U.S. Attempts “Fade Away” in Iran – Chas Freeman

Who are more delusional, the Americans or the Europeans? It’s hard to choose. Rubio claims Hormuz is already open, oil is coming through, and the US blockade combined with sanctions is exerting growing pressure on Iran. He is “full of schadenfreude”, as Chas Freeman puts it, for the poor Iranian people, the US government has brought these terrible sanctions upon them. Chas calls this “a false narrative that served very well to justify a fade out from the region: Oh, we destroyed their navy, they didn’t have an air force, but we destroyed it, they didn’t have nuclear weapons, but we destroyed those, too. And we battered their army and we battered their people and we battered their economy and we really punished them for whatever reason. And so now we’ve done enough punishment and they’re not in a position to cause us any trouble. So just let them sit there and stew in their own juice and we’ll go to Mar-a-Lago and have fun.”

This is a fade away strategy to get the war out of the headlines and pretend we won, as was done with Yemen, but, as Col. Davis puts it, “we’ll see how that is going to work out”. Iran’s emergence as a the dominant regional power in West Asia is becoming clearer by the day. Iran is the only country that can mediate in the Yemen-Saudi war, and the Saudi’s as well as all the other Gulf countries must recognize that or be destroyed. Moreover, Iran is steadily increasing their offensive missile and drone capacity. They probably have missiles now that can sink those aircraft carriers, and they can easily develop nuclear weapons if they decide that it must be done. Furthermore, Supreme Leader Mokhtaba Khaminei has indicated that the US “No war, no peace” strategy combined with with all this fake rhetoric is not acceptable to Iran, and they may decide to strike at any time.

The discussion then comes to Ukraine, where the Russians want a new security agreement for all of Europe that includes them, but the EU in the person of its foreign minister Kaja Kallas has said that a security agreement for Europe already exists, but the only problem is that Russia is not abiding by it. The fact that the expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders violates and renders null and void any previous agreements with the EU or European countries, thus necessitating a new security agreement is not mentioned by Kallas. But it is nevertheless interesting that Kushner is talking about such a new security agreement that would include Russia, and the Europeans are afraid of being cut out of the deal.