Kane View

War Mongers and Sycophants and Psychopaths: A Replay

As the drums of war grow louder inside the White House and as Trump’s orgasmic dreams of bombing Iran on his way out get more vivid, I remembered a post put up here in April 2019 and thought it an appropriate reread.

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With National Security adviser John Bolton, a long-time war monger and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a newly forged Trump sycophant, acting as front men, the Administration is ratcheting up its agenda for war with Iran. And recent moves by Trump is making the international community a little bit nervous.

Just days ago, the Administration named Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group. See Has Trump Locked U.S. and Iran into a “Permanent State of Enmity” by Listing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization?

Iran responded on Tuesday, see Iran’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday requiring the government take firm steps to respond to “terrorist actions” by U.S. forces.

The Administration, also just days ago, declared it will impose sanctions on our allies who do oil business with Iran. See U.S. to impose sanctions on allies in drive to push Iranian oil sales to zero.

The ‘world’ is getting the gitters but at least one country plans a pushback. See The Tightened U.S Ban on Iran Rattles Oil World. China likely to continue buying Iran’s oil.

But wait, there’s more.

It should come as no surprise that Republicans are not confronting Trump on these latest Iran moves. We just have to go back a mere four years to October 2015 to witness how those oh-so-patriotic, oh-so-brave Republicans stood up for the USA as they confronted that ‘evil empire’, Iran.