Trump Pulls Out of Iran Deal – U.S. Determined to Become a Rogue State

Let me cut to the chase. Every single world leader knows Trump’s full of shit. Even more importantly, the citizens of their nations also know it. Everyone with a functioning brain understands that pulling out of the Iran deal has nothing to do with terrorism, nuclear bombs or any other fairytale propagated by U.S. neocons. This is simply about the existence of a non-U.S. client state in a key strategic region sitting on massive oil reserves. It’s about empire — global games of power and money fueled by a desperate attempt to hold on to a unipolar world where the U.S. bosses everyone around.

A global empire will keep pushing and pushing until something snaps. The leaders of empire become convinced of their invincibility right before the end, and the U.S. is no different. Given the rise of China economically and militarily, as well as Russia exerting its influence in Syria, the writing’s already on the wall as far as where the world’s headed. Towards a multi-polar planet in which the U.S. will still have influence, but far less than it’s enjoyed since WW2. While shifts are already well underway beneath the radar, American leadership refuses to admit it. A serious decline of U.S. global power as a result of major mistakes related to Iran will begin to play out publicly from here.

It’s important to understand what a massive mistake pulling out of the Iran deal is. Irrespective of your opinion on its merits, it’s a deal agreed to by all major global powers. The U.S., Iran, France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia signed it. There’s only one country in that wants to scrap it (and did so today), the U.S. This is no small event and the long-term repercussions are enormous. What Trump just did, in no uncertain terms, is tell the entire world that no deal signed with the U.S. means anything. Why even bother negotiating with the U.S. if agreements can just be canceled unilaterally with no evidence of wrongdoing?

If you want to be the world’s leading power and operate in this manner you’d better be prepared to back it up, because you’re essentially flipping the bird to everyone. Trump pulling out of the Iran deal is him saying the perspectives and opinions of other global powers are irrelevant and easily ignored. This is not how you win friends and influence people, it’s how you lose allies, credibility, and eventually a global empire. Trump has now completely isolated the U.S. into an alliance of war-mongers that consist of a grand total of itself and Israel/Saudi Arabia. This is not a winning team. The U.S. is rapidly becoming a rogue state and the long-term consequences are enormous.

I expect this to play out over the next several years, not overnight. Part of the reason is that it’s not in China, Russia or Iran’s strategic interest to respond to provocations. Significantly, just an hour after Trump announced the end of the deal, Israel launched another attack on Iran in Syria (the third attack in the past month).

AP reports:

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state-run media is reporting an Israeli attack near the capital Damascus, saying Syrian air defenses shot down two missiles.

The official news agency SANA says Tuesday night’s attack occurred in the countryside in Kisweh, just south of Damascus. It took place about an hour after President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, calling Tehran a main exporter of terrorism in the region.

While Iran keeps saying it will respond, this would be foolish. Israel is clearly trying to provoke Iran into a response so it (and the U.S./Saudi Arabia) can justify further escalation and push aggressively for regime change. I suspect Iran understands this, which is why we haven’t seen any sort of counterattack. The more intelligent strategy for Iran is the one I expect it to employ. Namely, to appear like the sane actor by attempting to stay in the nuclear deal with Europe, Russia and China.

This scenario could pose huge problems for Trump and very publicly make the U.S. look unreasonable and isolated. What would the U.S. do if everyone else keeps the deal intact, sanction the planet?

The U.S. has already justifiably lost an enormous amount of credibly on the world stage since the Iraq war fiasco, and the best way for China and Russia to justify the need for a multi-polar world is to just sit back and let the U.S. continue to ruin its reputation with another series of dangerous geopolitical blunders.

I don’t claim to know exactly how all of this will play out in detail, but I’m highly confident the U.S. will become less and less trusted by virtually all nations in the years ahead and this will have major repercussions. By 2025 at the latest, I suspect the U.S. empire will be a shell of its former self and the world decidedly more multi-polar.

Rather than repeat stuff I’ve already written, I suggest you read my recently published 4-part series.

Part 1: The Road to 2025 – Prepare for a Multi-Polar World
Part 2: The Road to 2025 – Russia and China Have Had Enough
Part 3: The Road to 2025 –USD Dominated Financial System Will Fall Apart
Part 4: The Road to 2025 – A Very Bright Future If We Demand It

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31 thoughts on “Trump Pulls Out of Iran Deal – U.S. Determined to Become a Rogue State”

  1. I think you are way off the mark with your apocalyptic prediction of impending doom for the U.S. for pulling out of the JCPOA. This was not a treaty approved by our government, rather, it was a lousy deal forced on the world by Obama, Kerry, Clinton et Al that doesn’t do what they say it will do. I would think you would have learned by now that intelligent people shouldn’t question President Trump on many matters. This is one of those matters. If I wanted to read Trump bashing I would go to the MSM, which you are beginning to sound like.

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    • I can’t believe I’m wasting my time responding to such a stupid comment, but here we go.

      1) U.S. empire decline is not an apocalyptic situation, it’s a historic inevitability. Moreover, I went out of my way in my recent series to specifically explain why it’s not apocalyptic:

      The Road to 2025 (Part 1) – Prepare for a Multi-Polar World: https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2018/04/17/the-road-to-2025-part-1-prepare-for-a-multi-polar-world/

      When I say this sort of stuff people think I’m calling for the end of the world. I suppose that’s what it may feel like to many, because a paradigm change of this magnitude will indeed have monumental global implications. Yet the world will go on, it’ll just be very different place. That said, Americans should not see this as an apocalyptic thing. It’s not healthy or sustainable for one nation to dominate the planet in such a manner. Many of us like to think that a benevolent global empire led by philosopher kings is just fine, but the problem is this is utter fantasy. What happens in real life, to quote Lord Acton, is that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

      2) You incorrectly claim the “deal was forced on the world.” If it was actually forced on the world the other signatories would be rushing to get out, but they aren’t. The only one getting out is the U.S.

      3) “I would think you would have learned by now that intelligent people shouldn’t question President Trump on many matters.”

      How can you expect anyone to take you seriously when you write such nonsense.

      Go read the MSM, you may as well. I prefer people capable of thinking for themselves as readers and clearly you are not in that category.

    • Oh dear Mike, you seem to have hit a chord!

      There is no denying that the USA is ruling the world for the timebeing through the mighty dollar and gross military might. It will not always be the case but nobody can say the how or when.

  2. An excellent piece Michael as always. I do not feel bad for US citizen at all. After all they have”democracy ” and if they were exercising it in full they would change this unbelievable slaughter of innocent people their government has been doing around the world for decades. Especially after Iraq they had their chance when it all came crystal clear they were lied to.Sadly people are so brainwashed but there is a hope that more and more of them can see through this bullshit US was bullying the world and when the time comes to get even everybody will join it.US doesn’t really have real friends as the Russian ambassador to UN said to bloodthirsty Nikki just client states.

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  3. The domestic campaign promises from 2016 (drain the swamp, lock her up, build the wall, MAGA) are a distant memory. From here on, we can safely ignore domestic issues almost entirely and focus on foreign (military) policy. Orange Julius has already shifted attention from his fake red state constituents to his actual ones in Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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  4. Well written story. Where can I read a factual copy of the Iran deal? I would like to educate myself more.

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  5. If it was such a great deal, why didn’t Obama run it through the Senate? A deal like that is meaningless unless we had the ability to inspect every square inch of Iran, which we did not. Why does a nation floating on a sea of oil need nuclear power? Why is Iran developing ballistic missiles? Why negotiate with a country that killed our soldiers in Iraq?

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  6. US power is now fading and it probably crossed over the line towards isolation. World is now multi polar where economical power is in East with China and Russian resurge has been posing major challenge to US exclusivity. It is matter of years if not month before dollar loses its reserve status and the empire will implode from with in. IMF reforms are coming and de dollarization is moving faster. No one can be blamed but the empire themselves. Writing is all over.

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  7. I would add to your excellent post that there is much to influence the behaviour of the USA because Iran is one of the few countries without a central bank and not in the folds of the global banking fraternity. This I believe is really where they see the risk and of course the fact that the dollar is tied to oil anyway.

    I believe that a crisis event is due in the near term – some 2-3 years max. I have written a book (100,000 words) and have an e-copy available, trying to explain the why and how of our dysfunctional global financial system to ordinary people. I have yet to get a publisher interested although I have emailed 100s of literary agents. The feedback generally advises that the subject is too controversial for them to publish.

    I am offering my book (PDF) free on request to those who are interested: [email protected]

    The assumption that the USA and world in general have been expanding for the last 10 years is based on the false premise of GDP. Since real inflation rates (taking commodity and assets together) far exceed nominal growth rates per GDP formula, we have in fact suffered negative growth or a prolonged hidden global depression for 10 years.

    We have actually seen the end of growth as we have known it and evidence is everywhere to be found, not least of which is energy resource or EROEI.

    My book explains all this and much more, here’s a list of subjects:

    Preface
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    Just thought you should know that we are all being fooled by fudged statistics and QE/ZIRP.

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  8. Tony Cartalucci ( landdestroyer.blogspot.com , NEO, etc) has time and time again warned us that pulling out of this deal might be a preliminary step towards a regime change attempt. The following quote comes from the paper “Which Path to Persia?: Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran” published in 2009 by the Brookings Institution:

    “The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer—one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down. Under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians “brought it on themselves” by refusing a very good deal.”

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  9. A very interesting and thoughtful piece. The only other rational explanation I can think of is Trump using his personality trait regarding “the art of the deal”. He could simply be using this tactic to renegotiate the terms “as only he can” (in his mind). But, if so, it is idiotic not to advise our allies and others who wish to retain the deal.

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  10. A great article and very thoughtful comments … it is too bad that the average citizen has absolutely no concept nor interest is such.

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  11. The Iran “deal” was simply a PR stunt benefiting all sides, which was palatable only because it had ZERO teeth.

    The cui bono:

    Obama had a big fat goose egg on the foreign policy legacy scoreboard, he desperately needed a win to legitimize his Nobel Prize… neither the Paris environmental nonsense nor the opening of Cuba had nearly the impact they expected (probably because they were both nothing-burgers)… after wasting time trying to flesh out those “wins”, it left little time to pursue the other foreign policy jewels, namely:

    1. Eradicating ISIS: not doable since that was obviously our creature;
    2. Nuke-free DPRK: HAHAHA! Kim is uncertainty incarnate and the clock was ticking, not to mention that would only serve to amplify the utter failure of Bill Clinton’s efforts in the 90’s
    3. Israeli-Palestinian accord: that ship sailed at Obama’s inauguration
    4. Topple al-Assad: well, that hadn’t worked out too well thus far and Russia had made it quite clear that they were ready and willing go to the mat to protect their only naval base in the Mediterranean and flanking threat to any move to bottle up the Black Sea.

    That left Iran… at the time, Iran was dealing with some domestic issues that those in the West were fervently hoping (and prodding) would require a truly draconian effort to quell… only that didn’t really happen… Iran has excellent domestic intelligence and understands how to decapitate movements before they gain momentum… with no human rights blackmail material, an actual accord was a non-starter… theocracies don’t willingly make concessions lest Allah look weak… especially not with allies like Russia… but they could always use some good PR, as could Russia… so they played along.

    Europe was elated: it legitimized continued trade with Iran and looked good to Europe’s Muslim “residents”… they were happy to sign whatever was put on the table so long as it limited their commitments to purely administrative/supervisory roles like sitting on panels and commissions, sending inspectors, etc. and didn’t contain anything that might compel them to bail on it later on… things like, say, enforcement, which the “deal” conspicuously lacks.

    The Israelis were fine with it since the ‘deal’ didn’t mean anything anyway, and, well, they figured they’ll do whatever the hell they feel like doing, as always.

    Now Iran wants to sever ties with the petrodollar… we cannot let that happen… so now Trump wants to force them to make an actual deal.

    To do so, he cancels his predecessor’s diplo-blather and says it’s time to sit down and negotiate or it’s gonna be war.

    Europe is happy to let the US bail on the non-deal… once the US is out of the deal, there IS no deal… so Europe says they’re saddened it fell apart and then they get to step away, free and clear. If war results, Russia and/or China will veto anything in the UN, so European nations will get to decide on their individual contributions to any coalition Trump puts together… probably wouldn’t be NATO-based, considering Turkey will probably want to stay out of it, if at all possible… if they could actually remain non-offensive (as in, no attacks by Turkish forces or from Turkish airbases), but willing to defend their airspace, then we could leave it up to the Brits to defend Turkey from Cyprus, freeing up our carrier groups in the Med operate inland… but we’ll need fly-over rights from Turkey… and maybe Jordan…

    But WAR??? What about Russia?

    Russia is strengthening its commitment to the Middle East and has added significantly more assets and resources to the region in the last 6 months than it ever has, post-Afghanistan… right?????

    Actually, that is a liability right now because Syria doesn’t have nearly the infrastructure or airspace necessary to allow Russia to conduct a theater-wide air campaign while surrounded by US forces… if the US can eliminate the Syrian and Iranian air defenses quicklyand gain air superiority over north Iranian airspace, then Russia will be forced to operate completely from Russia/Armenia to the NW and the Blazada-stans to the NE… flying their tankers over the Caspian, meh…sub-optimal

    The US has airbases and infrastructure ALL OVER the Middle East, with a veteran military that has been fighting, IN-THEATER no less, for 16+ years…

    So an immediate conflagration would likely result in the utter obliteration of the assets Russia has in place… so now is a great time to negotiate with Iran… Russia may compel them to do so… if they are defiant, we can attack… Russia will be obligated to jump in prematurely, or sit it out… if they jump in, they risk a real ass-whipping that Putin would find hard to swallow… if they stay out, their friends in the Middle East question their Fidelity.

    Fact is: Iran wants to sever it’s ties to the petrodollar… we can’t allow that to happen… so unless they capitulate on those intentions, I believe we will be at war within the next 18 months. We would win that war… but could we end it?

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    • Take a breath dude. All plans/expectations go out the window with the first punch. By the way, did anyone actually sign anything? I never saw a signing ceremony. Or was it all a bunch of blather and then pallets of cash? By the way, how much of that cash ended up in private accounts, Iranian and American, in Switzerland?

  12. Do you need any more proof that Trump is Jewish?

    Or that USA is totally occupied by Israel— and by extension the City of London?

    Make Israel great again and destroy the US in the process.

    The end can’t come quickly enough for me.

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  13. Pulling out of the Iran deal is irrelevant because:

    A) Had Assad been successfully overthrown in Syria and replaced with someone friendly to the interests of the US, UK, France, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, the deal would have stayed in place.

    B) The ONLY reason that the Obama administration cut the deal with Iran in the first place was to help ensure that Iran did not interfere with A.

    C) The ONLY reason that the Obama administration cared about Syria in the first place was due to Syria’s prime geographical location and oil/gas pipelines in the Middle East. All of the pronouncements about Assad being a “despotic tyrant” and how much they cared about the Syrian people was complete bullshit.

    D) Always follow the money.

    The bigger picture being oil, money, and control of same.

    This entire Trump-Russia canard’s true purpose was to ensure that Trump’s tack towards Russia and Syria would mirror what Clinton’s tack would have been towards Russia and Syria.

    Mission accomplished.

    Obama was completely owned in every way by Putin for 8 years.

    Putin also owned the psychotic bitch when she was SoS, and will end up owning Donny boy. The Israeli’s and the Saudi’s already own Trump.

    When it’s all said and done what really matters is that none of the sociopathic players above lose a single minute of sleep at night about the thousands of innocent people, including infants and little children, that have been maimed and killed as a result of their geopolitical chess match.

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  14. Michael – you need to have your meds adjusted .

    The ONLY thing that matters in keeping Iran from becoming a nuclear capable state IS FOR IRAN TO NOT MAKE A BOMB . Pure and simple – that’s all it takes . Their choice . Not 0bama’s “deal” .

    BTW – if the Iran deal is so restrictive on the Iranian nuc program , why are the mullahs so pissed off that Trump is ending it ? Obviously, because the “deal” is all to Iran’s advantage .

    You’re so enamoured with 0bama that if he claimed that the sky was green , you’d believe it, and try to shout down anyone who declared that it was blue .

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    • Dear “Jerseygirl” here’s some free advice. When you come to a website and comment for the first time, it’s best not to immediately torch your credibility by vomiting up an easily disproven claim which everyone who reads the site will immediately recognize as false.

      Your claim: “You’re so enamoured with 0bama that if he claimed that the sky was green , you’d believe it, and try to shout down anyone who declared that it was blue.”

      Reality: There are few people on this planet who have written as many words harshly criticizing Obama and his entire oligarch-coddling administration as myself. It’s all right here on this website and not difficult to find. Just search “Obama.”

      But I actually appreciate what you did, because by writing such nonsense you immediately destroyed your credibility forever. Not only are you a liar, but you’re bad at it.

  15. I’m fully capable of thinking for myself. You have no idea of my background. If the JCPOA was such a great thing why did the Iranian government not put it before their parliament for a vote? Do you know the answer to that question? Why did Obama not put it before the Senate for a vote? But you say we should stay in the deal because…Europe. It sounds as though you are in the camp that says we, the United States, should do what the European countries do. I think the track record of Europe paints a different picture entirely. You cheer for the diminished influence of the US and get snarky when someone has an opinion different from yours and calls you out on it. Your continous bashing of President Trump is becoming tiresome. You sound just like the MSM in that regard. I don’t expect you take me seriously because I have a different opinion of the President than you do. I usually enjoy reading your opinions on important matters, however, this time I completely disagree. I guess that makes me, in your words, stupid.

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  16. I’m struggling to ascertain what the pro-war argument could possibly be, unless the person directly benefits from MIC spending.

    Who could possibly look at the last 15-16 years of Afghanistan and Iraq and call them a success? What are we supposed to cheer, growing poppies for heroin production in Afghanistan? Syria, Libya, and Yemen are no better. Maybe the armchair warriors are happy black people can now be bought in auctions in Libya?

    Besides, Trump was supposed to be the ANTI-WAR candidate. Hillary was the saber rattler in the election and Trump had a track record of many statements and tweets about focusing on MAGA rather than foreign entanglements. If Repubs wanted pro-war, they could just support Jeb, Rubio, Cruz, Fiorina, or any of the others. My, how times change.

    I’m betting a lot of the people howling for Iranian blood hated Trump the candidate and have only recently warmed up to Trump the president. Prominent neocons and some of the Bush cabal openly talked about backing Hillary in 2016 because of Trump’s perceived non-intervention stances. Now they’re in the driver’s seat in the Trump admin.

    Because of his constant flip-flopping and demonstration that he has no compass whatsoever, Trump deserves all the bashing he gets.

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    • Tengen, the pro-war argument is very simple and very persuasive.

      Imagine if you could go to the BMW dealership and buy a new car using little pieces of paper you made in your kitchen.

      That would be a pretty great thing, at least for you, right?

      Well, if lots of people around the world started using these TengenBucks (TBs) that you created in your kitchen, out of nothing, well, you’d be a pretty powerful person, right? And rich… and so would your family…

      That goes on for a few generations and people just seem to accept that the TB system is what we’ve got and they don’t have a better idea.

      But what happens when, say, Michael Krieger starts saying, “screw that nonsense, I’m gonna start paying people in KriegerKlams (KKs)”… You’d laugh at him… at first… cuz no one is gonna listen to him… I mean, if everyone did that, it would be chaos, right?

      But, over time, people start getting fed up with the TB system cuz your kids are spoiled brats and EVERYONE knows they’re just cutting up pieces of paper in the kitchen!

      If the BMW dealership started taking KKs, well, that wouldn’t be a good thing for the TB system… follow me?

      So, what do you do?

      Well, first you go around and talk about how great TengenBucks are and how they’ve worked really well, so why change it, right? And that works for a while cuz that’s what people know.

      But those KKs are still out there so, you start giving certain important people free TengenBucks, but you make them promise that they will never take those damn KriegerKlams as payment for goods and services.

      That works for a while too, but eventually, more and more ‘rogue states’ start talking about using KKs.

      So what do you do? You can’t FORCE these people to keep using the TBs, right? Well, actually, you can… you kill their leaders and a lot of their children and you bomb the shit out of all their infrastructure so they won’t live out the winter without begging for your help… which you happily provide, in the form of TBs that they can now use to buy whatever the need. In fact you help them set up a whole Central Bank that is friendly with your kitchen staff and now they have a direct line to borrow as many TBs that they may need in the future.

      See how that works?

      In the meantime, everyone over in TB-Land gets to continue buying BMWs with little bits of paper they created in their kitchen, out of nothing.

      ALL WARS are prosecuted for ECONOMIC REASONS ONLY.

      Politicians and ‘historians’ will cite many different reasons in an effort to exhort the masses to send their children into the breach or to justify the millions of previous deaths at the hands of the Coldblooded SausageMaker.

      In the end, the guys who hold the purse strings, will only prosecute a war if it will make them money… luckily, wars are extremely profitable.

      There are no reasonable arguments AGAINST perpetual war, save those based on abstract intangibles such as life, love, pity and compassion.

      But every love story ends badly, and some in actual war: think ‘The Illiad’… that was a love story, me thinks.

    • What a stunningly simple summary of how it works – you have definitely got the right end of the stick, my friend. How lovely would it be to publish this worldwide so that the 99% can really understand what is going on in this hopelessly corrupted world and perhaps be encouraged to do something about it.

      I was so angry to see an advert on TV asking for a £2 donation to save the Syrians. Now I have every sympathy with Syria, but for goodness sake, why don’t they ask the White House? They are spending trillions of dollars on useless armaments destroying everyones’ world and calling it collateral damage – and THEY started it in the first place!

      The USA are the only ones to have used nukes in anger and now they want everyone else to foresake them so they don’t get it on the nose themselves. However bad the N Korean system is, Kim is right to match power with power, I await the outcome of the summit with interest and trepidation.

    • @Nightnthebox, yeah, I agree with the economic explanation. The US is itching to get a friendly central back installed in Tehran and has been for some time.

      I’m fishing for any sort of explanation from the average person, one who isn’t a bankster or working in some capacity for the MIC. I’m not getting any bites so far though.

  17. Peter, the UK is the US… our interests are always aligned… yes, sometimes the US leads y’all down a road that isn’t convenient, but that’s just how it works. No two nations are as close to each other when it comes to shared values and history than the US and the UK so be a dear and pound that Kool-Aid… it’s good for you and quite tasty.

    Tengen, my diatribe maintains that all wars, at their core, are prosecuted for economic reasons, with its modern era manifestation shown in the US quest to establish/maintain hegemony over global energy/monetary policy (i.e., the petrodollar and control over money creation).

    If you agree with that, then what other ‘explanation’ dost thou seek from said ‘average person?’

    Perhaps you desire a parade of ‘average persons’ to come before you to regurgitate their preferred tale of justification?

    Like taking a survey of dipshits until you find a story you can palette?

    Or maybe you just want to feel at odds with the world and the people in it?

    Either way, that quest will make you miserable… so do yourself a favor and just give it up… or no one will like you. 🙂

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  18. Best thing you can do to better the world and your place in it, all while hedging against future uncertainty, is to grow your net worth without burning up your family in the process.

    If you live in the developed world, take advantage of the system… it favors intelligent and industrious people… learn to work it… focus on being responsible… make your bed and shit…

    And live justly on an immediately local level, starting with you and your family and neighbors.

    Leave the macro shit for a Higher Power to sort out…

    If you have a problem with a Higher Power, I suggest you reconcile that if you want to be happy… Faith, in anything, is confidence… and confidence is the only thing that gets you paid and laid.

    But never argue it cuz it’s not a logical thing, and arguing it is, well, illogical.

    Off to love the world, bitchez!
    xoxoxo

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    • Nightnthebox, I agree we are fellow travellers (USA & UK) but that doesn’t mean I agree with the UK government’s war mongering either. We have to find a way to live together in peace and harmony and perhaps the next crisis will sort it out once and for all.

      I agree your sentiments about a Higher Power, it saved my life a long time ago in 12 steps, if you know what I mean.

  19. Who the heck are Trump [and Netanyahu] to overturn an international agreement? They are just men. It is past time to relegate Trump and his sociopathic ‘minder/s’ to their rightful places … padded cells.

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  20. Michael, I like the blog and appreciate your courage in standing up to the authority figures. I think you are off on this one because your perspective is too narrow.

    IMO the issue here is that by signing the Iran deal, billions of dollars were unfrozen and Iran got to trade oil on the world market worth billions more. Iran took that money, funded Hezbollah to a greater extent, and in some minds, turn the tables in the Syrian Civil war in Assad’s favor.

    I think the word that our “allies” in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Israel, is a bit of a misnomer. Both countries have enormous influence through their lobbying groups in Washington, and Trump has to appease them. The Saudis are not happy with Assad, a Shiite, remaining in power, and Hezbollah has better weapons than ever that could target Israel. Hezbollah have been deploying Iranian drones near or even in Israeli air space. We know both countries want Trump to do something with Iran.

    Trump said the Iran deal was awful, and he would tear it up while campaigning, and the American people voted him into office. Isn’t he breaking a campaign promise now if he backed out on what he said he would do?

    Trump is all about deal making. He did a masterful good cop bad cop job with North Korea making the South Korean president the good cop. The fact that Trump had massive support from most Asian nations was widely unreported here. The Japanese people had to live through missiles flying over their homes.

    I think the goal here has little to do with Iran and nukes and everything to with Iran using the money from the lifted sanctions to fund Assad and Hezbollah. I could see Trump saying, “We didn’t lift sanctions to have you fund Hezbollah. We did it so you could enrich the lives of your own people”

    And I’d be careful with characterizing the fact that the U.S. is alone here. I suspect Trump has let European leaders secretly know what he is up to like he did with North Korea, and he has some support behind closed doors.

    The Trump style is to make brazen and often obnoxious statements followed by outrageous demands and to negotiate and back down from those demands later.

    What is amazing me to do is to see how people still keep falling for this and call Trump crazy, unfit, and a “moron”. You often get better terms for a deal if people think you are irrational.

    I’d wait to see what Trump is asking from Iran before condemning his actions entirely. I think he has earned the right to some patience after how he dealt with North Korea.

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  21. Did some gods create said agreement?
    Or were they not, too, just men?
    Surely that which man can build, man can take down, yes?

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  22. Weren’t these the same people who put the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Egypt, armed terrorists in Syria, oops, I mean Syrian Rebels, and let’s not forget Libya and Benghazi. Michael these people are psychopaths, why would suggest to your readers that they are not thinking when they question these peoples’ motives. Don’t know about you, but I just don’t trust anything they do or say. In other words, something fishy about that whole thing.

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