Commentary: Despite Trump’s wishes, Iran is dragging the US into a long war
Tit-for-tat strikes will continue over coming months, while the Strait of Hormuz is set to remain partially closed with security uncertain, says an academic....MySingaporeNews
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7/12/2026
Operation Kill Iranians - another silly white man article blaming Iran
Clown Trump and all his pompous lies and many brain dead still believe in him
Today, the fake narrative is all about stopping Iran from getting the bomb. And Trump is trying to give the impression that he is doing everything he can to forge another deal under his name to stand up to posterity. Is Iran that stupid to swallow the hubris? If one deal can just be tossed aside, what is the point of forging another useless deal when the next President can do the same.
The USA's objective is all about controlling Iranian oil exports to China done outside the US$. The USA put a stop to what Venezuela was also doing. Venezuela was such a tasty piece of cake delivered on a platter, with corrupt elements inside the Venezuelan Government just inviting the USA in to kidnap Maduro who was against the USA. Trump thought that Iran was also going to be a simple catwalk, just four to five days mission. We are now in the fifth month of the conflict with Trump is still talking about forcing Iran to make his deal or the USA will end the Iran standoff once and for all. How many times have we heard that being said. It was all done to manipulate the stock market, that is all.
Oh, lest I forget, Trump has again gloated that a deal between Russia and Ukraine is very close, the closest yet after talking to Putin and Zelenskyy. What has been agreed upon without the two warring parties facing each other? Just hot air from a hot pot. How many twenty-four hours have we been talking about since Trump was inaugurated as President on 20th January 2025? He was supposed to end the Ukraine conflict within 24 hours after taking office.
I guess it is always the same everywhere. Before an election, politicians will promise delivering the star, sun and the moon. After election, all is happily forgotten. Stupidity truly does not have a cure.
Anonymous
It is a no brainer to expect American terrorists to stop warmongering and killings
Therefore, to expect the USA terrorists to stop committing crimes and creating wars is just fanciful thinking. It is as illogical as expecting the sun to rise from the West. Once a criminal will always resort to being a criminal.
The Mafia grew rich and prosperous controlling the criminal activities it indulged in - drugs, gambling, smuggling, blackmailing, prostitution .and all other illegal activities. The USA grew prosperous depending on wars, selling weapons, piracy on the high seas, conducting regime changes, robbery, hijacking, sabotage and extracting protection money from doggies. This is inherited from their Anglo-Saxon DNAs like those pirate explorers that boasted of discovering lands that belonged to others already there.
Anonymous
7/11/2026
China's economy will slow down. Sure, this is the wish of China's competitors, the losers...but when?
The anti China bandwagon has been calling for this since the days of Gordon Chang. And that was 26 years ago. But China continues to grow from strength to strength and in purchasing power parity terms is now the biggest economy in the world, bigger than America at nearly US$50 trillion. How is that for size? Many have given up calling for the collapse of China. The new narrative, China's economy is slowing down. This is a big consolation for those wishing China to collapse. The slightest sign of China's economy slowing down, the news of America imposing new sanctions, stop selling this and that to China will be picked up as good news to the doomsayers. Hurray, China is slowing down. China's population is ageing and not reproducing, China is facing a major crisis,....
No one bothers about the US$39 trillion American debt, the growing non competitiveness of American goods and services. No one bothers about the negative growth in Europe, all facing recession, no issues. European economies are also facing the same challenges as the Americans, unable to compete in the international market, nothing worth producing and selling to the world, and still forced to buy over expensive oil and gas from America. The Indians are also gloating that China is facing serious economic problems, not India. Indian economy is roaring ahead, in spite of the AI challenge against India's biggest source of cheap labour. Every country is sending the Indians home to roast in 51 degree heat.
Seriously, what is China still selling to the world? What are China's growth engines? Huawei 5G and Beidou GPS are taking over the market outside America and western Europe. Heard of 6G? Already developed and available. China's EVs are making the legacy automobiles redundant, with the whole ICE industry facing obsolescence and bankruptcy. China's electric motorcycles are quietly taking over the world. China's shipbuilding industry is building ships and containers for the whole world. China's commercial aircraft is coming into the market with quality and prices that Boeing and Airbus cannot beat. Chinese high speed train is not only cheap and good, but no country can build and deliver high speed system as fast and efficiently as China. China is going to monopolise the market like solar panels, mobile phones and consumer household equipment and electronics and pharmaceuticals. China's apparel, shoes, fashion goods are selling like hot cakes in online platforms. And China has cornered the rare earth industries to the tune of 80 to 90 percent market share. Next comes the Chinese military aircraft, warships and weapon systems, the missiles and drones, not only cheap and good, with no string attached, no political conditions, not only can be bought by swiping a credit card, Chinese overcapacity production means the goods and products can be had tomorrow, no need to wait for years.
These are only some of the growth engines powering China ahead for years to come. And there is another big business that the Americans are creating for China that is unstoppable. No it is not just high end chips. This market will be taken over by China soon with new manufacturing processes and ways of making more advanced chips at more affordable prices, like AIs and data centres. China will greatly benefit from the destruction all over the world by the American war machine. All the countries that have been bombed to the ground will need Chinese infrastructure prowess to help them rebuild their countries quickly, efficiently and economically, with big towns and cities being built overnight.
Who else, which country has so many growth engines and so many opportunities and the resources to rebuild and sell to the world? China's industrial capacity is complete, from the tiniest screw and pin to bridges expanding several miles apart, VLCC, satellites and space stations. You name it, China can manufacture or build it.
China's economy slowing down? Stop the delusion. Is there a country that has the above growth engines? India is claiming to be the fastest growing economy, to overtake China, even claiming that China's economy is stalling, collapsing. The only growth engine in India is cow dung manufacturing.
What about America and Europe? Ask what are their growth engines or industries. How many are there or still there? Better to ask how many of their former growth engines are now dying.
USA and Western leverage of using economic coercion to cripple countries is over
China now has the support of the Global South countries buying what it cannot hope to sell to the USA and Europe as before. The USA cut off Chinese EVs from being sold in the country, but domestically and elsewhere Chinese EVs are selling well enough to sustain the Chinese EV industry. Moreover, China also controlled the major source of batteries for EVs for EV makers of the rest of the world. China has several channels to cut off and cripple most ICE and EV producers in USA and Europe - chips, batteries and rare earth magnets. That fiasco could be gleaned from the Netherland Government's seizure of Nexperia that caused serious problems to vehicle manufacturers not just in Europe, but in the USA as well. The name plate of Nexperia was seized, but the manufacturing assets remain inside China. That was all that matters.
Anonymous