Who will stop Donald Trump

The world is equally left wondering what the warmongering hordes do intend to offer as an explanation for going after the destruction of other independent nations in the region on the pretext of fighting terrorism.

Seven years ago, the United States and its allies used military force to destroy Libya and the country has been in ruins ever since. This is not the first time that war-party Washington and fakestream media in particular have erased US responsibility for Libya’s travails. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen are also in ruins and it doesn’t take a strategic mind to find out how they got that way. One thing that’s not conveyed via any medium in the West, though: Seven years ago, the United States and its allies used military force to overthrow Libya’s government. The country has been in almost continual civil war since then, which you would think would be crucial in explaining how the country came to that.

The thing is, the real fight didn’t begin for freedom and democracy, when the US and NATO added their overwhelming military might to a rebel uprising against Gadhafi. The motivation of the US-led coalition and militants was to topple the anti-West Libyan government and do what they do best: turn Libya into a failed state. That shouldn’t be forgotten - like the US destroying the governments of Iraq, Syria and Yemen and leaving their nations to be fought over by warlords, foreign-backed terrorist groups, separatists, and Takfiri-Wahhabi extremists.

Conversely, this is not the first time US media, or those in Europe in particular, have erased Western responsibility for Libya’s travails. Libya, that unfortunate country, has now seen the return of slave markets; and no one’s acknowledging the fact that the resurgence of slavery is connected to the chaos following the downfall of Gadhafi. No political leader in the West also brings himself or herself to remind their people that their own governments helped bring about that downfall. The same is true in Syria and Yemen. Western governments and mainstream media outlets are in no mood to acknowledge the roots of devastating violence in these two war-torn countries, and fail so utterly to take the overwhelming role of Washington-NATO interventions into account.

The world is equally left wondering what the warmongering hordes do intend to offer as an explanation for going after the destruction of other independent nations in the region on the pretext of fighting terrorism. This US-Zionist-Saudi coalition is even pressing for other wars in the region. A great propagandic hue and cry against the purported dangers of Iran and Russia is being raised in the US and Europe as well.

The usurper regime of Israel is even moving to repeat its triumph in 2003 when the Bush administration, US partisans of Israel, and dishonest US media pushed the nation into a war of pure aggression against Iraq. Israel emerged the victor from this unprovoked war and is trying to repeat its success again if possible through the US adventurism. Iranian forces did prove its tact and defensive power in both Iraq and Syria when they helped the central governments to wipe out Daesh terrorists. Meaning, there will be no victory for the usurper regime’s bullying and savage attitudes towards the regional issues here. Both Trump and Netanyahu try to paint Iran “as the most dangerous terrorist state in the world,” all because the Islamic Republic doesn’t want to take chances by surrendering its security perimeter i.e., missiles. That said, it wasn’t the Iranian government that illegally cost over one million Iraqi civilian lives and blew that country apart. Also, it wasn’t Iran which turned Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Libya into failed states, made millions of people homeless and refugees, and paved the way for emergence of the terrorist group of Daesh. All of the above should be a wakeup call for the international civil society and the United Nations to exercise their sphere of influence and actually do something before things get out of hand. After all, the warmongering hordes are also targeting Russia in numerous ways.

The world has memories, and the world knows who is the aggressor here. Unlike America’s many invasions and military incursions in alliance with NATO, Israel and Saudi Arabia, Iran has not invaded any country for over 250 years. The US-instigated and supported dictator of Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, costing Iran an estimated 500,000 lives. The world also knows who is pressing who on the Capitol Hill through disinformation campaign to embrace the Saudi-Israeli expanding push for US militarism in the Middle East.

For decades, all this and more have continued apace, and the question at this time is will enough member states at the UN, including those at the Security Council, have the courage enough to stand up to stop this slide toward likely dreaded nuclear war, humanitarian catastrophe, and blowback on Planet Earth?
Bonus points if you caught Trump's lies Tuesday night, May 8, when he announced the United States would exit the Iran nuclear deal - also known as the JCPOA. Here, we are not holding our breath that President Trump will start re-imposing the illegal sanctions against Iran. But we are holding him accountable for what he said. Indeed, President Trump’s torrent of misleading statements and flat-out lies will need an army of journalists working 24/7 to set the record straight. On the resistance front, Iran’s fight against terrorism and extremism in Syria and Iraq, its commitment to the nuclear deal, and other regional and military defense issues are exemplary.

President Trump announced that the US will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and is preparing to reinstate all sanctions it had waived as part of the accord. However, the decision unravels the foreign policy achievement of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, and isolates the United States from its European allies. The US government never lifted its sanctions even after signing the nuclear agreement. Iran has been and still is unable to get LCs from international banks and is yet to have full access to the international SWIFT banking system. American companies are barred from doing business with Iran and the ones that did, like Boeing, are not delivering any passenger plane to Iran.

Trump alleged that Iran is the leading state sponsor of terror. The US president also unfoundedly added that Iran exports dangerous missiles, fuels conflict across the Middle East, and supports what he called terrorist proxies and militias such as Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
But, as acknowledged by numerous US administration officials and former or current politicians, the CIA trained and weaponized Al-Qaeda to counter the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The Taliban has been and is still being breastfed by Saudi Arabia. The same is true about the Daesh. The terrorist group was created after the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, and took large swathes of lands with support from Saudi Arabia, the Zionist regime of Israel and the United States. It was only after the intervention of Iran and Russia that the terrorist group lost all its territory. Former Vice-President Joe Biden as well as former Pentagon Intelligence Chief and National Security Advisor General Micheal Flyn both took the United States' allies, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, responsible for the creation of terrorist and extremist groups like Daesh and Al-Nusra Front in the Middle-East.

Another lie raised by Trump is that: No action taken by Iran has been more dangerous than its pursuit of nuclear weapons — and the means of delivering them. In fact, the deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and — over time — reach the brink of a nuclear breakout.

However, as stated by British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, “The Iran nuclear deal is not based on trust about Iran's intentions; rather it is based on tough verification, including measures that allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency unprecedented access to Iran's nuclear program.” The International Atomic Energy Agency also has confirmed that “Iran remains in compliance with its commitments under the landmark nuclear agreement.” The IAEA has already issued ten reports verifying Iran’s full compliance with the agreement.

Trump said, “today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie. Last week, Israel published intelligence documents — long concealed by Iran — conclusively showing the Iranian regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons”.

However, even a former chief of Israel's Mossad spy agency has said the documents revealed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a prime-time televised press conference contained no new evidence, and “the nuclear program files do not have a smoking gun.” Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the non-proliferation program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, also says, “The documents that Netanyahu displaced on 30 April did not reveal anything that was already known by the IAEA.”

The US president went on to say, “If I allowed this deal to stand, there would soon be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Not only does the deal fail to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but it also fails to address the regime’s development of ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads”.

But, as maintained by former US Secretary John Kerry: Trump’s claim that the agreement "sunsets," thus allowing Iran the relatively unfettered ability to proceed with a nuclear weapon, "No, it never sunsets. There's no sunset in this agreement.” Kerry’s parting words for Donald Trump are: “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but no one is entitled to their own facts.” Director General of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, has likewise confirmed Iran's compliance with the JCPOA, warning that any collapse of the deal would be a great loss. He said: "As of today, I can state that Iran is implementing its nuclear-related commitments. If the JCPOA were to fail, it would be a great loss for nuclear verification and for multilateralism."

Finally, Lier Trump said, the deal does nothing to constrain Iran’s destabilizing activities, including its support for what he called ‘terrorism’. The US president insisted that “Since the agreement, Iran’s bloody ambitions have grown only more brazen”.

In March 2003, when the Bush administration launched its invasion of Iraq, the region, though simmering as ever, looked like this: Libya was stable; Syria was experiencing stability and tranquility; Iraq was not experiencing daily blasts and bloodshed; the Turks and Kurds had an uneasy but functional ceasefire; and Yemen was quiet enough.

It’s easy enough to hustle through these unfortunate countries in the region in various states of decay before heading into the heart of the chaos: Libya is a failed state, bleeding mayhem into northern Africa; Egypt failed its Arab Uprising test and relies on the US to support its militarized government; and Yemen is a disastrously failed state, now the scene of a US-backed, Saudi-led war. In light of all this, it’s hardly surprising that no one with a sound mind in Europe or elsewhere is willing to believe Trump’s baseless accusations against Iran. What if the US hadn’t invaded Iraq in 2003? Things would undoubtedly be very different in the Middle East today. The Twitter-in-Chief can stipulate that Iran is a threat and need to be contained. In reality, the US has few clear goals in the region, escalating violence in anyway.
(Courtesy of FNA)

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