President Trump’s dismissal of Tulsi Gabbard’s Iran assessment and his alignment with Israeli interests suggest deeper U.S. complicity in escalating Middle East tensions and undermining a multipolar world order.
Israel, Israel, Tisk, Tisk!
An AP story this week tells us Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year. She said Tehran has no nukes and has no intention of building them. To this, after conversations with his pal Ben Netanyahu, Trump replies, “I don’t care what she says.” If Elon Musk dropping Trump from his party list was not a glaring sign, Gabbard being shoved into a closet in the White House sure should be.
Let’s look at this Israel-Iran situation from a closeup and a wider view angle. First, minutes after Netanyahu’s IDF hit nuclear facilities, military leaders and scientists in their homes, Trump and the NATO gang claimed no role in the ghastly attack. Imagine blowing up scientists in their apartments and then later pushing to kill off Iran’s leader like he is a bug. It’s too bad those refuelling tankers goofed and turned back on their transponders. Let’s face it: where one German Airbus A400M is refuelling Israeli jets, there have been a lot more in the past week. And now, suddenly, President Trump is saying “we” have total air superiority over Tehran. Wait, now “we” are involved a few days after he says we were clueless?
Multi-Polar, Schmulti-Polar
Tulsi Gabbard has walked back her assessment now, in the same way, Elon Musk apologized to Trump over the former playboy’s relationship with shamed sex-trafficking billionaire (Mossad, some say) Jeff Epstein. One had to wonder what Trump has on Tulsi at this point. I guess that, like any mafia boss, Trump would never allow anyone in his inner circle whom he could not leverage or dismiss at will. Now we get to the broader view, and Donald Trump’s demanding Tehran’s “unconditional surrender” or else!!! Yeah, talk about side winding vipers.
What if. Sometimes, the unimaginable is precisely what we should all be thinking about. What if the Ukraine affair, America having an idiot president replaced by a thump-head puppet of the Israelis and Wall Street, and ruining the emerging multipolar world are all strategies? Let’s face it: Russia, China, the BRICS, everything the liberal world order fears, are in the big Netanyahu blow-up. Vladimir Putin is in a bind, caught somewhere between full military mobilization and grinding out the conflict in Ukraine. Tehran is ground zero, but Pakistan is done for if the United States does an Iraq WOMD invasion of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s country. Pakistan would then be surrounded by belligerent states, making it only a matter of time before Islamabad would resemble Havanna, Cuba. Russia would also lose a key ally, and the BRICS would lose one of its wealthiest members. I’ll let you imagine the ramifications, but replacing the dollar would be out of the question at the point where both Iran and Pakistan trigger the domino effect.
And what about China’s and Russia’s aspirations for trade and prosperity? For starters, the Belt and Road Initiative would abruptly end, since Tehran and Minsk are choke points. China also imports about 90% of Iran’s oil exports. This energy is highly discounted because of a $400 billion trade deal struck between the two countries in 2020. Additionally, there is potential for freer trade between Iran and Pakistan via railways and ports, which would likely open up opportunities for Afghanistan and other countries. With this broader view, we see the pressure being applied from West to East, just as it was in the Cold War days. Sadly, but interestingly, the direction of sneak attacks against Russia and Iran in the last few days is another telltale sign of who’s behind it all. The attacks, for those familiar with the cardinal directions, were from West to East and probably coordinated just like the next moves we’ll see.
Who’s All In?
Will Iran surrender “unconditionally” to Israel or whoever? If they do, the dreamy state of Greater Israel will come into being, every Palestinian will either be dead or homeless, and the multipolar world so many have hoped and fought for will probably never materialize. Whoever is so in love with Benjamin Netanyahu is intent on taking the whole planet. Oh, and since I had personally put my faith (with prayers) in Trump’s words and deeds during the first 100 days, I should let the readers in on the first suspicions I had about his presidency. Some will recall a moment in the Oval Office where Trump was signing a stack of proclamations right after the inauguration. With the press there, Trump gestured into a corner and bragged about Oracle boss Larry Ellison and the notorious Putin hater Rupert Murdoch, sitting in the corner. Ellison is Jewish on his mother’s side and has made considerable contributions to Israel’s military. Rupert Murdoch has been one of Israel’s most prominent supporters for decades.
Finally, who can say how the chips will fall in the coming days? For Russia’s, China’s, and especially Pakistan’s part, it seems like the right time to go “all in.” If Israel can murder over 50,000 unarmed civilians with impunity and deliver first strikes on any enemy it chooses, God knows what the next steps are. Air superiority, warning Tehran citizens to evacuate, demanding surrender when America and Europe are not supposed to be involved? The Third World War has already started, so it’s win-or-lose time.
Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books
