By Walt Zlotow
Trump administration negotiations with Iran over their imaginary nuclear weapons program are disjointed beyond imagination. Trump swings back and forth between threatening massive bombing if no deal is reached, to claiming a deal can easily be reached. He hints Iran might be able to continue nuclear enrichment for peaceful purposes, then demands zero enrichment because their massive oil resources make enrichment unnecessary and unacceptable.
Iranian diplomats seeking end to US sanctions and recognition Iran is not building nuclear weapons are discombobulated by Trump’s unhinged negotiating style. They are stuck in negotiations with the guy who blew up Obama’s top foreign policy achievement, the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement which had potential to end America’s delusional obsession with Iran’s nonexistent nuclear weapons program.
Iran has good reason to distrust Trump’s negotiating tactics. His team negotiated Hamas’ release of an American Israeli hostage in return for resumption of food, water, medicine aid. Upon release Trump reneged on that promise to keep the genocidal ethnic cleansing on track to speed up his planed Gaza mega real estate project.
Complicating the negotiations is Israel’s decades’ long lust to destroy the Iranian regime and render Iran powerless to oppose Israeli hegemony in the region. Rumours are flying that Israel is prepared to attack Iran if a deal comes close to allowing any Iranian uranium enrichment whatever.
Regarding Iran, Trump has rewritten the rulebook on delicate foreign policy negotiations.
- Start by publicly threatening annihilation
- Claim success is at hand
- Promise nothing in return for everything
- Have negotiators offer contradictory views and statements on the negotiations
- Display duplicity in negotiating promises
- Allow a small country committing genocide to dictate negotiating terms
- Blame inevitable failure on one’s predecessors or the other side
Is Trump negotiating the U.S. into war with Iran? It’s beginning to look like it.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL
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Trump is a dangerously unstable, divisive and thoroughly entitled sociopath whose aggressive, intimidatory behaviour is likely to instigate a third world war for no other reason than Trump’s pathetic need to dominate everyone and everything around him! Clearly, the dangerously erratic Trump can be compared to an impudent, attention-seeking, tantrum-throwing, dummy-spitting two year old – if he can’t get his way, there is NO negotiation and he is prepared to destroy all his toys in an attempt to get what he wants; in other words, everything has to be Trump’s way or the highway!
Trump has already been impeached once before and, for many valid reasons, MUST be impeached and incarcerated AGAIN if Americans want to re-attain and maintain any semblance of international respect or, indeed, to maintain world peace. Trump is not only a despicable, totally unconscionable, pathological liar and a recidivist misogynistic predator with a HUGE, stratospheric sense of entitlement, he is an unapologetic racist white supremacist and an erratic, thoroughly unstable and dangerous megalomaniacal narcissist who is prepared to drag America – and the world – into a global war in order to attain and maintain world domination!
FFS, America – wake up and depose Trump: an unspeakably depraved, born-to-rule misogynist and rusted-on racist white supremacist who is dragging your nation into woeful disrepute whereby Trump’s ONLY legacy will be to MAKE AMERICA HATE AGAIN! Trump ticks EVERY box as a notorious internationally-condemned political psychopath who’s distorted, hateful and arrogant self-centeredness, combined with his dangerously undemocratic obsession to rule the world, poses an ever-increasing threat to America’s stability and to world peace!
Trump has become America’s Nero – a chest-beating, dangerously deluded, megalomaniacal sociopath without one iota of insight, zero foresight and not a drop of compassion for ANYONE or ANYTHING except the appalling, totally deranged psychopath who stares back at himself from his mirror every morning!