Guest Post by Ron Paul
While we were being distracted by the ongoing Russia/Ukraine war – and Washington’s increasing involvement in the war – tremendous developments in the Middle East have all but ended decades of US meddling in the region. Peace is breaking out in the Middle East and Washington is not at all happy about it!
Take, for example, the recent mending of relations between Saudi Arabia and formerly bitter adversaries Iran and Syria. A China-brokered deal between the Saudis and Iran has them re-establishing full diplomatic relations, with the foreign ministers of both countries meeting in Beijing last week. It is the highest level meeting between the two countries in seven years.
Additionally, Riyadh is expected to invite Syria back into the Arab League and Syrian president Assad may attend the next Arab League summit. Syria was suspended from the Arab League 12 years ago when then-US allies in the Middle East signed on to Washington’s “Assad must go” policy that wreaked havoc across the region.
And the nearly decade-long war in Yemen, which has devastated that population, appears to finally be ending, as Saudi Arabia is expected to announce an end to its US-backed war on that country. Troops from the United Arab Emirates are leaving Yemen and a Saudi delegation is arriving to negotiate a peace deal.
To normal people the idea of peace breaking out in the Middle East is a wonderful thing. But Washington is anything but normal. President Biden dispatched his CIA Director, William Burns, to Saudi Arabia in a surprise visit last week. According to press reports, Burns was sent to express Washington’s surprise and frustration over the peace deals going through. Biden’s foreign policy team “has felt blindsided” by Saudi Arabia’s sudden move to get along with its neighbors.
Washington is angry that Saudi Arabia will start trading with Syria and Iran because those two countries are still under “crippling” US sanctions. One by one, as these countries begin ignoring US-demanded sanctions, the entirety of US foreign policy is being exposed as a paper tiger – just bluster and threats.
Middle East developments have revealed a dirty secret about US foreign policy. Washington has for a long time used a “divide and conquer” strategy to keep countries in the Middle East – and elsewhere – at each other’s throats. Sanctions, covert operations, and color revolutions have all been used to make sure that these countries do not get along with each other and that DC controls who runs the show.
As unlikely as it may seem to some, China has moved into the region with a different policy. China seeks business partners, not to manipulate the internal politics of the Middle East. They may be ruthless in their own way, but it is suddenly clear that the countries of this region are tired of US meddling and are looking for new partners.
We non-interventionists are often attacked as “isolationists,” but as I have always said, it is the neocons and interventionists in Washington who are really isolating us from the rest of the world. Nowhere is that more evident these days in the Middle East. It didn’t have to be this way, but if this is the end of US meddling in Middle East affairs then ultimately it is a good thing for the American people…and for peace.
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Little Marco Rubio is pissed that Macron said the Europe should stay out of the Taiwan situation. Rubio said that if Europe minds its own business re Taiwan, maybe the US should stop “helping” the Ukraine.
Your terms are acceptable, Little Marco.
John McCain, John Bolton school.of thought.Now add Graham too.
Motto: ,”I never met a war I didn’t want to start”.
All good establishment Republicans too.
The problem is that people believe these clowns keep getting re-elected.
The world is calling the USA bluff.
It does seem to be a bluff too.
Unfortunately when the psychopaths realize their threats and bluster no longer work and that they are losing the game, good chance they will flip the table and throw a nuclear tantrum.
Good thing there are no nukes- just another one of their fear porn scams.
The world is tired of sending their sons to the meat grinders the usausa creates for them. The evil empire is crumbling and there won’t be anyone that will come to the rescue of the usausa.
The usausa is a gangrene and maggot filled body in its last death throes. Do not try to save it, it cannot be saved. Stand back, when its dead, burn it so the diseased corpse cannot infect the healthy.
False flags and political assassinations soon to.follow.
I suppose political opinionated asshole ( everyone has one) posters at smoaky.com in 2008 and 2012 were status quo dumbed down Washington assholes as they accused Ron Paul and the idea of non-interventionism in foreign policy as being isolationist. One in particular would argue that the US “must stay engaged”. Idiots is the nicest I can say about that crowd.
If the mid East countries are at peace and doing business together, we’ve lost some big customers for our defense contractors. That’s the problem.
No peace in Israel. In fact, it seems they are on the brink of civil war. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.
More assholes over there in the Great State of Israel.
What was laughable about “debating” people in political blogs in 2008 and 20012 on the “isolationist” subject was in 2016 with the America First idea, MAGA, Trump crowd was when asking them if this was not similar to “isolationism”. Oh of course not , we are talking Trump in 2016. Same idiots that bashed Ron Paul for being an “isolationist”.
And now we see what is going on in Ukraine explained.
Not to worry — the israelis will get US into another war on their behalf …