The Real Reason Trump Cancelled The Strike on Iran

[Deep State Witch]

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Is worse than you think.

[WestMichRad]

1. K&R

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This is very important and informative, folks… explaining the shifting power dynamics of the Middle East oil trade.

In a nutshell (this is a vast oversimplification!), the U.S. has been aligned with the Saudis and against Iran. Not just for oil; Saudi petrodollars prop up the U.S. economy in a MAJOR way. But the Saudis, looking for a more secure future, have quietly allied themselves with Iran and China… (and Israel, but that’s a side story). Saudi cooperation with USA (nope, meant to say Iran here!) would collapse if the Iranian regime falls, so they have probably played a major role behind the curtain in getting TSF to back off bombing Iran in support of the uprisings there.

Please watch the video!

[Deep State Witch]

2. Thanks!

This one made the most sense to me. I've been an Iran watcher since at least 2015. I didn't stop when I retired, just switched to OSINT.

[cachukis]

3. Well explained. Would like a bit on the Abraham Accords.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Overall a decent analysis, but the "fatal mistake" was made in 1953 when we overthrew Iran's democracy

Any nation that supports the torture of another nation's people for over a quarter of a century instead of championing agency and democracy isn't going find a warm and fuzzy welcome from those people, but continued enmity for some period of time.

The OP contends that we first supported the people of Iran. Had we supported the people of Iran, the Shah would've been sent back to them to stand trial for his atrocities, it would be the same as if *rump or Netanyahu after being deposed were taking refuge in Russia. So we never really supported the people of Iran after the revolution, and that's the frame of modern times.

Furthermore the result from her argument of the "brilliance" behind tying the purchase of oil with the dollar is the De Facto motivation by the dominant nations of the world to keep burning global warming fossil fuels regardless of the consequences to the human species at least on a civilizational level "for the sake of the economy," instead of rapidly transitioning to renewable forms of energy.

That's probably why *rump hates windmills.

Thanks for the thread Deep State Witch