By Aram Mirzaei for the Saker blog
Only one month remains of Donald Trump’s presidency. It seems inevitable that the Biden administration will take over the White House come January 20th. While the Trump administration has been very aggressive against the Islamic Republic during the past four years, it has nonetheless refrained from starting a full-fledged war. This could all change as he is about to leave office.
A few days after the election in November, reports emerged that Trump had “asked his advisers last week about the options he could have to attack Iran’s nuclear sites.”
However, “a range of senior advisers dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike,” The New York Times reported. According to the report, Vice president Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others reportedly told the outgoing president that such action could spiral out of control.
Despite the NYT being notorious liars, I could imagine this report being true. I’ve for long maintained that Trump is an imbecile surrounded by war hawks and Zionist extremists. Nonetheless, those extremists and hawks still understand the consequences of a direct attack on Iran. Trump on the other hand does not. Zionist chieftain Benjamin Netanyahu knows that Trump is an imbecile and has done his utmost to take advantage of it. Netanyahu has for long dreamed of a US-Iranian war as it would do a lot of harm to his main enemy Iran, while it would cost Israel nothing when US soldiers are the ones being sacrificed to save the supremacist Zionist regime. Knowing that Joe Biden would be far more reserved in his approach towards Iran compared to the belligerent “maximum pressure” policy of the Trump regime, it is no coincidence that Netanyahu chose to assassinate Iranian scientist Dr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh only weeks after the US election.
Much like when Iran responded to Martyr Soleimani’s murder, Netanyahu and the Zionists had hoped that Iran would somehow retaliate again and enter the Zionist trap- to drag Iran into a war.
During these past four years, Trump has offered Israel a lot of “gifts” to prove his loyalty to the Empire. It is no coincidence that his administration has been very generous to Netanyahu and his friends since Trump has chosen to surround himself with the most extreme Zionists around, including his son in-law Jared Kushner. The relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem, the recognition of the occupied Golan Heights as “Israeli territory”, and the recent “peace deals” between certain Arab states and Israel have all been very important moves for the Empire. Being wary that Trump, in his last month in charge could offer Israel a final gift in the form of an attack on Iran, Tehran has been preparing itself for any possible scenario.
Any attack by the US on Iranian soil will lead to war. That war will quickly become a regional war unless they expect Hezbollah, Hashd Al-Shaabi, the Houthis and many more to just sit idly by while the leader of their alliance is being attacked. Despite the risk of starting a regional war, Trump could make such a move in order for Biden to “inherit” the war, thus giving Israel the ultimate gift.
These are just speculations of course, but the sudden “attacks” on the US embassy in Baghdad, General Frank McKenzie, saying that the US is “ready to respond” if Iran attacks it on the first anniversary of the assassination of the Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, and Mike Pompeo’s increasing obsession with Iran, are all causes for concern.
Trump’s policy of absolute subservience to Israel has only made Zionist hawks like Netanyahu much bolder and more audacious. It will also leave its mark for years after his exit from the White House as Bibi will now demand the same level of subservience from the Biden administration. Netanyahu has taken upon himself to show the former Vice President who is calling the shots, before Biden has even had the chance to take office.
In an obvious message to Biden, Netanyahu told him that “There can be no going back to the previous nuclear agreement. We must stick to an uncompromising policy of ensuring that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons.”
The fact that Biden has remained rather coy about how he intends to “return the US to the JCPOA”, makes me believe that he has readily agreed to continue the policy of the Trump administration in one way or another.
“I will offer Tehran a credible path back to diplomacy. If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations. With our allies, we will work to strengthen and extend the nuclear deal’s provisions, while also addressing other issues of concern,” he wrote in an article for the CNN website.
“Strengthening” the deal’s provisions and “addressing other issues of concern” sounds a lot like someone who is hoping to alter the deal in some form. This was something that Trump also hoped to achieve with his “maximum pressure” campaign. It is no coincidence that German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas all of a sudden is calling for a “nuclear deal plus” either. They all want to include Iran’s missile program into the deal because it has started to become a concern for the Zionist Empire and its vassals. So you can see that going back to the original JCPOA seems impossible at this point.
There is also the matter of how the JCPOA is viewed in Iran these days. Many Iranians had huge hopes for the JCPOA. They were hoping to finally be able to enjoy the benefits of an economic recovery after decades of sanctions and blacklisting. Most of them now consider the JCPOA to be evidence of the failure of diplomacy with the US. To them, despite long negotiations and concessions, Iran is still suffering from sanctions and is in no better position economically than it was before the JCPOA. This is why the Iranian “conservative bloc” emerged victorious in the parliamentary elections earlier this year, and it is also why I believe they’ll win the presidency next year.
With the “conservatives” in power, Iran will not so easily want to return to the stipulations of the JCPOA either. Last year Iran began scaling down on its commitment to the JCPOA agreements, in response to Washington’s withdrawal and Europe’s inability to stand up to the US. Iran has since lost billions of dollars worth of trade revenue due to the sanctions that Washington reimposed- why would Iran want to just return to the JCPOA without compensation for the damage done to its economy?
The Islamic Republic will be facing the 8th President since its birth when Biden assumes power. Nobody is expecting Biden to change anything in US policies towards Iran and the rest of the world for that matter. Trump is really hated in Iran, to the point where he is regarded as a terrorist. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani recently said: “We are by no means excited about [Joe] Biden coming to power, but we are happy with Trump leaving as a terrorist and a person who even blocked Iran’s access to [COVID-19] vaccines; we are happy because he failed to adhere to basic moral and human principles,”
Personally, I understand the hatred towards Trump, it is easy to dislike such an imbecile who has no self-control. But in anger, it is also easy to lose sight of the bigger picture; Trump was in many ways a preferable enemy. Assad said it several times too, noting how the imbecile openly bragged about stealing Syrian oil. Trump was a clumsy and irrational enemy, the Europeans and many liberals realized this too, hence the great animosity towards him and his rule. His maximum pressure policy has left Washington rather desperate and pathetic, whereas his predecessor managed to portray Washington as a serious negotiator when the JCPOA was first announced.
Unfortunately, there’s also the other side to his irrationality. Trump’s irrational behaviour after what he perceives to be electoral fraud, could cost many people their lives if and when he decides to give his friend Bibi Netanyahu his final gift.
Everybody in the region will be holding their breath until Trump leaves office as this final month could end up being disastrous for the Middle East. Whatever he decides to do, the Islamic Republic and its allies must remain ready for all-out war.
“Unfortunately, there’s also the other side to his irrationality. Trump’s irrational behaviour after what he perceives to be electoral fraud, could cost many people their lives if and when he decides to give his friend Bibi Netanyahu his final gift.”
Trumpsters have to realize that in their zeal to overturn the results of the 2020 election, they may be encouraging him to do something desperate to stay president. Both Trump and Netanyahu need a “national emergency” that will keep them in office indefinitely. Christian Zionists like Pompeo see Trump as their ticket to the Rapture, as do millions of US voters who follow the dictates of Pastor John Hagee, “…millions of Bible-reading Christians who stand with Israel” and hope for an apocalyptic war that will bring their warrior messiah back to Earth, which by the way was created exactly 6024 years ago because they have counted up the “begats” in the Scofield Reference Bible. It’s not much of a stretch for these folks to follow Trump right over the cliff into WWIII and the end of the USA as we know it.
Those Christians who believe such nonsense are just brainwashed by paid Zionist “preachers” who are not Christians at all but wolves in sheep’s clothing.
In fact everything they teach about rapture and apocalypse and Jesus returning to rule from Jerusalem are just lies that are not found in the bible. (the following link is a good explanation of end times according to the bible, not according to Zionist devils).
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/where-is-satan-now/
These Zionist snakes posing as preachers twist and twist the word of God just so Apartheid Israel can survive a few more years while those Zionist Neocons squeeze a few more billions out of American taxpayers.
This is true in the same way that Republicans soil Conservatism
Raising the idea that Trump’s mental state is questionable is subterfuge in this context. The election fraud was real and determinative. President Trump is obliged to uphold the law and investigate and fix the fraud. Is is not a matter of his “mental state”. If anything, pushing to correct the fraud, shows his mental state is perfectly self-aware and even courageously clear-headed. Free and fair elections are the keystone of our Republic, and are not negotiable. If Biden comes in, the US will become fully captured by the globalists, and then they will go after the others, including Russia. There is your recipe for WWIII. They are already assigning a Neocon war cabinet, that writing is already on the wall. The US must hold the line to prevent a global Tryanny.” under the cover of a Pandemic.
Mr_Mayhem,
Thank you. It is kinda discouraging to come to this highly respected space and read that not one analyst here has a real comprehension of what is happening in the US and what the Trump administration is facing. It is strange how, at the very least in that respect, every analyst here seems to be a firm believer in the massive propaganda put out by news corp under control of those who turn out to be the enemies of humanity. It is strange because one holds analysts to be able to rise above such propaganda, but in this case they do not. Every comment here against the Trump administration has been implanted by news corp machinery. So I came to comments to see if I could find at the very least a single informed perspective. I found yours. I totally agree with your description. Again, thank you.
This may be a little off subject, but… Actually, I am wondering about Iran’s nuclear program in and of itself.
As most of us know, Iran’s leadership has no real desire to obtain nuclear weapons. The intent of their program is not to build nuclear weapons. So then why the effort to develop a nuclear program based on urainium? In the end one only ends up with plutonium which is extremely nasty and impossible to get rid of. (Plutonium’s only utility is in blowing things up.) I’m thinking should Iran shift over to developing their nuclear technology based on Thorium, they would be way ahead of anybody else in the power industry. They’d become a world technological energy leader as thorium based reactions is a far superior way of energy production.
The only problem with your recommendation is that this tech is not available nowhere in the planet AND the tech used by Iran is widespread knowledge.
The use of what everyone do use is the logical response.
Maybe you can provide the blueprint for a Thorium reactor and lay for the reconversion
I read a year or two ago that Iran’s prime purpose of nuclear energy was to produce medical isotopes. That article stated that Iran had all but eliminated lung cancer due to these isotopes. Of course, every site I used to visit now no longer exists due to censorship so there’s no finding that article again. Down the rabbit hole.
You can hold your breath until Trump leaves office – or until you are blue in the face – but Trump’s not leaving.
A Biden win only seems inevitable if you are listening to MSM – or believe that you can’t fight Tammany Hall. A deeper understanding of America and what’s playing out now may lead you to realize that your premise is moot.
Trump will get his second term
“A deeper understanding of America and what’s playing out now may lead you to realize that your premise is moot.”
Mind telling us what this “deeper understanding” actually entails? Are you talking about legal ways for Trump to stay in office? If you are, judges both liberal and conservative who’ve thrown out over 50 Republican lawsuits say you’re wrong. If you are talking about something else, please elucidate…
The judges, both liberal and conservative, who refused to do their job, who have thrown out 50 Republican lawsuits – are deep state swamp creatures.
Trump has delivered on his promise to Drain the Swamp. Now that the swamp has been drained, all the slithering creatures that were hiding in the murky waters have been exposed.
No surprise really that these slithering creatures were hiding in all the halls of power, State and Federal, Congress and the Supreme Courts.
So now on the one hand, there is the No Nothing branch of the Republican Party (RINOS) – together with the Dead Rabbit ballot-stuffing brass-knuckle Democrats, and on the other hand, 70 million Trump voters who don’t give a tinker’s cuss about McConnell or Thune.
If Biden was to be confirmed, the country would be pretty much ungovernable. These lawsuits and other criminal prosecutions would never go away. Everyone involved in this coup attempt would forever have their ignominious deeds hanging over them like the Swords of Damocles.
Because Trump refused to yield – the coup has failed. The coup plotters have no alternative other than finagling some pretext to walk-back this bluff, and for Biden to concede. They will do this, because at heart they are cowards.
I adore your wishful thinking.
“Because Trump refused to yield – the coup has failed.” You mean the coup of Biden winning the election? That’s crazy talk. Trump will be escorted out of the White House, feet first if necessary. If the election isn’t settled by January 20th, Nancy Pelosi becomes president. That’s right in the Constitution, DM.
Having a perverse political agenda is one thing. Denying a rigged election when the heist is caught live on CCTV (pulling suitcases stuffed with ballots from under a covered table after the observers leave the room) – is deranged.
Trump sowed the seeds of his own demise when he kept harping on “fake news” and the “lying press.” True or not, such allegations cast serious doubt on everything we hear and read these days, so when he now contends that a giant election conspiracy(!) took place, it simply comes down to which side on the issue speaks with the loudest and most unified voice. Needless to say, it’s not Trump’s side. The system has spoken. There will be no Trump second term. Period.
@Tommy
Uh, no, Pelosi would not become president in that circumstance. What happens if the election is “undetermined” is that the Congress votes with each state getting one vote…and Trump will win that contest (more republican states than dems).
Personally, I favor overt martial law. This would allow a thorough breaking up and cleansing of the MSM and big tech. It would also allow for express flights to Gitmo to transfer the thousands of criminal traitors that will need to be rounded up and liquidated.
The anti-American left has been begging for a war and they are about to get all of it they want!
Politics throws Sensibility to the winds, doesn’t it? I thought the Dems Russian Interference sore looser tantum was was crazy. But as usual, our Republican colleagues like to Doubledown. Another thing is that in reply to the conversation about instituting Martial Law for the express purpose of overturning a national election that someone didnt win, the US Military is issuing videos informing that their allegiance is not to a politician. Its to the Constitution. That requires free elections, among other things. So without overwhelming evidence the UIS Mil would logically be on Bidens side. Thats really bad news for Trumpies who dont get the whole evidence and proof thingie. and evidence that their normal thought processes are compromised. Peace
You call it what it is: a coup. It has been in the making since Trump assumed the Presidency. He knew that it would be consummated in the fake election, hence he advised people to brace for massive voter fraud, which indeed happened. People should go to SCOTUS and shout: Shame on you!
DM,
“Its a big club and you ain’t in it … The owners of this country know the truth. Its called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it!” – US comedian, George Carlin
(4:24) https://youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso
The acid test is: if Trump doesnt pardon Assange and Snowden (when he can) he was always an establishment stooge!
“Trump will get his second term”. Sure, provided he can make 2 + 2 make 5.
In the US and UK 2+2=5 is called reality
The author wrote, “Netanyahu has for long dreamed of a US-Iranian war as it would do a lot of harm to his main enemy Iran, while it would cost Israel nothingwhen US soldiers are the ones being sacrificed to save the supremacist Zionist regime.”
Although I will always defer to the military tactical expertise of the Saker, Larchmonter445, Auslander, et al, I would think the Persians have a strategy in place to launch missiles into Tel Aviv if the U.S. brazenly tries an airborne or sea platform attack on Iranian soil.
The Zionists will bury their dead too, for their bones carry no more prestige at heavens gate than does the U.S. They both make war upon the innocent of this world and will be judged harshly in the end.
If the US attacks Iran (in supposed retaliation for ‘Iranian’ attacks on US territory/property in Iraq or elsewhere), Iran’s potential retaliation on Israel will trigger cries of ‘Unprovoked attacks on Israel’ from the media and a demand to defend Israel. If Iran inflicts significant damage on Israel or if the US response is not to Bibis’ liking, Israel will assert its right to use its nukes to prevent a second Holocaust.
“ng, Israel will assert its right to use its nukes to prevent a second Holocaust.” – and do exactly WHAT with them?
Before Israel could cause ANY meaningful damage to Iran with nukes, Israel’s ONLY two cities of strategic importance would be razed to the ground in a frenzied Hezbollah + Iran Saturation missile strike that will overwhelm any and all air defences. Haifa and Tel Aviv will be in ashes in 3days. Two Iranian cities’ destruction is not the end of Iran. But if Haifa and tel Aviv is All Israel has. Hence, Israel, despite its Bluster and obvious desperation, has NEVER attempted to attack Iran on its own, and never will.
Roberts concludes that is is over for trump and his admin:
https://www.unz.com/proberts/requiem-for-donald-trump/
He argues that trump’s inability and/or failure to find competent and trustworthy advisors doomed him almost from the start. And to rely upon his grifter son in law kushner and his daughter Ivanka as key advisors was beyond stupid, to paraphrase.
BTW, (not in article) one official which was appointed at the recommendation of christy was wray; and then there is barr. What more can one say.
I think PCR nails it in that essay. Its over for the former US of A.
T77: “his grifter son in law kushner”
Kushner is Trump’s zio-minder. He’s there to ensure that Trump does what is required of him and to report back to the tribe any new ($$$) opportunities that may emerge for them – sio they can always be ahead of the curve (the ultimate in insider trading!!!)
Every US prez has had one (at least since Woodrow Wilson (1913-21))
Regards
There’ll be no war on Iran. If it was attacked Russia/China would be obliged to step in and the US knows it cant risk that
What is more likely to happen however is a third party strike against an ‘innocent’ group of civilians/city/country – and Iran will be blamed – something along the lines of the “a bomb in a suitcase” (an exaggeration, but you know what I mean) like August’s Beirutshima blast – every continental European capital is on notice – and they know it!)
The most immediate task for the USA on behalf of the the City of London’s zombie project Eretz Y’israel is to dislodge Iranian/Hezbolleh allies in Syria/Iraq and furthering the Kurdish claims to independence to establish a second zionist entity in the region, Mansour being a zionist asset)
Regards
“There’ll be no war on Iran. If it was attacked Russia/China would be obliged to step in and the US knows it cant risk that”
You raise a good point here.
When North Korea was in the news, it was common sense that South Koreans knew well that North Korea was not a threat against them but rather a protector – against the US forces stationed in the region. For a while both Russia and China held back but then two things happened: China made its position very clear: “If North Korea attacks the US, China will not interfere…but if the US attacks North Korea, China will come to the defense of North Korea” – and then Putin made it known that he had been in discussions with Kim and found him to be mature, rational and a good tactician.
The US Deep State understood that attacking North Korea was now off their wish list.
I have been looking for any similar news on any discussions held between China, Russia and Iran. There have been hints at stronger military cooperation / seeing the world through the same lens etc but no direct mention of any strategic alliance. But…China has shown an open intent to increase the BRI link to Iran, which implies that China sees this as a long-term strategy which will not be disrupted. Russia has a more ambivalent relationship with Iran due to the careful political-dance that the Kremlin has to play with the Russian-Jews residing in Israel. But the cooperation in Syria between Russian and Iranian-backed forces says it all – as does the geographical position of Iran viz Russia…But lest anyone compares this to the Ukraine…the Russians respect those who are willing to defend themselves, such as the Donbass, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and will give them the necessary support when needed.
There is then, no overt military alliance but certainly a moral imperative, or “obligation” there for Russian and China to step in and i’m sure that the hotheads in the Pentagon, Langley and State Dept are fully aware of the Red Lines, can make only threatening noises but realise they are already neutralised by realities.
No habrá guerra porque supondría el suicidio de Israel y porque EEUU no tiene por costumbre enfrentarse militarmente con enemigos poderosos e Irán lo es.
Yandex translate. Mod:
There will be no war because it would involve the suicide of Israel and because the US does not have the habit of facing powerful enemies militarily and Iran is.
But when Iran shot down the unmanned drone, Pompeo and Pence were singing, ‘Bringing in the Sheaves’ and begging Trump to bomb Iran. I find it impossible to believe that they found enough brain cells or humanity between then and now to start singing a different tune.
The only thing that would case Pence / Pompeo to be cautious would be if they wanted to run for President and did not want to start a war they were not able to conduct themselves. Hmm … I could see Pompeo thinking that he needed to do that.
These guys are loons. I really hope that Iran is talking w/Russia behind the scenes to find a way to deter U.S. aggression in this final month. Soleimani would have been perfect for that.
Why are we still talking about Trump? The political power elites know he is on his way out, but also that he is more dangerous to them out of power than in power so they will either
1. tie him up in law-fare, one suit after another
2. or arrange for a tragic accident…
Either way he is history….he won’t fight for his followers so why should they fight for him? Most will not.
If there is a war against Iran it will be in SW Syria or for the rest of the Golan Height area. It will complete the piece meal gobbling up of Syrian territory by different interest groups. Sad.
” However, “a range of senior advisers dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike,” The New York Times reported. According to the report, Vice president Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others reportedly told the outgoing president that such action could spiral out of control.”
This is very wrong as all here know that Pompeo will never ever stop strike on Iran. I don’t remember where I saw or read it but it was Pompeo that wanted strike on Iran during that meeting and not Trump.
GreyZone interniew with Lawrence Wilkerson is intressting…
https://youtu.be/7wYwBfXIVco?t=1055
Found it. It looks like it was Fat Mike…
https://youtu.be/_cZquatZDLE?t=64
A little history of empire. Some start with the host filled with noble ideals yet end up in intensive care as the leeches attached to the same host gorge themselves prior to seeking another victim.
Independence and free will is a strong adult desire difficult to subdue.
https://youtu.be/fUm7Ze-6aYA
Independence and free will are the fixations of the (eternal) adolescent.
Power and responsibility are the domain of the adult.
Subservience of USA to ‘Israel’ is systemic. As Russophobia. Trump was punished because he diverted attention from the ‘real enemy’.
The situation in middle East is far more dangerous if Biden gets in as he is in the pockets of the globalist MIC elements who want to perpetuate more endless wars to line their pockets and do the evil bidding of the EU moneychangers who want to destroy Iran, Syria and other countries not under their control.
Trump wants to stop wars and do deals.
There have been skirmishes in the Levant in recent times and often Trump has been mislead or tricked into going along with things that were not only designed to effect his opponents agendas but get Trump and Israel into strife.
He has too many domestic things going on in the next month to focus on the Middle East.
But don’t be surprised if his opponents try to set him up.
And he needs to be aware of that.
The Middle East is a complex set of variables which also makes things hard to assess and respond to but those there needs to be very wary of what a Biden-Clinton Administration would do.
I’ve read, followed and seen the developments coming out of the US policy in regards to Iran and came to a conclusion that they can never win a war with Iran. And the gulf states and Israel too know even if it happens their existence won’t be guaranteed. But I can’t understand why they do everything in their power to provoke a war with the Persians. Maybe am missing something, could someone please make me understand?
Perhaps you need to understand and know the history of Trumps own justice department cajoling and roles in the extradition and prosecution of Assange to know that will never be the case. Trump administration was instrumental in bringing about his extradition.
Some old song said something like …”a hopeless fool believes what he sees…”
I ll believe it when I see it.
As for Snowden.. he’s old news. Why would he pardon someone who has taken refuge in Russia and is not doing jail time?
Trump pardons political money launderers and psychopathic murderers (mercenaries) of brown people.
An assault on Iran is not going to happen because Washington and Jerusalem can’t predict how Russia and China will react. The minimum of coming to the rescue of Iran would be the supply of weapons and intelligence sufficient to make the war costly in the extreme. So far the war mongers Are able to calculate the scenario.
Don’t we learn about the daily threats and sanctions issued by the failing hegemon which never have the desired effect. In my view this sanctioning and threatening is meant to keep an unstable situation from worsening as long as possible while the top globalists plan for a future without the number one bully to protect them.
I do not entirely agree that Trump is an imbecile, I do believe we have moved into unknown territory politically, and what before appeared as rational analysis, now often appears to me as strangely irrelevant.
I don’t like bets, so I won’t write any more.
He’s not an imbecile, but his is (as a POTUS) an impotent fizzer: All fuse, No bang!
He’s basically slinking out off stage left (or is it right in his case?) with various sub-theme ‘out rage’ shows being sent like decoy flares into the yak-o-sphere…. all ego and perception management with a hint of ‘salvage’ for a possible run in 2024 — but I think the world will have moved on from his form of reality-show clown-land style. By then it will be “Trump who?” … Lol.
“Being wary that Trump, in his last month in charge could offer Israel a final gift in the form of an attack on Iran, Tehran has been preparing itself for any possible scenario.” During the attempt to intimidate Iran, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Iranian_shoot-down_of_American_drone, Trump and advisers realized that a war with Iran would result in a drastic reduction of oil supply worldwide and refused to escalate the conflict. Iran may not be a world power but it could stop a world power and associates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIZPLsYjCE).
The US experts know that any confrontation with Iran will cause unprecedented chaos and destruction around the world. Such chaos will only exacerbate the current economic crisis we live in USA. Therefore, no strike on Iran for now or ever???
No. The NYT is almost certainly lying. They just lied about the discussion of Martial law in the tense Oval Office meeting with Sydney Powell, Michael Flynn, Giuliani, and Patrick Byrne.
See Patrick Byrne Interview describing that meeting below. Trump’s lawyer leaked to the NYT that Martial Law was discussed, but it didn’t happen as per Patrick Byrne. NYT is captured by the Anti-Trump agenda, and lost all credibility years ago on anything Trump.
Dark To Light: A Meeting With The President
Patric Byrne describes the meeting and strategy, and reveals Trump’s own legal team pushing against stopping the steal.
It’s an explosive interview, well worth one’s time.
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/12/21/dark-to-light-a-meeting-with-the-president/
Having read the author’s article, I can only comment in passing on his vitriol against President Trump. There’s an old saying: ‘If you can’t win your argument with facts and evidence, then dazzle the opposition with name calling and personal denigration’. Obviously the author has no real evidence to back up his findings that President Trump is an imbecile ergo he is dangerous ergo he has to go quietly in to the night or, according to some posters, he will be dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House. Put down the crack pipe, that ain’t gonna happen despite your wildest fantasies.
Methinks many of you live in a fantasy land with no hard facts to back up your continuous vitriol against both USA and President Trump. I’ve been on this rock hurtling through space for over seven decades, I’ve seen good presidents, mediocre presidents and bad presidents, but I’ve never in my life seen the vitriol poured on President Trump from the moment he threw his hat in the ring. I won’t even bring up the kerfluffle concerning FLOTUS, I’ll simply say that denigrating FLOTUS has been a no-no for two and more centuries. To coin a phrase, thou hast no class to attack the lady and to do so shows your frustration in your failed attacks on POTUS, aka Donald J. Trump.
Here’s the current sitrep. POTUS ordered the troops out of Syria quite some moons ago. Pentagon told him to void his bladder up a rope. POTUS ordered the troops out of Afghan, the longest and least ‘successful’ war USA has ever been involved in, Vietnam being a close second when you consider Ike sending in ‘training cadre’ and ‘advisors’ during his terms. POTUS was told by Pentagon ‘no’. Not maybe, not ‘soon’, but ‘no’. Here’s a truism: When they are shooting at you when you leave, you lost. Vietnam was a defeat for USA. Syria is a defeat for USA. Afghan is a defeat for USA. Is it any wonder President Trump replaced the top command structure of US Armed Forces? Apparently none of them knew that President Trump is the Commander in Chief whether you like his orders or not. Your recourse, as an officer, is you can resign. Not a one did, although a couple of Ukrainian O6’s and a civilian woman who used to be involved with the Ukraine debacle got escorted out of Department of State this past warm time.
Here’s another truism: Part of the Oath of Office when the President is sworn in is swearing to defend United States of American against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC. There is no plan for a ‘President Biden’, nor is there a plan for a ‘President Harris’, both are nonentities. This coup has deeper undercurrents than many of you understand, and as POTUS, Donald J. Trump is within his rights to do whatever he feels is correct to defend The United States of American from any enemy.
‘Nough said.
Auslander
Author
An Incident On Simonka paperback edition. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1696160715 NATO Is Invited to Leave Sevastopol, one way or the other.
Never The Last One, paper back edition. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521849056 A deep look in to Russia, her culture and her Armed Forces, in essence a look at the emergence of Russian Federation.
Bullseye, Auslander!
The heart of the situation is a coup. The idea from the get-go (Trump’s announced candidacy 2015, his campaign 2016, the election and his inauguration 2017, and throughout the first term until this moment, Christmas 2020 has been to nullify Trump and MAGA, a national populist movement (bigger than any Popular Front in any third world country in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s or in the 21st Century.)
Trump was only allowed about 25% of his Presidential powers. But what he wielded was Leadership of the MAGA ground forces (voters, supporters, taxpayers, police, sheriffs, military, retired military, legal immigrants, small business and medium business owners, industrial and technological sectors, farmers, ranchers, doctors, medical professionals, and retired people.) 65 million at the start, 75 million in 2020.
Understand that no larger organization of patriots who could be assembled anywhere in the US came close to such an amalgam.
Trump demonstrated his power to draw on this support in the largest political rallies ever seen, sometimes five a day and evening. People by the tens of thousands in the rain, in the freezing cold, waiting for 8-20 hours for him to arrive at an airport where the people would have a safety cordon free from possible BLM/Antifa attacks (which occurred in the 2016 campaign in many Blue State cities.)
Trump also raised enormous amounts of small donor monies for his campaign. If you total all the PACs the RNC and Trump campaign partnered on, three-quarters of a billion dollars came in from small donors (less than $65 each donation.).
Trump’s electoral coattails were historic. He swept away phony pollings meant to discourage his supporters and led a massive Congressional win for the Republicans, held the Senate against predicted losses, and won every state race for Republicans for legislatures and governorships. Undeniable power of his name and endorsement atop the ballots.
Republicans even won 4 Congressional seats in California. Unbelievable on Nov. 2, factual on Nov.4
Trump led a landslide victory on Nov. 3 that was evident if you paid the slightest attention to the campaign and not the pollings. Turnout across America was historic. MAGA was bigger than ever. It also was more heterogenous. Black men, Latinos, Asians, White Women, Middle Americans all were part of the tsunami for Trump.
All in the midst of a horrible economic turndown because of the pandemic. The worst possible fate for an incumbent made no difference. Trump and MAGA had a second term in office.
Of course, we know what has actualized. The Coup. The fraudulent election. The greatest crime in American history. Bigger than JFK’s assassination. That was a coup against the Kennedy clan. An object lesson for any who dared follow JFK’s notion that he could shut down a war, punish the CIA for its crazed clandestine operations, or deliver a degree of control over the Federal Reserve.
Trump’s sin was much larger. He had formed a movement outside the control of the Ruling Elites and impossible to co-opt, also an armed threat if the Elites tried to ‘Dallas’ Trump or any of his family. Trump’s MAGA was utterly peaceful, happy, joyous but MAGA bore the essence of what Americans are at their core.
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer. It has never melted.”
The quote was from the British writer D.H. Lawrence, 1923.
As we often restate the cliche but a truth: Don’t Poke the Bear, so, too, understand an inner core of patriotism in Americans is a willingness to fight for the Constitution and to protect the Rule of Law.
It doesn’t take a large number of the 50-75 million to form an invincible band of brothers (and sisters). And who knows this more or better than the US government? They are terrified of ‘going to mattresses’ (as Mario Puzo wrote in “The Godfather”).
So, Trump has MAGA and he has The Thin Blue Line of law enforcement officers. Biden did not get one police endorsement. Trump had the army of patriots, the band of brothers, hard, isolate, stoic, and LEOs from coast to coast.
This meant only a complete electoral fraud had to be perpetrated and then denied its day in court.
So we have the judicial circus acts of “no standing” for the Republican Party, for the Trump Campaign, for individual voters and finally, for the States themselves. Who then has standing in this lawless government?
The Coup demands treason, it requires sedition. And that is what is going on.
Military traitors, judicial seditionists, quislings selling out their nation at all levels of political power, every department and agency.
But Trump’s MAGA can throw half-million into the streets with 48 hours notice. So far, peaceful, prayerful parades of Americans. (who in the evening were attacked by Antifa/BLM thugs.)
Imagine if Trump calls for 3 or 5 million to come to DC? 8 or 10 million will show up.
So what is the present SitRep? Steal a country from the people? Destroy their social contract, the Constitution and Rule of Law? What will be the reaction when this is finalized on Jan. 20?
The hard, isolate, stoic band of brothers, whose soul has never and will never melt, will become killers if necessary.
This transition of the Presidency is from legal to criminal. It will change the nature of all social relationships of the People to the Government (which by necessity will become a full-fledged fascist government.)
If the Georgia Senate races hold for the Republicans (unlikely), some calm might enter the situation. People can focus on the 2022 election to retake the House. And then the return of Trump or someone he anoints.
If the Senate goes to the Dems, the unraveling and open war will likely evolve. Civil war is on the menu. All it takes is flame to cook it up to temperature. Biden’s agenda is white hot flame. There is an abundance of fuel to set the nation ablaze.
Larchmonter
This. In spades!!
Well said, my friend and comrade, well said, and truthful to the nth degree! You told it like it was and is, and the next two weeks will be the proof in the pudding.
Americans are slow to anger but I’ve felt that anger growing since the first ‘antifa’ terrorists were let loose in Oregon almost three years ago and I watched the ‘police’ stand back and watch the terrorists practice and hone their methods. Those methods came to fruition for all of this year, 2020. Americans will not tolerate this lawlessness and destruction nor will they tolerate a coup against the sitting President, a coup that has been ongoing since before he won the first election. For heaven’s sake, the dems were screaming ‘impeach him’ before the votes were counted in Trump’s first election! That alone should tell what they want and what they would do. Toss in kankle’s telling Biden ‘no matter what, don’t concede’ shows there was and is an ongoing and well organized coup d’etat against the sitting President of the United States of America.
Methinks the next couple weeks will be of import, and that’s an understatement of vast proportions.
Auslander
Well, everyone is free to have their own opinion on my pieces. However I would like to just respond to what I perceived to be accusations against me.
“Having read the author’s article, I can only comment in passing on his vitriol against President Trump. There’s an old saying: ‘If you can’t win your argument with facts and evidence, then dazzle the opposition with name calling and personal denigration’.”
1- And Trump isn’t engaging in name calling and personal denigration? I guess calling people “sleepy Joe” etc isn’t name calling then?
What do you call it when he calls other statesmen things like “little rocket man” and “animal Assad”?
This is my point exactly. He is an imbecile since he resorts to this kind of behavior which is beneath a statesman’s dignity.
“Obviously the author has no real evidence to back up his findings that President Trump is an imbecile”
2- I called him an imbecile not because I don’t have any evidence, but because I actually do. You see, we’re not all Americans on this blog. Some of us are from the same countries that have been terrorized by the Empire for decades. As an Iranian, I judge US presidents by their foreign policies, not by their domestic rivalries against antifa and liberals..
His moves against Iran shows that he has no idea what he’s dealing with. His policies have failed, the US was humiliated by Iran several times over these past four years. Not even the traditional European vassals were willing to publicly back him up on his withdrawal from the JCPOA. This wasn’t because they had “plotted together with the liberals to undermine him”, but because it was such an imbecile move that nobody in their right mind could support it. Unless you count Netanyahu, MBS and ISIS as people in their right mind, almost the entire international community considered the move to be disgraceful. It was in violation of a UN resolution.
His disgusting murder of Martyr Soleimani was unprecedented. It drew widespread condemnation and was a cowards move. Only an imbecile would’ve believed that killing Soleimani would weaken Iran. Again, Trump has no idea what he’s dealing with when it comes to Iran. He has no understanding of our ideology, what our cause is and why we fight. He, just like your average imbecile, thinks that we’re just “terrorists”.
Nothing he has done against not just Iran, but in the field of foreign policy overall has proven to me the opposite of my belief, that the man is an imbecile.
Aside from this stupid move, The man constantly resorts to cheap threats and pathetic name callings on TWITTER. Only an imbecile deals with foreign policy matters and threatens to destroy an entire country’s cultural heritage on TWITTER…
With all due respect, this is the man you think will protect America?
I do not understand why everyone keeps saying that Israel wants war with Iran. Contrary to Netanyahu’s public rhetoric, he, more than almost anyone else, knows full well that a war with Iran would be the end of his Jew-supremacist anti-Semitc entity, what with missiles raining down on the dump from both Iran and Lebanon/Hezbollah. Netanyahu does NOT want war with Iran, even if the U.S. would lead that war.
Furthermore, any country that plans an attack on another will not publicize it beforehand. Thus Israel bombed Iraq’s nuclear reactor without there having been any prior reports in the press. So, Netanyahu’s rhetoric is for home comsumption, where, once again, he needs to deflect from his legal shenanigans.
Ernesto, it’s a form of Stockholm Syndrome Projection, aka a reverse mafia shakedown. Can’t extort money from fools if there is no threat. Make up a threat and presto, free money. Did you see the amount of money the Apartheid State received in the Covid Stimulus Bill, see, looking out for friends. What US citizen would want to live in a world without The Apartheid State Occupying Palestine…..
Cheers, M
Good points, I agree. My point was merely to draw attention to the fact that all the nervousness about an attack on Iran before Trump goes is misplaced.
Personally, I understand the hatred towards Trump, it is easy to dislike such an imbecile who has no self-control.
This is a comment for FB, unbecoming of this space. I have a positive view of Aram Mirzaei so far, but this ad hominem only shows his arguments against Trump are propaganda cognitive virus acquired from news corp that turns people into witless tools of the criminal Democratic Party.
There are many things to criticize about the Trump administration, but to seriously believe that Trump is an imbecile, clumsy, irrational, idiot, clown, etc is to fall for the informational traps of the US military. Playing ‘irrational’ is part of the foreign policy of the US and if you do not understand that then you should not be writing geopolitical content.
It is kinda scary when all analysts in this highly respected blog all sound like Democratic Party news corp people when it comes to describing the Trump Administration.
Look, my opinion of Trump has nothing to do with “democratic party news corp people” and their propaganda against Trump. As an Iranian, I analyze his policies towards the Islamic Republic. You can’t possibly think that his policies towards Iran have just been “a bit irrational”…
His policies towards Iran have been a massive failure, for him, not for Iran. He shot himself in the foot when he pulled out of the JCPOA without a second of thought over the consequences he would have to face. 2 years later he and Pompeo stood there making fools out of themselves when even their friends in Europe wouldn’t support them in the UN as they tried to extend the embargo.
What kind of statesman withdraws from a deal, then pretends to be part of it again, only to be humiliated by even his own allies? It is quite clear that he and his administration didn’t quite think this one through. Just like they didn’t think things through when they engaged in terrorism earlier this year.
He, just like any other crude and vile “statesman” before him, thought that murdering another country’s highly respected General would bring that country to its knees. What kind of an analysis was that? Killing Soleimani didn’t weaken Iran, it lead to many many people around the world and inside Iran to sympathize with the Islamic Republic and its cause.
Besides, what kind of statesman has no regard for any kind of norms and rules? The man is basically tweeting nonsense all day, calling people names and insulting them. He completely lacks professionalism, manners and basic respect for his counterparts. He speaks and behaves like a child and cannot even debate an opponent without interrupting and resorting himself to constant ad hominem attacks (interestingly, I’m the one accused of ad hominem attacks here…)
Now you expect me to seriously think that he is not an idiot? You say he’s not an imbecile? Then tell me why he isn’t
How many commenters realized that this is an Iranian view?.
And for an Iranian view, it is absolutely valid.
Those that jump up to protect Trump (actually the US administration of today), are not those that the weapons are pointed towards. When that happens, when the weapons point toward yourself and your people, when the sanctions are coming big and fast, when the threats are repeated time and time again, if your very existence is threatened despite agreements, your perspective on Trump changes ‘biggly’. From this perspective, the man is demented, I don’t care how good his ‘instincts’ are. MAGA means simply to make American ‘great’ despite, and at the expense of, all others in this world. And now we have submarines floating about in that area, to all accounts and purposes of the nuclear kind. This man is a threat to all the world because he cannot manage his way out of a paper bag and he has no control over his administration, military, or otherwise. This is the reason why the current coup exists.
We are truly fiddling (or at least playing the Lute) while the Rome of the current hegemon burns. And Trump is the perfect modern depiction of that classical saying.
No, this is not a US Democrat view’ and those kinds of comments come from ones that have no clue of anything bigger than themselves, who cannot even get their election process halfway clean. This concept of ‘my country, my president right or wrong’, falls into the category of distorted clanging cymbals if you live in Iran, in Venezuela, in Russia, and we can continue this list.
It is a crying shame that Aram Mirzaei feels he has to defend himself, not his work, himself, and this on The Saker blog.
I beg to disagree with you, my lady. You, and others, know very well where I live and you also know that if it comes to war, as a point of ‘honor’ my city will be overwhelmed with a veritable horde of cruise missiles that no defense in the world is capable of eliminating in totality. Sanctions? You haven’t seen sanctions until you have lived under what we have in The Federal City of Sevastopol. Regardless of where the author of the article lives or regards as his ancestry, calling POTUS an imbecile does nothing to raise his level of expertise above that of his twitter addicted subject.
Your, actually not your, choice of candidates in the election was not particularly savory by any stretch of the imagination, but while President Trump was deprived at the get go of his most valued, and valuable, advisors, I shudder to think what will happen by early spring if that late if Biden manages to set foot in the White House. Any way you look at it he won’t be there long nor will be his VP. Both are out of their league and both are simply figureheads who will be eliminated one way or another by spring. And what will this elimination leave you with? I shudder to think.
Auslander
Yes, I knew you would all disagree with me. Let me mention just shortly, yes, I know where you are, and I’ve experienced sanctions and worse.
It is simply for that, for those very facts, that I had the (damn fool – grins) idea that you could walk in an Iranian’s mocassins for a moment, even just for a moment. The mocassins of those that experienced the Trump administration and Trump himself from a wholly different perspective.
It is also past time that we discuss the undercurrents that we all see. Things are happening. The complete narrative in the US as to who stole the election in the Patriot circles is changing. It is now a very loud shout that Iran, Russia and China stole the election and all the ones that were the enemy yesterday (inside of the US – the Bidens, Pelosis, Harris and add to the list), just everyone is now being bribed by, or paying fealty to the Chinese. China is bribing every judge in the US. They are displacing the blame and who runs a displacement narrative like that I ask you?.
The US and some of the west is being primed. We’re working up to war here Auslander. Just recently Aerospace Forces of Russia and China conducted the second joint air patrol in the Asia-Pacific region. This is not an insignificant development. Go take a look at the discussion between Michael Hudson and Escobar. The hope at least in our circles always was that Trump would perhaps get the economy right but he cannot, not without a revolutionary action and he won’t take that.
Those that Trump just pardoned, shows a major disconnect between one Trump the president and Trump the president his loyal supporters believe he is. How many are following when Trump announces reduction of troops, how that gets replaced by contractors?
I’m all for this very hard discussion. What I am not for, is beating up an Iranian view, a view who tasted the alternative Trump the President in a very real way – and this is continuing. I keep asking the Trump supporters if they are following Pompeo’s actions. And I keep getting this vague look in the eyes. Trump is standing in front of the curtain, and Pompeo et al are working towards a new bifurcation or rather a many-furcation in the world. Do yourself a favor, just go and quickly look at the last month. It won’t take long.
https://twitter.com/secpompeo?lang=en
My dear lady,
I am very well aware of the narrative both public and ‘behind the curtain’. I’m to the point that I don’t care what they say in public or supposed ‘privat’ (no one can, or will, truthfully say what ‘they’ discuss in privat), I care only of their actions.
I don’t have to walk in an Iranians shoes, only a fool would attack Iran, or Russia, or China. What they are trying to do is inflict the death of a thousand cuts on all three, and it ain’t working nor will it ever work. However, I firmly believe that a Biden administration will make DJT look like a saint and to be honest I’ll be surprised if Biden survives the journey from inauguration to the Inaugural Ball shortly after. Too many evil creatures waiting in the wings to return to power and mayhem to have any positive thoughts on this devil’s brew.
Auslander
Amarynth,
Your statement: “MAGA means simply to make American ‘great’ despite, and at the expense of, all others in this world.” is a completely misread interpretation of MAGA.
MAGA to Americans who joined it, voted for it, is isolationist, not hegemonic. Having closed borders with limited, legal immigration is rational behavior every other nation observes. Building the manufacturing sector of the economy and producing (more expensive) domestically consumed products means the US is less competitive on the world market, but MAGA people want to see American products on American shelves.
MAGA is about Rule of Law. You pull down a statute, graffiti a public building, terrorize the public at a restaurant, assault a policeman, burn down private property, your ass goes to jail. That’s MAGA.
It’s really about taking care of Americans and America first. And what is first in MAGA minds is the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Rule of Law and growing the domestic economy for all Americans. Which is what Trump did in this first term. Before the pandemic ruined that growth, he had an economy on the upswing (at no cost to any other country). He rewrote NAFTA and withdrew from TPIP and Americans benefited, so did Canadians and so did Mexicans.
Tariffs cost Americans money. These costs raise the import price American businesses pay for Chinese goods. Ultimately, consumers pay more if they buy Chinese products. How does that hurt the Chinese. The concept is it opens space in the market for American-produced products. That was working in limited ways.
Chinese pay more for farm products. That worked out in the long run for farmers. But they had to given billions of dollars (gleaned from tariffs) to bridge them over until the Chinese purchases kicked it.
MAGA is a national populist movement that has zero foreign agenda. It is the old isolationist emotion from Charles Lindberg days, pre-WWII.
Trump tried over and over to draw down all troops in the longest wars, Afghan and Iraq. He tried to get out of Syria. He’s getting troops out of Africa (so much so that AFRICOM has collapsed and is now just a part of EUROCOM.)
This is what MAGA wants. They also want our troops out of S.Korea, out of Okinawa, and out of the Black Sea, out of Ukraine, and the big one, ultimately, out of NATO.
You can interpret it any other way. But you would be wrong.
While I am at it,
So, your opening statement that an Iranian view is a valid one. This is Circular Logic.
An Iranian view is an Iranian view. Validity comes from that view tested by reality, facts. If those tests coincide with the Iranian view, then the Iranian view is valid.
Merely being Iranian buys nothing in this argument, any more than an American view or a Larchmonter445 view does.
On some subject matters, Iranian viewpoints are important to know. But they don’t earn primacy because of their source. All they are is relevant and deserving of testing in the marketplace.
Being challenged is part of the deal. You put out your POV and stand against challengers if they come.
Of recent times, some authors have brought a heightened sensitivity that they shouldn’t hear a discouraging word about their articles.
So long as the critiques or questions are not personal attacks, challenges are what comments are for. Compliments, too are part of comments.
Discourse is the goal, no?
I know what MAGA means my friend. I know the idea of it, the philosophy of it.
Rather, I am talking about the implementation of the concept.
I’m going to say some uncomfortable things .. life as it is experienced – the comment that you say no foreign agenda. Sorry my friend, but those are dreams.
Did you MAGA Venezuela? I don’t know, the patriots say that come hell or high water, you will do that. And did you MAGA Bolivia? Well, for sure, so they say. What they actually say, is that the US will come back and rule the whole wide world with Trump the new savior. You don’t have to believe me, just go and take a look at the discourse. I hear it. I hear it locally, I hear it from my family but I don’t say a word, and like you, I read a lot.
There is no retrenchment of US power and internal focus in the eyes of the MAGAs.
Instead there is a raw naked exceptionalism worse than what I have ever seen or experienced in all my 20+ years worth of travels across the world.
We also have these rabid patriots around us, here in a spot somewhere in Latin America. There is a local restaurant that they are busy trying to burn down, break down, take out of commission or in some or other way harm. Simply because the local restaurant owner asked them to stop their politicking and troublemaking and USA USA yelling in his restaurant, be somewhat respectful to the wait staff, otherwise stay out. There were a number of incidents of just pure rudeness to the wait staff and heaven helps the one that comes in there that is perhaps not a MAGA. They are intent on the MAGA for this local restaurant. No respect whatsoever for anyone that is not a MAGA or any of the local people.
We’ve seen this type of behavior increasing over the past three years to the extent that we avoid any venue that may have MAGAs or heavens forbid, any of the other kind.
Perhaps people are not realizing just what this concept is doing within the hearts and minds of the Trumpers. This, the one that I just wrote about, has a particularly ugly grouping, and the rest is not much better. Perhaps people are not realizing just what you look like outside of your borders. It is exceedingly ugly with MAGA screaming in supermarkets because the locals cannot speak English. The idea is .. they know we are coming down here for snow season, they can learn English. I used to help quickly, with a few words of translation if someone had a problem, but now, I turn my back. (The real story of course is that most of the locals dealing with expats and visitors can speak some English, but, they simply now refuse because of hardened attitudes and incessant demands of exceptionalism).
I find nothing wrong with an Iranian excoriating Trump, for what he has done. There is no way, manner or means that one can forgive the killing of Gen Suleimani, and the subsequent proudful boasts of killing him. There are current threats, right now as we all know. There is no way, manner or means that one can justify nuclear subs and ‘freedom of navigation’ exercises all over the world, just to make trouble.
Yes, the goal is discourse and I think I find myself discoursing :-) But at the moment, I have to spell out the results of the MAGA as experienced outside of the borders.
At the moment, the idea of a Rules-based International Order is widely being disseminated as the standard for the world. But, internally you talk about Law and Order. These kinds of equivalencies are simply talking with forked tongue. There is a major problem (or a bunch of them) in the US, and I have to take the stance of speaking about these, as they pertain to those outside of the US, honestly and how they are being experienced.
And this is what our writer here wrote. How these are being experienced, not the philosophy of it. That horse has left the stable. There is a very ugly rider on the back of it. I see it each time I leave my house to do a shopping run here in winter when the snowbirds come down to MAGA here.
You nailed it my friend!
Honestly talk about froud and justice for Trump when he has always been a fraud himself all his life and even long before becoming POTUS is something that I dont undrestand. The fish is rotten from the head!
AR Quote: “You nailed it my friend!
Honestly talk about froud and justice for Trump when he has always been a fraud himself all his life and even long before becoming POTUS is something that I dont undrestand. The fish is rotten from the head!”
My good sir, would you be so kind as to list dates, case numbers, trial dates, convictions and sentences of President Trump involving fraud. I’m all ears.
Auslander
Really?
Lets start from present day and stay in the ME. Dec 23 2020 Trump pardoned 4 Blackwater murdere who slaughtered 14 innocent Iraqis (injured 17 others). These trials considered to be one of the proudest accomplishments of the DC US Attorney’s Office, fighting for justice for those helpless Iraqi victims. Today, Trump killed justice. What kind of sick man does this?
On 3 January 2020, by order of Trump a US drone strike assasinated Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on false claim without presenting any evidence that they were plotting against American. Fat Mike(We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole) never presented any proof.
Only a fraud leaves troops in Syria for the oil, he is admitting it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10p3Tn9V5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otP-AxlKKTE
Trump want to take Iraq oil to pay for invasion of Iraq. If not a fraud man than what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZR_rrMGRgQ
“Believe me, I can take care of ISIS. Nobody can take care of ISIS better than me. Its gonna be over for ISIS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYUbaJzG2x0
Trumps first visit was to Saudi Arabia(that peace loving country that have build hundres of school and hospitals in Yemen) for selling weapons and dancing wardance. I guess Sauds were preparing for a tripp to Turkey to talk to Jamal Khashoggi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD8tbuWMHt4
A $25 million settlement agreement has been reached in the civil fraud lawsuits against President-elect Donald Trump and Trump University
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/18/502620122/new-york-attorney-general-says-trump-agrees-to-settle-trump-university-lawsuits
Before becoming president he has more than 3500 lawsuit against him.
And while you want som proof and dating you said..
” This coup has deeper undercurrents than many of you understand, and as POTUS, Donald J. Trump is within his rights to do whatever he feels is correct to defend The United States of American from any enemy”
Can you give us some proof about coup with dating that can hold in the court? Places, people invilved?
And while while you are telling us..
“Apparently none of them knew that President Trump is the Commander in Chief whether you like his orders or not.”
contradicting yourself by telling that ha could not do his job because of Pentagon..
“Here’s the current sitrep. POTUS ordered the troops out of Syria quite some moons ago. Pentagon told him to void his bladder up a rope. POTUS ordered the troops out of Afghan, the longest and least ‘successful’ war USA has ever been involved in, Vietnam being a close second when you consider Ike sending in ‘training cadre’ and ‘advisors’ during his terms. POTUS was told by Pentagon ‘no’. Not maybe, not ‘soon’, but ‘no’”
Can he as commander in chief does his job of taking out the troops or not? Starting a war is easy for a president but finishing it is not decided by him?
I asked for dates, case numbers, convictions and sentencing data. By the by, npr is surely not a reliable source, nor is ‘youtube’. In case you didn’t notice, President Trump did fire the previous head of military, much to the screams of npr et al. Your suppositions of President Trump being guilty of crimes mean nothing. Again, dates, case numbers, convictions and sentences ….
Auslander
And so does your suppositions of coup against him because you dont provide any proof. So please dont ask me for proof if you can not proof your own word. Atleast I give you some proof.
Those youtube are Trumps own word, and not DeepFake. He says we are bandits and steal your oil time after time. That $25 million settlement was all over the new eveywhere. This is from office of the attorney general NY..
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2018/ag-schneiderman-statement-final-trump-university-settlement
_AR_
Court case numbers, dates, defendant, charges, outcome of court and sentence. Let’s have ’em.
Auslander
It would be a long list Auslander. I mean books and LSat curricula has been written about this.
Some he won, some he offered settlement before he lost. Biggest one I know of is Trump University which he offered a settlement for three fraud cases and settled for 25 million.
Trump was always known to be litigious. If you are asking a serious question here start with Roy Cohen, his long time attorney and mentor. That is a story in itself and I recently watched a movie about that man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTrHL7Vo_SQ
He was Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the McCarthy era. Nice movie, but horrible man. There are more movies and books about him.
But to the lawsuits .. Trump is known to have many more lawsuits than the usual construction business, even in New York.
https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/attorney-and-author-on-his-portrait-of-donald-trump-through-more-than-3500-lawsuits
https://crushthelsatexam.com/deep-dive-donald-trumps-long-history-of-lawsuits/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Donald_Trump
Auslander
Only for you my friend. Here is the case number. The man is a fraud and nothing more. A few google search and click and here we are. Even thought you probably new all of this already. I am still waiting for proof of The Coup!
No.17-55635
D.C. Nos.
3:10-cv-00940-GPC-WVG 3:13-cv-02519-GPC-WVG
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of CaliforniaGonzalo P. Curiel, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted November 15, 2017 Pasadena, California Filed February 6, 2018
the rest of technical information is found here from US court settlement and everything you need. Happy reading
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/02/06/17-55635.pdf
Here is Trump’s hidden video deposition in Trump University fraud case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMr2Ck9KVo
I haven’t bother to go through everything cause dont need that, and have no time for that. I just wanted to back up my statement, and waiting for yours now.
In order to keep our friendship, I’ll merely say I disagree at the conflation of MAGA with Traditional US hegemonic policies abroad.
You might think your POV is crystal clear vision of MAGA. It isn’t. The only cross border contact MAGA made beyond the borders of the US was Jeff Sessions as AG went to El Salvador and told them they were going to get back their MS-13 murderous criminals and they were going to keep them. And so, 13,000 of them have been shipped to San Salvador.
American Foreign Policy has never been subject to popular ideology. The basic instinct of Americans (pre- or outside-Liberal Cult indoctrination) is isolationism. MAGA is isolationist.
Globalists, Climate Change Lunatics, Financial Capitalists, MIC leeches create and operate American foreign policy. It isn’t a purview of mere Middle Americans. Never has been. Never will be.
So, I find your insistence on branding a purely domestic political movement as the essence of something it has no influence or connection therewith a misread.
That is all fine Larchmonter445. It is not my experience but I won’t overburden this issue any longer. You may take a look at the MAGA attack on Justin Trudeau (not that I’m too interested in Trudeau for sure). It was quite grassroots and the little that I saw the attackers/freedom fighters used Israel, Great Britain and US Flags. No idea what happened and did not look into it deeply. This is just one that I took notice of. There are more where this thing is out of the bottle on a people basis, not a State basis, but I’m happy to leave it as is now.
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“amarynth on December 27, 2020 · at 11:08 am EST/EDT
It would be a long list Auslander. I mean books and LSat curricula has been written about this.
Some he won, some he offered settlement before he lost. Biggest one I know of is Trump University which he offered a settlement for three fraud cases and settled for 25 million.
Trump was always known to be litigious. If you are asking a serious question here start with Roy Cohen, his long time attorney and mentor. That is a story in itself and I recently watched a movie about that man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTrHL7Vo_SQ
He was Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the McCarthy era. Nice movie, but horrible man. There are more movies and books about him.
But to the lawsuits .. Trump is known to have many more lawsuits than the usual construction business, even in New York.
https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/attorney-and-author-on-his-portrait-of-donald-trump-through-more-than-3500-lawsuits
https://crushthelsatexam.com/deep-dive-donald-trumps-long-history-of-lawsuits/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Donald_Trump
_AR_ on December 27, 2020 · at 6:58 pm EST/EDT
Auslander
Only for you my friend. Here is the case number. The man is a fraud and nothing more. A few google search and click and here we are. Even thought you probably new all of this already. I am still waiting for proof of The Coup!
No.17-55635
D.C. Nos.
3:10-cv-00940-GPC-WVG 3:13-cv-02519-GPC-WVG
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of CaliforniaGonzalo P. Curiel, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted November 15, 2017 Pasadena, California Filed February 6, 2018
the rest of technical information is found here from US court settlement and everything you need. Happy reading
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/02/06/17-55635.pdf
Here is Trump’s hidden video deposition in Trump University fraud case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMr2Ck9KVo
I haven’t bother to go through everything cause dont need that, and have no time for that. I just wanted to back up my statement, and waiting for yours now.”
Oddly, there is no ‘reply’ link on these two posts as of 09:25 Sevastopol time, 28.12.20, but ONLY these two posts. When salting a mine, make sure to bring a broom to whisk away your footprints.
Auslander
Goodness. I noticed that yesterday – no reply button, and thought something had gone wrong on my side and suspected that I might have to buy a new monitor or my eyes had gone wonky. Would you report to tech please Auslander? There is no mine salting here, hence no broom necessary.
Auslander
No trick from my side either. You have to ask site admin about that. On the other hand you can always continue here.