Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Days after the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, new and important information is coming to light from a speech given by the Iraqi prime minister. The story behind Soleimani’s assassination seems to go much deeper than what has thus far been reported, involving Saudi Arabia and China as well the US dollar’s role as the global reserve currency.
The Iraqi prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, has revealed details of his interactions with Trump in the weeks leading up to Soleimani’s assassination in a speech to the Iraqi parliament. He tried to explain several times on live television how Washington had been browbeating him and other Iraqi members of parliament to toe the American line, even threatening to engage in false-flag sniper shootings of both protesters and security personnel in order to inflame the situation, recalling similar modi operandi seen in Cairo in 2009, Libya in 2011, and Maidan in 2014. The purpose of such cynicism was to throw Iraq into chaos.
Here is the reconstruction of the story:
[Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq] Halbousi attended the parliamentary session while almost none of the Sunni members did. This was because the Americans had learned that Abdul-Mehdi was planning to reveal sensitive secrets in the session and sent Halbousi to prevent this. Halbousi cut Abdul-Mehdi off at the commencement of his speech and then asked for the live airing of the session to be stopped. After this, Halbousi together with other members, sat next to Abdul-Mehdi, speaking openly with him but without it being recorded. This is what was discussed in that session that was not broadcast:
Abdul-Mehdi spoke angrily about how the Americans had ruined the country and now refused to complete infrastructure and electricity grid projects unless they were promised 50% of oil revenues, which Abdul-Mehdi refused.
The complete (translated) words of Abdul-Mahdi’s speech to parliament:
This is why I visited China and signed an important agreement with them to undertake the construction instead. Upon my return, Trump called me to ask me to reject this agreement. When I refused, he threatened to unleash huge demonstrations against me that would end my premiership.
Huge demonstrations against me duly materialized and Trump called again to threaten that if I did not comply with his demands, then he would have Marine snipers on tall buildings target protesters and security personnel alike in order to pressure me.
I refused again and handed in my resignation. To this day the Americans insist on us rescinding our deal with the Chinese.
After this, when our Minister of Defense publicly stated that a third party was targeting both protestors and security personnel alike (just as Trump had threatened he would do), I received a new call from Trump threatening to kill both me and the Minister of Defense if we kept on talking about this “third party”.
Nobody imagined that the threat was to be applied to General Soleimani, but it was difficult for Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi to reveal the weekslong backstory behind the terrorist attack.
I was supposed to meet him [Soleimani] later in the morning when he was killed. He came to deliver a message from Iran in response to the message we had delivered to the Iranians from the Saudis.
We can surmise, judging by Saudi Arabia’s reaction, that some kind of negotiation was going on between Tehran and Riyadh:
The Kingdom’s statement regarding the events in Iraq stresses the Kingdom’s view of the importance of de-escalation to save the countries of the region and their people from the risks of any escalation.
Above all, the Saudi Royal family wanted to let people know immediately that they had not been informed of the US operation:
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia was not consulted regarding the US strike. In light of the rapid developments, the Kingdom stresses the importance of exercising restraint to guard against all acts that may lead to escalation, with severe consequences.
And to emphasize his reluctance for war, Mohammad bin Salman sent a delegation to the United States. Liz Sly, the Washington Post Beirut bureau chief, tweated:
Saudi Arabia is sending a delegation to Washington to urge restraint with Iran on behalf of [Persian] Gulf states. The message will be: ‘Please spare us the pain of going through another war’.
What clearly emerges is that the success of the operation against Soleimani had nothing to do with the intelligence gathering of the US or Israel. It was known to all and sundry that Soleimani was heading to Baghdad in a diplomatic capacity that acknowledged Iraq’s efforts to mediate a solution to the regional crisis with Saudi Arabia.
It would seem that the Saudis, Iranians and Iraqis were well on the way towards averting a regional conflict involving Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Riyadh’s reaction to the American strike evinced no public joy or celebration. Qatar, while not seeing eye to eye with Riyadh on many issues, also immediately expressed solidarity with Tehran, hosting a meeting at a senior government level with Mohammad Zarif Jarif, the Iranian foreign minister. Even Turkey and Egypt, when commenting on the asassination, employed moderating language.
This could reflect a fear of being on the receiving end of Iran’s retaliation. Qatar, the country from which the drone that killed Soleimani took off, is only a stone’s throw away from Iran, situated on the other side of the Strait of Hormuz. Riyadh and Tel Aviv, Tehran’s regional enemies, both know that a military conflict with Iran would mean the end of the Saudi royal family.
When the words of the Iraqi prime minister are linked back to the geopolitical and energy agreements in the region, then the worrying picture starts to emerge of a desperate US lashing out at a world turning its back on a unipolar world order in favor of the emerging multipolar about which I have long written.
The US, now considering itself a net energy exporter as a result of the shale-oil revolution (on which the jury is still out), no longer needs to import oil from the Middle East. However, this does not mean that oil can now be traded in any other currency other than the US dollar.
The petrodollar is what ensures that the US dollar retains its status as the global reserve currency, granting the US a monopolistic position from which it derives enormous benefits from playing the role of regional hegemon.
This privileged position of holding the global reserve currency also ensures that the US can easily fund its war machine by virtue of the fact that much of the world is obliged to buy its treasury bonds that it is simply able to conjure out of thin air. To threaten this comfortable arrangement is to threaten Washington’s global power.
Even so, the geopolitical and economic trend is inexorably towards a multipolar world order, with China increasingly playing a leading role, especially in the Middle East and South America.
Venezuela, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Qatar and Saudi Arabia together make up the overwhelming majority of oil and gas reserves in the world. The first three have an elevated relationship with Beijing and are very much in the multipolar camp, something that China and Russia are keen to further consolidate in order to ensure the future growth for the Eurasian supercontinent without war and conflict.
Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is pro-US but could gravitate towards the Sino-Russian camp both militarily and in terms of energy. The same process is going on with Iraq and Qatar thanks to Washington’s numerous strategic errors in the region starting from Iraq in 2003, Libya in 2011 and Syria and Yemen in recent years.
The agreement between Iraq and China is a prime example of how Beijing intends to use the Iraq-Iran-Syria troika to revive the Middle East and and link it to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.
While Doha and Riyadh would be the first to suffer economically from such an agreement, Beijing’s economic power is such that, with its win-win approach, there is room for everyone.
Saudi Arabia provides China with most of its oil and Qatar, together with the Russian Federation, supply China with most of its LNG needs, which lines up with Xi Jinping’s 2030 vision that aims to greatly reduce polluting emissions.
The US is absent in this picture, with little ability to influence events or offer any appealing economic alternatives.
Washington would like to prevent any Eurasian integration by unleashing chaos and destruction in the region, and killing Soleimani served this purpose. The US cannot contemplate the idea of the dollar losing its status as the global reserve currency. Trump is engaging in a desperate gamble that could have disastrous consequences.
The region, in a worst-case scenario, could be engulfed in a devastating war involving multiple countries. Oil refineries could be destroyed all across the region, a quarter of the world’s oil transit could be blocked, oil prices would skyrocket ($200-$300 a barrel) and dozens of countries would be plunged into a global financial crisis. The blame would be laid squarely at Trump’s feet, ending his chances for re-election.
To try and keep everyone in line, Washington is left to resort to terrorism, lies and unspecified threats of visiting destruction on friends and enemies alike.
Trump has evidently been convinced by someone that the US can do without the Middle East, that it can do without allies in the region, and that nobody would ever dare to sell oil in any other currency than the US dollar.
Soleimani’s death is the result of a convergence of US and Israeli interests. With no other way of halting Eurasian integration, Washington can only throw the region into chaos by targeting countries like Iran, Iraq and Syria that are central to the Eurasian project. While Israel has never had the ability or audacity to carry out such an assassination itself, the importance of the Israel Lobby to Trump’s electoral success would have influenced his decision, all the more so in an election year .
Trump believed his drone attack could solve all his problems by frightening his opponents, winning the support of his voters (by equating Soleimani’s assassination to Osama bin Laden’s), and sending a warning to Arab countries of the dangers of deepening their ties with China.
The assassination of Soleimani is the US lashing out at its steady loss of influence in the region. The Iraqi attempt to mediate a lasting peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia has been scuppered by the US and Israel’s determination to prevent peace in the region and instead increase chaos and instability.
Washington has not achieved its hegemonic status through a preference for diplomacy and calm dialogue, and Trump has no intention of departing from this approach.
Washington’s friends and enemies alike must acknowledge this reality and implement the countermeasures necessary to contain the madness.
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I do not believe a word coming from either side of this situation. One side has strong ties to the Iranian government and the other has strong ties to US corporate interests.
Strangely, by coincidence, I started reading Confessions of an Economic Hitman shortly before this recent dustup started. Viewed through the lens of what I read in that book the situation becomes much clearer.
Neither side gives a spit about the outcome, only the final destination of those petrodollars.
One thing you can be sure of, nothing done by either side of power mongering thieves is for the greater good of humanity.
Steve,
Great book! Pretty easy read! Scary as hell!
If you haven’t already I highly recommend supplementing that book with Naomi Klein’s “Shock Doctrine”
Here is the documentary based from her book!
5 ☆s in my book!
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Excellent analysis IMO. If true, think of the implications of the deep state and MSM ignoring the “Quid pro quo” of Trump’s threats:
– complete infrastructure and electricity grid projects unless they were promised 50% of oil revenues;
– Trump called me to ask me to reject this agreement. When I refused, he threatened to unleash huge demonstrations against me that would end my premiership;
– Huge demonstrations against me duly materialized and Trump called again to threaten that if I did not comply with his demands, then he would have Marine snipers on tall buildings target protesters and security personnel alike in order to pressure me.
If true, this is far worse than what the Democrats accused Trump of doing in their impeachment farce. Where is the outcry from the Democrats or MSM?
“If True” is the stock in trade phrase of CNN, MSNBC etc….we have zero idea if this is true….I do think at the 100,000′ level it is directionally correct. We are highly dependent on being the world’s reserve currency, the Petrodollar, where trade in oil is conducted in USD, creating a constant high level of demand for USD.
As noted the PetroDollar allows us to issue unlimited amounts of low-cost debt, funding absurd government welfare programs and massively enriching the MIC/Politicians/DeepState.
As also noted, China the emerging world power is actively seeking to control the ME (and no they are neither environmentalists or benevolent) and would immediately replace us should we get off the tiger.
Now put your thinking cap on…….given the impeachment sham over a “perfect” call with Ukraine what are the chances that Trump would repeatedly threaten some douchebag Prime Minister in Iraq? 0% that happened. Remember all the calls are tapped and listened to.
So no, that part of the story is absurd, along with the 50% of oil revenues…..we get nothing from Iraq, those contracts went to Europeans. This is likely how we keep them bought off, so long as they trade oil in USD….not Euro’s, Yuan, Gold (really bad!) etc.
I like this article not for the outrageous BS but because at the highest level is it right on……and this highlights the extreme complexity of pulling back, losing the Petrodollar and then the consequences of facing a ME owned by the Chi-Coms.
How indeed do we get off this tiger?
@martels hammer. Those would be Petro Sheckels not Petro dollars.
Are you having your man period again?
Join the military and ride the tiger, pussy. Instead you just respond with memes that have nothing to do with answering any questions. Answer the call of duty to be part of the effort to stop the Chinese from taking control of the ME and petro-dollar.
Ride that tiger soldier. Riding the internet calling for others to ride the tiger makes you a chickenhawk and a pussy.
Vote Harder: Instead of being a consummate asshole who only reposts what he believes are clever insults, why don’t you answer the question you posed to Martell? The fact is you can’t. You have no answers to the question, you want no answers, all you want is to whine and bitch about Trump, the paucity of your knowledge is striking.
Stupidly posting some drivel about joining the military and posting that stupidity over and over is proof that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Do you know what the Wolfowitcz doctrine is? Do you understand the basis for what passes for an American foreign policy as regards the middle east? Do you understand the geopolitics in the region? Are you aware of what would happen should the petro dollar collapse and lose reserve currency status? Are you aware that ISIS is a creation just like Bin Laden was a creation of US proxy warfare in the region?
Do you have any understanding of the China Belt and Road Initiative? Do you understand why American Foreign policy seeks to keep the middle east destabilized? Do you understand the consequences of a Russian-Chinese alliance? Are you aware of the situation in Saudi Arabia and why the US still maintains the close connection to the Royal Family? What of Israel in this equation? Why are they important?
Fact is you know squat about the history, the geopolitics, the alliances and dynamics of the Middle East. Your ignorance is pathetic and your attempts to appear knowledgeable reveal your paucity of knowledge and intelligence.
Wow, you’re not the brightest bulb in the pack are you? So you think I should answer the question that I asked Maggots Hammer instead of Maggot answering it??
The rest of the paragraphs have nothing to do with Maggot (and you) being a chickenhawk, so therefore they are the very definition of a strawman argument.
Now your turn:
1. Why have you not answered my many, many questions to you as to why you support Trumps military adventures abroad but yet you also refuse to fight in it yourself?
2. You follow the maggot around just like a little co-dependent puppy dog. Have you ever posted in any article where Maggot has never posted? If not, then why?
You are a waste of time and space.
Have you answered any questions of mine?
Has Maggot answered any questions of mine?
Again, the call of duty awaits you two chicken shit cockroach lowlifes.
https://m.goarmy.com/locate-a-recruiter.m.html
Please, present your questions, do so coherently and rationally. That’s if you are capable of posing a question, that requires intelligence….
I am just curious whether you have an annual dues-paying membership or if you have a lifetime membership to the National Organization of Short Statured Adults? You have some very deep-seated feelings of inadequacy that are consistently reflected in your comments……
Oh I see, I just got done saying yesterday that you were the one with inadequate stature, so now you plagiarize me today with what was my original idea aimed at you.
Your extended state of adolescence is showing. There are children’s websites where you will fit right in.
“How indeed do we get off this tiger?”
we ride it until either the oil runs out,we get thrown off,or new sources of energy are discovered/brought on line–
He could publish the transcripts and clear it all up!
Much more plausible explanation tied into economic, political and military shocks instead of the tired “us vs. Them ” cowboys and Indians bullshit
Believing that Trump is a gangster isn’t difficult. Believing that the entire US gov’t is a force for evil should be self evident to everyone.
However, why are these nefarious phone calls never recorded and then played back for all to hear. It’s pretty convenient to claim this or that when there’s no proof to the contrary, but there’s also no proof in the affirmative.
All gov’t ‘leaders’ the world over are scumbags. We, the people, have to put up with this situation because the bulk of the world people are dumb as a stump and demand to be subjugated by gov’t to protect them from the very evil that all gov’t represents.
‘We are the people our parents warned us about’ – Jimmy Buffett
So Xi Jinping sees a business opportunity and the Orange Crusader sees a nail. Who would you bet on?
Trump comes off sounding like a mobster. Maybe he spent too much time dealing with NY mobsters. However, there is no way to verify this without transcripts and recordings coming out.
I wouldn’t trust China any farther than I could throw them and they wouldn’t treat Iraq any better than we do. Not after they got what they wanted, anyway.
Does anyone notice how flat Trumps delivery is when he is giving a statement or an address compared to how he is when he is campaigning? Obama was the same way. Yesterday he sounded even worse, like he was out of breath or something. Like he didn’t believe a word that was coming out of his mouth and was just reading a script and wanted to throw up.
Yes, I noticed that also. Especially at the beginning. And wasn’t the sight of those perfumed princes standing around him a spectacle? It was something out of a 1950’s picture of Juan Peron.
Who was the General standing behind him to his right (facing)? His eyes were darting around like a rat on a sinking ship.
I have no idea. The last general I had any respect for was Douglas MacArthur. Every one since has been a sell out. General Betray-us introducing henry kissinger: You are my hero.
MacArthur was a cocksucker.
Troops led by Brig. Gen. Perry L. Miles and accompanied by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. Army chief of staff, drove out the demonstrators and destroyed their encampments, using tanks and tear gas. One veteran was shot to death, and several veterans and policemen were wounded. Congress then appropriated $100,000 to send the protestors home, and they dispersed.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Bonus-Army
I loved LTG Benjamin Mixon, so I guess he was the last one I respected. Would have taken a bullet for him. Good Southern Christian man and he was truly honorable. Ran a tight ship, no cursing around him, yes ma’am and no sir, no dipping or smoking or using the Lord’s name in vain, ALWAYS recognized going above and beyond the call of duty, publicly. God bless you, sir!
GEN Tommy Franks deserves a shout out. I have it on good word that he made MG GOs serve him coffee while he never failed to ask NCOs how their day was going, and if they needed anything…he came up through the ranks. Plenty of good GOs as of 15 years ago, promise!
No clue what Soetoro did afterwards, but I know how some members felt!
https://www.stripes.com/news/pentagon-rebukes-general-for-opposing-repeal-of-don-t-ask-don-t-tell-law-1.100302
Wow! That struck a nerve. Yeah, the bonus marcher thing was horrendous but they’re kinda in the horrendous business. I wouldn’t put the entire blame on MacA any more than I’d blame Franks for killing innocent people in the Mid East. They follow orders. In my view the real evil bastard is government itself. Keep in mind I said any respect. I think all this hero worship shit we hang on military figures is terrible and plays a major role in getting away with acts of war like the one we just saw.
Pretty much agree with you. Love your initial reaction, LOL.
I agree. He had left his game face in his office.
A Quagmire of Connundrums
I want to believe we are capable of using their own tactics against them, conspiring in small groups (committees) and sharing thoughts and ideas (corresponding) in any and all possible ways (1, 2, 3, 4, 5… hardly a man is now alive who remembers what it feels like to hear and if you immediately thought Paul Revere I’ve written it the way Father said to write and if you did not think it then well now you might.)
Count to five means stay alive and that means Paul Revere.
That is how Leonard Birchall taught my father to memorize and write in code.
What Would Leonard Birchall Do?
We all KNOW there is a Deep Dark Secret. It was told to us from the beginning.
“No!” we say to our infants, controlling their destiny while they are being woven in our wombs.
“You’re not the boss of me!” they reply if we give them free will.
Brat.
I would not give him up as my child for anything. It is agony to watch him suffer. It is agony to watch him make the same mistakes I did.
Our nation makes the same calamitous missteps because it is ultimately directed by the people. The people have been mesmerized by the stupidity industry which has made more money off of people’s stupidity than the military industrial complex.
When you look for the fruit of which that shalt not eat, be sure to pay attention to the good ones.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
And, all I can do is pray each morning that God is as merciful to our nation as He has been to me, giving me that weird and wonderful child after I’d done such a terrible thing in my youth, killing a child in my womb because I did not listen to that still small voice inside. As God has forgiven me and taught me to forgive those who trespass, may His merciful Grace cover our nation and remind us all why a country is considered to be feminine. Women provide coverings for their families.
There are many kinds of coverings.
Blankets
Socks
Curtains
Quilts …
Reminds me of another Sunday School lesson regarding mothers providing their families with cover, even if they have to do so from far, far away via the prayers of prayer warriors around the world.
Like Bill S. with his desperate little prayer for Stucky just very well may have been the one that made all the difference.
Pray, Sister. I’ll pray for yours if you pray for mine. That’s how it works. Agape Love is about others. It is a narrow path to atone for our own trespasses, but service to others is rewarding. That, I believe is the essence of true Spiritual Agape Love.
Said Martha to her Sister Mary who inspired Martha to quit cleaning house and start paying attention to Jesus, much to her husband’s chagrin.
And a sense of humor helps a lot.
The end…It even has a title if anyone wants to work with it.
[There… El Coyote? If you think anything in that is worth revising or adding to, now you have a way to edit the editor’s editing and I’ll post it as “co-authored by Coyote” or something like that. Maybe you and Yo could come up with a regular weekly column for various Ladies of the Platform to entertain in the privacy of their minds to share or not.]
PS… avoid letting them see the whites of your eyes. Anti-Custer’s Last Words.
Yes, Paula, that’s the tube.
It will be terribly disappointing if you (and EC) do not appear at the next TBP farm fest.
He and I are fixing to take the show on the road, aren’t we Me Hoe?
We shall call it
Coyote and the Red Rope: Ethics and Ethnic Slurs 101
It is in the spirit of offending as many people as possible while allowing all voices to be heard and considered, even if only prior to throwing a turd.
Mickey and Minnie broke up. She was fucking Goofy.
EC and MG sitting on a fence…..
House cleaning is over-rated. But praying certainly isn’t. Eventually the cleaning must be done like any other maintenance but no need to be an over achiever at keeping dust off the furniture.
I, too, pray for God to have mercy on our nation, even though we don’t deserve it. The remnant suffers the consequences right along with everyone else.
Speaking of chores, I have to go the the grocery stores. I would rather clean bathrooms then go grocery shopping.
I usually clean bathrooms while grocery shopping.
Sorry… I get you. We buy so very few things there now, but I detest going to Dollar General or Wally World. So, I make an effort to support the grocery stores outside the Megaplex. There is a little market in Patton (Patton Junction!) called “The Butcher Block” and they literally have a meat counter and two aisles of groceries and there is a little gun shop in a corner addition which is open Saturday through Monday when it isn’t deer season or Christmas. It is what the sign says.
Everything you need in one stop shopping. They no longer sell gas, but know someone who can get you grass. Nine miles away, if you know the shortcuts.
Why shop anywhere else?
They changed a lot of the guard at Buckingham Palace too, but the Old Guard never changes.
Is the wind blowing there like it is blowing here? Gusts to 50mph? It is like Iceland all over again.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index3092.htm
The old petro dollar theory. Bullshit.
Stew Leonard “The customer is always right”. The customer for buying debt wants the debt denominated in dollars and not Turkish Lira. Which means one way or another that business attempting to pay back those customers needs dollars.
If your involved in new exploration of oil your investors don’t want to be paid back in Indian Rupee.
This is just another article that advocates a fixed exchange rate system which will never work because money is a commodity and its value changes. When money is scarce people accepted shaved gold coins. When the money velocity was high people wanted gold coins with those ribs on the side.
I’m sick and tired of these Gold Hucksters.
Did you realize ISLAM upside down and backwards reads WALSI or WATSI? The psychic image in the mirror is blurred.
Right. The attack on the embassy, at the behest of the Iranian controlled opposition, never happened, either. Those pictures of “protestors” attempting to storm the embassy? Never happened. The photos of the aftermath of the fire, inside an entrance building and part of the embassy? Never happened. President Trump, has nothing better to do than to threaten Iraqi “leadership,” which STILL sucks at providing for their people, but that’s the story here. Sure. I believe this “article.”
Remember that statue of Saddam being toppled?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/01/the-truth-about-iconic-2003-saddam-statue-toppling/342802/
Prior to 911 there were 8 countries without a Zionist Central Banking system/cabal. Those countries were Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Iran, N Korea, Cuba. Perhaps you should examine those truths in the light of the world post 911.
With the cast of characters in the WH and those running for President, the USA NEEDS to lose hegemony. It’s the only way we can survive and rebuild.
OK so how is that going to work out with China as the lead dog? Are they simply going to leave us alone or are they going to make sure we can never ever threaten their supremacy?
The Han Chinese are racial absolutists….they see the rest of the world, starting with the Mongolians, Tibetans, Russians, Japanese, Vietnamese and various other Asians plus all whites, browns and blacks as subhuman scum……That always works out well!
So like a shark….we keep swimming or we start sinking…Now I am fully supportive of swimming as fast as we can away from the ME shithole but the comment in the article about fracking is accurate….that shit (tight oil) is highly capital intensive and the well deplete at a very high rate……I don’t think any of that activity is economically sustainable at oil under $75-$80/bbl (might even be higher)….so the whole US is oil independent is an illusion and a short term one at that.
So would you like to live in a world where we are still dependent on oil from a now China dominated ME? That would not be good.
So can we break the frame and get off oil/hydrocarbons with some other form of energy? That is the better strategic answer.
So whether it is nuclear fusion or something else then (and it will but not soon enough) then the ME shitshow becomes irrelevant. The Black Gold is no longer needed.
Until then it is a deadly GOT that increasingly seems like a race to the bottom where nobody wins…..
But remember just because we no longer want to play the game doesn’t mean the game is going to let us leave.
By signing up for the military you and other chicken shit chickenhawks can be part of the effort to stop this supposed Chinese takeover of the ME. Have you done that yet? Are you going to ride the tiger or ride the internet? Talking about it on the internet will not prevent what you claim will happen.
The military isn’t taking anymore queers. Look at his avatar and tell me I’m wrong.
So VD please let us know which one of these is you? Are you the daddy or the younger sidekick in the ambiguously gay duo with Anon? Inquiring minds want to know…..
The military instills discipline and maturity that the young enlisted member does not possess before joining and training. I think you should go to boot camp. What do you think?
Realizing the inevitability of a multipolar hegemonic order, you would think the current unipolar monopoly that the U.S. has with its role as reserve currency thanks largely due to the particular arraingments with the OPEC cartel one might suggest that we could classily open our arms and accept the reality that this is going to happen regardless of what we do.
Instead, those running our foreign policy (CFR, Roundtable, etc) would rather try and hold on and steal what else they can before their power fades! ALL IN THE NAME OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! Who will not be shown compassion or understanding by the majority of the world due to our ineptitude at holding our govt accountable and our complacency during such events as the drone striking of a public figure of another sovereign nation.
Too many people have a very shallow understanding of geopolitics. They look at the surface and fail to grasp the underlying dynamics. They want simple solutions, get out of the ME and no more wars, etc. I want out of the ME and no more wars, however, getting out and securing the continuing stability of the US (such as it is) is not going to happen overnight.
Many don’t understand the geopolitics and they really don’t understand the threat that is communism.Take a look at the dictator Xi and what he is doing in China and the surrounding areas. Facial recognition, surveillance and control are ongoing in China and becoming more oppressive. The Chinese are making massive inroads into Africa and Latin America. Look at Hong Kong and ask yourself about the growing presence of Communist China in the world. Something to be desired?
Not my girl said,
Please, objection your Honor, leading the witness.
If the truth be known, each u.s. citizen already has a social credit score visible by only those with the right access and clearance. So, while we haven’t been barred from public transportation for bad mouthing the government yet like is happening in China, we ARE under surveillance! Creepy surveillance because it isn’t in your face like China or London.
It’s only a matter of time until it becomes culturally acceptable here,
It will probably be demanded by the public after enough people lose their shit and lose it!
It will all be in the name of “safety and security “….it has to get much worse before that propaganda cars can be played yet. Until then we get to live through the slow motion destruction of our purchasing power and standard of living, homelessessness, hopelessness, suicide rates, blight, and crime will only increase.
This is ALL by design to level the playing field across continents and to usher in the global NeoFeudal state (out in the open, no longer hiding behind Democratic mirages).
So I guess you are readily and happily embracing your new masters? Roll over and bark little doggie…arf arf….?
My Girl, Plato’s “Not my girl” post is exactly right on. It doesn’t negate the truth you’re getting out there. So many posters here are on the same side
, but seem to miss the fact that they 80-95% agree.
Most posters are on the same side but many seek to blame Trump for all the ills of the country. That is a simplistic and rather dangerous attitude and plays into the hands of those who so want to destroy Trump that they’re willing to destroy the country in the process.
The Trump derangement is strong and those who suffer are the same ones who say don’t vote, why bother, etc. and those who don’t vote are the ones who will bitch when gun grabbing marxists come into power, as is the case in Virginia.
I guess that means Trump has a very shallow understanding of geopolitics since he said he wanted to get out of the ME.
Trump campaigned on the very notion of why your saying it is wrong for people to believe now about getting out of the ME. Your vote for Trump like everyone else was based on his campaigned promises. Now that it is revealed that there is a huge difference between campaign Trump and president Trump, he changed his views about getting out of the ME. Now you’re changing yours like he changed his? Why do you change your views when Trump changes his?
If Trump comes out tomorrow and says he’s pro-choice and anti-gun, will you too change to be pro-choice and anti-gun?
What I just pointed out is how the state instills cognitive dissonance into it’s subjects, i.e. you.
Is there a question here? How old are you? Ten? I voted for Trump because he wasn’t Hillary. I chose the lesser of two evils and I don’t give a shit what a person promises on a campaign, I’m an adult, I understand that getting elected is their key and goal and promises are made to be broken. Are you still butt hurt that Hillary lost? Is your problem that you are so naive that you believe the BS postulated during an election?
Never mud wrestle with a pig, you just get dirty and the pig likes it.
Well, what I see with the child is that he truly believed the rhetoric and is butthurt that the real world isn’t following his fantasies.
There are several questions there. But as always, you don’t answer them.
If you voted for Trump because he wasn’t Hillary, then you really lost bigtime, because he is doing almost everything that Hillary would have done. Congratulations you voted for Trump and got Hillary!
You just fucked yourself with that comment. Broken promises is a broken social contract. If the people are not represented by their government according to the will of the people which is outlined in the candidates promise of methods to represent them that the people voted for, then said regime should go, not stay.
How can you still support someone that breaks their contract with you?
Because they’re not another contract breaker, i.e. Hillary?
You got Stockholm syndrome bigtime!
Sigh. Again, how old are you? Did we really get Hillary? Really? Explain. Are you aware of what and who Hillary is? She lied and left four Americans to die in Benghazi, she and her sidekick Obama. American lives…’What difference does it make?”
Trump PUNISHED an attack on a US embassy, rather than allowing it to happen and then lying about it all over TV and in front of flag draped coffins.
What contract? You honestly believe that silliness you spewed? Name one president who kept all his campaign promises….I’ll wait. Name one president with godlike powers who can control the world.
Have you no understanding of human nature? You act like a little girl who was disappointed that her Daddy wasn’t superman.
Also, never ever in all my many years on the planet have I ever seen the attacks made against one man as have been made against Trump. Never have I seen a group(s)in the Federal Government so determined to destroy and undermine a legally elected president. NEVER! It is frightful and if those arrayed against him succeed, well, Virginia is just a tiny indicator of what awaits. You think you have it bad now? Wait till the lunatic dems gain ascendancy.
Poor little Vote Harder has never made mention of the attacks on Trump, he must expect Trump to be superman. PS….Superman isn’t real…..
But, Lex Luther really is trying to take over the world.
I think he’s succeeding…
You think because there is some differences between Hillary and Trump that there are not more similarities? Don’t you realize how much Trump loves Hillary? You think they’re different because they did a few things different? Answer this why do you think 3+ years and he still hasn’t made NO effort to lock her up? 4D chess? I don’t think so. The Clintons, Bushs and the Trumps function as one big happy family.
I never said there was a president that has ever kept all his promises but Judas goat Trump is seriously in the red with this one. He’s gone backwards.
As for that embassy in Iraq, do you really think it’s our property? Do you not know that the Iraqi parliament voted unanimously to shut it down and get the terrorists Ameriscums out of their country. What embassy?
When your Judas goat president reneges on your social contract and you say you beforehand voted for him because just because he was not Hillary, another social contract reneger, then you clearly did not vote hard enough.
One big happy family!
Trump is the one taking the pic.
The attack on the American embassy in Iraq was a proxy attack on America. If Americans attacked the Russian embassy in Washington DC it would be an attack against Russia..
The Iraqui parliment did not make a binding resolution, they made a symbolic one, there is a difference. They have done so many times before, however, when it became apparent that the Iraquis couldn’t survive on their own w/out American troops they recanted.
I am now convinced that you are very young and impressionable. A rational adult would not make comments like ‘ameriscum terrorists’ and, hopefully, they would be well enough educated to understand about the status of embassies. There is a possibility that you aren’t American, and are posting to create disharmony and strife and disrupt. I hope not.
I will patiently attempt to explain things to you because I see you have potential and despite your naivete, you do seem teachable. If you persist in promoting a singular and negative viewpoint then I must assume that you are a troll and will ignore you.
Your move.
Look at those heels on Melania!
Not a muck boot in the room.
Vote Harder,
Nice effort but your arguing with either a maroon or a paid shill….get you to waste your energy arguing with them when they say shit like Mygirl said here,
After the assassination by drone strike of another foreign nations military leader in a country our military “liberated” from some guy our government gave $ and weapons to fight the assassinated foreign leaders nation decades before.
It’s not even worth casting your pearls before swine.
Superman isn’t real?! The Ubermensch is very real!
PP: Thankfully I’m not your girl and as to shill? Seems you and vote harder are equally obsessed and overtaken with Trump Derangement Syndrome and, you fraud, where were you when Bengahzi happened? Were you a-ok with the lies and the murder of four Americans? Obama and Hillary are fine, only Trump is bad? Idiot. The assassination came AFTER the embassy attack, dear God, you are stupid. Go play with Ol’ Vote Harder, intellectually you are on an even keel of stupid.
Vote Harder, for as smart and informed as you are, you sure have unrealistic expectations. This comment was appropriate earlier, but I just kept reading and dropped it here.
VH, ’bout time to hit her for not going out to enlist, is it not?
Maybe she forgot your link to the enlistment office; can you pass it on to her, pretty please?
Zero Point Power technology is already mature. It won’t be released because everyone would be free. The purpose of being in power, is power.
“Soleimani’s death is the result of a convergence of US and Israeli interests.”
No, it’s the result of US interests being entirely subsumed by Israeli interests.
The accuracy of this aside, how long does anyone think the entire rest of the world will continue to put up with the horseshit that keeps coming out of the US government before they all finally gang up and make some serious shit happen? And it most certainly will NOT require fighting a winning war to reduce our nation to ruins, given the precipitous nature of most of our supply chains, our massive debt to the rest of the world, our critical dependence on the FRN/USD being the reserve currency of the world (and most importantly the oil markets), and so much more. I’m truly surprised they have been this patient.
Because the dollar is the only secure currency at this point. You give a Chinaman a choice of yuan or dollars and he’s going to go for the dollar every time. The rest of the world is also chawing away on one another so don’t get to thinking that only America stirs the shit.. As to our massive debt to the rest of the world? Please, we are the cleanest dirty shirt in the laundry. Russia doesn’t have the economy to compete with the US, the games Obama played with surrounding Russia and the BS in the Ukraine hurt them, but no so bad because Gazprom.
To really understand anything we need to zoom way out.
Just as Dems against Reps is only a smoke screen of Hegelian dialectic, so are the wars in the world. The goal is, and has been for the last 6000 years, the one world government aka NWO.
Much progress has been made in Europe in the past centuries. WWI was lid up but didn’t get the desired results. So the powers orchestrated WWII and out came the UN and the EU. The European nations were successfully lead (or forced) to give up their individual sovereignty and all currency power was placed into the hands of central banks everywhere.
Giving up national sovereignty still needs to happen in other regions of the world. Until then the game goes on until the blood runs as high as the horses bridle.