The only 'mission accomplished' is creating economic problems for the global community. I still believe China buying Iranian oil has something to do with it. Things were running normally regarding oil from the Persian Gulf. USA and Israel started the conflict that created the Straits of Hormuz problem. And it had the cheek and audacity to ask other countries to do their part to clean up its mess.
Did the USA even had the curtesy to consult those countries or even the Gulf states before attacking Iran? Diarrhea-mouth Trump talks about wanting a surprise attack when he was already moving aircraft carriers and logistics to the Middle East, all glaring hints of what is to come. He thought the Iranians are blind and cannot figure out what he was doing. Even a three-year old knows what is on his mind.
Iran knows the agenda of the USA for more than forty years. Iran was and is a thorn in the side of the USA and Israel in the Middle East. Iran would already have the bomb if not for religious constraints that prevented its ambition. This was even admitted by USA leaders who told the truth and removed from office as it runs counter to the war-mongering mindset of the neo-cons in the administration. But they made it sound catastrophic by inventing the lie that Iran just needed two weeks to make the bomb.
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Trump boasted all the time about already having taken out Iran's air force, naval fleet and weapon stocks. He wants to flatten Iran within one night if he does not get his deal. Russia has told Trump not to always threaten others with ultimatums to induce fear in its enemies. This Mafia tactic does not work against those who are prepared to take the USA on.
Winning a war depends not entirely on carpet bombing, as was evident in Vietnam where aerial power and sophisticated weapons did not win the war. Even boots on the ground failed to demoralize the Vietcong. Many analysts have said that carpet bombing provides the initial advantage, but as retaliation evolves and guerilla warfare starts, that advantage is soon lost. The USA did not even manage to gain any semblance of control in South Vietnam. The USA tried to hold on for 20 long years in Afghanistan yet had to flee with tails between its legs after such a long spell. Victory depends more on the tenacity and strategy of the people fighting against the invaders, not about shouting 'mission accomplished' slogans on board navy ships. If USA enemies lost the will to fight, like in Venezuela, that cannot be taken as the norm. The Iranians are willing to fight, having been imbued with this mentality for more than 40 years, as this has been an existential fight for their survival. The Iranians have no choice against someone trying to take away that choice for survival.
Any escalation of the war is bound to set the whole Middle East in flames and goodbye to the oil for years. This will affect every country, even the USA itself and could be more than just a recession and more like a global depression that most of us had never experienced before. Release of stockpiles of oil will do nothing to alleviate the situation, and moreover, how long can such release be sustained? One month? Two months? After that, what?
Countries that produce oil like Russia have their hands full providing for domestic demand and exporting to friendly countries. Who are the friendly countries by the way? And Russia probably will demand payments in Yuan. The USA is already freaking out when Venezuela and Iran are selling oil to China in Yuan and what it will do to the US$ hegemony. Go figure it out.
Iran is to Trump, what Iraq is to George W. Bush. What do these two countries have in common? The common theme has to do with oil. Saddam Hussein wants to sell oil in Euros and had to be eliminated. It was nothing about Weapons of Mass Destruction, which had been proven beyond any reasonable doubt.
Iran too, is selling oil in Yuan to China, the major importer of Iranian crude, which is even more detrimental with de-dollarization on the cards. Here again, it is nothing about nukes, which is a red herring, as many have said that Iran is not developing nukes, which is against its religious doctrine, often repeated by its leaders. Even USA National Security leaders are saying the same thing, but they cannot hope to convince the neo-con war mongers in the Deep State and had to be removed.
Oh, Venezuela was doing that same thing, selling oil to China in Yuan, and see what happened to the country. And do not forget about Muammar Gaddafi who also shared to same mindset as Saddam Hussen.
Now BRICS is doing de-dollarization too, but with Russia and China providing the protective umbrella, the USA could do little to harm countries joining the bloc. Of course, we heard the threat by Trump of tariffing those countries joining BRICS to death. Suffice to say, why do countries joining BRICS really have to fear? The whole Global South can do business among themselves inside BRICS, outside the US$ and away from the USA. What can the USA be using to sanction or tariff them to death without the tools to do it? In fact, that will be counterproductive and escalate the fall of the US$ by forcing smaller countries to move away from using the US$ in more ways.
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