The U.N. secretary-general, China, Russia, Pakistan and other nations condemned the U.S. bombings of three Iranian nuclear sites, with Russia calling it “irresponsible, dangerous and provocative.”
Somalia and Algeria also condemned the U.S. action. Sierra Leone said the U.S. acted without Security Council authorization, nor under legitimate self-defense. Russia accused the U.S. of “gambling with the safety of all of humanity.”
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the council:
“The bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States marks a perilous turn in a region that is already reeling. From the outset of the crisis, I have repeatedly condemned any military escalation in the Middle East.”
Britain called for “de-escalation.” Britain and France both stressed that they did not take part in the U.S. attack and France expressed “concern” about what Washington had done.
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Russia in particular should know better than to think the West understands anything but force. No one cares about their condemnations, and it is time for Russia, China, and others to put up or shut up. They are all passive observers of the Second Holocaust who care only about themselves; meet the new world order, same as the old world order.
What an absurd, disordered representation the U.N. Security Council parades before us, pretending that it can ensure adherence to international law to protect innocent civilians. Once again, the Council finds itself unable to take effective action because if a major power vetoes a Council resolution, the motion cannot pass. So much for maintaining international peace and security.
The IAEA is, indeed, acting on behalf of “the West”, which is to say that it is acting dishonestly and in service to the West and Israel. It should also be noted that the UN Secretary General acts as the errand boy of the West, as witnessed by, among other things, his failure to condemn the unprovoked attacks by Israel and the US on Iran. Our international institutions are so corrupted by the West that they have ceased to function as intended. What has the UN done to end the genocide of the Palestinians? Absolutely nothing meaningful.
Lots of indignation, protests, etc. etc. and results? NOTHING! Expel israel and the US out of the UN.
Today, the IAEA is illustrating just how crooked the UN is. The IAEA, after providing Trump with the prompt bomb-damage reports from the Iranian nuclear site, is now demanding that the Iranians immediately tell the IAEA (aka, the Americans) exactly where they moved their enriched uranium stockpiles so that the Americans can target the new sites.
This is the same IAEA that can pontificate about Iran’s compliance with the NPT, but completely ignore Israel’s status as a Rogue Nuclear State. This is the UN, in all its modern, empire-serving, war-loving glory.
Here’s what I want to see with Argentinian Guterres. He is sitting there talking, and talking, and when he says he has “deep concern”, a Groucho Marx style rubber chicken drops on a string from the ceiling, announcing an award for the 10,000th time Guterres has expressed “deep concern” about the actions of the USA and Israel. Or maybe the 1,000,000th, as I don’t bother to count the droppings behind the man.
Here’s the role of the UN. They do nothing while atrocities are being planned, and even when they are announced in advance. But they generally let the atrocity proceed with their silent blessing. After the atrocity, and the associated screaming, crying and pain, they come around and do two things…. they express ‘deep concern’, and they ask the USA if the funding check is in the mail.
Then, the UN comes out and as forcefully as possible says that the criminals must not be punished. That any attempt to bring the criminals to justice would be an escalation and a breach of the peace. While of course once again asking the Americans if the funding check is in the mail.
That the UN meets in NYC only shows what a complete joke this is. If the UN was fit for purpose, it would have left NYC decades ago due to its non-neutral statues. But, the UN apparently loves the luxury that its seat at the heart of empire provides.
In Romania we have a saying: God has taken their minds away.
This implies, psychologically, that these in(s)ane people act on psychological forces that are beyond their control.
High affect blocks thinking and Trump is a perfect example of it.
It’s as if there is an archetypal desire for total destruction in the world and people like Netanyahu or Trump (to name a few) are in the grip of such an archetype.
The archetype of the Apocalypse is in full display today as Edward Edinger wrote about at the end of the 1990s.
there is no doubt in my mind that people responsible for viciously attacking and wanting to destroy Iran -most of them are known publicly some in the background are not- are psychopaths and criminally insane! talking about God and good versus evil -by that I mean spiritual thought-these people who have sold their soul, that is spiritual being, for material gain promised to them by what I consider to be the evil spirit that religious people would call the devil. So these people are evil spirit=devil worshippers, in that we are witnessing a hopefully final battle of good spirit against evil spirit on a global scale centred on the middle east and eastern Europe for time being..there is hoping that good spirit will defeat evil spirit sooner or later, if not existence on this planet will end up unbearable, death will be merciful, living will be existential hell for majority of human kind…scary shit happening all around us mostly innocent bystanders as the gates of hell are wide open with those criminally insane leading dumbed down masses on the highway to hell..! I am 75 years of age, never expected to witness all this evil taking hold of human society in my life time, but here I go, I am so tired of all this shit and will be gratefully dead when fate has decided my exit to eternity finally!
You said my exact thoughts beautifully!
Agreed, but I would include nearly the entire US government in that assessment. Neoconism, along with Zionism, now effectively control policy in at least the executive and legislative branches of the US government (nearly every Congressperson is being supported and monitored by AIPAC). Neoconism is exactly a mental derangement in the order of “me first, me only, and the hell with everyone else.” Has anyone forgotten Bush, Cheney and the illegal US invasion and occupation of Iraq? And let’s not forget their mainstream media enablers and cheerleaders, who are still at it.
Now in Europe as well, neoconsim is like a malignancy in the body of nearly every EU and Western nation that over the last 20+ years has metastasized into what we see now where it has a firm grip on the increasingly insane and totalitarian policies of the collective West. Look in particular at the Ukraine and the ME.
This rot goes way beyond the person of Trump. For any meaningful change, you need to swap out nearly the entire current legislative branch of the US, not to mention decisively reforming mainstream media. As I remember, nearly every congressperson gave a standing ovation to Netenyahu. And that was during the Biden admin.
Take a look at Michael Brenner’s article for one, here at Consortium News. Judge Napolitano has also posted a montage video of the statements from Bush and Co. during the lead up the Iraqi invasion. Same playbook as now. You just can’t make this stuff up.
“You just can’t make this stuff up.”
Yes you can. And that’s what I’ve been saying about Clinton, Cheney, Bush, Obama, Biden, Hillary, Kerry, Trump, Pompeo, Harris et al for decades. They can and are making this stuff up.
And, for real change, we now know of course who really runs both parties. The oligarchs behind the puppets. We’ve seen them come out into the light recently. Musk, Thiel, Koch, and others behind the red puppets, and the “mega-donors” who pull the strings on the blue puppets and picked the last nominee without any democracy. If you try to change only the puppets, all you’ll do is create a pile of old string on the floor.
Yes, as the saying goes, one only sees the ones in the spotlight, the ones lurking in the dark one does not see…the ones who are really in control, have been ever since instigating the capitalist revolution that killed kingdoms and aristocracy, the feudal order in short violently overthrown by a handful of central bankers, the creators of credit and takers of interest, the financiers of global capitalist rules based order who really are to blame for all the evil happened in the limitless greedy pursuit of profit by stealing world society resources weaponising religion and ideology in the brutal course of European centred colonialism spanning at least the last five hundred years….the money handlers and lenders were in power then and still are now, one can track them to the financial centres of London and New York, to name just the heart of darkness, worshippers of evil material gain at cost of the majority of humans misery..interestingly by studying history one can discover why there was pogroms from time to time instigated by the unbearably in debt kings and queens aristocrats and who was the usual targets, well, need I say more, those aristocrats knew their worst enemies, but does the majority of human society know their enemy today remains to be seen!