I ran across this article today about a push by Trump to sabotage the Iran nuclear deal. This is frightening on a number of levels.
- International inspectors say that Iran isn't cheating on the deal. WE would be the ones isolated while the rest of the world would back Iran.
- Iran has considerable influence with the Shite leadership in Iraq and could cause unending problems for the US there.
- Iran sits on one side of the Straights of Hormuz which is where about 25% of the west's oil supply passes. Iran has many hundreds of anti-ship missiles and anti-ship mines and could choke off the flow of oil by simply threatening to use either one. (No one would insure the shipments.)
- The Pentagon "gamed out" a war with Iran about a decade ago (Millennium Challenge) and calculated that the US would suffer tens of thousands of casualties in a full-blown war. (A few years ago Iran built a full-size "dummy" US aircraft carrier and sank it during a navel training exercise. The media thought this was Iran just being strange but it was a direct reference to the US war game - which showed that Iran did, in fact, have the capability to sink one of our carriers.)
- There would nothing to keep Iran from going nuclear.
This is just off the top of my head. Maybe someone with actual psychic ability could read the article and meditate on this one.
Full article with a description of how the administration intends to provoke Iran is below.
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/vijay-prashad-trump-setting-dangerous-confrontation-iran
From: Zoron.
Re: IRAN forthcoming war.
I have been picking this up for some time. The recent group session last month was fairly clear on this as well. What I am scanning is the steadily increasing chance of this happening. As I have learned, the future is NOT fixed, as right up until the time when the future stops being the future, and becomes the present, as time goes by, it can be changed. But there is an inertia, (like that of a turning oil tanker) that drags things along. So: Zoron predicts: The coming middle east and IRAN war is preventable, but no one is doing that at the moment. Unless action is taken, it is inevitable. I am picking up that its probably, for the main action, autumn 2018. There will be a build up. The essential thing is that it is an international conspiracy, between Saudi, America, Israel, who are driving this. Isreal, is the core of the whole thing. The reasons are complex, but the main issue is to eradicate Iran as a a functioning country and to split it into ethnic factions, especially "Arabistan" the main province that has about 60% of Iran's oil, and is Arabic speaking.The intention is to make this a puppet state, and to control its oil. Saudi is intended to be the primary middle eastern power. If the Saudi's do not do this, then they are facing bankruptcy, eventually, as the price of oil is about $50 a barrel, at the moment, and they need to get $100 to survive financilly. They have about 3 years of cash reserves. It really is that crude. more later. But this is the core of my scanning on this one.
Thanks Zoron. A war with Iran would get the price of oil up over $100/barrel but not for the right reasons. So someone wants to turn Iran into a puppet state where they can control the oil? That sounds like what the GW Bush administration thought they could do with Iraq. The US military "gamed out" a war with Iran a decade or so ago and the outcome would be anything but certain. In the war game (named "Millennium Challenge") the US suffered an embarrassing defeat in the beginning. They only "won" after the military changed the rules mid-game. This would be cranking the "stupid dial" up to 11.
You are getting the the core of how world politics work. The Trump show is just that -- a show. He's an entertainer who distracts us from the real events happening below the surface.
The oligarchs are in charge. They decide what the U.S. and other world powers are going to do next. They have a stranglehold on the U.S. government, Russia, and their allies. The oligarchs do not care about American people or any people except their own families. Their goal is to get richer so they can control the world and assure their continued wealth and power. They see the world as a giant chessboard with the countries as the pieces.
So what is their game plan? Sell more oil at a higher price. For sure. Then crash the economy and buy up labor, land, and companies at cheap price. The means? A war and an economic crash. After both happen one after the other, those worth $20 billion are worth $100 billion.
If we want to know what government are planning, we have to read the oligarchs. What is your read on this?
Starting a separate topic on oligarchs.
I found in Paul Hellyer book a quote from Abraham Lincoln that was interesting.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
It is interesting what was back 1864 applies today, the money will be in few people and how Republican's will not exist in the future. Here is the full quote I found on the web.
https://ratical.org/corporations/Lincoln.html