under command”, according to MarineTraffic.com, meaning a vessel has lost power and can no longer steer. A (natural) EMP in the area disrupted their electronics. Its all part of a cover up of the real cause.
Quote “The US Central Command (CENTCOM) also all too quickly pointed to Iran, stating that “The use of Iranian designed and produced one way attack ‘kamikaze’ UAVs is a growing trend in the region. They are actively used by Iran and their proxies against coalition forces in the region, to include targets in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.”” unquote
Yeah, I remember a news article, maybe 5 or 6 months ago that an Israel company has been fined by the Israel authority for doing business with a foreign company, developing suicide drone. It is what it is
False Flag? Again? How many times do they need False Flags to be able to finally attack Iran?!
Possibilities:
1- Iran is controlled opposition
2- Iran is independent but weak
3- Iran is independent and strong
“Independence” requires strength/power, how many False Flags are needed to pave the way for an attack!? This just doesn’t make sense, normally it would not make so long for US to ignite another war as experience has shown! So Iran is either independent due to its power or it is just controlled opposition in which case Iran’s portfolio would be very strange: Some of the military scores against US and Zionist regime in Iran’s portfolio are unique and over the top, not even Russia or China have anything similar. Why should US go through so much pain and self-harm to conjure up a massive Iranian specter over the region? All of these pro and con allies/proxies are hired entertainers? This is obviously not possible considering the depth of the field-realities.
Iranian Divers Train in Malta for Attacks on Israeli Ships
https://israelradar.com/iranian-divers-malta-attacks-on-israeli-ships/
And then check out Biden tweet 2 days ago:
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1424746199031193604?s=20
He is respecting the religion and ideology of the enemy forces (Iran)! Can we really believe this as genuine? Why do you think the strategists behind him had him tweet like that?
I mean there are some weird evidences in bible in favor of Hussein ع, but to think Biden would care… : )
What do we know:
1- IRGC has already said 80% of Zionists economy depends on shipping and has threatened.
2- All of Iran allies can pull an attack on targets with drones and missiles.
3- This new scenario from US, UK and Israel happened just at the beginning of Iran’s new president taking office.
4- Iran has denied responsibility in this case.
5- Nothing happened in the end, at least up to now.
Perhaps it was just to put some extra pressure on Raisi as he took office!
It seems that resistance axis is itching for a new confrontation to take back Golan Heights.
See what Ehud Yaari is saying:
Gaza, COVID and Iran: The Key Challenges for Israel’s New Government
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr_TA6FFz5M
He said Iran is changing its doctrine of “strategic patience” and confronting and hitting back a lot more!
Hopefully this will help better connect the dots.
@ ROBERT
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by mossad !
antiseptic.. See Jörg Haider
Jörg Haider was an Austrian politician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Freedom Party of Austria and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria, a breakaway party from the FPÖ. Haider was a controversial figure within Austria and abroad..He was a xenophobe, an anti-Semite, a hardcore nationalist and a Nazi sympathizer.
&… His car veered off the road near the southern city of Klagenfurt and overturned while trying to overtake another vehicle, according to police officials. There was no sign of foul play.
Official comment written by a sayanim for the press…
@ mr reynard
i love the soul of jörg haider . may he never be
forgotten by german race !
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