War rages as destruction spreads in Iran, Israel and on U.S. bases, while Gulf Arabs reconsider U.S. ties and the U.S. considers a ground invasion. Ex-C.I.A. officer John Kiriakou gives his insight. Watch the reply.
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If Israel threatened to use a nuclear attack on Iran if the US didn’t help Trump should have said “if you do that we will completely destroy Israel with nuclear bombs”.
But there was once an OPEC oil embargo over the continuing issues of ME wars and soon the Shah was out and a Saudi King was assassinated by a lone gunman and we tried from Vietnam to weaponizing religious regime against communism and soon all kinds of strategic folly ensued and now we are back to stagflation deja vu.
Always good to hear John K’s perspective on such critical matters. Kind of funny, the conversation flow with the fast talking Joe L & his (Bronx?) style and John listening with a little smile on his face then picking right up the points made in response. Good teamwork.
I had been listening earlier to Professor Mirandi and the 1st thing he said Iran would demand for an end to the war is for Israel to get out of Gaza. Disappointing to hear John K say that demand was not included in the recent exchange between Iran & US through interlocutors. What will stop Israeli madness in the end I shudder to think.
Thank you for going the extra mile, CN.
With regard to the US replacing the radar units on which its air defense systems (“inefficient” as they are, see below) rely: Besides the reluctance of gulf Arab countries to accept new, proven targets in their countries, unless the entire systems (i.e. missiles + radar) are redesigned and UPDATED, given the manufacture time of 8 years ( quoted with straight faces by corporate arms makers), then the result will be US “defense” systems technologically 4-5 generations behind Iran’s offensive capabilities instead of the current 2-3 generations deficiency.
One major reason the empire is crumbling is that its arms manufacturing is done for profit, while that of its meticulously cultivated and energetically provoked “adversaries” is done for purpose.
Re US blaming the Iranian people for the failure of its full-scale, unprovoked, aggressive war against them: blaming the victim is one of the more repulsive and pernicious characteristics of the country founded on genocide and slavery that is apparently unable to avoid treating the rest of the external world with similar depravity.
“The Twilight Zone”. LOL
But we know the Twilight Zone was fiction.
Until now!!!!