by Peter Koenig
Did Trump cheat us all with his campaign promises and his succinct ‘to the point’ Inaugural Address? Or did he just deceive some of us, some of the time, and the rest will be taken care of by a more or less sophisticated trickery? – A gambit, one of which is Iran?
After all, we know how he has been elected. Among the ruses used was a distinct scheme of mind manipulation, targeting specific voter groups in swing states, just as many as necessary to swing the state in his favor. This allowed him to capture a large majority of electoral votes, making him the winner, but running almost 3 million popular votes behind Hillary (“Mind Manipulations” to Influence Election Results – http://www.globalresearch.ca/mind-manipulations-to-influence-election-results/5566894).
By no means is this a plea for Hillary. With her in the White House we might already be in WWIII, I mean the nuclear version of it. But it shows that the choice Americans were given was rigged from the very beginning, as it usually is. It was either ‘business as usual’ or ‘business as usual – plus’. I don’t dare guessing what we have now. But for sure it ain’t going to be peace for America and the rest of the world anytime soon. Not by a long shot. Not even near the prospects Trump put out when he said he would like to make peace with Russia, have Russia as a partner, rather than an enemy, and he would put an end to interventions in foreign countries. He specifically pointed to Syria, where he would not insist on a ‘regime change’, but rather fight efficiently and in collaboration with Mr. Putin, Islamic terrorism, i.e. ISIS, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda and whatever other names they give themselves.
The picture today looks quite different. Although, Mr. Trump said from the very beginning he didn’t like Obama’s Nuclear Deal with Iran, and that he would like to rip it up. But why would he want to do this? First, he assured his electorate no more interfering in foreign countries – which for many Americans was the reason for voting Trump; and second, he knows that this deal is not just an “Obama Deal”.
It is called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an international agreement reached in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – China, France, Russia, UK, US plus Germany (5+1) and the European Union. It’s not so easy to undo. – Why did he say it? – Perhaps because he wanted the ultra-conservative neocon Jewish vote? – And even more so, express his alliance with superstar Zionist Netanyahu?
During the campaign, when the controversies of Trump’s pleas and promises were so confusing, contradictory and chaotic, people laughed and didn’t take him seriously. The point is – nobody connected the dots. The departure dot increasingly looks like Netanyahu and his Zionist network, its extended arm in the US Homeland, AIPAC. The Zionist goal is Israel’s dominion over the Middle East from the Euphrates to the Nile. Trump amplified this commitment by his repeated statements that America will always defend and support her chief ally, Israel – Israel Über Alles – which sounded more like ‘Israel First’. America First is but a ruse to please the masses, utterly deceived by Obama’s ‘Yes We Can’.
Then Trump appointed Steve Bannon as his personal advisor and White House Chief Strategist. Mr. Bannon is a neoliberal Zionist, the extended brain (sic) of Netanyahu, so to speak. Bannon was a Goldman Sachs banker (go figure!) and the chief editor of the ultra-conservative “Breitbart News”.
And Why did he sell out to Israel – even more so than his predecessors? – Perhaps because he is a businessman who knows where the money is and who manages it – from the FED, to Wall Street, to the Basle-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – the Central Bank of all Central Banks – those who manipulate the western monetary system and its banksters – and everything in between.
Peace with Russia, is it still a priority?
The Deep State handlers of the Pentagon and its multitrillion-dollar military-security complex do not want peace with Russia. They want and need war for their milk-cow USA to survive.
Trump knows that. In the meantime, he has already watered down his peace pledge with Russia. He still says he prefers a good relation with Putin than a bad one, but says also he doesn’t know whether he will get along with Putin; Putin was not a friend. Despite the many links Trump has to Russia, he makes sure the Putin haters understand that there is not going to be an alliance of roses with Russia. Though he did come forward in a half-hearted defense of Putin, when he replied to Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, slandering Putin as a murderer, ‘We [the US] have many murderers. Do you think we are so innocent?’
Trump wants to keep the door to Putin open. Remember, one of Washington’s brandmarks is always dancing on several weddings.
Let’s see how this works. The next dot is Iran – like in Iran-bashing to justify a war and to please the war industry. Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis proclaimed without any evidence – or rather all evidence to the contrary – that “Iran is the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism”. State sponsored terrorism is a red flag for fear- and war-mongering, a propaganda tool not to be missed by the MSM.
Trumps National Security Advisor Michael Flynn uttered similar lies on several occasions. Trump himself said that Iran is the number One terrorist state. Pentagon voices indicate that the White House is also considering listing Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Iran’s main defense entity – as a terrorist organization. If this happens, any move of the IRGC may become a false flag, potentially justifying an all-out aggression on Iran.
The presstitute will invariably pick-up on these ‘false news’ and repeat them at nauseatum, so the public at large in America and the rest of the western world is indoctrinated and mentally prepared for an attack on Iran. A false flag could even trigger a nuclear attack, thus helping Israel to get a step closer to regional hegemony, and Washington to world hegemony. That’s their pipedream.
Not so fast. There is the solid alliance of the axis Russia – China – Iran. Iran is the most important partner of Russia and Syria in fighting Islamic terrorism, made in USA. Iran is also in the long run the stabilizing factor in the Middle East. For the Washington hegemon, the Middle East is not to become a stable region. All to the contrary, it must be chaotic in order to be controlled. Russia and China would most likely not stand by idly, if Iran was to be attacked. This might be the moment of a direct confrontation between US / NATO forces with Russia and possibly also with China.
With false accusations of China’s aggressive behavior against Japan’s, Vietnam’s and the (alleged) Philippines territorial claims in the South China Sea, China is already framed for an attack. Remember, Washington needs a big war to sustain its sick and faltering economy. WWIII, nuclear or not, triggered in the Middle East might expand north rapidly to engulf Europe in a devastating conflict, the third time in hundred years.
This is exacerbated by a rapid and massive US military build-up. President Trump called on the Pentagon to expand US military power, step up violence in Syria, and to prepare the nuclear arsenal for war with “near-peer competitors”—a reference to nuclear-armed China and Russia—and “regional challengers,” such as Iran. This despite his earlier promises for a future non-intervention policy in foreign lands.
In addition, on the northern fronts NATO’s ongoing and steadily advancing troop and armor movements along the Russian borders, are encircling Moscow like a closing noose.
Trump has asked Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis, to come up within 30 days with a plan of a significantly expanded military strike force, including the renewal of the US nuclear arsenal – to be a full-fledged strike force by 2022. The cost is not clear, but roughly estimated at about US$ 100 billion per year, in addition to the current about US$ 600 billion official budget. This would be in line with Obama’s plan of renewing the nuclear arsenal at a cost of about 1 trillion in ten years. No doubt, the true cost of the US military-security spending with all the associated industries and services is already today in the trillions.
Wars continue to be in the air over the coming years of the Trump Administration. In fact, looking back over the last 16 years – in 2000 Bush was the right man for the Deep State, those who pull the strings, to start the mess in the Middle East by wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; all under false pretenses, as we know in the meantime. But, by the time the public found out, it was too late.
Then followed Obama, the smooth spoken, intelligent African American (by his looks only), who would bring change, as in “Yes, We Can”, convincing hundreds of millions around the world of a new era of peace. In anticipation of his peacemaking, he was bestowed the Nobel Peace Prize, before he even moved a finger towards peace. Following orders from above, disregarding the Nobel Committee, he stepped up the two wars left behind by George Bush and started new wars to end his Presidency on 20 January 2017with seven active wars at his credit – and millions of people killed; tens of thousands by his personal drone-killing approvals.
Follows Donald Trump, a businessman through and through, who promised peace and harmonious relations with Russia, non-intervention in foreign countries – and to bring back jobs to “Make America Great Again”. A new slogan, a new public deception, a new approach by a new king without clothes. Thus, has chosen the “Deep State”, or at least part of the Deep State. While Trump is seeking world dominion through his allies, the FED and Wall street banksters, he seems not to neglect the weapons industry – by preparing for an arms race that could go ballistic – and nuclear – anytime.
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An attack on Iran could well be carried out by Israel, backed by Washington. Under the arrangement between Washington and Israel, an Iranian retaliation against Israel would be equal to an aggression on the US, hence engaging the Pentagon, leading to a direct confrontation with Russia and possibly China; the beginning of WWIII, being played out initially in the Middle East, then extended northwards, where NATO is ready to attack Russia.
Trump’s aggressive Executive Orders for the Pentagon, the stepped-up hostilities in Yemen and planned in Syria, plus putting Iran in the cross-hairs with unfounded anti-Iran slander propaganda, increases the tension level throughout the world. But would Trump actually trigger an all-destructive WWIII? – One that would put the annihilation of humanity as we know it at stake?
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 4th Media, TeleSUR, TruePublica, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
One little word “Prophecies”, the world ending kind.
Even on this site those of Sheikh Imran Hosein circulate.
Yes, so true. Thanks to Saker, I have been listening to the Sheikh and whatever he says rings so true. Pax Britannica, Pax Americana and Pax Judaica comes to mind.
I think Peter Koenig’s analysis comes about as close to the true situation as it’s possible to get.
Through insane levels of indebtedness, global banking zionists now own the American government and U.S. military forces.
“Washington needs a big war to sustain its sick and faltering economy.”
Yes, looks like Trump made a yuuuge deal with the providers of limitless credit to keep the economy viable for a while longer so that the U.S. war machine can be used to serve Israel’s ambitions without regard to the interests of the American people. Regime change in Iran, however, will be far from easy.
At some point there will be just no way to sustain the drained economy any longer and that’s when America will be discarded like a used tissue.
I think Peter König’s ‘analysis’ comes about as close to reflecting the mind-set (total delusion) of the whole system ‘educated’ establishment (the whole Varkoufaris/Soros-like block) as it possible gets.
(I actually think he doesn’t really think so, he just wants to provocate a bit, due to some of Trump & Co.’s contradictory remarks and ideas).
Trump is the most anti-establishment (Establ. = Zionist banksters = ‘globalists’ = ‘deep state’) president since America was completely hijacked in 1913 (Fed) under the Nazi Wilson Admin. To say the exact opposite is beyond ridiculous, really plumb absurd, period. The big picture is as plain as day.
Besides, Trump (and Americans) won in spite of monstrous voter fraud and in reality in a landslide.
One cannot undo a hundred years of Nazi take-over, depravation, and indoctrination overnight.
It’s about the big picture, what someone overall stands for.
The establishment speaks entirely Newspeak (= vulgar lies) to deceive its ignorant slaves, and what Trump (or his crew) says should at once always be taken entirely seriously? What a joke. That’s not the way it works or possibly would work.
Paul Craig Roberts has a good article (but it is hardly top priority right now, first comes freedom of speech & democracy): http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/02/13/globalization-environmental-degradation/
Iran, that has been a target and a victim of Wahabbi terror, has been on the frontlines waging war against this scourge that defames Islam and provides an excuse for those wishing to traffic in Islamophobia.
Despite this noble effort by the Islamic Republic, the Thump Administration labels Iran the “Number 1 Sponsor of Terrorism in the World”, and new sanctions are imposed on the nation and it is placed a top the list of countries subject to a Travel Ban.
Saudi Arabia, from which we were told, 15 of the 17 hijackers on 9/11 came, and is universally known to be the top financier of Whabbi Terror -please see Hillary Clinton’s private e-mails released by WikiLeaks – if in doubt about the Saudis and their link to Global Terror.
Yet with all this, and as a reminder of the Orwellian world in which we live, we learn that :
“The CIA honors Saudi Crown Prince for efforts against terrorism”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-11/not-onion-saudi-crown-prince-receives-cia-medal-efforts-against-terrorism
The person who came up with the idea to present this award to the Saudis, has a really sick Sense of Humor, but the “prince” who actually accepted the award surpassed that person in depravity.
Can you belive this shit?
Peter König is leaning wide out of the window with this one. He calls Trump – merely three weeks in office – a total sell-out, a business man who is only after money and what not.
I am sure things will turn out to be far more unpredictable, chaotic, counter-intuitive and complex as anyone could imagine. Approaching US politics and the global state of affairs with simplistic, linear 2+2=4 calculations, as done here by PK, is totally inadequate to the current situation.
We are on a roller-coaster of the third kind and I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump will keep dishing up more surprises at every twist and turn than anyone – especially the ZWO – would care for. Total, global enslavement as war-gamed in ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’ would have been so easy with a traitor and nihilist like Hillary at the joystick.
For better or worse, Trump is the wild card.
König completely ignores that the GoP was loathe to endorse Trump or even accept him is a viable option until a very late stage in the election circus, when MSM hysteria about Clinton’s prospects concentrated their minds. They perceived Trump – and many continue to even today – as not quite one of them. Trump is better seen as an Independent, a third option to the red and blue, but with a tent yuuge enough to accompodate party(ing) Republicans. Whether they will stay pissing out the door, or feel happier being outside and pissing in, remains to be seen.
“Among the ruses used was a distinct scheme of mind manipulation, targeting specific voter groups in swing states, just as many as necessary to swing the state in his favor. This allowed him to capture a large majority of electoral votes, making him the winner, but running almost 3 million popular votes behind Hillary.”
A cheap shot by Peter König. Completely uncalled for and unprovable too.
Everybody who has studied Hillary’s biography and the indescribable horror show that is the criminal syndicate called the Clinton Foundation will know that these guys used every dirty trick in the book to swing this election in their favor. They simply had too. As a matter of life and death.
The crimes Hillary is involved in, includes everything from selling state secrets to China, drug dealing, weapen selling to terrorist organizations, human tra… – let me stop here.
Hillary & Co., I would estimate, manipulated the vote count by 10 millions and more. No joke.
I was never fooled by Trump – he is a conman and a dangerous one at that
Russia need to tread carefully. Look deeper than the words spoken.
“Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
The threats to Iran are disgraceful and accusing them of being the number one terrorist exporter is an out right lie. beware of false prophets
its as Ron Paul predicted – Trump will not respect the Constitution but will do everything via Executive Order –
But seriously ? The American People had a choice – the only choice if we discount Bernie Sanders who was blackmailed into allowing Hillary to win the nomination – (I wonder what he did that he could be blackmailed )
And the American people made the right choice.
Now we just have to watch for a while and then start protesting – big time.
Its like Unions now…they’re toothless. They get ordered by the government to ‘go back to work’
and they do, with their tails between their legs….hahaha….
If the American people want change they’re going to have to be prepared to fight for it…go to jail…hopefully not get tortured….
Until then ? Well, we just have to watch and see what happens. It was still the right choice…lets be real about that.
He is Jewish. He was probably treated in the same way Goldstone was treated in order to get him to recant on the Goldstone Report on Israel’s murderous attacks on Gaza. The threats of being excluded, excommunicated, appears to be very real within the group – shunning, no invites to bar mitzvahs, etc, etc, and sufficient to make the individual kowtow to the tribal mafiosi.
If you are interested in a constructive critique of Trump’s first weeks in office listen to this 20 minutes analysis with Catherine Austin Fitts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4lPBznVCJU
With the Western elite being under a bad spell for such a very long time it’s a hard break to say that the Russians are here to help if you’ll just ask.
It is time for you Americans, the non-Americans living in America and everyone else in the world (outside or inside America) to start thinking logically and realistically at where the world is heading.
1. The US, its entire elite and ruling class is absolutely corrupt to the core, including a large part of the US society (post-industrial, civil, political, etc.), with a few exceptions.
2. The amount and level of corruption that has been reached does not allow for any re-correction or re-guiding of the course that the US is on.
3. Anyone who thinks or even contemplates anything different than the two points mentioned above is not thinking correctly, logically or truthfully for that matter. Such a person is only deceiving him or herself and others. Your hopeful/wishful dreaming, your lack of faith in the creator or just your plain fear is blocking you from seeing the truth, let alone speaking about it.
4. According to the first two points mentioned above, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the US is heading towards (1) a gradual (this is relative to what you are comparing to) destructive decay or (2) a sudden catastrophic ending. Scenario (2) is much more likely than (1).
5. Historical fact: people who are arrogant and have an arrogant culture (like the entire US elite and the US culture in general) become blind to their own destruction. They believe they are invincible, everlasting, god-sent and generally better than any-other people on Earth. There is no need to change, to improvement or to re-direct their ways. They will continue on this path until it is too late. For the US it is already too late. They have passed the point of no return by at least 20 years.
6. The US is destined to be destroyed (economically, politically and possibly physically). Everything they have done, are doing and expected to do in the future indicates to this destruction.
7. To understand how the US will end, you have to understand the beginning. The US is an all or nothing country. Colonists killed everything to create a nation out of nothing. The Zionists will gamble the entire US All or Nothing until eventually the House Wins.
8. Any God-fearing or at least truthful person (I do not know how you can truly be a truthful person if you do not even recognize the one who created your soul and placed it in your own body that will eventually rot and decompose, but anyways) should know and believe that the US is an evil entity from its very creation until now and should be destroyed for the greater good of this planet but also as an example to all nations who are and will be corrupt, arrogant and evil.
I understand these are harsh words and could be hurtful for some of you, but the truth must be said and I will keep writing what I believe to be the truth.
“1. The US, its entire elite and ruling class is absolutely corrupt to the core, including a large part of the US society (post-industrial, civil, political, etc.), with a few exceptions.
2. The amount and level of corruption that has been reached does not allow for any re-correction or re-guiding of the course that the US is on.”
It’s difficult to argue with the above points.
In terms of system thinking (and not getting emotionally involved) we can see the problems as broken feedback loops, including positive feedback leading to runaway meltdown. (CF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_runaway. Thermal runaway, and other sorts occurs in electronic circuits and other systems.)
In capitalism this is intrinsic. As variations occur and some people get richer they use the money to increase profits, alter the system in their favor, become corrupted, and eventually take over the state, which is also corrupted. The traditional ‘checks and balances’ have broken down, as well as effective feedback from the people. The culture itself become corrupt (this is not really turning away from god or morality, as such, but the result of justifying corruption, wealth disparity, taking over modes of power — elections, media, money, social communication, and so forth — the positive feedback enhances greed, power lust, and other destructive aspects of human nature while retarding the constructive values (hence the difficulty in restoring the system to a less destructive state).
When they tried to make silk by putting spiders in a tank they got not silk but one very fat spider. Same thing happens with some fish. Religion or law can function as a limiting factor for a while, but it too gets corrupted. What is needed is inherent constructive control and feedback mechanisms which take priority over the destructive ones to prevent runaway. These rely on multi-leveled information channels, both positive and negative feedback, and several levels of planning and goal setting, including mechanisms to respond to changing external, and well as internal, conditions, in timely ways.
That sounds about right to some degree, except for the god and theology part, which is superfluous and are faith-based statements, much like the faith-based statements by those who think the US and it’s policies are are so wonderful. Of course, sounding right is not a measure of truth, but of a model and context we tend to agree with. (Back to epistemology again…)
The statement “Anyone who thinks or even contemplates anything different than the two points mentioned above is not thinking correctly” is problematic in that it tries to limit thought and description of reality — and is rather faith-based too.
It seems to me the actual situation is far more complex and chaotic than your description, implying solutions to need incorporation of intent as a major component — meaning intent for low-abstraction descriptions of the desired future state of a system rather than ideology or grand plans (which have gotten us into so much trouble). For example, I can imagine a world where everyone gets pretty much what they need, including personal fulfillment and meaning, with a good measure sustainability and stability, without doctrines, political theories, and high philosophies — all of which should be generalizations and temporary models of the root desires and values rather than driving them.
Consider the difference between ‘let’s end world hunger’ from ‘let’s get everyone enough to eat’. The former is a higher abstraction level using ‘world hunger’ as if this was this ‘thing’ (similar to a war on ‘poverty’ or ‘terrorism’) , while the latter is more a simple empathetic extension towards others of our personal experience with being hungry.
We tend to get wrapped up in our (distracting) linguistic representations, structures, and concepts — even such as ‘the US’ as if it was some monolithic entity with any existence beyond an abstract collective, and forget the reality which upon which such abstractions are based. (And thus people go out and march in demonstrations against war and violence while other people next to them are throwing rocks and setting buildings on fire).
The proper use of abstractions and general theory is to maintain the links with those and the utterly detailed and fine grained experience we deal with. This is ‘keeping in touch with reality’ which our fearless leaders have lost almost completely — and provides some self-justification for their corruption which relies on the loss of connection and empathy for those who are hurt by it (often one of the ‘deplorables’ — which has been transformed into a noun from a adjective).
So here we see an ‘end of the nation (or world)’ story, and an admonition to refrain from any other stories, which inherently precludes actions or thoughts for remedy. “the US is an evil entity from its very creation” doesn’t help very much beyond a general characterization of history and current actions by the ‘US’ abstraction and ‘system’ — something like saying ‘the car is broken’ without going into detail so a mechanic could repair it, and just saying it has to be junked. But junking a car is much simpler than junking a nation, and produces far less pollution and clutter. It’s not an model or vision, as far as it goes, for revolution, transformation, or a new incarnation of existing lands and people. (The car doesn’t work right so I’m going to get some dynamite and blow it up. What a big bang and mess I’ll get — and now nothing to drive to the food store with.)
We need models which relate to all the various local conditions, and also avoid fallacies of composition and over generalization. Something like ‘think globally and act locally’ but with much more meat to it, and better feedback mechanisms — and avoidance of things like ridiculous ‘impeach Trump’ demonstrations which would make the situation much worse, breaking (instead of fixing) what little ‘law and order’ and rationality we have left, increasing mob rule, and leaving valid feedback modes in tatters. For writing a new ‘program’ we need both top down and bottom up analysis and coding, and it all has to mesh together, and be debugged (to use a computer analogy). Systems programming is tough.
The most underwealming analysis I have read here.
The contrast in quality with Reshetnikov (and the Saker’s “Apples and Oranges”) is almost painful. OK for MSM (or Stratfor) which deal in simplistic generalizations congruent with controlled opposition talking points, but not here
Like the Rio Grande : a mile wide and an inch deep.
One reader’s humble opinion.
There was a time (back in the 80s) when the world correctly assumed that the bark of a right-wing American president was worse than his bite- and of course we mean the famous Ronald Reagan. He made peace with Iran (behind the scenes) and mostly left Libya alone, despite bad mouthing both as America’s key enemies in public.
Tony Blair changed the rules. Now when the UK and USA declares a state to be an ‘enemy’, it is only a matter of time before that nation is put to the sword (North Korea is an exception, but only because the real game with N Korea is to prevent reunification with the South to keep Japan happy). Blair pulled Gadaffi close in a fake embrace of ‘friendship’, so Blair’s own pseudo-religious organisation (to run which Blair converted to the Roman Catholic church- since the Vatican has the best access to all nations on Earth) could identify and co-opt leading Libyan people to work with the West in their war of extermination that ended Libya as a stable successful ***secular*** state.
Trump states that Iran has a target on its back, so 100% the USA is going to war with Iran well within 4 years. Those who say Israel will attack Iran as part of this are complete fools. Israel’s main partner, the wahhabi state of Saudi Arabia, ***cannot*** support war on Iran if Israel is part of it- there would be revolution overnight in SA if its leaders dared to try.
Israel is just another offshoot of the British part of the deep state anyway, and does nothing without explicit permission from its demonic controllers in London.
The coming war on Iran will be the big one – and it will occur as Gulf War 1, not the invasion of the second Gulf War. Iran will be given an outrageous and unfollowable ultimatum by Trump to disarm. It will be the exact same play as the second time with Saddam. The initial alliance attacking Iran (by air and missile) will be Britian, the USA and France. When Iran strikes back, almost certainly targeted British and US facilities in Saudi Arabia and other wahhabi gulf states (but cetainly ***not*** Israel), the defensive action will be used as an excuse to enlarge the attacking alliance to include Japan, Pakistan, Indonesia and almost all of the West.
Iran will then be bombed into non-existence, and even if during this time Iran hits Israel, Israel won’t be allowed to strike back (see the first Gulf War). The strikes against Iran will escalate to ***modern*** nuclear weapons in short order. At first their use will be denied by the West. Then bigger warheads will be deployed, and admited. Only by giving up can Iran avoid nuclear holocaust, but things will be carefully manipulated to ensure that doesn’t happen.
The war with Iran will coincide with Putin being thrown Ukraine as a ‘sop’ so Russia will have a public excuse for once again betraying an ally. The excuse the West will use for allowing Russia to take Ukraine will be the very public rise of clear nazi controlling elements in Ukraine that the zionist controlled mainstream media will happily alert their readers to.
Only one action can protect Iran from this fate. Immediate moves by Putin ***now*** to declare – in public statements – that Iran is under Russian protection. But hell will freeze over before Putin betrays his Saudi Arabian and Israeli allies like this. SA and Israel want Iran crushed and Iran is only a partner of convenience for Russia at the moment. With Iran under attack, ISIS (the fake sunni extremist entity crafted by the West to help prepare the path) will have served its purpose and vanish over night.
People are a bit quick to lump Trump in with current crowd of elites. He is not the same and, in time, those differences will be seen.
Not saying you will agree with everything he will do and all of it will be good but, he is likely a game changer in world politics like Putin has been.
Look to U.S. domestic politics in the next few months to see ir this is true. If “Drain the Swamp” does not happen in a mass scale brutal fashion, then I will put stock into him just being another fake front.
PK
Thanks for the clear headed commentary. Pretty much my views are similar. I gave the trump regime a benefit of a doubt, initially, but no longer think they will steer a much different course than what was planned for with a clinton regime.
The good news is that opposition to the trump regime is already a strong force. Had it been a clinton regime, just getting people mobilised to oppose these zionazis would be a huge effort. This existing opposition is mostly nonsensensical as of now, (like their impeach trump idea, which would result in pence, for example), people will need to be informed better about what the real problems are.
One serious down side is the zionazis created all that anti Russia hate propaganda so they could turn it on the Russians and their allies no matter which regime took over the american quislingship role. It’s the same nonsense as the anti left propaganda of the cold war, taken to similar absurd levels of irrationality. That prepared propaganda will have to be exposed for what it is and then neutralised before any opposition to the trump regime can do anything meaningful to halt the zionazi world domination strategy.
“I gave the trump regime a benefit of a doubt, initially, but no longer think they will steer a much different course than what was planned for with a clinton regime.”
I wish you would specify, in foreign policy. You do not make a case at all for what will happen within the USA which will have long term, and I believe, beneficial consequences.
F
See the Petra’s essay I posted below for the foreign policy analysis of the trump regime. I pretty much agree with Petra’s. I’ve also expanded on my views on what the real trump regime agenda is in previous comments posted on this site under other articles. I’m not going to did them up, but feel free to do so yourself.
I posted this essay by Petra’s in the news RSS feed section earlier. Petra’s has a similar take on the trump regime as Koenig here does.
Trump’s Ties to the Past and the Resurrection of the Left
http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=2127
“‘De Omnibus Dubitandum’
Everything is to be Doubted…
Introduction
President Trump is deeply embedded in the politics of the deep state structure of American imperialism. Contrary to occasional references to non-intervention in overseas wars, Trump has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors.
While neoconservatives and liberals have raised a hue and cry about Trump’s ties to Russia, his ‘heresies’ over NATO and his overtures to peace in the Middle East, in practice, he has discarded his market humanitarian’ imperialism and engaged in the same bellicose policies of his Democratic Party presidential rival, Hillary Clinton.
Conclusion
Across the world and within the most important countries, the ultra-neoliberal order of the past quarter century is disintegrating. There is a massive upsurge of movements from above and below, from democratic leftists to nationalists, from independent populists to the right-wing reactionary ‘old guard’: A new polarized, fragmented political universe has emerged. The beginning of the end of the current imperial-globalist order is creating opportunities for a new dynamic democratic collectivist order. The oligarchs and ’security’ elites will not easily give way to popular demands or step down. Knives will be sharpened, executive decrees will issue forth, and electoral coups will be staged to attempt to seize power. The emerging popular democratic movements need to overcome identity fragmentation and establish unified, egalitarian leaders who can act decisively and independently away from the existing political leaders who make dramatic, but phony, progressive gestures while seeking a return to the stench and squalor of the recent past.”
@ vot tak
You are calling for a revolution because that spark of hope is still bright enough to lighten your otherwise dark days ahead. That’s what hope is for, a defensive mechanism to ward off despair and despondency, the harbingers of defeat,
I have abandoned hope (or it abandoned me?) because the modern state has arrogated to itself the law and its enforcers as the mechanism for social control of last resort. In the early stages of the modern state since the enlightenment, law makers made profuse use of natural law as the foundation of all legal codes, except the English-based systems inspired by Positivism where man-made law became supreme. Positive law relies on the idea of parliamentary sovereignty, therefore any law passed by parliament, however abhorrent, must be obeyed and enforced by courts and law enforcers. In contrast, the libertarian ideals of the French Revolution were inspired by a higher (natural) order based on morality and justice. As an illustration, suppose a law decreed the death of all male infants aged under 1 year. Under positive law it would be enforced as lawful; under natural law it would be unlawful because it offends our notion of morality.
As a consequence, the state has unlimited power to use violence for whatever purpose it thinks fit, although some constitutions limit some powers in a vague fashion to allow for interpretations favourable to the state and here lies the mechanism for the erosion of fundamental liberties. Besides, constitutions and legal protections can be set aside by the state by legislation or executive order.
The oligarchy ruling the US will never abide the disintegration of the existing order. The democratic road is blocked because it controls both parties (actually two branches of the same party) and no other parties are allowed representation. Occasionally they might permit and sponsor a third force to emerge if the two main parties are too rotten and discredited as recently happened in Greece.
Since the state has the physical means (organised armed bodies) and institutional “legitimacy”, there is nothing the people can do to change the course of history, the US the least of all places. Remember there has not been a single revolution in the so-called First World since the aftermath of WWII (the “Carnations Revolution” of 1974 in Portugal started as a coup d’état, gradually became a popular revolt, but was snuffed quickly by NATO’s clandestine work under the direction of CIA’s Frank Carlucci).
The upshot is that only a dramatic event (war or foreign intervention) is likely to level the field – not a very welcome method of change. But I would be pleased to be proven wrong.
“Petra’s” was an auto correct error I didn’t catch, it should have been Petras. Seemed disrespectful to let the error slide and not to correct it.
I agree that directly attacking Iran may bring the USA into conflict with Russia & China. But what about the Shia sect in Iraq & Syria? Aren’t the IRGC & the Shia paramilitary fighting ISIS in Mosul (along with the US military)?
What will Turkey & Egypt do?
Will North Korea find this to be an opportunity to attack South Korea?
Will Hezbollah, Hamas & the Palestinian Defense Forces coordinate an attack against Israel?
An attack on Iran by the USA could completely spiral out of control.
“Mr. Bannon is a neoliberal Zionist, the extended brain (sic) of Netanyahu, so to speak.
Sorry, not credible. Write something defensible or else don’t write at all.
This is not a defense of Mr Bannon.
There is a vociferous gaggle of Trumpist true-believers incensed by Peter Koenig’s article as if he has expressed the most profane of heresies. And that speaks volumes about their creed as all creeds are irrational attempts at justifying the unknown.
But, fortunately for us there are also sober voices whose knowledge of the world are beacons to help us seeing another side along the way to reach understanding not based on faith but on facts.
Trump or Putin, or anyone else in a position of power, are not virtuous guardians of truth, morality or just plain decency. In order to get there they have done many unspeakable misdeeds; besides, just the ambition to grab power alone is enough to advertise who they are, because the main intent is to use that power for their own private purposes, which coincide with those who support, appoint or chose him as the notional leader, the ruling elites.
The ruling elites cut across partisan or institutional lines to be able to rule permanently regardless of the flavour of the month of one party or faction. They are a subculture at the apex of all societies and all nations and, as such, are imbued with an idiosyncratic view of themselves as destined to rule based on status, superiority, privilege or tradition. In fact, they are the quintessential institution of the State they control.
Whoever is the notional leader of the Yank Empire reflects and expresses the ruling elite’s policies based on their own self-interest – the raison d’etre of wielding power – and that self-interest demands that the Empire maintains or enhances the current status quo, and that requires that the Empire pursue the same policies as all previous leaders have done since the first revolting ones replaced the monarch with themselves.
Therefore, Trump or Tramp makes no difference. Like a huge supertanker, the Empire cannot turn around in shrinking waters; it is performing its historical mission of sailing away to destruction because the elite subculture and the institutions it spawned cannot envisage another world.