{"id":188308,"date":"2019-05-14T08:03:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188308"},"modified":"2019-05-16T06:14:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:14:05","slug":"trump-is-being-set-up-for-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188308","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Being Set Up for War With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org May 12, 2019<\/h1>\n

Trump destroyed his chance at being a successful president by the stupid appointments he has made.\u00a0\u00a0At the moment he is being set up by his national security advisor John Bolton and Israel for a war with Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the same format of lies that was used against Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Venezuela, Bolton has accused Iran of \u201ctroubling and escalatory indications\u201d of a forthcoming Iranian attack on American forces in the Middle East.\u00a0\u00a0To help protect against the attack, Bolton has ordered Patriot missile batteries, an aircraft carrier strike group, and a bomber strike force to the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, pointed out<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>that Bolton failed to identify the \u201ctroubling and escalatory\u201d Iranian actions.\u00a0No one else has seen any sign of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason for the Patriot missiles is not to deter Iran from an attack, but to prevent successful Iranian response to an attack on Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the likely situation:\u00a0\u00a0The deal between the Washington Ziocons and Netanyahu is that either Israel will attack an American ship or whatever is selected, and it will be blamed on Iran, thus forcing Trump to \u201cdefend America\u201d and retaliate, or Israel using American disguise will attack Iran, thus provoking a response from Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran is already on hair trigger from having been provoked excessively by Washington withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear agreement, reimposing sanctions, and making endless false accusations against Iran, as Washington has done against Russia, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Yemen.\u00a0\u00a0It wouldn\u2019t take much more to set off Iranian emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is clearly set-up.\u00a0\u00a0If Bolton and Netanyahu want the US at war with Iran, it is their call.<\/span><\/p>\n

And they do want the US at war with Iran.\u00a0\u00a0Iran and Syria back Hezbollah, and Hezbollah prevents Israel\u2019s annexation of southern Lebanon, which Israel has twice tried only to have its army, which is not good for anything except killing unarmed women and children in Gaza, quickly defeated by Hezbollah.\u00a0\u00a0Thus, eliminating support for Hezbollah is a high priority for Israel and its neoconservative allies in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

The neoconservatives have an additionall reason for delivering chaos to Iran.\u00a0\u00a0If Bolton can produce a situation in Iran like the one the US created in Libya, Iraq, and Syria, American-supplied jihadists can be infiltrated into Muslin provinces in the Russian Federation as punishment for Russia\u2019s independent stance in world affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stakes for Russia are higher in Iran than in Syria.\u00a0\u00a0Russia can stand aside only at huge cost to itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

China also has an interest.\u00a0\u00a0Until the Russian energy pipeline to China is completed, China needs Iranian oil.\u00a0\u00a0Disruption of Iran by chaos is a way of throttling China by reducing China\u2019s energy supply.<\/span><\/p>\n

The war that Bolton and Netanyahu are preparing to spring on Trump is likely to be much larger than they think.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The stakes are even higher than in Syria. So Russia, and maybe China too, could well intervene <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188310,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188308\/revisions\/188310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}