Click on Owen Jones 'Donald Trump has capitulated to Iran as he presides over the biggest strategic defeat suffered by the United States since it emerged as a superpower. All because of an illegal war of aggression which he chose to launch alongside Israel. None of this is hyperbole. All of that is an accurate assessment of where things stand, which is very difficult indeed to contradict on factual grounds. Now, if it turns out that Trump is currently exploiting this moment as some sort of ruse before launching a ground assault against Iran, then he's simply guaranteeing that the strategic defeat will be even more catastrophic. Little recap, shall we?
On Saturday, Donald Trump posted on his True Social Network, …‘That if Iran doesn't fully open without threat the Strait [Strait of Hormuz of Hormuz] of within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.’
Unambiguous threat. Of course,
Strait of Hormuz is where about a quarter up to of the world's oil supply passes through normally. Obviously, it's been shut down by Iran. Now, Iran responded by saying that if these strikes happened, then Iran would hit energy and IT infrastructure and water desalination services in the Middle East. Now, it is difficult to overstate just how catastrophic this would have been. The Gulf economies have already been set back, according to some estimates, 10 or 15 years. Already devastating economic consequences for them. Their whole selling point as autocratic oases of calm shattered. But this going after their energy infrastructure and their water desalination plants, it would have collapsed their economies. I mean I mean it would be worse than that. I mean destroying desalination plants would render large swaths of territory uninhabitable for a start. I mean we're talking about societal collapse and it would have plunged the world into a great depression. Utterly surreal to think that people all over the world were just carrying on their everyday lives over these last few days with no idea of what was going to hit them. And it should be emphasized they're already going to suffer grave economic consequences because of this illegal war. But this this what Trump was going to detonate was going to be one of the big before and after events of modern human history.
To be honest, in those circumstances, you
wouldn't rule out a
situation where Israel is going to end up using nuclear weapons.
Now, I'm sorry to say the danger of all of that is not over, just to cheer you
all up. But Trump, as deranged and extreme and sociopathic
as he may well be, clearly understood that a global depression on top of what
would end up being an even more catastrophic strategic defeat, would envelop his presidency. That's just disregarding for a
moment what you can imagine would have been furious lobbying to say the least
by Gulf States terrified that they had an existential threat
hanging over them like the sword of Damocles…..
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