It
is reported that the American Empire has had numerous opportunities to kill Gen
Soleimani over the years, but did not do so until a few days ago. Why?
Federico Pieraccini has an answer to that question.
Firstly,
it is to forestall the development of friendly relations between Iran and Saudi
Arabia:
. . . it was difficult for Prime Minister Adil
Abdul-Mahdi to reveal the weekslong backstory behind the terrorist attack.
I was supposed to meet him
[Soleimani] later in the morning when he was killed. He came to deliver a
message from Iran in response to the message we had delivered to the Iranians
from the Saudis.
. . .
What clearly emerges is that the success of the
operation against Soleimani had nothing to do with the intelligence gathering
of the U.S. or Israel. It was known to all and sundry that Soleimani was
heading to Baghdad in a diplomatic capacity that acknowledged Iraq’s efforts to
mediate a solution to the regional crisis with Saudi Arabia.
It would seem that the Saudis,
Iranians and Iraqis were well on the way towards averting a regional conflict
involving Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Riyadh’s reaction to the American strike
evinced no public joy or celebration. Qatar, while not seeing eye to eye with
Riyadh on many issues, also immediately expressed solidarity with Tehran,
hosting a meeting at a senior government level with Mohammad Zarif Jarif, the
Iranian foreign minister. Even Turkey and Egypt,
when commenting on the asassination, employed moderating language.
. . .
But
that itself plays into the larger geopolitical picture. The Holy American Republic under Pres Trump’s
faction of the Deep State is trying desperately to avoid the collapse of the
unipolar world order that it has sat atop since the fall of the Soviet Union,
and it is using all means at its disposal to do this - military, economic,
religious (more on this last one later, we hope):
When the words of the Iraqi prime
minister are linked back to the geopolitical and energy agreements in the
region, then the worrying picture starts to emerge of a desperate U.S. lashing
out at a world turning its back on a unipolar world order in favor of the
emerging multipolar about which I have long
written.
The US, now considering itself a net
energy exporter as a result of the shale-oil revolution (on which the jury is
still out), no longer needs to import oil from the Middle East. However, this
does not mean that oil can now be traded in any other currency other than the
U.S. dollar.
The petrodollar is what ensures that
the U.S. dollar retains its status as the global reserve currency, granting the
U.S. a monopolistic position from which it derives enormous benefits from
playing the role of regional hegemon.
This privileged position of holding
the global reserve currency also ensures that the U.S. can easily fund its war
machine by virtue of the fact that much of the world is obliged to buy its
treasury bonds that it is simply able to conjure out of thin air. To threaten
this comfortable arrangement is to threaten Washington’s global power.
Even so, the geopolitical and
economic trend is inexorably towards a multipolar world order, with China
increasingly playing a leading role, especially in the Middle East and South
America.
. . .
Washington would like to
prevent any Eurasian integration by unleashing chaos and destruction in the
region, and killing Soleimani served this purpose. The U.S. cannot
contemplate the idea of the dollar losing its status as the global reserve
currency. Trump is engaging in a desperate gamble that could have disastrous
consequences.
. . .
To try and keep
everyone in line, Washington is left to resort to terrorism, lies and
unspecified threats of visiting destruction on friends and enemies alike.
Trump has evidently
been convinced by someone that the U.S. can do without the Middle East, that it
can do without allies in the region, and that nobody would ever dare to sell
oil in any other currency than the U.S. dollar.
Soleimani’s death
is the result of a convergence of U.S. and Israeli interests. With no other way
of halting Eurasian integration, Washington can only throw the region into
chaos by targeting countries like Iran, Iraq and Syria that are central to the
Eurasian project. While Israel has never had the ability or audacity to carry
out such an assassination itself, the importance of the Israel Lobby to Trump’s
electoral success would have influenced his decision, all the more so in an
election year .
Trump believed his
drone attack could solve all his problems by frightening his opponents, winning
the support of his voters (by equating Soleimani’s assassination to Osama bin
Laden’s), and sending a warning to Arab countries of the dangers of deepening
their ties with China.
The assassination
of Soleimani is the U.S. lashing out at its steady loss of influence in the
region. The Iraqi attempt to mediate a lasting peace between Iran and Saudi
Arabia has been scuppered by the U.S. and Israel’s determination to prevent
peace in the region and instead increase chaos and instability.
Washington has not
achieved its hegemonic status through a preference for diplomacy and calm
dialogue, and Trump has no intention of departing from this approach.
--Ibid.
The
killing of Gen Soleimani was not about justice, safety, or any such thing. It was about a ruthless empire keeping the
peoples of the world in the deathgrip of its eagle talons. The self-anointed ‘chosen nation’ could do no
other.
The
American Supremacists who style themselves conservatives - whether the Evangelical
type at American Family Radio, the Family Research Council, etc., or those more
given to overt worship of the idol of Americanism like Rush Limbaugh - and are
staunchly standing behind Pres Trump’s actions vis-à-vis Gen Soleimani and Iran
are harming their credibility and setting themselves up for a fall.
***
The
many dishonesties of Pres Trump’s speech delivered the morning after Iran’s
missile attacks are laid bare by Mr Daniel Larison here:
Anyone
who thinks Pres Trump is an honorable man would seem to be mistaken. Here is a little more about how he has
behaved lately with regard to Iraq, as told by the Iraqi Prime Minister himself:
The Iraqi prime minister,
Adil Abdul-Mahdi, has revealed details of his interactions with Trump in the
weeks leading up to Soleimani’s assassination in a speech to the Iraqi
parliament. He tried to explain several times on live television how Washington
had been browbeating him and other Iraqi members of parliament to toe the
American line, even threatening to engage in false-flag sniper shootings of
both protesters and security personnel in order to inflame the situation, recalling
similar modi operandi seen in Cairo in 2009, Libya in 2011, and Maidan in 2014.
The purpose of such cynicism was to throw Iraq into chaos.
. . .
Abdul-Mehdi spoke angrily about how the
Americans had ruined the country and now refused to complete infrastructure and
electricity grid projects unless they were promised 50% of oil revenues, which
Abdul-Mehdi refused.
The complete (translated) words of Abdul-Mahdi’s
speech to parliament:
This is why I
visited China and signed an important agreement with them to undertake the
construction instead. Upon my return, Trump called me to ask me to reject this
agreement. When I refused, he threatened to unleash huge demonstrations against
me that would end my premiership.
Huge demonstrations
against me duly materialized and Trump called again to threaten that if I did
not comply with his demands, then he would have Marine snipers on tall
buildings target protesters and security personnel alike in order to pressure
me.
I refused again and
handed in my resignation. To this day the Americans insist on us rescinding our
deal with the Chinese.
After this, when
our Minister of Defense publicly stated that a third party was targeting both
protestors and security personnel alike (just as Trump had threatened he would
do), I received a new call from Trump threatening to kill both me and the
Minister of Defense if we kept on talking about this “third party”.
--Pieraccini, from same
story as above
Folks
need to keep those words in mind next time Pres Trump or someone from his
administration declare their unyielding dedication to the sanctity of human
life (and with the March for Life coming up soon in Washington City, such
hypocritical words will likely be flowing in abundance).
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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