Method To Their Madness

 

I still think that Trump did not want to attack Iran directly with the US military and that he was blackmailed into doing so by Netanyahu and Mossad who have compromising evidence of his multiple rapes of adolescent girls.  (This is a case of the tail being able to wag the dog if the dog in question is a serial pedophile-rapist and the tail has evidence of this in its possession.)

But this article from Richard Medhurst describes the cold, calculating, ruthlessness of the overarching foreign policy of a declining empire:

 But in the background, Washington have been quietly carrying out an armed robbery of the world’s oil and gas supply. All of it.

In just 90 days, the US have executed an energy blitzkrieg decades in the making:

• Hundreds of strikes on Russian tankers and refineries

• Disrupting a third of China’s oil and LNG supply

• Capturing the largest oil reserves on the planet

• Establishing a global naval blockade from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean

And in the process, kidnapped and assassinated two heads of state. We are witnessing the transition of the United States from an empire into a lawless Pirate State, and the birth of what I call the Petrogas-dollar or LNG-Dollar.

Just as Washington used the cover of the Ukraine war, sanctions, and Nordstream bombings to force Russia out of Europe — similarly, they used the cover of the Iran war to finish off Qatar’s position as a global LNG player.

By forcing Doha to declare force majeure on March 4 within the first week of the war, then triggering the retaliatory strikes on Ras Laffan on March 18, Washington took the world’s largest gas field out of the picture — crippling Iran, and sidelining Qatar in one fell swoop.

The claim that Israel carried out this specific strike without informing Washington, is both politically and logistically impossible — made only more suspicious by Netanyahu and Trump’s attempts to profusely distance the White House from it.

Regardless, there can be little doubt that the US and Israel provoked this. At that point, they had spent 3 weeks working their way up the escalation ladder; bombing Iran around the clock, and gauging their responses. Moreover, Tehran had made it abundantly clear (as early as March 12), that any strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure would be met with “an eye for an eye”.

By crippling Qatar’s LNG capacity — even just partially — Washington hit three birds with one stone:

 

 

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HOW all of this was to be achieved was always up for debate.  From the debacle in Europe and the destruction in Ukraine, to the exposure of US weakness in West Asia, to China's quiet confidence in the presence of the senile grifters in the US-American leadership, ... it seems that under Biden and Trump, these globalists have miscalculated.