{"id":46920,"date":"2019-06-26T07:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46920"},"modified":"2019-06-26T07:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:06:59","slug":"the-ongoing-restructuring-of-the-greater-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46920","title":{"rendered":"The Ongoing Restructuring of the Greater Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2019\/06\/25\/the-ongoing-restructuring-of-the-greater-middle-east\/\">The Ongoing Restructuring of the Greater Middle East<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/wp-content\/medialibrary\/military-bases-around-iran.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/wp-content\/medialibrary\/military-bases-around-iran-1556x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60652\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Map showing the 40 military bases the US has been compelled to position around Iran to combat Iranian aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, according to the corporate media, and to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/president-trump-s-full-unedited-interview-meet-press-n1020731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Literally Hitler<\/a>, himself, while America was sleeping last Friday morning, the U.S. Air Force was just minutes away from bombing the bejesus out of some desolate outposts somewhere in the Iranian desert and launching another catastrophic military blunder in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At approximately 0400 Zulu time, President Hitler and his top advisors (among them, John \u201cthe Walrus of Death\u201d Bolton) were gathered in the Pentagon\u2019s War Room, flight paths arcing across the big board. The hotline to Vladimir Putin\u2019s office in St. Basil\u2019s Cathedral in Moscow had been activated. The full force of the U.S. military was about to be brought to bear upon a package of top-level Iranian targets with no strategic value whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently,&nbsp;<em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/21\/united-airlines-halts-some-flights-mumbai-to-avoid-iran-after-drone-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">planes were in the air<\/a>!\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;It was all so terribly, terribly exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This awesome demonstration of American resolve was meant to be punishment for the vicious slaughter of an expensive U.S. military drone, which was peacefully invading Iranian airspace, and not at all attempting to provoke the Iranians into blowing it out of the sky with a missile so the U.S. military could \u201cretaliate.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military-industrial complex would never dream of doing anything like that, not even to further the destabilization and restructuring of the Greater Middle East that they\u2019ve been systematically carrying out the since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, which \u2026 more on that in just a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ongoing Restructuring of the Greater Middle East Map showing the 40 military bases the US has been compelled to position around Iran to combat Iranian aggression. So, according to the corporate media, and to&nbsp;President Literally Hitler, himself, while America was sleeping last Friday morning, the U.S. Air Force was just minutes away from bombing [&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":[14578,169,13612,441,4487,522,23435,11226],"class_list":["post-46920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cj-hopkins","tag-corporate-media","tag-greater-middle-east","tag-iran","tag-john-bolton","tag-middle-east","tag-off-guardian","tag-us-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46920","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=46920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46921,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46920\/revisions\/46921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}