The world is stunned at how suddenly Trump climbed down from his "maximum pressure" campaign and rushed through the final stages of negotiations between Iran and the US. Consensus is that his fears of losing the midterms were mounting at an exponential rate.
As a result, and rather than spend months and months through negotiating the really hard issues for which the war was launched to begin with, and which would take the unpopular war right into the elections in November, Trump ordered his real-estate-developers-turned- negotiators minions to give Iran all the concessions it wanted in exchange for just QUICKLY signing a toilet paper equivalent of an agreement. Remember Trump's pounding in his latest posts that "Time is of the essence"?
The "thinking" (if such a thing does exist in the Great Moron's mind) behind this rush was something like this:
1- It was all guided by Trump's marketing and advertising bullshit slogans he learned in American business school: Perception is everything. Substance doesn't matter. Sell crap to people while making them feel good about themselves...Make a stupid MoU look like a peace treaty...
2- Forget Trump's macho demand of "unconditional surrender" by Iran. Forget "wiping out an entire civilization".... it was all hot air pumped into the airhead Trump by Netanyahu and his Zionist handlers. It's like the silverback male in the Kenyan mountains beating his chest.
3- Let's sign anything NOW and declare a pretend-victory. Cut our mounting losses NOW and deal the real problems later. Kick the can down the road and hope for victory in November, after which we can always go back to warmongering on behalf of our Zionist colony in Palestine.
4- This gives us time to recover by Election Day in November since we would have fooled the American people into believing that we ended the war, and that gasoline prices and inflation would subside a bit.
5- Recoup some popularity we have lost with GOP moderates and independents.
6- The only - and not-so-immediate - gain we (Americans) made is re-opening the Strait of Hormuz, which was not an issue before the war, i.e. the war created more headaches for us that our scintillating Pentagon leaders like Pete Hegseth did not anticipate. Most experts and economists say that it will take several months for normal traffic and trade across the Strait of Hormuz to resume, assuming the ceasefire holds.
7- Push off all the important issues for which we started the war to a vague and tricky 60 days of further negotiations:
- Nuclear file.
- Ballistic Missiles.
- Iran's Proxies (Hezbollah, Houthis...)...
It took President Obama two years to hash out the 2015 JCPOA deal with Iran. The Great Moron's attention span is at best 20 minutes before he falls asleep, and he thinks he can resolve decades-old thorny issues in 60 days?
In sum, the USraeli War on Iran seems to have boiled down to creating de novo the Strait of Hormuz problem, then signing a memorandum of understanding for re-opening it. What achievement! None of the demands the Americans and Israelis initially wanted from Iran was achieved. And now, they have 60 treacherous days to flesh out what decades of tensions and negotiations have failed to resolve.
That's a GREAT PLAN.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu continues to bomb Lebanon, which Trump fears might obstruct the fast-track signing of the pointless toilet paper memorandum of understanding.
To save his hide in November, Trump is stabbing his Zionist friends in the back, just as he is preparing to stab the Lebanese in the back by asking Syria to re-occupy Lebanon and turn it back into the neighborhood's back alley where all thugs and outlaws come to solve their problems.
No comments:
Post a Comment