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<\/p>\nby Eric Peters<\/p>\n
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Curiously \u2013 perhaps not \u2013\u00a0 the war has resumed but only two parties appear involved, Iran and the United States. Israel is quiet, which is curious since the war began because Israel started it (Trump has publicly acknowledged this). Now it appears the war does not involve Israel at all.<\/p>\n
Fascinating<\/em>, as Mr. Spock says. The truth, of course, is that this war between Iran and the United States is an example of let\u2019s you and him fight \u2013 on behalf of Israel. To serve the interests of Israel is perhaps a more accurate way to put it. Does anyone ask why<\/em> we are at war with Iran? This far-away country that didn\u2019t attack us before we (along with Israel) attacked it? What\u2019s that all about? America \u2013 more finely, Americans (as opposed to the interests that control America) \u2013 derive no benefit from being at war with Iran. But Israel does. It serves Israel\u2019s interests to hammer the Iranians. Well, why<\/em> is America hammering Iran for the sake of Israel? We are not supposed to ask such questions. It is \u201canti-Semitic\u201d to ask such questions.<\/p>\n Oy vey,<\/em> as they say.<\/p>\n Israel is quiet all of a sudden because Americans had been getting loud \u2013 about this strange and evil business of our country going to war on behalf of Israel. About Trump acting as if he were the president of Israel \u2013 an office he seems to aspire to \u2013 rather than the president of the United States. About paying $4 or more for gas because of Israel. Until about two weeks ago \u2013 just before Trump surrendered to the Iranians via the Memorandum of Agreement \u2013 public sentiment toward Israel and its culpability for starting this war and goading Trump into involving us in it had been souring like cottage cheese left in the sun too long. Something had to be done. The Israelis (and their agents in this country) are not stupid<\/em> people. A redirection was required. The war \u2013 now back on \u2013 is no longer a three-way war. It is \u2013 so it can be presented \u2013 a two-way war. As if it had always been a war between two parties. People forget because the interests want them to forget.<\/p>\n What happened was a pretend cessation of hostilities based on a pretended acceptance of Iran\u2019s terms of surrender, most particularly the understanding that Iran is now the master of the Strait of Hormuz. It is right there in the Memorandum of Surrender Trump pretended to agree to without agreeing to it. He pretended to the American people that he had not agreed to it while pretending to the Iranians that he had. The American people were led to believe the Strait would be re-opened to all traffic, at the behest of the Orange MacArthur. The Iranians were led to believe the Orange MacArthur had agreed to their terms, so when those terms were violated, the Iranians did what you\u2019d expect and responded with force. This became the excuse Trump needed to restart the war and \u2013 so he hoped \u2013 rouse the belligerence of the American volk<\/em> in support of the war, which has been reframed as a war between Iran and the United States and \u2013 look! \u2013 the Iranians started it.<\/p>\n No doubt \u201cBibi\u201d is getting a good laugh out of this. But who will get the last laugh? Has anything changed, beyond the perception<\/em> that this is a war between Iran and the United States? Put another way, does the United States \u2013 that is, Trump \u2013 think he can win the war that he\u2019s lost so far? How, exactly? More bombing runs? It hasn\u2019t much fazed the Iranians so far. Why would it faze them now? An estimated 10 million of them poured into the streets a few days ago to express their respect for the ayatollah murdered by Trump. It does not matter whether you respect the ayatollah. What matters is that 10 million Iranians do. Trump seems not to grasps this \u2013 and neither does \u201cBibi.\u201d There is also a time element at work \u2013 and time is running short. Trump doesn\u2019t have a couple of months to bomb the Iranians back to the \u201cpeace\u201d table. The word is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is close to empty and if it\u2019s not refilled soon, it is not unlikely that gas will soon cost a lot more than $4 per gallon, if gas is available at all. Trump could use domestic supply to provide for America\u2019s needs but then the shock absorber for the rest of the world would be gone and then the impact of the war (and the closing of the Strait, again) will be felt worldwide, in the manner of a 1929-style crash.\u00a0 Or worse.<\/p>\n All for the sake of the contumacious little country that has gone silent, for the moment.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ericpetersautos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/spock--300x251.jpg\")
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