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Larry Arnhart

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David Martin wrote:

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The Jerusalem Post

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David Martin wrote:

972 Magazine

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Gail Appel wrote:

Hi Lew,

A remarkable article published in 2013 by Walid Shoebat, an Egyptian Coptic Christian eviscerating John McCain. It predates the emergence of ISIS, which was a spin off of the “Arab Spring Freedom Fighters”, aka Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas/Al Qaeda. Other articles show McCain pictured with “rebels”, including Al Baghdadi.. who was armed courtesy of Obama,Biden, Killery,Clapper,Brennan,Power,Abedin,Lindsey Graham, Corker,Flake,Warner,Menendez,Cardin,Durbin and the monster, McCain.

Note that every coup,invasion and regime change during the Obama and Biden occupation targeted sovereign Arab and African nations that had banned the Muslim Brotherhood and its tentacles-Hamas,Hezbollah,Houthis,Al-Qaeda,Al Nusra..which were now

See here

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Andy Thomas wrote:

“Iran hit an Israeli hospital and in an astonishing demonstration of zero self-awareness, the Israelis are calling it a war crime.”

Vox Popoli

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Writes Gail Appel.

A registered member of the American Communist Party, an Antifa anarchist and a Coast Guard sharpshooter. Good to know that this is what qualifies , along with fellow Communists Comey, Vindman and Brennan, who has the added creds of converting to Islam , and with Cofer-Black and Robert Mueller missed all the warnings and info about the 9/11 attack and with Cheney , Fauci , Rumsfeld, attempting to cover up the weaponized anthrax used by the mailer came from Ft Detrick and the framing of Hatfill and Ivins.

Oh yeah ! Comey, Mueller and Brennan were well informed of the Tsarnaev  brothers heading to the U.S. to perpetrate a massive terror attack… 3 warnings from Russian Intel ignored – even after Putin placed a half page warning in the NYT.And the terrorist encampment in Arizona stumbled  upon by a Maricopa County Sheriff where a dead kidnapped 3 yr old was rotting, the plans for a school shooting and cache of AKs were found.. just before the Sunspot Observatory was shutdown for some bogus reason.. and the captured terrorists were released from custody without being charged.

The Rosenbergs were hanged for treason  without proof that they were Soviet spies. But Communists and Islamists within the Deep State  , miltary , Congress Senate and the Democrat /Republican admins get promoted.

See here.

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David Martin wrote:

To the ethnic-supremacist monsters of Israel:

George Galloway interviews Prof. Seyed Marandi.

Amalek

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Mark Seiler wrote:

Kirk Porter makes a good point on today’s nation/state of Israel not being Godly as it relates to the descendants of Abraham. I would also add two more Biblical references to that same point.

First, 1 Samuel 8. In it God explicitly states that putting faith in nation/states is a rejection of Him. God doesn’t need humanity’s help to achieve His goals. To think that without human contrived efforts God will fail is the height of hubris and arrogance.

Second, the Book of Zechariah. In chapter 11 God plainly breaks his covenant with the recalcitrant Jews. He ends his protection and casts them to the wind.

In addition to those two there are the events leading to the Crucifixion. Recall when the Jewish leaders brought Jesus before Pilate. Pilate stated he could find no fault with Christ and “washed his hands” of His blood. The Jews, who had been chanting “Give us Barabbas!”, then stated, “Let his blood  be on us and our children”, Matthew 27:25. To quote Dr. Phil, “How’s that workin’ for ya’?”

The worship of Nation/States must end.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Rose Sayer:
“Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.” From the movie “African Queen”.

Hi Lew,

The econuts always use the term “Mother Nature”. As if the Earth, Gaia, were our mother. My mother lives in St. Louis. 

Nature is full of violence. Tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and tsunamis kill thousands of humans and animals, plus all the plants. The poisonous insects, bacteria, mammals, fish, snakes, and even plants are violent things. This Earth is no Garden of Eden. So why do these econuts pretend it is? It’s crazy talk.

I spent six months in the Amazon. My guts are rotten from the daily dysentery. My sinuses and lungs are damaged from the gripado (lung disease) of the rain forest. My fair Irish skin is a mess from the equatorial sun. “Mother” nature my ass.

And to top it off, humans are violent to each other. It’s insane. Some humans think they are better than others. They aren’t. The Rockefellers, Rothchilds, Trumps, Bushes, Obamas, Clintons, etc. all shit and it stinks. They all are gonna get sick and die like the rest of us. So what if they have more toys and fancy clothes? They are still gonna die.

We need to tame nature and tame our own natures to run other people’s lives. We need to get along with each other for the short time that we are here on this pestilential planet of death and misery. We have to live in good style.

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https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/new-research-says-using-ai-reduces-brain-activity-but-does-that-mean-its-making-us-dumber 

https://youtu.be/rSngHyD44OY

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Thanks, Saleh Abdullah. 

So Iran is a member of the Axis of Evil. Ostracized by the world. Sanctioned everywhere, so it cannot sell oil, or trade. Denied access to the world’s reserve currency. Its people cannot invest, or make stuff and sell it to the West. If that story we are told is right, they must be just a step above Afghanistan, right?

See this.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

Chronicles Magazine

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Thanks, John Frahm.

Chronicles Magazine

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Even though Evangelicals are being singled out as the main supporters of Israel within the Christian community, there are many who support the predominant LRC position on Israel. Here’s why we shouldn’t support Israel’s attack on Iran, argued from a Biblical perspective.

GENESIS 12:2-3 (NLT)

I will bless you and make you famous and you will be a blessing to others.
I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt.
All the families on earth will be blessed through you.

Keep in mind that the “you” being referred to here in Genesis is the family and descendents of Abraham.

Everybody likes shortcuts. Everyone, to some extent, is lazy. Genesis 12:2-3 allows Christians to form their position on Israel by memorizing that second sentence above, or some similar translation of it. Their understanding requires no real thought, just memorizing God’s promise to Abraham. Yes, Christians are going to press the Easy button at times too. For this same reason, Christians default to supporting the state of Israel because that’s the faster way to gain acceptance within the Christian community. “Supporting” Israel has become the ultimate virtue signal for Christians.

I don’t argue with the premise that God will bless those who defend Israel. I believe God’s word, just like the defenders of Israel do. The definition of “Israel” is what divides the Christian community. That is the key argument one must address when talking to Christians.

WHO/WHAT is ISRAEL?

Maybe we should start by asking who Israel is not? Go back to the first sentence quoted above from Genesis. Do we really think that “you will be a blessing to others” refers to the country of Israel or even Jews in general?  What blessings from God have they brought us? Go to the third sentence now. Do families around the world really feel like they’ve been blessed by their association with the country of Israel or the Jews?

Second, God loves both his children (defined as Christ followers) as well as those who do not believe in Jesus. Jews, unless Messianic, are non-believers. In John 8:42-44, Jesus calls ALL non-believers “the children of the devil”. I’m sorry; but, according to the Bible: No, we are not all the children of God. The majority of Israeli citizens are thus “children of the devil”. So, we should ask ourselves “Does God really want us to support or bless children of the devil”?

Third, Romans 11 refers to the tree which represents the family of Abraham. God prunes the branches of Christ-denying Jews from that tree. Yet, he still loves the people of the pruned branches, even though they are no longer living in the tree of Abraham. We non-Jewish Christians are grafted into the family of Abraham. The true “Israel” is this tree of Abraham. God does want those pruned branches to return to the tree. But, becoming children of the devil makes those pruned branches tools of the devil. Jews have been pruned from the tree of Abraham and as such, are no longer part of Israel. Israel is not a nation-state in the Bible, nor is it the Jewish people. Israel is represented by the living tree of Abraham, in both the Old and New Testaments.

Dispensationalism comes into play because it provides a framework for describing how God’s relationship to us has changed over the ages. It’s not necessary for understanding this argument. However, observing how God’s relationship to us has changed over the different eras (Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Judges, Kings, and finally the Church age), can help one understand the true meaning of “Israel” today.

The Old Testament, in several places, refers to Israel as God’s Vine (e.g., Isa. 5:1–7; Jer. 6:9; Hos. 10:1). And, in John 15:1, Jesus says “I am the true vine”. Jesus’ point being that he is the true Israel of God.

So, instead of defining Israel to be either the country formed in 1948 or the Jewish people around the world, this interpretation defines Israel to be  “Jesus Christ and all who are united in him by faith alone”.

HOW DO WE LOVE THE NATION OF ISRAEL?

What kind of relationship does God want Christians to have with people who are living the one and only unforgivable sin? Do we rationally think that God wants us supporting “children of the devil”?  Or, would loving them be closer to what God commands? Anyone with children knows how challenging it is to raise them. How best to show them love? It’s not as simple as giving them what they ask for. Yet, this is the predominant message from Evangelical Christians towards Israel.

STILL NOT CONVINCED?

Regardless of which definition of Israel you accept, our position relative to the country of Israel should still be the same. Let’s say you still believe God is referring to the country when he tells us to bless “Israel”.

OK. I know that God loves me. But, do I think he blesses or shows his love for me by enabling my sinning? Will God bless Israel through the bullets we send them to assassinate children, the fourteen bombs a day to drop on Gaza for over a year, bulldozers to raze the homes/hospitals/businesses of non-Jews, aircraft to facilitate taking more land in Syria, or votes in our Congress to provide muscle for the only apartheid nation left in the world?

We do not honor, nor obey, God by appeasing the country of Israel. Even if I were to ignore all of the evidence and accept that today’s country of Israel is still within the tree of Abraham, I’ll never believe that God wants me to help facilitate genocide as a way to bless the children of the devil.

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On May 27, Ehud Olmert, a former Prime Minister of Israel, published a column in which he wrote: “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians…Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.”

Olmert, who was Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, said “Never since its establishment has the state of Israel waged such a war…the criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has set a precedent without equal in Israel’s history….”

He added: “Recent operations in the Gaza Strip have nothing to do with legitimate war goals. This is now a private political war.”

Rabbi Linda Holtzman said “we cannot allow one tragedy to justify another” and wrote that she was joining “thousands of American Jews who were calling on the United States government to end the Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza.”

She added:”It is my prayer that we can continue to resist and speak out as we see the people of Gaza being bombed, starved and buried under rubble.”

Another Rabbi, Alyssa Wise, an organizer with Rabbis for Ceasefire, said: “Israel is not a Jewish person. Israel is a state. God forbid we should not be able to cry out when states are committing horrific genocidal violence in the name of the Jewish people.”

Peter Beinart, a leading Jewish columnist and author who describes himself as an observant Jew, became so upset he wrote a book called “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.”

He said he wrote the book to explain why “our community has gone so profoundly wrong” and why “I believe what we are doing is in violation of our best ethical and religious tradition.”

Beinart spoke in an interview about the “number of children being killed” and more “child amputees than any other place in modern history.” He said “I can’t believe this is happening.” He added that he was “seeing so many good and decent people who I know who seem to be able to block out the screams.”

Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column of May 9 was headlined “This Israeli Government is not our ally,” and he wrote “Netanyahu is not our friend.”

Over 1,000 members of the Israeli Defense Force signed letters in early May “calling on Netanyahu to stop the war.”One of the signers was Dan Halutz, former head of the Army.

On April 19, the 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews sent out a letter which said “silence is seen as support for policies that run contrary to our Jewish values.” The letter criticized what it called this “most extremist of Israeli governments” and said “we stand against the war.”

Jeffrey Sachs, a Jewish Columbia professor and renowned foreign policy expert, said in an interview that Netanyahu is “one of the most violent and dangerous people in the world” and “is leading Israel into the greatest insecurity of its modern history—complete diplomatic isolation.”

Dave Smith, a very well-respected Jewish comedian and podcaster, said on one of his podcasts: “I think Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is horrific and inexcusable” and “to watch us flirt with another war in the Middle East is just insane to me.”

Now, the indicted war criminal Netanyahu has expanded his killing rampage from Gaza to the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. These are really not wars; they really are one-sided slaughters of women, children, old people, and almost defenseless soldiers.

Sen. Charles Schumer, the highest ranking Jewish official in the U.S., said in a Senate Floor speech last year that Netanyahu had been “too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.” In a speech in the Senate a few months later, Schumer said he would not “label most criticism of Israel and the Israeli government as antisemitic. I don’t believe  that criticism is.”

Now, though, because of massive campaign contributions for members of Congress, or fear of campaign contributions against them, directed by the Israel Lobby, both the U.S. Congress and our policy in the Middle East are totally  controlled by Netanyahu. He led us into an unnecessary war in Iraq and now in Iran.

As the late syndicated columnist Charley Reese wrote in 2005, almost all the terrorism against the U.S. has been because of our “one-sided support” for Israel’s bombing and killing throughout the Middle East.

The Bible tells us in both the Old and New Testaments to “Seek peace and pursue it.” We will not be doing that as long as we continue to support all of Netanyahu’s wars.

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The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets this week and is expected to keep its target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) unchanged at 4.5 percent.

This is unlikely to please Donald Trump who has repeatedly pushed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and the FOMC to adopt a lower target interest rate and further force down interest rates on federal debt. Moreover, Trump has signaled that he wants the US central bank to be more like the European Central Bank which has been more aggressively forcing down interest rates in recent months.

Trump Wants More Easy Money from the Fed

Last week, Trump met with Powell and called Powell a “numbskull” for not forcing down interest rates enough to suit Trump’s personal whims. But the messaging this time was a little different. In the past, Trump has tended to demand lower interest rates for purposes of monetary stimulus. This time, Trump is openly admitting that he wants lower interest rates to make federal debt cheaper. NBC reported last week:

President Donald Trump ripped Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as a “numbskull” on Thursday as he turned up the heat on the central bank chief to lower interest rates.

Trump claimed at the White House that lowering rates by 2 percentage points would save the U.S. $600 billion per year, “but we can’t get this guy to do it.”

“We’re going to spend $600 billion a year, $600 billion because of one numbskull that sits here [and says] ‘I don’t see enough reason to cut the rates now,’” Trump said.

Trump added that he was OK with the Fed raising rates if inflation was going up.

“But it’s down,” he said, “and I may have to force something.”

Here Trump states that his primary purpose for demanding lower interest rates is to bring down borrowing costs. Naturally, Trump, who continues to push for ever larger multi-trillion-dollar deficits, wants to be able to borrow more cheaply, thus freeing up federal dollars so Trump can reward key interest groups with taxpayer money. It’s easy to see why Trump is concerned about this. The Federal government’s interest expenses have ballooned in recent years as the federal debt has soared and as the average interest rate on the debt has nearly doubled since 2021. 2025’s fiscal year will likely be another year in which the US pays more than a trillion dollars just in debt service:

Source: FiscalData.Treasury.gov.

Trump, however, fails to mention that the process of bringing down interest rates on federal debt usually requires the fed to purchase Treasurys with newly created money. What Trump is really saying is “I want more devaluation of the dollar so I can have bigger deficits.”

Trump then wrongly claims that inflation “is down.” In this, Trump is either lying or is bad at basic arithmetic. “Inflation”—by which he presumably means price inflation—is not down. In fact, it’s still higher than the Fed’s arbitrary two-percent target. Moreover, the consumer price index is up by 24 percent since early 2020. And, of course, monetary inflation is up by about 35 percent in that time. Nowhere—except, apparently, in Donald Trump’s mind—is inflation “down.” Unfortunately, Trump shows no interest in pursuing the solution to inflation, which is deflation. Indeed, what the economy needs is price deflation—fueled by monetary deflation. But, this will be quite impossible under Trump’s regime on runaway fiscal deficits and ongoing monetary inflation.

Trump, however, is pretending that inflation is “down” in order to push for the FOMC putting more downward pressure on interest rates.

Comparing US Target Interest Rate to Other Central Banks

On April 17, Trump again took to social media to call for more easy-money policy from the Fed, complaining that Powell is “always TOO LATE AND WRONG,” and he insisted the Fed chairman’s “termination cannot come fast enough!” Trump even held up the highly inflationist European Central Bank as a sort of model, claiming that the Fed should be more like the ECB.

So, should the Fed be more like the ECB?

Trump is right insofar as the ECB has indeed aggressively pushed down its target interest rate since 2024, lowering the target rate by 200 basis points from 4 percent to 2 percent in that time. During that same period, the US lowered its target interest rate by 100 basis points, pushing it down from 5.5 percent to 4.5 percent.

But why assume that this is the “correct” thing to do? Trump appears here to be working from the assumption that if some other central bank lowers its target policy rate, then the US’s central bank should do the same. It is difficult to fathom why or how Trump came to this conclusion. Does Trump, the self-styled “master negotiator” think that he is somehow “winning at monetary policy” if his country’s central bank lowers its target rate below that of other central banks?

We may never know.

In any case, it’s difficult to imagine on what data he might be basing this assumption since there is no correlation between low-interest-rate policy and improvements in the standard of living for ordinary people.

If anything, the ECB’s commitment to low interest rates is an example of Europe eating its seed corn. One apparent effect of the European Central Bank’s race to lower interest rates is the euro’s continued slide in terms of global demand. Last week gold surpassed the euro as the second-largest global reserve asset, behind the dollar. Meanwhile, the euro is still down five percent against the dollar, compared to where it was in 2020 when central banks in both Europe and the USA began frantically printing money to prop up their locked-down economies.

Given that the Trump administration has made a big deal about keeping the dollar as the number one global currency, it’s difficult to see why Trump thinks that the US’s central bank should follow Europe in terms of monetary policy.

One the other hand, from the point of view of conventional central banking, the ECB has more room to lower its target rate. Specifically, price inflation is lower in the euro area. In May, the euro area’s CPI growth was 1.9 percent, year over year. That’s below the ECB’s two-percent target. In the United States, meanwhile, the CPI increase was 2.4 percent. This is likely due to Europe’s slowing and stagnating economy, which is putting a damper on price growth beyond that which is now seen in the US.

But perhaps the US should imitate UK or Japanese  monetary policy? Well, both the UK and Japan have recently reported shrinking economies, in spite of the fact that both countries have lower target interest rates than the United States.

All of this together gives us good reason to believe that Trump’s demand that US monetary policy parrot European policy is misguided at best.

Why Isn’t Powell lowering Rates More?

Now, I should be clear that I’m not trying to defend Jerome Powell here. Powell is a politician and a technocrat just as much as any other power broker or member of the Washington ruling class.

Yet, the fact that Powell isn’t doing the bidding of Donald Trump is not a good reason to attack him. Powell has his own political agenda, no doubt, but whatever his motivation, his current policy of doing very little with the Fed’s target interest rate is relatively harmless compared to Trump’s calls for ever higher levels of inflation. Ideally, of course, the Fed would allow all interest rates to be determined by the market, and the Fed would not intervene in buying of Treasurys—as it recently did—to suppress interest on federal debt. Nor would the Fed meddle in the economy to stimulate more consumer spending, as Trump has repeatedly demanded it do.

Rather, the Fed should do nothing at all. Powell’s relative lack of action on this front in recent months gives the market some room to breathe. What Trump apparently wants, however, is for the Fed to be more active in its efforts at centrally planning the economy.

This would hardly be an improvement. Alas, long gone are the days when Trump was pledging—probably cynically and disingenuously—to audit the Fed and force a count of all the gold in the US gold reserve. That’s all been long forgotten at the White House, and Trump apparently wants a return to what would have been business as usual under Bernanke or Yellen in the days of quantitative easing massive asset price inflation.

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It is déjà vu concerning the United States going to war against Iran. Back in a February of 2012 Republican presidential nomination race debate, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was asked about if the US should go to war against Iran because of the same purported threat that President Donald Trump is now using to support movement toward war on Iran — that Iran may soon have a nuclear weapon.

In answer, Paul stood out from his three opponents at the debate, arguing that the US government should not take the “risky” and “reckless” action of going to war. He then proceeded to say that, “if you are so determined to go to war, the only thing I plead with you for if this is the case is do it properly: Ask the people and ask the Congress for a declaration of war.”

Paul’s 2012 plea for respecting the constitutional requirement of a congressional declaration of war is something that Trump, who seems these 13 years later determined to decide all on his own whether to sic the US military on Iran, should consider. There is much wisdom in the United States Constitution. Disregarding its requirements can lead to decisions both foolish and destructive to peace, liberty, and prosperity.

“Why go to war so carelessly?” asked Paul in his debate comments after saying it is much better to talk with the Iran government than to fight it. That question resounds today.

Watch Paul’s comments from the debate here:

This article was originally published on The Ron Paul Institute.

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There’s a massive potential for escalation because Iran is a key member of several organizations of the rapidly growing multipolar world, including BRICS+ and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization). Neither Russia nor China want to see Iran defeated or destabilized by a potential color revolution that could dissolve the country or turn it into yet another Western vassal.

One of the more common mistakes many people make is mixing up Iran and Iraq. However, the two neighboring countries share far more similarities than just their names. Unfortunately, it seems that Tehran is dangerously close to a similar misfortune its neighbor faced in 2003.

Namely, the United States is on the verge of attacking Iran, as evidenced by the increasingly harsh rhetoric of American President Donald Trump. He has gone as far as to dismiss reports of his own intelligence services regarding the prospect of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. When told by CNN that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, Trump was blunt:

“I don’t care what she said. They were very close to getting a nuke.”

It seems Iran has been “close” for over three decades at this point. Still, in its latest assessment, even the infamous CIA confirmed that Tehran isn’t pursuing a nuclear weapons program. This report was also part of the DNI’s annual threat assessment. Gabbard, who coordinates all US intelligence services, stated before the Senate Intelligence Committee that “the US intelligence community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003”. And yet, Trump completely dismissed these reports, meaning that he’s getting different intelligence from other “unknown” sources.

The US military is now sending an unprecedented number of strategic assets to the Middle East, including a second supercarrier, the USS Nimitz. Apart from the US Navy, the USAF is also involved, sending dozens of aerial tankers. All this comes after Trump escalated his already harsh rhetoric on Iran. While on his way back from the G7 summit in Canada, he told reporters that he wants “a real end to Iran’s nuclear problem”. Trump didn’t really specify what exactly he meant by that, but his tone alone was still quite ominous and threatening. He stressed that this means “nothing less than Tehran giving up entirely on its enrichment activities”, even though Iran is adamant it will never comply with this.

“I didn’t say I was looking for a ceasefire,” Trump said, adding: “[French President Emmanuel] Macron mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran. Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that.”

This comes after Trump issued an unprecedented warning to nearly ten million inhabitants of Tehran to “immediately evacuate” the capital city. It’s still unclear whether this was a threat due to an imminent US attack on Iran or a mere warning due to escalating Israeli strikes. The latest developments suggest it could actually be both. Trump himself said that the world will “find out over the next two days”, but also added that he might send US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff or Vice President JD Vance to meet with Iranian officials to seek de-escalation and negotiations. He stressed that “it depends what happens when I get back”. However, all these demands still effectively amount to Iran’s capitulation.

For its part, Tehran is refusing to do so and is now saying it will retaliate against US military bases across the Middle East. Considering the size of the Iranian missile arsenal, American occupation forces in the region are certainly at great risk, so Trump will have to take this into account when making the final decision. On the other hand, some high-ranking US officials are saying that Washington DC is already taking part in Israeli strikes on Iran, although it’s unclear if this refers to extensive support of US ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) assets or more direct forms of involvement. Either way, the Trump administration is exposing itself as in no way less aggressive than any other in previous decades.

The US Congress is now supposedly trying to prevent Trump from going forward with this by limiting his powers to start yet another war, but this might just be fruitless, as there’s very strong bipartisan support for continued US aggression against the entire world. Namely, although the Democrats are now particularly loud about their supposed “opposition” to an attack on Iran, the truth is that the Biden administration was equally belligerent and that the mainstream propaganda machine was galvanizing the American public for war with Tehran even during the last few weeks and months of that administration. What’s more, evidence suggests that the attack on Iran was planned before Trump took office.

Namely, according to Axios, the Mossad had been preparing for around eight months before it was launched. This would mean that American intelligence services were almost certainly involved in the planning during the Biden administration and continued this after Trump took office. In addition, considering the similarities between the actions of the Kiev regime’s intelligence services and the Mossad, the only logical conclusion is that the US is using its proxies in Israel and NATO-occupied Ukraine to conduct asymmetric hybrid warfare operations against both regional and global adversaries. It seems that Iran is now seen as a “more manageable” target, so the US is escalating its involvement.

All this goes to show that America’s obsession with war, death and destruction is the deadliest threat not only to world peace, but also to the very existence of human civilization. Worse yet, the political West is entirely on board with this, as evidenced by the actions of the most powerful NATO member states, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, etc. In addition, there’s also a massive potential for escalation because Iran is a key member of several organizations of the rapidly growing multipolar world, including BRICS+ and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization). Neither Russia nor China want to see Iran defeated or destabilized by a potential color revolution that could dissolve the country or turn it into yet another Western vassal.

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