RE: What You Need To Know About The Latest Escalation! Middle East On The Brink
Independent media is great and important to have but on this issue Luke, you are entirely unconvincing.
The situation quite simple. Iran attacked the largest oil facilities in the world with Iranian weapons (drones & cruise missiles) and from Iranian (or partly Iraqi) soil. They have form on this, having trained and supplied their Yemeni proxies to conduct similar, smaller attacks from Yemen in the past months.
Iran is saying that if it can't export oil because of sanctions, no one will.
They are also playing for leverage in potential negotiations with Trump and threatening him with a massive oil shock leading into 2020 elections.
Iran's motive is clear and the evidence is clear.
You don't have to be a neo-con to see that this blatant act of war, endangering the world economy, cannot go unanswered.
Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the war in Yemen, Iran has crossed a huge red line here.
No one wants a war that may precipitate a global recession, but like France's failure mobilise its forces when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, if blatant aggression like this goes unpunished, we will have a far worse problem soon.
The only thing that has and will continue to precipitate a global recession @apshamilton, is bad US economic and foreign policy, namely the fiat currency system unbacked by gold and instead propped up by oil... which is destined to fail. The dollar is only rejuvenated by war... and by preventing other countries from trading oil for anything other than US paper which is why the US has had to become a global empire and international "police force" rather than a normal nation state.
@lukewearechange is correct in presenting the idea that Iran is likely being framed and that the military industrial complex (along with Israel lobby) has had that country it its sights for ages. Where he is mistaken is in failing to mention the ultimate perpetrator in the region... Israel (for which Saudia Arabia is a willing lap dog).
Regular (sensible) American people do not want war... and neither do regular Iranian people, but apparently, they're going to get one, come hell or highwater.
While the fiat global financial system is obviously falling apart, it will take one or more large external events to cause its collapse and global recession or depression.
Your suggestion that Saudi is Israel’s lapdog is ludicrous. The Saudis were Israel’s enemy for 60 years and the slight warming of relations (there are no official relations) is only because of the threat (and now direct acts of war) of Iran.
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No "official" relations... nothing Israel has ever done could be termed "official."