Trump
Is Being Set-up for War with Iran
By Paul
Craig Roberts
May 13,
2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- Trump destroyed
his chance at being a successful president by
the stupid appoinments he has made.
At the moment he is being set up by his
national security advisor John Bolton and Israel
for a war with Iran.
Using
the same format of lies that was used against
Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Venezuela, Bolton has
accused Iran of “troubling and escalatory
indications” of a forthcoming Iranian attack on
American forces in the Middle East.
To help protect against the attack,
Bolton has ordered Patriot missile batteries, an
aircraft carrier strike group, and a bomber
strike force to the region.
Even the Israeli newspaper,
Haaretz,
pointed out
that Bolton failed to identify the “troubling
and escalatory” Iranian actions.
No one else has seen any sign of them.
The
reason for the Patriot missiles is not to deter
Iran from an attack, but to prevent successful
Iranian response to an attack on Iran.
This is the likely situation:
The deal between the Washington Ziocons
and Netanyahu is that either Israel will attack
an American ship or whatever is selected, and it
will be blamed on Iran, thus forcing Trump to
“defend America” and retaliate, or Israel using
American disguise will attack Iran, thus
provoking a response from Iran.
Iran is already on hair trigger from having been
provoked excessively by Washington withdrawing
from the Iranian nuclear agreement, reimposing
sanctions, and making endless false accusations
against Iran, as Washington has done against
Russia, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Yemen.
It wouldn’t take much more to set off
Iranian emotions.
Trump
is clearly set-up.
If Bolton and Netanyahu want the US at
war with Iran, it is their call.
And
they do want the US at war with Iran.
Iran and Syria back Hezbollah, and
Hezbollah prevents Israel’s annexation of
southern Lebanon, which Israel has twice tried
only to have its army, which is not good for
anything except killing unarmed women and
children in Gaza, quickly defeated by Hezbollah.
Thus, eliminating support for Hezbollah
is a high priority for Israel and its
neoconservative allies in Washington.
The
neoconservatives have an additional reason for
delivering chaos to Iran.
If Bolton can produce a situation in Iran
like the one the US created in Libya, Iraq, and
Syria, American-supplied jihadists can be
infiltrated into Muslin provinces in the Russian
Federation as punishment for Russia’s
independent stance in world affairs.
The
stakes for Russia are higher in Iran than in
Syria.
Russia can stand aside only at huge cost
to itself.
China
also has an interest.
Until the Russian energy pipeline to
China is completed, China needs Iranian oil.
Disruption of Iran by chaos is a way of
throttling China by reducing China’s energy
supply.
The war
that Bolton and Netanyahu are preparing to
spring on Trump is likely to be much larger than
they think.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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