{"id":50439,"date":"2020-01-06T07:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50439"},"modified":"2020-01-06T07:51:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:51:43","slug":"we-do-not-seek-war-says-president-who-just-started-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50439","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Do Not Seek War,\u201d Says President Who Just Started A War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/01\/04\/we-do-not-seek-war-says-president-who-just-started-a-war\/\">\u201cWe Do Not Seek War,\u201d Says President Who Just Started A\u00a0War<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-04-at-12.20.53-PM.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump has been steadfastly assuring the world that the United States government does not wish to start the war it has already started by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/us-assassination-of-top-iranian-military-official-may-ignite-world-war-6db1d1f9c060\">assassinating Iran\u2019s top general<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are a peace-loving nation and my administration remains firmly committed to establishing peace and harmony among the nations in the world,\u201d Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/01\/03\/mike-pompeo-us-war-iran-093149\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in a speech at his luxury Mar-a-Lago getaway on Friday. \u201cWe do not seek war, we do not seek nation-building, we do not seek regime change, but as president I will never hesitate to defend the safety of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TYY29yO8HIc?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To be clear, in no way is any part of this a thing. Assassinating a nation\u2019s most senior military official, and then claiming that you do not wish to start a war with that nation, is not a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America is at war with Iran currently. What that war will end up looking like is anyone\u2019s guess right now, but there is no question that a war has been initiated. If any nation had assassinated a top US general via airstrike and then openly admitted to it, the US would immediately be at war with that nation. Without question. An extreme military retaliation would be in the works within minutes of the announcement, and the entire political\/media class would fully support that retaliation in whatever form it took.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This may come as a surprise to some Americans, but that same principle holds true for other nations as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe Do Not Seek War,\u201d Says President Who Just Started A\u00a0War President Trump has been steadfastly assuring the world that the United States government does not wish to start the war it has already started by&nbsp;assassinating Iran\u2019s top general. \u201cWe are a peace-loving nation and my administration remains firmly committed to establishing peace and harmony [&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":[17039,7844,441,442,28787,862],"class_list":["post-50439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-qassem-solemani","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439","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=50439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50440,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439\/revisions\/50440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}