Guest Post by Michael Tracey
The self-serving Low IQ history of how Trump’s assassination of Iranian general Soleimani supposedly unleashed an era of peace and tranquility across the Middle East is so painfully idiotic. In one of the most brutishly stupid acts of Trump’s entire presidency, he and his rabidly interventionist Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, manufactured a fake pretext to launch the brazen, region-destabilizing attack.
Trump fabricated what his administration claimed was a “self-defense” rationale for the assassination — arguably the most severe instance of direct state-on-state warfare between the US and Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Trump and the hardcore interventionists and regime change fanatics with which he filled his administration actually tried to invoke the 2002 AUMF in Iraq — yes, the Iraq War resolution that Joe Biden infamously voted for — as justification for the Soleimani strike. They lied and claimed there was an “imminent threat” to the US, parroting the Bush Administration’s language used to sell the Iraq invasion. They even absurdly claimed that part of the rationale for the assassination was that Iran had provided material support to the 9/11 hijackers. No argument was too preposterous.
The drone-bombing of one of the most prominent figures in Iranian society effectively destroyed any prospect of future diplomatic engagement between the US and Iran. Millions flooded the streets in protest, including in Iraq, where the drone strike took place. US embassies and other installations were hit with rockets and ransacked. The Iraqi parliament demanded the immediate expulsion of all US troops from the country, but rather than take this opportunity to finally extricate US forces, Trump refused and kept them there. Reprisal attacks were launched against US troops and continued for months, with 62 soldiers receiving Purple Hearts for the traumatic brain injuries they endured from Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes.
Trump loaded up his administration with anti-Iran regime change obsessives like Pompeo, Mike Pence, John Bolton, Nikki Haley, among others, deferred to the fanatically “pro-Israel” prerogatives of his chief financial patron Sheldon Adelson, and was heralded by Bibi Netanyahu for carrying out the most hardcore pro-Israel and “anti-Iran” policy agenda of any President in US history.
This was all part of the so-called “maximum pressure” strategy against Iran favored by Netanyahu and the fanatically pro-Israel “GOP establishment” to whom Trump essentially handed over control of his administration. As with many issues, there’s been more continuity between the Trump and Biden administrations than either like to let on, with the cratering of US-Iran relations continuing to this day. Trump still brags about how much pointless suffering his “crippling sanctions” (a term borrowed from Obama) inflicted on ordinary Iranian citizens.
On the one hand, MAGA will brag about how un-warlike Trump allegedly was, but on the other, they’ll brag about how awesome it was that he drone-assassinated Iran’s top military official and hurtled the region into chaos — the consequences of which still reverberate today. This pro-Trump argument is idiotically schizophrenic, but that’s nothing new for Low IQ partisans
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The region has been in “chaos” for thousands of years. Yawn. The US, British, USSR, et al, have been meddling in the quagmire of their regional politics for a hundred years.
Trump was surrounded with so many sharks he didn’t even have a chance. Like most of us he has had to go down a learning-curve, since he is human and like so many Presidents before him, new to the job. He was not a politician to begin with. No question, he made a lot of mistakes.
I think he is much the wiser at this point.
Photo looks like a typical Saturday night on the 405 in L.A.
TWUMP DONE DID DA MIDEAFT TROUBLE!
DA HEBES DINDU NUFFINS!
The self appointed chosen tribe has been destabilizing the Middle East long before they ever hijacked the governments of the West. Why do most people of the West subscribe to Abrahamic doomsday religion or Abrahamic doomsday Communism? It’s not as if the tribe has not been destroying nations for thousands of years and bragging about it. Going so far as to sell the horror stories as scripture.
“. . . to whom Trump essentially handed over control of his administration.”
Trump didn’t hand over control, because he never had control to begin with. He was a total puppet of the NWO, controlled by his handlers and advisors, just like most presidents. And he will be a total puppet again in his next term, which starts in January of next year.
He was a puppet of the NWO??? Really, then why did he go to Davos and tell the WEF to go fk themselves and that he would look into America’s interests first and not be a part of the globalist agenda. Do you remember that? I doubt it
Haters gonna hate no matter the subject.
YEAH AND IT SEEMS THE GUY WHO WROTE THIS CRAP ARTICLE AND MOST OF THE PEOPLE MAKING COMMENTS HATE TRUMP WITH A PASSION. IF IT WAS UP TO ME I’D NUKE THE ENTIRE REGION INTO GLASS AND CALL IT A DAY. BUT THAT’S JUST ME. SAW WHAT THE MUZZ WE’RE LIKE BACK IN 91, TO BAD THE CRUSADES FAILED.
He said a lot of things that he didn’t mean. He also said he was going to lock up Hillary. Do you remember that? I doubt it.
YEAH WE REMEMBER BUT I GUESS YOU’RE ANOTHER ONE WHO’S FALLEN FOR ALL THE LIES TOLD ABOUT TRUMP. LIKE ONE CRETIN SAID TRUMP TOLD 17,000 LIES YET NO ONE COULD NAME EVEN ONE. OH AND WHO GOT RICHER AS PRESIDENT??? IT CERTAINLY WASN’T TRUMP, HE LOST CLOSE TO 3 BILLION IN BUSINESS WHILE HE SERVED AS PRESIDENT, YET THE CLINTONS, BUSHS, AND OBAMAS AND BIDEN ARE GETTING RICHER.
He was running for office.
People are so dumbed down they think the President is a beat cop that arrests people.
piearesquared does everything he says he is gonna do. You heard it here first
he also said klaws was doing a very good job as he was shaking his hand
Well tRump did say he was going to drain the swamp… its just that the draining was into his office as advisors. Maybe it me but hiring swamp creatures and globalists seems to be contrary to draining efforts… i dunno, I’m not the expert
Nah, see… Trump had to keep his friends close and his enemies closer so that’s why he gave all the neocons and zionists the gold key to the executive crapper. Don’t you even get it? /sarc
45 dimensional chess? I’ll classify him as barely a lesser evil, because I refuse to see the whole truth.
Though, all you fine assholes keep pointing out the truth. STOP that, it’s anti-delusional! I’m pretty sure our right to delusion is covered under The Americans with Disabilities Act, pretty sure…
I don’t know who said it first but …”The more flak you take, the closer you are to the target”.
So Soleimani must have been extremely close, I take it?
At the time I couldn’t believe how people and media couldn’t grasp the significance Trump’s war crime. I thought it was one of the most significant events in US history.
It triggered my decision to leave the US.
How come you did not take Cher and Whoopie with you?
Those two want to go to Russia too?
True, but I would give him a pass if he assassinates Macron.
Damn. I never looked at it that way but it makes a lot sense. Trump fucked up. Kinda makes me want to throw away my vote on RFK. My vote is symbolic either way..I live in NY.
What you can actually vote for in NY:
You forgot option 3. Sucker punched and curb stomped
That’s the October Surprise.
I’ve always liked Michael Tracy. Calls it like he sees it, consequences be damned. He and Auron McIntyre and HarmlessYardDog are good reasons for me to open a Twitter account. Maybe I’ll have to do it. I’ll always call it Twitter. X is a band.
I call it “the stinkbait site formerly named Twitter”. It’s like “the artist formerly known as Prince”.
Trump, perhaps, is slightly less evil and demonic than Biden. To think that he really cares about the American public is pure nonsense. Trump cultists sicken me just as much as liberal cultists.
I couldn’t even read this. Sounded like someone at Salon got on TBP. There should be NO diplomatic relations with ANY country that chants “Death to America”, ever.
Screw this doucher
There are 2 simple facts that the average American needs to get their head around.
The first is that Israel owns the US Government. It spends hundreds of millions of dollars to buy every politician from the President to your local Congressman.
The second is that Israel is pure evil. This is not an opinion, it is fact.
This is just one example:
Since 1973 this doctrine is being publicly propagated for the guidance of religious Israeli soldiers. The first such official exhortation was included in a booklet published by the Central Region Command of the Israeli Army, whose area includes the West Bank. In this booklet the Command’s Chief Chaplain writes:
When our forces come across civilians during a war or in hot pursuit or in a raid, so long as there is no certainty that those civilians are incapable of harming our forces, then according to the Halakhah they may and even should be killed… Under no circumstances should an Arab be trusted, even if he makes an impression of being civilized … In war, when our forces storm the enemy, they are allowed and even enjoined by the Halakhah to kill even good civilians, that is, civilians who are ostensibly good.7
There is a reason you have 35K dead unarmed Palestinian’s who were mostly women and children. Because that is the policy of Israel, and if you support Israel, you are as guilty as they are.
Has this author ever heard of the CIA? They have been assassinating so called “enemies” of the U Sof A since the 50s. But hey you want to cherry pick one assassination and say it ruined our relationship with one country for all eternity knock yourself out. Yep, the Mideast was so stable before Trump showed up. Maybe we can give them a few more billions of dollars to smooth things over.
No one will enter into the New World Order without accepting their Luciferian Initiation.
That was Trump’s. A blood magic sacrifice. It could have been literally anyone. Solemani was simply offered as the “acceptable” choice…meaning he’d get away with it.
So, your initiation was so long ago that you can’t remember the date, huh? Who did you kill? Lemme guess: your neighbor’s dog, right?