M.K. Bhadrakumar says that by linking the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the U.S. opened a theater of conflict around the Caspian Sea.
US Merges Wars in Eurasia, West Asia
Category: Iran
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Only One Way Out for Trump
The question ahead of the latest summit with Netanyahu on Tuesday is what the U.S. president will lose — either a war, on the one hand, or on the other, the global economy and the American electorate.
WATCH: TWTW — The Return of McCarthyism
Biden began recent government-assisted censorship but Trump’s unleashed a return of full-blown McCarthyism in which “communism” is again the greatest menace — as criticism of Iran and Ukraine policy is stifled. Watch the replay.
Will Iran Be Another ‘Forever War?’
John Mearsheimer discusses with Chris Hedges the balance of power in the Middle East, U.S. military capacity and possible outcomes of the U.S.-Iran War.
Gulf Arabs & Subsidized Occupation
The pivot of Arab Gulf states away from historical Arab nationalism to Western alignment has sacrificed the Palestinian cause to transactional diplomacy and dynastic preservation, writes M. Reza Behnam.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Enduring US War on Russia
Eisenhower’s warning that U.S. policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite explains why Washington sustains the war in Ukraine as a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale.
WATCH: TWTW — Israel Gets Its Way — Again
It had appeared the U.S. was defying Israel by ending the war with Iran. But now full scale conflict is back and Israel is happy. Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter. Watch the replay.
Perception of Iran: Veils, Beards & the Bomb
The American understanding of Iran is a triumph of geopolitical minimalism, writes M. Reza Behnam, reducing a country with millennia-old legacy as a sophisticated and culturally vibrant civilization to a holy trinity of stereotypes.
Alastair Crooke: Iran War 3.0
The timeline of this new bout of escalation is likely dictated by U.S. refinery inventories and the extent of the “hurt” being experienced by Trump back home in the context of his fading political prospects.
WATCH: TWTW — ‘NATO’s Russia Obsession’
NATO recommitted to direct war with Russia by 2030, with or without the U.S. it seems, as Trump’s fruity Iran policy plays in a loop with Israel ready to relaunch full-scale war. Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter. WATCH the Replay.