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Analysis. "b" doesn't mention it, but all analysis needs to focus on the big picture, in which China is the only adversary that the US perceives as an actual threat to permanent US global hegemony. Russia is just a sideshow in this. Therefore, every analysis should ask what US policy and actions imply with respect to China. An obvious economic goal of the US is to be able to shut down the export of energy to China. This is an overarching aspect of what's up in the Middle East and Central Asia. "b" does make another point is highly significant. The US is alone in this policy shift, and the country itself is split on it. It doesn't make strategic sense and seems to be another blunder in a region that the US has committed a number of blunders already and mired in unwindable
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: Iran, Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA, US
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Analysis. "b" doesn't mention it, but all analysis needs to focus on the big picture, in which China is the only adversary that the US perceives as an actual threat to permanent US global hegemony. Russia is just a sideshow in this. Therefore, every analysis should ask what US policy and actions imply with respect to China. An obvious economic goal of the US is to be able to shut down the export of energy to China. This is an overarching aspect of what's up in the Middle East and Central Asia. "b" does make another point is highly significant. The US is alone in this policy shift, and the country itself is split on it. It doesn't make strategic sense and seems to be another blunder in a region that the US has committed a number of blunders already and mired in unwindable
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: Iran, Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA, US
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Analysis.
"b" doesn't mention it, but all analysis needs to focus on the big picture, in which China is the only adversary that the US perceives as an actual threat to permanent US global hegemony. Russia is just a sideshow in this.
Therefore, every analysis should ask what US policy and actions imply with respect to China.
An obvious economic goal of the US is to be able to shut down the export of energy to China. This is an overarching aspect of what's up in the Middle East and Central Asia.
"b" does make another point is highly significant. The US is alone in this policy shift, and the country itself is split on it.
It doesn't make strategic sense and seems to be another blunder in a region that the US has committed a number of blunders already and mired in unwindable wars. Overreach is how empires fail.
Moon of Alabama
Trump Ends The Nuclear Deal With Iran - What's Next?
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Israel will now drive the US to war with Iran.
Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)
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"b" mentions this.
The US has a history of non honoring its word. This is not only dis honorable but it is also evidence that negotiating with the US is waste of time.
RT
Trump’s decision to withdraw from Iran deal shows US unable to negotiate – Russian Foreign Ministry
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I am told that Israeli electronic counter-measure units started a massive jamming effort against air defense assets in Syria three days ago. Israeli ground forces on the Golan Front have been placed on high alert. IMO a false flag attack on Israel is likely. plSic Semper Tyrannis
Israel will now drive the US to war with Iran.
Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)
At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates. From 1992 to 1994, all the U.S. military attachés worldwide reported to him. During that period, he also briefed President George H. W. Bush at the White House, as he had during Operation Desert Storm.
He was also the head of intelligence analysis for the Middle East for seven or eight years at that institution. He was the head of all the Middle East and South Asia analysis in DIA for counter-terrorism for seven years. For his service in the DIA, Lang received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. — Wikipedia