{"id":26875,"date":"2017-10-16T06:47:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26875"},"modified":"2017-10-16T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:47:37","slug":"trump-is-moving-toward-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26875","title":{"rendered":"Trump is Moving Toward War With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump is Moving Toward War With Iran<\/a><\/h3>\n
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With his Iran speech U.S. President Trump has taken a huge step into uncharted territories.<\/p>\n

One that implies a 60-75% risk of leading to a US attack on Iran.<\/p>\n

Behind him stands the hardline militarists whom he has himself appointed.<\/p>\n

Secondly, neo-conservative individuals and think tanks who have brought the world only a series of failed wars and unspeakable human misery since the invasion of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Third, the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex, MIMAC, that is outside real democratic control and pushes relentlessly for ever-increasing armament and wars and serves the public all kinds of weird, fake images of what threatens the US.<\/p>\n

Further, pro-Israeli and pro-Saudi lobby organizations and extremely wealthy individuals who buy political influence and thereby destroy the very foundations of democracy and free opinion formation.<\/p>\n

Against these numerically tiny elites\u00a0stand virtually the rest of the world, including NATO allies and the EU.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve all communicated very clearly to the President how important it is for all involved that he re-certifies the immensely important and historically unique Iran nuclear deal of 2015, or the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

As is usual for failed US foreign policy there is no comprehensive strategy and no exit strategy. Having no diplomatic relations with Iran for decades, Trump lacks appropriate channels of communication.<\/p>\n

He also lacks basic knowledge of the country. (Whereas the Iranians know the West). His bizarre image of the country as presented in this speech bodes ill in every respect.<\/p>\n

Seldom has a Presidential speech been so filled with psycho-political projections of one\u2019s own dark sides on the adversary as this.<\/p>\n

It will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to\u00a0de<\/em>-escalate what he has pressed the escalation buttons for today.<\/p>\n

The announced policy has nothing to do with an intellectually decent and comprehensive policy.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump is Moving Toward War With Iran With his Iran speech U.S. President Trump has taken a huge step into uncharted territories. One that implies a 60-75% risk of leading to a US attack on Iran. Behind him stands the hardline militarists whom he has himself appointed. Secondly, neo-conservative individuals and think tanks who have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,7844,279,284,441,16507,524,553,561,827,862],"class_list":["post-26875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-iran","tag-jan-oberg","tag-militarism","tag-nato","tag-neocons","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26876,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875\/revisions\/26876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}