{"id":50712,"date":"2020-01-26T08:17:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T13:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50712"},"modified":"2020-01-26T08:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T13:17:21","slug":"what-europe-can-do-to-avoid-wwiii-say-no-now-to-its-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50712","title":{"rendered":"What Europe Can Do to Avoid WWIII? Say \u2018No!\u2019 Now to Its Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What Europe Can Do to Avoid WWIII? Say \u2018No!\u2019 Now to Its Start\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The US Government, which had lied its way<\/a> into invading and destroying<\/a> Iraq in 2003 (with a little help from UK and Europeans), wants Europeans to pitch-in for more US-run invasions. Europeans find this disturbing, but not repulsive enough to say, flat-out, \u201cNo!\u201d to it. However, only<\/em> that \u201cNo!\u201d can stop the onrush toward a massive US war against both Iran and Iraq<\/a>, which would spread ultimately into a global nuclear war between US and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 6th, Barbara Wessel, a columnist for Germany\u2019s Deutsche Welle (DW), headlined a common European sentiment: \u201cTrump has Europeans caught in a trap:<\/a> Europe is suffering under the way Donald Trump makes political decisions on the fly. The only option left is to appeal to Iran\u2019s interest in self-preservation\u201d. But Iranians<\/em> can\u2019t stop the sanctions against itself, and can\u2019t stop Trump\u2019s other outrageous aggressions. Wessel\u2019s false underlying assumption was that Europe must lecture Iranians. That\u2019s like lecturing to Jews during WWII: \u201cThe only option left is to appeal to Jews\u2019 interest in self-preservation.\u201d Victims already do everything they can to stop their being victimized; they cannot stop the victimizer from victimizing them. They don\u2019t cause it. Europe must, at last, say \u201cNo!\u201d to US, the tyrant over the entire world \u2014 Bolivia, Venezuela, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and more. Wessel, however, understood, at least, that the dangerousness actually comes far more from the US, than it does from Iran. So, she recognized that her thinking on this whole matter was confused. She stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any illusions about the possibility of an even partially rational cooperation on foreign policy with the government in Washington have long been shattered. Cynical remarks by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who accuses the Europeans of not giving enough support in the Middle East, underline their helplessness. \u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Europe Can Do to Avoid WWIII? Say \u2018No!\u2019 Now to Its Start\u00a0 The US Government, which had lied its way into invading and destroying Iraq in 2003 (with a little help from UK and Europeans), wants Europeans to pitch-in for more US-run invasions. Europeans find this disturbing, but not repulsive enough to say, flat-out, \u201cNo!\u201d to it. However, only that […]<\/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":[4394,694,8203,862,891,1823],"class_list":["post-50712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50712","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=50712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50713,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50712\/revisions\/50713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}