By Walt Zlotow
Tho scrubbed from mainstream news, Trump attacked Iran February 28 because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded, begged, demanded he do so. Trump’s top diplomat, Marco Rubio, revealed this when he stupidly admitted Trump knew Israel would attack Iran and had to preemptively attack as well to avoid Iran retaliation. What Rubio didn’t admit is that the Israeli attack was fully supported by the US since Israel could not attack without total US support.
Trump’s and Netanyahu’s unprovoked war of choice had one strategy. Kill Iranian leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and watch the Iranian people depose their government and capitulate within 3 days.
That failed spectacularly as the Iranian people responded like Americans after Pearl Harbor. Iran’s government did likewise, with relentless bombing of Israel, 13 US bases in the Gulf States and closing the Strait of Hormuz.
If this was all that unfolded it would still represent a catastrophic loss for the Trump/Netanyahu war criminal tag team
But for Netanyahu it gets worse. He sent his army north into Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah. That war is now going south as Hezbollah just destroyed 20 Israeli tanks in one day. Hezbollah missiles are raining down on northern Israel driving tens of thousands of Israelis from home.
It gets worse. The Houthis who control Yemen just entered the war on Iran’s side by launching 2 strikes into Israel Saturday. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree declared Yemen bombed Israel “in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the resistance fronts in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine, and in view of the continued military escalation, the targeting of infrastructure, and the perpetration of crimes and massacres against our brothers in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and Palestine.”
In addition, the Houthis may reimpose the blockade on Israeli-linked shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. If so, the Bab el-Mandeh Strait will join the Strait of Hormuz in expanding economic disaster worldwide.
Worse yet. Shi’ite militias in Iraq have joined the war and will be targeting US military assets in Iraq that the US has kept there for 23 years.
When Benjamin Netanyahu goes to sleep tonight, he won’t need to count sheep to fall asleep. He just needs to count neighboring countries joining Iran’s defense against the most self-destructive criminal war this century.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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While I’m not disputing the facts as set out above, I find it incredibly hard to believe that nobody – NOBODY – advised those two warmongering imbeciles that this could/would go pear shaped.
As such advice was almost certainly given but then ignored, it just goes to show how out of touch they are with the realities of how their “enemies” think and will respond to attacks/genocide/destruction.
uncletimrob, they were certainly told, and from various sources.
I didn’t keep a record of the warnings, but they were in the MSM for days beforehand.
They knew.
My suspicion – they wanted to drag the allies into their dirty war, but didn’t ask first.
@ Jen: Agreed. Everything TACO Trumpery touches turns to manure. When PPOTUS (Protector of Pederasts of The Undemocratic Sewer) moves his lips is is probably lying.
The war in Lebanon is going south? I hope it’s true but not so sure. Israel still seems to be able to destroy a lot of the country. I live in hope that some day Netanyahu and his butcher mates will be held to account for the destruction, the loss of innocent lives and the economic damage they have done to the world. Contrarily the ill conceived, illegal, idiotic war in Iran seems to have consolidated the power of the mad mullahs. Well done Don and Bibi
In a just(er) world, the population of Israel would rise up against its government – Netanyahu in particular – and depose the dickheads who put them in such danger. No sign of that happening yet, unfortunately.
When the word Israel fades from world maps I wonder how many people will mourn their passing?
I fancy the Middle East will be in party mode, and the displaced residents are going to have to move some distance from the site of this failed experiment.