Mel Gurtov: Beijing and Moscow gain from Donald Trump’s war in Iran
The U.S. war on Iran has put China in an uncomfortable position. With Donald Trump’s official visit upcoming in April, the Chinese don’t want to go overboard in their criticism.
The U.S. war on Iran has put China in an uncomfortable position. With Donald Trump’s official visit upcoming in April, the Chinese don’t want to go overboard in their criticism.
Dysfunction, decadence, depravity and a death cult: that, in a nutshell, sums up the mindset now at the heart of the Trump administration.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the “supreme leader,” has been killed. He was a brutal leader. But his murder does not justify all the others.
The war in Iran may be causing some families to rethink international travel with a number of flight cancellations to the Middle East.
The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces. War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises.
War is terrible, and unfortunately, we have another one on our hands; in the Middle East, of all places, where we don’t exactly have a sparkling track record.
We’re now at war with Iran, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, because Benjamin Netanyahu told us he was planning to attack Iranian targets, and we needed to protect U.S. interests in the Middle East from retaliatory attacks from Tehran.
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have launched a campaign against Iran with maximalist aims and minimalist means.
Junior officer Pete Hegseth is vowing that Iran is “not Iraq,” which is only true in that, Iran is going to make Iraq look like Grenada.
The U.S. and Israel are now at war with Iran, over Iran’s nuclear program, which was supposedly obliterated, per the insistence of Donald Trump, a few months ago by a round of U.S. and Israeli air strikes, but apparently wasn’t.
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