{"id":37267,"date":"2018-09-02T12:43:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T17:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37267"},"modified":"2018-09-02T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T17:43:33","slug":"is-a-suez-event-being-prepared-for-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37267","title":{"rendered":"Is a \u2018Suez\u2019 Event Being Prepared for Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Is a \u2018Suez\u2019 Event Being Prepared for Syria?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/09\/01\/or-41331.jpg\" alt=\"Is a \u2018Suez\u2019 Event Being Prepared for Syria?\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/09\/01\/is-suez-event-being-prepared-for-syria.html\">Is a \u2018Suez\u2019 Event Being Prepared for Syria?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>So, the metamorphosis is done.\u00a0President Trump has finally, fully, shed his 2016 Campaign \u2018skin\u2019 of loosely imagining a grand foreign policy bargain that could be the foundation for \u201cWORLD PEACE, nothing less!\u201d as Trump tweeted when imposing sanctions on Iran.\u00a0 We wrote, on 3 August,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/08\/06\/g3-global-order-pipe-dream-until-us-has-its-leadership-mission-catharsis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/08\/06\/g3-global-order-pipe-dream-until-us-has-its-leadership-mission-catharsis.html\">quoting<\/a>\u00a0Prof Russell-Mead, that Trump\u2019s \u20188\u00a0May metamorphosis\u2019 (the US exit from JCPOA), constituted a\u00a0step-change\u00a0of direction: one that reflected \u201c[Trump\u2019s] instincts, telling him that most Americans are anything but eager, for a \u201cpost-American\u201d world. Trump\u2019s supporters don\u2019t want long wars,\u00a0\u201cbut neither are they amenable to a stoic acceptance of national decline\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It all began, very precisely, with Trump\u2019s \u20188 May metamorphosis\u2019 &#8211; which is to say, to the moment when the US president definitively took the Israeli \u2018line\u2019: exiting from the Iranian nuclear accord, deciding to sanction and to lay siege to Iran\u2019s economy, and when he endorsed the (old, never materialized) idea of a Sunni \u2018Arab NATO\u2019, led by Riyadh, that would confront Shi\u2019a Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In practical terms, Trump\u2019s\u00a0Art of the Deal\u00a0geo-strategy, as we now see, became thus transformed into the search for radical US leverage (through weaponising a strong dollar and tariffs) &#8212; looking always to the means to\u00a0force\u00a0the capitulation\u00a0of the counter-party.\u00a0 This cannot be rightly termed negotiation: It is rather, more as if the script has been lifted from\u00a0The Godfather.<\/p>\n<p>But, when Trump unreservedly took the Israeli (or, more properly the Netanyahu) \u2018line\u2019, he assumed to himself all \u2018the baggage\u2019 that comes with it, too. The 1996\u00a0Clean Break\u00a0document, prepared by a study group led by Richard Perle for Binjamin Netanyahu, meshed the Israeli and US neocon camps into one.\u00a0 And they are still umbilically linked.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a \u2018Suez\u2019 Event Being Prepared for Syria? So, the metamorphosis is done.\u00a0President Trump has finally, fully, shed his 2016 Campaign \u2018skin\u2019 of loosely imagining a grand foreign policy bargain that could be the foundation for \u201cWORLD PEACE, nothing less!\u201d as Trump tweeted when imposing sanctions on Iran.\u00a0 We wrote, on 3 August,\u00a0quoting\u00a0Prof Russell-Mead, that [&hellip;]<\/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":[14457,7844,8203,21492,776,827],"class_list":["post-37267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-donald-trump","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-suez-event","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37267","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=37267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37268,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37267\/revisions\/37268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}