Interview of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary General, with Ghassan Ben Jeddou, founder of the pan-Arab and anti-imperialist Al-Mayadeen channel, January 26, 2019.
This live interview, much expected in Israel and the Arab world, lasted for more than 3 hours.
Translation: unz.com/sayedhasan
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These videos contain insights by Nasrallah that illuminate the political gyrations of all the enemies of Syria and Iran, and deconstruct the American decision-making by Trump, the Pentagon and ideologues who advise the President.
The series has been an excellent resource. You can’t get better Intel and analytics anywhere than straight from Nasrallah himself.
L445
You said…”deconstruct the American decision-making by Trump, the Pentagon and ideologues”
Unfortunately, I didn’t understand the videos but it is not difficult to imagine what Nasrallah said.
From where I am standing Trump’s decision-making on foreign policy has all the hallmarks and foresight of a thuggish drunken sailor. It beggars belief that a braggart like this has become the single most powerful leader on the planet. If this doesn’t ring alarm bells as to how far the humanity has sunk then nothing will.
I fully accept that if Hitlery had got her foot in the door of the big old house then the world would have been in a much bigger mess than it is now. Arguably though the US would probably not have been burning diplomatic capital at quite the same pace that it has with Trump at the helm. It is apparent that as his confidence and self-aggrandizement have reached new heights we are now witnessing a veritable bonfire.
The irony in all of this is that Trumps ability to piss off most of the world, including the US’s historically staunchest allies, has meant that de-dollarization has become the order of the day and its growth is exponential. The US, the most vicious global hegemon that humanity has ever witnessed, will no longer be financially capable of indulging its global rampage.
With Trump and the likes of Bolton and Pompeo lurching from one diplomatic disaster to another, this administration will quickly financially starve itself of its own obscene habit. Russia and China don’t have to lift a finger… Trump is admirably capable of toppling his own empire without any help from anyone.
Venezuela will be a test case for Russia and China as to whether or not the US can continue to flaunt every international law in the book. If Washington gets its way Nicaragua and Cuba will be next on the hit list in their bloody playground.
I am confident that Trump himself has just enough grey matter to realize that going to war with Iran is an extremely bad idea [of course Clinton would have been in there like a shot if she had become POTUS]. However, I wouldn’t put anything past Bolton and Pompeo [who are the ‘idealogues’]. These creatures are essentially just ignorant warmongering thugs and I am sure they are itching to up the ante with Iran…of course their existing, and completely over the top, sanctions are tantamount to a declaration of war anyway.
As S-400 points out in the next comment below…”the US will not go quietly”…when we wish for the downfall of the hegemon I think many of us are extremely fearful of the extreme carnage and the destruction that will be its accompaniment.
Best regards from the South Seas
Col
From where I am standing Trump’s decision-making on foreign policy has all the hallmarks and foresight of a thuggish drunken sailor.
Trump’s style is that of a NYC real estate developer, that is bluff and bluster, keep them off balance because the adversary is also bluff and bluster. The art of the deal.
Nasrallah is a man whose principles are founded in his faith and who lives his faith as though a tower on a foundation of bedrock. He sees right through Trump.
Still, I’m glad we have Trump rather than the Hillary monster, whose beliefs were pure delusion that every country in the ME could be subdued with only enough saturation bombing. Had she won, many of us would be dead by now and much of civilization a smoking ruin.
I would suggest more WWE professional wrestling personality than New York real estate mogul. He is actually a member of the WWE Hall of Fame. Most likely the only President which will ever receive such an honor. Here are a few of Mr. Trump’s activities in the “squared circle” as they call it.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/6-unreal-moments-from-trumps-pro-wrestling-career/
Gotta love Trump shaving Vince McMahon’s head in the “Battle of the Billionaires” at Wrestlemania 23.
Col, the USA will never go quietly. Run by its Zionazi Masters in Israel and the Israel First Fifth Column inside the USA, they have adopted Israel’s ‘Samson Option’, ie that if no longer able to control the entire world in order to bleed it dry in favour of the Western bmlood-sucking class, then they will destroy it. I doubt that thermo-nuclear war is their preference as it destroys too much precious property, so I expect bio-warfare. That, however, depends on Russia being subdued and returned to its Quisling status as under Yeltsin. If the Atlanticist traitors ever regain power in Russia, and the threat of thermo-nuclear destruction is removed from the West, then it will be off to the races, or the global charnel-house if you prefer the truth. But it must happen before China, the prime target of bio-warfare, takes the military technological lead, which is a decade, at most, away.
As the US thrash and flail about in advanced confusion at the challange of Russia, the rise of China, the defiance of North Korea and the stubborness of Iran, the limitation of what remains of its power is on full display.
This confusion is what now informs its decsion making in places like the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Remember Obama’s “pivot to Asia”?
It was essentially about drawing down resources in the Middle East to try and contain China.
But despite all this, China has gone from strength to strength, equalling or surpassing the US in several strategic categories, whether it be: economic output, AI research, cutting edge weaponry, electric vehicles, or 5G technology etc. etc.
Unable to retain its global dominance, and equally unable to adjust to the new geo-political realities being imposed upon it by defiant adversaries and uneasy allies, the US is basically acting out.
The US now acts out by throwing sanctions at anything that moves.
But the more the US threatens and sanctions other countries to bring them in line with US policies and interests, is the more we find that these countries are creating alternatives to US and Western institutions.
China and Russia now have alternatives to SWIFT, the BRICS Bank is now up and running, ready to rival the World Bank and the IMF, and most of these countries are “pivoting” away from using the $US dollar in their transaction.
All this serves to diminish US power and global leverage even further.
It must be pointed out that Trump is not the cause of all this, but his unpolished brashness and seeming inability to think constructively before he speaks has exercerbated the problem and is actually speeding up America’s decline.
But riven with divisions and contradictions, America is unable to muster the political will that is required to make the decisions that are necessary to maintain US global dominance.
Consequently, the US Empire, like previous empires that preceded it, will eventually be eclipsed by a rival entity.
Its not a matter of if, but when this will happen.
From all indications, the US will not go quietly and this is where the danger lies.
Selah
Selah: “It must be pointed out that Trump is not the cause of all this..” The Deep State is the most important actor here and now. Importantly: That it was Mueller who was deployed very early on is crucial. Mueller is a Patrician and he has been deployed before against anti-deep-state policies. Thus Mueller v. Trump. Decades ago Mueller was deployed against LaRouche & when a poll of the jury (before the end of that trial) showed Mueller was losing, he got the trial in Boston stopped and re-formulated in Alexandria VA [!!!] (8 miles from Capitol Hill and home to many, many bureaucrats (and their families) from which population many jurors were selected. Bingo! Conviction virtually guaranteed.
The second video is amazing……..The honesty and insights are almost scary. He is basically spilling info out on the table.
Thank you Saker !
One can clearly see, both in his face and hand gesticulations, joy in explaining his understanding of geopolitical
state of larger ME. The joy is of a mathematical kind: he was part of a team solving a very hard problem,
involving high stakes, and they succeeded, with some of the details still left for cleanup. Hezbollah’s contribution was not small and in spite of casualties its moral, political, military strength grew to such an extent that there will be a significant transformation of Lebanon political structure. If this transformation happens too fast it will lead to a war.
Regards, Spiral
It’s odd that Youutbe took this feed down, when even so many Israelis want to hear what Nasrallah has to say about the situation in the region.
”Nasrallah on the End of US Hegemony:
Trump will Leave the Middle East and Abandon his Allies”
With all due respect: Zionism (Israel) and Wahhabism (Saudi Arabia) and their US neocon acolytes will dispose of the Trump garbage —violently — if setbacks begin to reach such critical levels. Just for the fun of it, this time around they might indeed stage a real Saudi attack on the White House according to the ”anti-template” First time farce, second time tragedy or, rather, very great pleasure.
Israel and Saudi Arabia are the two exceptional cases that could be said to actually qualify as US allies, as they wield real power. Otherwise, what passes for ”US allies” are highly consenting pillow biters enjoying US imperial rape; Eastern European states especially so.
Not looking good for the US: https://www.rt.com/usa/453550-us-loses-world-war-three/
@Jason.
Rand Corp playing silly war games in which a U$ war with Russia is fought only in the Balkans, at the same time that a U$ war with China is fought only in Taiwan!
Dear muddle-headed Men from Uncle, this time pIease try to concentrate. I’ve been saying it for years and I’ll say it again: “In WW3 Real War will be coming to a Walmart near _You_”.
Speaking of Pindostan leaving the Mideast and abandoning its allies:
MANBIJ, Syria — Russian forces will defend the contested majority-Arab town of Manbij in northern Syria against Turkey if and when US forces withdraw under the terms of a verbal agreement struck two days ago between Russian commanders and the Manbij Military Council, Al-Monitor has learned.
He said Netanyahu is in distress.
This is a cause for great joy for me.