By Walt Zlotow
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister began their second war on Iran in 7 months with just 2 war crime cards to play.
The first card was the US, Israeli version of Blitzkrieg from the air. Kill Iran’s beloved leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, demand surrender, then wait for the 90 million Iranians to capitulate to new masters Trump and Netanyahu. That was projected to take just about 72 hours.
As expected, millions of Iranians came into the streets following Khamenei’s assassination. But not to welcome the grisly invaders bombing them. It was to show near total support to the Islamic government, cheering them on to inflict as much retaliation possible to repel the Trump Netanyahu criminal tag team.
And they are succeeding, causing massive damage to US military facilities in Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait. Saudi Arabia and UAE. All 6 are running out of defensive interceptors provided by Uncle Sam. Why? Trump is giving them all to himself and his war partner Netanyahu. When this is all over, the Gulf States will never again trust America for their defense. They may even tell the US to vamoose the region PDQ.
Iran is also bombing Israel night and day, giving Netanyahu, flying around the region 24/7 to avoid Khamenei’s fate, a taste of what he visited on Palestinians in Gaza for 2 years.
That leaves Trump and Netanyahu with their last war crime card to play. Bomb Iran to smithereens till there is no more Iranian weapons or personnel left with which to retaliate.
Big problem facing America and Israel is size. Both Israel and US military facilities nearby are compact in size making them easy targets, while Iran, the 17th largest country by area, has their tens of thousands of missiles scattered and largely unreachable.
Now that Iran has chosen to fight to the death rather than capitulate as expected, the advantage may be tiltng in their favor. Rumors surfacing Trump is pondering an off ramp to stop the bleeding he has no way of controlling.
Worst case scenario remains that Netanyahu may get so desperate facing unfathomable defeat, he escalates to war crime card 3… nuke Tehran.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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That picture, of two raving filthites, drenched in twisted superstition and saturated with cellular vanity and egofixation, suggests total doom and evil destruction. Bowellish mouldings of manifestations, humanoid but sickening, overshadow all known decencies and civilised processes, so, who can eliminate this, save humanity, correct fatal error and restore hope? Humanity deserves far better.
If Trump pulls out of Iran then Netanyahu will try to nuke Iran into submission. If French casualties occur as Netanyahu continues to bombard Lebanon then Macron will challenge Israel militarily. Meanwhile, despite US media posts to the contrary, both Russia and China are providing sophisticated armaments to Iran. China welcomes a testing ground for their technologies against US air defences before hostilities begin over Taiwan.
What is so alarming is that news of the damage Iran has inflicted and continues to inflict upon the several USA sites built in several Gulf nations at cost of billions to control the M.E. in their favour is not being reported by MSM at all. In Israel if anyone dares leak any photos or footage of the damage being inflicted they can receive harsh prison sentences – and nobody wants to see the inside of an Israeli jail!
Richard Medhurst is a reputable journalist and has done research from satellite imagery comparing before and after photos of these American sites. Certainly this kind of factual reporting hasn’t been seen on any news outlet that I have seen.
I just hope the Iranians don’t decide to do the same to Pine Gap and other places where America is takng over Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0cIOMVBSbU
Where’s the other guy, their chum Putin?
Netanyahu and Trump attacks on Iran, and oil price spikes, may benefit Putin with higher income to manage blowout of the ‘special operation’ vs Ukraine, EU and the west, with blow back (inc vs his allies eg Tone’s chum Hungarian PM ‘mini Putin’ Orbán with an election soon).
Ironically, the victims of both Putin and Trump with thousands of missile attacks and civilian deaths, Ukraine*, is being quietly begged to help the US (via Jordan) on drone tactics to deal with Iran’s Shahed’s.
Meanwhile the latter are being manufactured in Russia by Russia, which has also allegedly helped Iran with intelligence, versus the US, but Trump is ok with that……
*Allies of Netanyahu negotiating unsuccesfully for the US with Russia, excluding Ukraine, EU and NATO, are Trump’s son in law Kushner** and real estate developer Witkopf….. another coincidence is the muse of **Kushner converting him from liberal to survival of the fittest right winger via Charles Murray’s ‘The Bell Curve’, was Rupert Murdoch. The latter’s most recent marriage has drawn him deeper into Moscow elites via his step daughter’s friendship with Jared and Ivanka…..started in ’80s sharing fixer Roy Cohn with Trump….. allegedly……
A post by Emirati businessman Khalaf Al Habtoor has apparently gone viral. He was responding to Sen. Lindsay Graham going around demanding the Gulf states join Israel and the US in attacking Iran. Amongst the things he said were:
“If President Donald Trump and Senator Graham are prepared to risk their country and the lives of Americans for Israel’s interests, that is their choice,” he said. “As for us, we will not do the same.” and in reference to Graham, “You defend Israel’s interests more than you defend the interests of the American people themselves,” he said. “We will not accept being forced down the path of war, nor will we accept being fuel for others’ battles.”
But Labor is prepared to risk the lives of our sons for the interests of Israel and the USA. Labor is prepared to make Australia fuel for others’ battles.
@Judith
thanks for the sensational video link, Medhurst does remarkable work, and I agree with your assessment that he is a reputable journalist. As he said, the radar bases in the Gulf states are the frontline of the ‘iron dome’, so his assessment is supported by the fact that Australia has been conscripted into providing an AWAKS surveillance plane.
We do not need to enter this war, especially on the side of illegal aggressors.
Australia should take absolutely no part in this imperialist war by the USA (Undemocratic States of Apartheid) for control of the Iranian known and potential fossil fuel reserve fields.
Supporting Isrevil after Butcher Bibi led the Hannibal Directive into the GAZA GENOCIDE that murdered about 70,000+ Indigenous Palestinians owning land coveted by the ZIONAZIS from Europe & the world, is expensive madness. The continuation of military bombardment of Lebanon by the amoral IDF, the second offence authorised by the amoral ZIONAZI Knesset for the benefit of international carpet-baggers rebuilding the GAZA GOLD COAST for a Middle East mono-theocracy, racist, apartheid state, remains ”illegal”.