DECADES OF THE SOVIET UNION'S attempts including arms races, making deals with smaller countries, its entire foreign and much of its military policy has not done what Bush II in Iraq and Trump in Iran have managed to do in a quarter of a century, TOTALLY DESTROY AMERICA'S HEGEMONY ACHIEVED BY COMING OUT OF WWII INTACT AND WITH THE POLICIES THAT FDR AND TRUMAN PUT IN PLACE.
Trump's surrender note to the Iranian regime was, as many have said all along would happen, is a total capitulation to the Iranian regime. It is such a disaster for the United States, for United States power, for our economy, for the People of the United States that I doubt the Republicans in the Senate will allow it to come for a vote, if it does, they will have put the final nail in the coffin of MAGA because there is no way they can vote for it and, perhaps other than the brain dead Fetterman, NO DEMOCRAT WHO WANTS TO CONTINUE IN POLITICS WILL VOTE FOR IT. They would have to pass it with Republican votes and any Republican who votes for it should consider retirement too. About the only Americans who would welcome the thing are those who, like me, wasn't a big fan of American hegemony as it turned out to be but I don't favor it because it is so unfavorable to the welfare of The People of he United States and it would leave a very smart, very skilled, very mature and measured dictatorship in Iran as a major regional if not world power.
As in Bush II's Iraq disaster, Trump's Iran disaster is also a disaster in which Israel and the corrupt anti-Iranian dicatators of Saudi Arabia and some of the other Gulf states had a hand in convincing a stupid and corrupt American president into. I doubt that the American status quo in regard to Israel will ever return to what it was. Not after the combination of its self-posted genocide in Gaza and its somewhat less arrogantly self-posted Lebensraum violence in the West Bank and its role in convincing the stupidest and most corrupt president in American history to use the powers that the Congress stupidly gave American president to foment yet another disastrous foreign war.
While Norman Finkelstein is not incorrect in noting that Trump is, as Cheney and Bush II were before, quite capable of having other, largely financial motives in bringing these wars of such terrible consequence, the role that Israel and it's dangerously out sized influence in American politics through the Israel lobby here IS A HUGE PART OF THIS. In that Israel is not more at fault than other countries and, in fact, the United States are in their manipulation of other countries. We have made that extremely easy for them because Israel and its lobby here merely take advantage of our native corruption. We have chosen to maintain that exploitable corruption all on our own.
But that they have NOT been able to goad other presidents into direct American military involvement in the form of a war shows that Finkelstein's dismissal of their role in getting the two presidents with the least legitimacy (each was originally installed through an illegitimate electoral and, in Bush II,a corrupt, partisan judicial maneuver) to go into enormously disastrous wars is one of his few real errors of judgement. Israel and the Israel lobby are going to pay a price for this, unfortunately so will many entirely innocent American Jews who have been against the whole thing.
You can con even a conman by appealing to their weakness and Trump is a degenerate and stupid locus of the greatest accumulation of the most exploitable weaknesses that any American president has ever been. If Iran's rulers have been brilliant in their conduct of their response to the American-Israeli attack on it, I will give Israel's fascist government this, their corrupt leaders are far smarter than the corrupt leaders the American oligarchy put over us in the last half century. They just got too ambitious in their own corruption figuring that like Dr. Seuss's Sneetches, Americans don't learn anything from even the hardest of experience.
I think in his case Finelstein realizes that one of the real consequences of this is that it puts American Jews in danger in ways that they have never been in in American history till now. I worry about that too, and not just for the very large number of American Jews who have been opposed to all of this from the start and those who have finally seen what a disaster the last great European colonial project has been. First in terms of morality, second, and also in terms of morality, for Palestinians and others in the Middle East. Here in the United States the Israel industry and lobby has twisted and perverted our already twisted and not infrequently morally perverse foreign and military policy. They have been empowered in that by that line of the stupidest Supreme Court rulings in our history. Its billionaires have been attacking everything from whatever shreds of integrity our propaganda and lie filled alleged news media has to the blackmail of racist Zionist billionaires and their goons in the Trump regime and the Congress over our educational institutions. As in Britain, we are in another period like the red scare no behalf of Israel. In every way when a foreign country has had that kind of influence over the United States, it has ended up being to our detriment, though in the past only Britain has had that role, with some of the larger European economies, such as France's having some minor role in that regard. But getting into that will get me off of the topic of this post.
America has had two hugely disastrous wars in the Middle East within a quarter of a century, three if you're going for about a third of a century with the Bush I Gulf War. All of them brought by Republican administrations, all of them with the support of billionaire-millionaires who figured either to profit from them or to get support for their pet ideological projects, as if you can tease out any selfish motives for even those billionaire hobbies. Given the Bush I Gulf War which was the prelude to HW Bush's son's war, I'd say that's three Republican presidencies in a row that have done this and you can bet that there will be another one if Republicans get in again, they are utterly corrupt to start with and they are proven to be suckers for those trying to sell us on another war with terrible consequences. Eisenhower was the last Republican who had any sense when it comes to the cost of war. There won't be another from that party.
I used to say that the war in Iraq was sold in no small part to racists who really believed that the Iraqi People were going to roll over and do American bidding once Saddam Hussein was gone. It wasn't only the neocons who claimed that, Dick Cheney and Little Bush really believed that just as they believed that the utter catastrophe that Afghanistan has always been for empires far closer to it could be brought to heel by the great white hope that they certainly picture America to be. Racism has been the strongest and most durable of malign traits of the United States as a collective entity, it is our greatest evil and our most powerful one. It has ruled many states of the United States every single year of their existence, apart from the brief period of Reconstruction, it has ruled virtually every state in the country for at least part of its existence. It is a mainstay of our media, both the "news" and, especially in so-called entertainment, which is far more powerful than any purported venue that gives out alleged information. It is no accident that Trump has done what not even the two Bushes have done, go directly into a war with Iran which Saddam Hussein was stupid enough to start WITH THE HELP OF THE UNITED STATES AND AT THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION. The racism inherent in our elites as well as in the lowly here leads to a kind of amnesia when the lives destroyed by such wars are not considered white. Well, those so forgotten or not considered to start with don't agree, they have not forgotten and the consequences result in animosities that the average American and even those who get elected president by the worst of us are mystified at.
No deal would be better than the surrender Rubio, Vance, Kushner and the other real estate crook, Witkoff are presenting. Just coming home with our tails between our legs would be better. The worst consequences of this war are guaranteed to be the status quo for decades to come no matter what is signed. By then the, forgive me but there is no other way to put it strongly enough, retarded lard ass of a president the Republicans and the oligarchs gave us will be long rotted in his grave. If the Trump family are true to form it will be either in some grotesque tomb for which they'll get some grift or it will be dumped in a hole on some Trump property for tax purposes. Look where Ivana's brats allowed her corpse to be dumped without any regard for the grave-site. Nothing is sacred to these sub-humans except money. And look where that has brought us.
Just a few thoughts on the treaty to nowhere.
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