The drumbeat for war with Iran
The amount of anti-Iranian propaganda masquerading as informed comment over this Saudi drone strike in our media is extraordinary.
The nature of these attacks is that the tech is too sophisticated for rebel groups or terrorist groups and that they can’t be easily identified to any country. Into that void is trundled that narrative that it’s Iran.
This is insane.
There are many players in this game who want to trick America into a war with Iran, and there is no actual reason why Iran would directly wish to start a war.
The first case of these mystery drone swarms attacking military hardware occurred against the Russians in Syria last year.
Why on earth the West should collectively rush to support a brutal regime and blatant human rights abuser like Saudi Arabia is utterly beyond me. How could NZ, the country where women first won the right to vote support a country where Women have just been granted the right to drive.
The issue of fragile oil supply lines is simply a reminder as to why NZ needs to be moving to electric cars and 100% renewable energy, it’s not an invitation to get involved in the next American fuck up in the Middle East.
America started a disastrous war in Afghanistan that is still not finished and a fake war in Iran based on Weapons of Mass Destruction that didn’t exist.
Let Jacinda be crystal clear when she meets Trump, NZ will not get involved in another idiotic American adventure in the Middle East.
The possibility that is likely to be ongoing of a middle east war cutting off oil supplies is a much more real and present danger to the transport system here than is a climate catastrophe caused by CO2 . A good reason to have an alternative transport system indeed.
I suspect that Trump does not want to start a war in the middle east or anywhere else, but the deep state is doing everything it can to trapping him in to doing so. More to get rid of him than to get rid of Iran .
An interesting side effect of such a development though , is that it would make US fracked oil production profitable for the first time ever. This would appeal to Mr Trump but I think he would rather use sanctions than missiles.
I bet he does not start a war with Iran whatever happens.
D J S
We don’t want war and we should not get involved in war, only peace
We also need to clean our own backyard up before we get involved in others stick to peace and well being for all our citizens
Imagine, if all the good people of America had got Trump impeached, and they were now represented by President Pence.
Would we already be at war with Iran?
The Yemen Houthi rebels have already claimed responsibility. It is entirely possible (even likely) that they used Iranian weapons to carry out the attack. So what? Half the planet is using US weapons every day for all sorts of crimes (including Saudi’s bombing schools and hospitals with US planes and bombs). Is the US also prepared to take responsibility for each and every atrocity associated with their weapons? This argument is utter nonsense, just like it would be for a crime that involves a car or knife or gun etc and holding the manufacturer/seller responsible.
Even Trump said no to the CP-TPP…..but as for NZ my prediction is it will do as its told as always…….just wait and see…..