Iran - Europe Rejects U.S. Drive To War
The reaction to the minor protests in Iran drive another wedge between the U.S. and Europe. It exposes the belligerence of the Zionist lobby and its influence in the U.S. media and politics. The issue shows the growing divergence between genuine U.S. interests and the interests of Israel.
Some anti-government demonstration and attacks on public institutions continue in Iran. But, as the graph shows, such protests and riots continue to decrease. Yesterday's events took place in only 15 places while, since December 28, a total of 75 towns and cities had seen some form of protest or incidents. Additional to these several pro-government marches took place yesterday each of which was by far bigger than the anti-government events.
by M. Ali Kadivar - bigger
The violence against public property by some young rioters has alienated the original legitimate protesters who have ample economic reasons to reject the neo-liberal policies of the current Iranian government. The instigating of violence from the outside of Iran, likely due to CIA machinations, has robbed them of their voice.
I had earlier asked:
Why is the U.S. doing this?The plan may well be not to immediately overthrow the Iranian government, but to instigate a sharp reaction by the Iranian government against the militant operations in its country. ... That reaction can then be used to implement wider and stricter sanctions against Iran especially from Europe. These would be another building block of a larger plan to suffocate the country and as an additional step on a larger escalation ladder.
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The administration just called for a UN emergency session about the situation. That is a laughable move ...
Laughable indeed. Other members of the Security Council and the UN Human Rights council have rejected the U.S. plans. It is not the UN's business to insert itself into internal affairs of any country. But even for those who believe that the UN has a right to intervene, the protests in Iran, estimated at no more than 15,000 people at any time and maybe 45,000 in cumulation, are way too insignificant to justify any UN reaction.
The European Union, main target of U.S. plans to again push for sanctions on Iran, has officially rejected any such attempts. The Swedish Foreign Minister said that these are "unacceptable" and that the situation does not qualify for any such move. The French President Macron warned (French) that breaking relations with Iran would lead to war. He was quite explicit (machine translation) about the actors behind such moves:
France has firm relations with the Iranian authorities but wants to keep this link "because what is being done otherwise is that it is surreptitiously rebuilding an 'axis of evil'," said the president.
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"We can clearly see the official speech that is made by the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, which are our allies in many ways, it is almost speech that will lead us to the war in Iran." he added, pointing out without further details that it was a "deliberate strategy of some".
Russia's Foreign Minister warned the U.S. against any interference in Iran's internal affairs.
Meanwhile a Saudi flagship paper, Al Arabiya, is challenging The Onion as it asserts that Iran has called up Hizbullah, Iraqi units and Afghan mercenary to quell the protests.
In a Washington Post op-ed Vice President Pence rants about the Obama administration's alleged lack of reaction to protests in Iran, but announces no reaction by the Trump administration. The Washington Post editors add several op-eds by pro-Zionist lobbyists bashing Iran and blaming Europe for not following Trump's line.
The anti-Iranian Foundation for Defense of Democracies which is financed by an extreme Zionist speculator, is given plenty of space in U.S. papers:
Adam H. Johnson @adamjohnsonNYC - 4:04 AM - 3 Jan 2018
in past 72 hrs radical pro-regime change outfit FDD has had op-eds in NYTimes, Washington Post, NYPost, Politico and WSJ on Iran, repeating in each one the same tired, pro-intervention talking points.
Adam H. Johnson @adamjohnsonNYC - 6:14 PM - 3 Jan 2018
having used up their designated slots in respectable WSJ, WaPo, Politico, and NYTimes for this week, FDD slumming it in Washington Times today. Sad!
The supposedly "centrist" Lawfare blog published a call for handing improvised mines with "Explosive Formed Penetrators" to Iranian protesters. (During the U.S. invasion of Iraq the local resistance made and used such EFPs against the U.S. occupiers. The U.S. military falsely claimed that the EFPs were coming from Iran.) The editor of Lawfare, the notorious Benjamin Wittes, seems to agree with the piece. He, the editor, writes that he never edits anything that is published on his site. His only complain about the piece is that the call to arm rioters in Iran lacks a professed legal reasoning. (One wonders how the Lawfare writers will react when China delivers anti-tank weapons to the next Occupy Wall Street incarnation.)
It is a big campaign in the U.S. that is accompanying rather small events in Iran. The campaign is designed to create the atmosphere for a war on that country. The media give it ample room. But the U.S. is very lonely in these attempts. Saudi Arabia is a paper tiger that does not count and Israel can not move against Iran. The axis of resistance is ready for a great war, says Hizbullah leader Nasrallah. He explains that such a war would be waged deep within Israel.
Stephen Kinzer points out that U.S. animosity against Iran and its government lacks any strategic reasoning:
History decrees that any Iranian government must be strongly nationalist and a vigilant defender of Shiite Muslims everywhere, so the idea that “regime change” would produce a more pro-American Iran is a fantasy. The security of the United States will not be seriously affected by the course of Iran’s domestic politics.
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In 1980 President Carter proclaimed that any challenge to American dominance of the Persian Gulf would be considered “an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America.” He was driven by the global imperatives of his era. Much of America’s oil came through the Persian Gulf, and the West could not risk losing it to Soviet power.Today there is no Soviet Union, and we no longer rely on Middle East oil. Yet although the basis for our policy has evaporated, the policy itself remains unchanged, a relic from a bygone age.
Kinzer is right on the lack of a strategic argument. But he neglects the influence of the Zionist lobby and its interest to keep the U.S. involved in smashing any potential adversary to its colonial endeavor. Genuine interest of the people of the United States is not what drives U.S. policy and has not been for some time (if ever).
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Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 4, 2018 5:13:24 PM | 18
It was a perfectly sound remark from Nemisis, ninel displays no appreciation or any real idea on what the costs of self determination are in this age...ninel got called out. Nothing to see here. But please, don't let this interfere in your new role as self appointed blog referee.
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A great series on Iran by the blog author. Methodically blowing the lid of the dis&misinformation campaigns over the last week. Fully compelling reading.
Posted by: MadMax2 | Jan 6 2018 8:09 utc | 102
@ MadMax2 | Jan 6, 2018 3:09:19 AM | 102
Unconvincing! One may reject the position of @ninel but unfounded speculations that he is a troll do not help. They are the main tool of Alt Right commenters in the German blogsphere. Killed a lot of blogs here.
Blog referee is not my aim. But when I feel disgusted I express it.
Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 6 2018 8:46 utc | 103
(One wonders how the Lawfare writers will react when China delivers anti-tank weapons to the next Occupy Wall Street incarnation.)
Oh God, Oh God, when will the day come.
Posted by: Marcos | Jan 6 2018 9:33 utc | 104
The EU has another reason to not want the Iranian situation to become a full scale "regime change". That is that the Brussels part of the EU is engaged in it's own form of "regime change"*. ie anti-national(ism). Examples are Greece (Syrzia rejected as legitimate), now Poland and Hungary together against migrant quotas, Spain/Catalonia, Brexit, Migrants of all sorts (Italy, Spain) etc. Where rejections of the "officially enforced doctrines", are quite similar in style to the "popular" revolts against a central elected authority in Iran.
It would not be thought "good" if the populism in the EU, rather than being focussed on their own "local" National Governments, started to demand that the Brussels "regime" be changed as well. Or even to see that it is possible to get rid of "Autocratic bodies".
*The aim of the central "Merkel-Soros" group in Brussels has been to supplant national laws and habits within a centralised "EU" - by destroying individual sovereignty (Brexit reaction) or by a massive influx of migrants from different cultural and religious backgrounds.
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There is a misdirection effort by Ninel and others to minimise the influence of external factors/countries on the recent troubles in Iran, by concentrating only on Iran's internal problems.
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OBOR problem is a CIA asset/murderous "security"organiser. Throws into relief the extent that the US will try to use any means to ruin this project. Blackwater running security for the Chinese OBOR, AND secretly working for the CIA all the while getting it's hands on trillions worth of mining assets in Afghanistan?
https://journal-neo.org/2018/01/04/major-beijing-bri-security-fiasco-emerging/
@ stonebird | Jan 6, 2018 6:20:56 AM | 105
Thanks for bringing in this interesting report by W. F. Engdahl.
I had already read time ago about the involvement of Prince´s multi-name company of unscrupulous war-lords in security issues in China related to the BRI project and, like W.F.Engdhal have thought in a US Troy-horse placed in the very heart of that project .
Informations like this one, contitutes also, I fear, to form part of the arguments of those who see China as part of the globalist capitalist imperialist project leaded by the US to continue plundering other less developed areas/countries conveniently destabilized by US army along with mercenary forces to loot at pleasure whatever wealth could exist in those countries.
But, on the other hand, one would question itself if the Chinese could be such fools and gullible people, that they do not seem at all, and whether by renting Prince´s company to train their security forces they would not have been trying to know the enemy by directo observation so that neutralize its intends of sabotaging and destabilization, or, in the same sense, by participating in the same company by share-holding turn themselves into Troy-horse of the enemy´s Troy-horse....To give it a thought, doesn´t it?
After all, take into account that Chinese minds do not work exactly like ours, Westerners, they practice Tai-Chi, whose principles are realted to take avantage of the energy and movements invested by your opponent´s attack to reject the attack with the minimum of own energy implied and minimum of blowback....
Posted by: elsi | Jan 6 2018 12:48 utc | 106
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We latin americans cannot understand such a yesmanship, such a long and deep hibernation from those white savvy post christian self sufficient europs.
Perhaps they are seeing light that comes from beijing.
better late than never.
Posted by: augusto | Jan 5, 2018 5:59:28 PM | 88
I've a fondness for made up words but yesmanship is a rip-snorter and particularly appropriate for these Spin Tanked times.
With a bit of creative overuse it could very easily catch on.
Hat tip to you...
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 6 2018 13:51 utc | 107
Hoarsewhisperer
but remember, it's not a valid Scrabble word (:
Posted by: john | Jan 6 2018 14:03 utc | 108
Thanks elsi @106
I don't quite know what to think of it.
But wheels within wheels as they say - it is possible that China does not realise the extent of CIA attempted infiltration: It is a big country after all.
Maybe the answer lies in the Pakistan-China link, as it will have to go through the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan- where the US (CIA branch) has been setting up ISIS. (Which cuts the route).
By taking on Blackwater as "security for OBOR" it will pose a problem for the CIA as it will simultaneously have to provide security against it's own "black-ops"?
Tai chi? I suspect the chinese have re-started to use the Yi King (Yi Ching) as a base of policy as they did for many many succesful years. Gives an advantage in that unexpected moves can be planned in advance. Thanks for link, intro music is nice but I will have to watch later, no time now.
@ elsi & stonebird, #105, 106, 109
Sorry to push this even further off topic but here goes. I like Engdahl and value his facts greatly. I slightly disagree with his conclusion.
It seems to me that Prince is almost visionary in his grasp of what the rich people want. He now offers everyone everything: the supply-chain logistics, the spying, the strong-arm muscle, and even the plunder itself. Nations can wash their hands of all these bad deeds. And there's no longer even a need to have a corporate trading company chartered by the sovereign. It's pure capitalism. I have to admire what Prince has grasped, and how he's acting like a business leader to take as much of this new market as he can, and build his own business empire.
Let me be very clear that Prince is also an evil man, and I'm not condoning any of this. But smart is smart. And connected is connected.
I think the Chinese understand completely what's happening. Even if I doubted the Chinese, there's no way they could be talking with the Russians without learning all this. But I think the Chinese on their own see very well what the situation is. And while Russia has adopted the military and security approach to regional peace, China has taken the investment avenue - a measure similar to bribery but vastly superior since it builds enduring infrastructure rather than simply enriching corrupt players who are temporary.
So if Prince's vision is correct - and it makes a lot of sense to me - all of the corporate world is moving towards a world devoid of nation-state, and with security supplied completely by mercenaries.
And if this is true, then the war can be won simply with money.
As for Prince, I think elsi's point is wonderful, kind of like saying "the troy-horse of my enemy is my troy-horse". To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson, the Chinese would rather have Prince "inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in". And finally, from Stalin: ""When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
It becomes now a contest between the money that the CIA and the Rothschilds behind the US deep state can funnel into Prince's apparatus, combined with what can be plundered from Helmland Province - and this is a vast amount of money, but capitalists are miserly and mercs work for money - and the money that China can funnel in. And China is generous.
In short, I think Engdahl has nailed it, but I also think China sees it too, and that China can win this one.
Posted by: Grieved | Jan 6 2018 16:59 utc | 110
I think this is wishful thinking re Trump. He's boosted military spending from it's already ridiculously high levels, and undermined diplomatic efforts re Iran and Palestine. Moreover, he's armed and encouraged the Saudi clown pronce to start more wars. He's as dumb and brutal as he looks
Posted by: Sigil | Jan 6 2018 23:30 utc | 111
@103 hausmeister
Again...it probably was in bad taste, but how do you ever know if a troll is a troll or not? "Unfounded?" Please, sir, examine your logic. No troll would ever confess and give the hunters the satisfaction. Peruse the circuitous, page-engulfing comments of the suspect, one after the other.
It is probably best to not feed them, however, so I will give you that. Others did a fine job sparring with his rants, so my comment wasn't needed. Live and learn.
Thx, Max!
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 6 2018 23:37 utc | 112
Posted by: Grieved | Jan 6, 2018 11:59:59 AM | 111
So if Prince's vision is correct - and it makes a lot of sense to me - all of the corporate world is moving towards a world devoid of nation-state, and with security supplied completely by mercenaries.
And if this is true, then the war can be won simply with money.
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And the best example is how financial might of KSA and UAE, best weapons and assorted mercs won in Yemen. Did they?
Not to mention Russian trolls (if you do not how they look like) prevailed over billion dollars in campaign spending with measly 100,000 USD or so.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jan 6 2018 23:46 utc | 113
111 Well, Trump has just cost Prince some business, hasn't he?
This is Deutsche Welle's take
"In South Asia, there is one clear winner from Donald Trump's tweet tantrums this week: China, which suddenly finds its leverage over Pakistan multiplying as a result of the US president's mood swings," wrote Umair Jamal."A month ago, Pakistan pulled out of a mega-dam project under the CPEC, citing the tough financial conditions China set for the project. Should Pakistan become more isolated internationally, as Trump has threatened, it would make it far easier for China to advance the project," Jamal added.
Some experts say that Pakistan will now be at the mercy of China. Previously, Islamabad had leverage over both China and the US regarding jihadis in the region; it has now lost it. Beijing can now force its strictest conditions on Pakistan in terms of security and economic matters.
South China Morning Post on China's problem with Saudi
Saudi Arabia has funnelled large amounts of money in the past 18 months to militant groups and religious schools in the Pakistani province of Balochistan, which borders the Iranian region of Sistan and Baluchistan, both populated by restive Baloch populations.A Riyadh-based think tank believed to be supported by Prince Mohammed last year published a blueprint for stirring unrest among the Iranian Baloch.
So Saudi now pays Prince, too?
'American mercenaries are torturing' Saudi elite rounded up by new crown prince - and billionaire Prince Alwaleed was hung upside down 'just to send a message'Source in Saudi Arabia says American private security contractors are carrying out'interrogations' on princes and billionaires arrested in crackdown
Detained members of Saudi elite have been hung by their feet and beaten by interrogates, source says
Among those hung upside down are Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an investor worth at least $7 billion who is being held at Riyadh's Ritz Carlton
Arrests were ordered three weeks ago by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Source claims mercenaries are from 'Blackwater', a claim also made by Lebanese president
But its successor firm denies it has any operations in Saudi Arabia whatsoever and says its staff abide by U.S. law
Americans who commit torture abroad can be jailed for up to 20 years
The money to pay mercenaries and the nationality of mercenaries are equal opportunity. So wait for mercenaries fighting US soldiers.
Posted by: somebody | Jan 7 2018 0:17 utc | 114
add to 115
China building naval base in Gwadar Port, in the Pakistani province of Balochistan
Baloch nationalists don't just threaten Iran, they threaten Pakistan, too.
Of course Pakistan will not let the US destabilize Iran this way.
Posted by: somebody | Jan 7 2018 0:34 utc | 115
The issue at hand is extremely manifold. While I perceive it as natural to investigate circumstances surrounding contemporary global politics, what is missing is the focus on the core problem plaguing mankind. It is the emphasis given to monetary considerations. It is all about money, either in the amassing of it, or in the lack of it.
There have been acknowledgements of money being also at the core of legitimate protests in Iran. While it may be an oxymoron to bemoan neoliberal policies of a government having thorougly suffered from illegal sanctions by the same hands all other Nations had/have to endure that don't care to follow the unipolar policies of the Billionaire class, it does not warrant people to take to the streets in Nations that dare to resist the deadly policies of said class.
From a philosphical point of view, the suffering masses are the result of policies serving solely the rich. From a political view, blame can be laid on any political system for failing to put the well-being of the many over the well-being of the few. One has to watch a science fiction show in which a character with pointy ears states that "The the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few".
Iran may well be a catalyst to make that obvious to any observer. It must also repeated, that the hypocrisy displayed by the current U.S. regime aids in it's demise. The world has not forgotten how legitimate calls for redress on various issues during the last two decades had been met with utmost brutality by a police force, whose original tenet was written on every police car: "To Serve And To Protect". The irony of it must be, that this statement still rings true - if ammended with "The Rich".
The problems plaguing Iran are the same problems plaguing countless other Nations on Earth - even those who proclaim to be beacons of freedom and democracy. Iran is also symbolic for the struggle of all people that need to work to make a living. This struggle has become increasingly destructive to societies all over the world.
Where are the protests in solidarity with the Iranian people in the U.S., in Europe, or other societies suffering from the same oppressive "trickle down" policies?
Where are special UN session addressing homelessness in the Western democracies? The for profit opioid pandemic in the U.S, the highest suicide rate in the history of the Nation?
As others have pointed out, living conditions are not worse than in the U.S. It is psychological projection of the Billionaires' water carriers to proclaim that. The U.S. is no longer the alleged "democratic republic" "of the people, by the people, for the people" if not for the attribute "rich" added before "people".
The time has long come for a concerted push to overcome the roadblock created by the sole focus on quarterly profits, leaving a path of destruction among all beings and the planet.
Thanks to those commenters that still possess critical thinking skills and common sense. We are all in this together.
Posted by: nottheonly1 | Jan 7 2018 0:41 utc | 116
Apologies is this is off topic. Seems Iran isn't all hijabs. Tehran has some pretty cool young dudes who know how to party.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/iran-protests-rich-kids-of-tehran-2018-1
Posted by: dh | Jan 7 2018 0:54 utc | 117
@114 Piotr Berman
I probably should have added a paragraph. I said the "corporate" world was aiming for a world devoid of nation-state...etc. I should have amplified this point.
Yemen is not the corporate world. There is an entire universe that is NOT the corporate world. The majority driving force of each of the various nations that we champion in these threads is the very opposite of the "corporate world". This needed to be elaborated - I was remiss.
My point however is that between the competitors of the corporate world, money itself can settle the matter. Money, the greatest desire of the less-than-human, and the least-of-things to the fully human.
Of course Yemen can defeat the corporate world of greed and money. Of course the human spirit must ultimately triumph over the degradation of human greed.
I should have put a paragraph together that contained something of this sort, but I was remiss. I hope you will review my points now, and will understand how I welcome the capitalist enemies all fighting among themselves, reducing all struggle and ambition to monetary outsourcing.
Caught up in nothing but money, and with every last grain of humanity gone, how much easier for them to lose, against a modicum of human spirit arising in the battlefields.
Not to mention the money that the good guys can deploy also, with generous spirit, in a win-win way, and thus to much wealthier effect.
Posted by: Grieved | Jan 7 2018 1:30 utc | 118
Iran is not near a precipice, but vast changes are afoot
Masoud Golsorkhi
Posted by: ninel | Jan 7 2018 7:14 utc | 119
It seems that the wave of protests is over. It was not overly large to begin with, it had roots in blue-collar and ethnic grievances, "ideological" violent groups tried to ride on top of it, but once violence started, few thousands arrests could separate and eliminate those elements. If the changes that Iran needs are "vast" or "fine tuning" is a matter of perspective and opinion.
Iran is in an economic trap, with relaxation of sanctions sufficient to increase imports, but hindering the import of technologies that would preserve competitiveness of import-substitution industries. Moreover, subsidies and price controls protecting the earning power of the lower-middle class have to be rationalized and decreased, and the initial shock causes riots even in countries like UK. Those are not fundamental problems that a government cannot solve. Russian press cited that one of the "causes" was 40% increase in the price of eggs that reached whopping 0.19 USD per dozen (16 cents for 10). To those of you who do not shop for eggs, in USA a dozen of eggs retails for about one dollar. This type of subsidies cause village versus town problems, that vastly exceed intellectual capacities of even very well meaning commentators, but not exactly "rocket science".
One thing is certain: if such problems are being solved or not is not related to the issue of "the world ignoring the plight" or not. Unlike problems in Yemen where bombing and blockade is clearly a problem that came from outside and cannot be addressed locally. If a country like France and/or OK feels that the blockade is wrong, they could send some f.....g navy to lift it with few warning shots. OTOH, if they do not have such capabilities in spite of non-negligible spendings on their navies, they should recognize the futility of that approach (trying to have a navy) and scrap it, Trident and all, saving some Coast Guard speed boats.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jan 7 2018 10:30 utc | 120
Does this suggest Trump too sees 9/11 as "coup d'Etat"? Posted by: Sid2 37.
Trump has said in public that the official story cannot be correct. DJT, as we have seen, lives in a world of shifting, indeterminate, ‘facts’, rumors, alliances, suppositions, narrative, and impulses — much like regular Joes, and/or New Yawk real-estate moguls, media types, etc. I doubt that changed since he became Prez., i.e. he is not privy to long-standing State Secrets and is probably even mis-informed on some topics.
As an Accidental President, he is what the F would call a suppléant - a substitute or surrogate, a temporary stand-in, a person of little account, a supplicant in the orig. meaning. In the minds of some. A bad patch to go thru.
stonebird @ 54. Has Trump also decided also to reduce the outflow (Noirettes post) and isolate the US from a generalised collapse?
Imho one can also see the DJT Wall w. Mexico in this way. (Yes, Bush Jr. instigated it and it is partly built…etc.) The so-called ‘white deplorables’ who voted for DJT are not stupid and the presence of near-slave-wage illegal Hispanics was not a big beef with them prior. They don’t want to lay bricks, pick fruit, trim hedges or babysit…but want manufacturing / resource extraction / lower management / construction / boss-type gvmt jobs / back.
The border w. Mexico is a real problem re. deaths / murders / rape / crimes / drug imports - it the ugliest border (? definitions awol) in the ‘civilized’ world in those terms. — Obama controlled the media on this point so news was nil.
Mexican oil has run out, many other problems — curbing or halting the flow of illegals at that border, is a ‘natural’ within a *protectionist* mind-set. To bring that view to conclusion means that ‘lowly’ US workers would be well-paid, replacing the ‘illegals’ .. but the Corp. control of the US (dem + rep) will not permit that. So there is the no. 1 stumbling block for ‘nationalist’ renewal.
Posted by: Noirette | Jan 7 2018 15:38 utc | 121
In reply to elsi | Jan 5, 2018 3:00:52 PM | 72
Much more depth in your response, I won't pretend I've the ambition at this point to read all of your material. In short, I see the people of West and East aren't all that different in their want to be treated with respect we deserve. My doubt is to whether the criminal actions are of mercenary actors or people who really do believe what they are doing is legitimate. Their cause is just, or no cause can be greater than the pursuit of wealth. Both are dangerous because zealots believe in what they're doing while the mercenary can be bought by a higher bid. Are they one and the same? Am I finding differences where I should see they're no different at all?
Posted by: Stryker | Jan 8 2018 4:11 utc | 122
also in reply to elsi | Jan 5, 2018 3:00:52 PM | 72
I always prefer text over the tuber stuff, but I'll be able to watch it later when things are quiet
Posted by: Stryker | Jan 8 2018 4:23 utc | 123
Stryker 123 " I see the people of West and East aren't all that different in their want to be treated with respect we deserve."
People are the same all over. North south as well as east west. Liars, crooks and honest people in every community. Any honest person, no matter their beliefs, expects to be treated with respect, and become extremely pissed if that respect is not given.
Posted by: Peter AU 1 | Jan 8 2018 4:36 utc | 124
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karlof1 @ 89 said:"I can't help feeling the Shock Doctrine's boomeranged on The Outlaw US Empire and its regime change partners."
Oh how I wish that scenario would play out, but, until the reserve currency situation changes, the outlaw U$A corporate empire rolls on. I'm waiting for the energy trades in yuan's to appear, then maybe the global paradigm will change.
https://www.rt.com/business/414061-china-russia-oil-dollar-yuan/
Posted by: ben | Jan 6 2018 6:46 utc | 101