Please exonerate me from all blame as you read this story.
US president, Donald Trump, whose various shenanigans over the Republic of Iran, have totally failed, has now reached a state of total mental collapse.
Three mighty scholars, Columbia’s Jeffrey Sachs, Chicago’s John Mearsheimer and Harvard’s Steve Walt have all come to the conclusion that Trump has reached his wit’s ends.
Sachs says that this total failure has added to Trump’s already pre-existing mental disorders including dementia. Sachs said the bad word-that Trump is now “Loonie.”
Two scoops!
The US-Israel governments, working on the Venezuela model, where the US is credited with the bribery of some presidential guards, assumed that by murdering Iran’s Holy Father, Ayatollah Khamenei- February 28, they could impress Khamenei’s son, who lost a leg and a 14- month daughter in the incident to “be nice and reasonable.”
I will not blame the reader if he is forced to laugh (Zimbabwe English).
Further, even assuming that Iranians want to surrender to the US-Israel cabal, what is waiting for them is worse than death.
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“I will take their oil.” Please don’t laugh. The advantage of a Trump presidency and its character flaws is Trump’s loud mouth.
Sending Reza Pavhlavi (the late Shah’s son) back to Iran was one consideration.
Investigative reporter, Pepe Escobar, stumbled on a scoop, 21 August. Trump has approached Iranian General Ahmad Vahidi “to break with (own) government through enormous financial inducements.”
Anybody with the sense of a horse will realize that Mustabha (Khamenei’s son) and Vahidi’s co-operation with Americans is worse than death.
In any case, Trump forgets that the war on Iran (February 28) was not authorized by the United Nations and was unprovoked on Iran’s part. Professor Sachs says that there is no avoiding the fact that we (the Americans) are being led by ignorant, arrogant and “loonie” people with too much power.
D-Day sanctions
But the situation gets worse as US Treasury secretary (August 24) announces total economic sanctions, not only on Iran but on its neighbors.
Dubai is the financial centre of the Middle East. The 10 million Emirati population imports all sorts of goods from its neighbor, Iran, to the tune of US$28 billion a year. Iran is 36 miles across the Hormuz waterway.
Besant wants the Emiratis to close the border. There is more. Iranian Melli Bank, with 36 branches in the Emirates “must be shattered and dark.” Bessant.
Bessant will impose none use of dollar sanctions on China, Pakistan, Russia and India-countries which either have common borders with Iran or do business with Iran.
The scoop here is that Bessant has not asked for United Nations approval. Therefore, international sanctions are ultra-vires outside the United Nations approval.
Iran has seven border countries to which Bessant is giving orders to comply.
Canada fights back.
The arrogance of the Trump administration is especially acute in its dealing with Canada.
Trump and Bessant have openly advised Canadian officials that they should go along with whatever Uncle Sam says if they want any trade advantages from the US.
For instance, automobile companies like Ford Falcon, Chrysler Pacifica and Toyota Rava (mid-size cars) were made in Canada but were best sellers in the US. Canadian lumber products were, according to Americans, 30 percent cheaper and out competed American lumber.
Trump not only imposed a tariff ranging from 15-25%, but is threatening to impose a 50 percent tariff come January 27.
All this is well, but the arrogance comes when the Canadians seek to redirect their trade towards China and Japan. US negotiators demand that they be consulted first.
Restrictions of Canadian competition, however, carries favor among American trade unions who see this effort as an attempt to seek America First goods before accepting cheaper foreign goods.
Canadian prime minister sees the issues differently. He objects to the American “attitude, that Canada is a subsidiary of the US, and that Canadian industry is going to be disadvantaged… that we are going to set up terms so that over time Canadian industry is going t face headwinds.”
That is the issue. Either Canada is swallowed by the US or, in the long run, its industry will be destroyed.
Canada, because of its proximity to the US, has all the knowledge and access to oil mining and refining technology which Iran wants. Under Bessant’s terms, Canada is not free to negotiate independently.
Now the Canadians know what it means to be colonized.
The “loonie stuff” goes on. Secretary Bessant wants China, which receives 90 percent of its oil from Iran to stop and desist from any interactions with that country.
The mind-set of these hegemonists is illustrated by Professor Sachs. While giving evidence at the United Nations Security Council, he was surprised to hear each country say these words after Iran had been attacked by US-Israel (February 28).
“I come to condemn Iran.” British delegate.
“I come to condemn Iran,” German delegate.
“Iran must show restraint,” French delegate.
“I come to condemn Iran,” Spain.
Sachs remined himself that it was the US-Israelis who attacked Iran without provocation and murdered its leaders.
Sachs had to get his earphones checked. When he recovered, he reiterated that Besant’s “directive” that all oil in the world must be sold in US dollars is sheer “lunacy” (his favorite word). There are now alternative market mechanisms that can be used between countries without resort to the US dollar.
The failure by US-Israelis to defeat Iran, and the destruction of 11 US bases in the Middle East, is evidence that the world is moving away from US dollar domination.
*Ken Mufuka is a Zimbabwean patriot.
