Iran, China, and Trump’s ‘Art of the Squeal’

Iran, China, and Trump’s ‘art of the squeal’

The combined bombing campaign that began in Iran Saturday morning, decapitating senior leadership and hammering military targets across the map, may look like a massive undertaking.And it is — for Israel.Iran looks like an existential threat.It is — for Israel.An invasion does not run on slogans. It runs on fuel.For the United States, the existential threat sits elsewhere. Iran has financed and fueled anti-American violence for 47 years — from t…

The US Military Campaign Against Iran Is Part Of Trump’s Grand Strategy Against China

The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore restore US-led unipolarity. Trump claimed that the US’ military campaign against Iran is to “defend the American people”, while many critics have alleged (whether in jest or not) that it’s to distract from the Epstein F…