In 54 BC, Marcus Licinius Crassus, a rich, ambitious Roman businessman, got himself named governor of the wealthy province of Syria. Crassus had been sharing power in Rome with Pompey and Julius Caesar. Call him the Donald Trump of his day.
Crassus decided to invade neighboring Parthia, which is today Turkey and Iran. At the battle of Carrhae, retreating Persian horse archers loosed arrows over the back of their horses, giving us the literary term for a parting shot, `Parthian shaft.’
The moribund Biden administration loosed its own Parthian shaft this week by having Ukraine fire US-supplied ATACMS tactical missiles – with the help of US military technicians. A handful of British Storm Shadow and French Scalp air-launched missiles were also fired at Russia.
This was clearly an act of war between nuclear powers. Russia responded by launching one of its new hypersonic missiles with multiple warheads at Dnipro, Ukraine. The new Russian medium-ranged missile carried conventional, not nuclear, warheads. But the message was loud and clear: all western Europe was in range.
What, one must ask, was the lame duck Biden administration doing? Clearly trying to provoke an even larger war with Russia.
The outgoing administration is still filled with fanatical Russia-haters. In fact, the Pentagon, CIA, NSA and the rest of America’s 18 national security agencies were packed with dunderheads who think we are still fighting the Cold War and yearn to break up Russia into little Balkanized mini states such as happened to Yugoslavia.
So, the low IQ Biden administration has managed to get itself into a real, unwinnable war in Ukraine and the genocidal disaster in Gaza that also threatens to drag the US into war with Iran (former Parthia) while a huge conflict with China looms just over the geopolitical horizon. Meanwhile, Israel’s extreme right-wing government of fanatical settlers and nouveau rightists seems to be acquiring most of the levers of power in the US. And this is before the uber Israel-first Trump & Co. enters office.
Fools should not be allowed to play with matches. Biden’s foolish neocons can still cause a lot of mayhem before 20 January. Trump keeps vowing to uproot Washington’s deep-seated neocon ‘secret government’ that is the real power behind the scenes. But he is really part of this cabal and seems to share its views. Perhaps Trump will keep his word and begin to break the war party’s grip on power before they manage to ignite a nuclear war with Russia.
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Trump’s cabinet will be filled with crazed Zionists frothing for war.
He was forced to pick Christian Zionists, so they will take the fall when the whole thing goes sour for America. It’s a terrible tragedy, but Israel will get their war.
“Parthian shot”
more like an (unnecessary) fait accompli:
the departing neo-conz just “making sure” that Trumpstein will keep the Ukraine War on track toward a terminal northern hemisphere white-on-white radioactive massacre.
We all know what Donald Trump’s response will be when Israel asks for more 5,000-pound bombs to kill children or that it needs protection to be able to bomb Iran.
Although with his usual demagogy he will continue to talk about peace and blame those who die under American bombs and missiles around the world.
Trump’s 1st term track record is solidly anti-war.
MAGA believes that the CCP is the #1 strategic rival to the America. Pushing Russia towards China is thus bad policy.
Trump 2nd term will start by pushing for a Ukraine/Russia deal. Europe’s puppet, Führer Zelensky, will likely block it. At that point the U.S. can walk away from Europe’s folly. If Germany and France want to carry Kiev, they can try. Trump will begin rebuilding the relationship between Russia and America.
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Trump’s 2nd term will *not* put boots on the ground in Iran. Instead he will rebuild the international community that cooperated to contain Khamenei’s aggression. Team Biden screwed this up by funneling billions to Iran that went out to fund & arm Iranian Hamas, Iranian Hezbollah, Iranian Houthis, etc.
Hopefully, Khamenei will be the last Ayatollah. Iran is primed for internal regime change. The military has become capitalist via State Owned Enterprises. The no longer particularly revolutionary guard corps views the mullahs as “bad for their business”. And, there is barely suppressed popular resentment against the oppressive theocracy.
It is easy to envision scenarios along the lines of the Egypt model. The next leader could be a current or former military leader, much like Abd el-Fattah el-Sisi. Once this happens, a reset will be possible.
PEACE 😇
Will Trump Go After the War Party
lol, no
It would be good if your predictions proved correct but I reserve the right to be skeptical. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Correction to the Bold text…
Were packed with Jooz…
Actually, Parthia encompassed Iraq and Iran and some adjoining regions, not Turkey (Anatolia). And Trump, unlike Crassus, did not in his first term march an army into Mesopotamia to disaster, though both men were real estate magnates.
Nonetheless, the overall point of the article has some validity. Looks like the Biden regime is trying to provoke a bigger war over Ukraine on the way out. But then again, wasn’t Biden the most popular president in the history of the world?
Note, please, that the Left has largely been in support of the Democratic Party. Often, the same people who complain the loudest about the Military Industrial Complex are also the ones who keep returning its minions to power.
World War III is a small price to pay for no mean Tweets!
Some video to attend and relax
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I voted for Trump but his hands are not clean. Trump kept the war on Afghanistan going throughout his entire term. Billions squandered. Lives wasted. Big disappointment. Incredibly, it took Sleepy Joe to end the US war on Afghanistan.
Also, like Israel, Trump also made lethal mischief (war) inside of Syria during the first half of his first term. Ironically, it was Putin who helped pull Trump’s chestnuts out of the fire in Syria. With Putin’s help, Trump ended (most) of America’s unnecessary intervention there.
Sadly, Trump murdered Iranian General Soleimani while he was visiting Iraq on a diplomatic mission. Morally speaking, this unprevoked killing was not unlike a mafia hit. Others Iranian official were also killed during this targeted assassination. This murder was surely done to please Israel and its domestic lobby. Shameful. Trump might be a decent president yet but at the same time, he is an Israeli stooge. This situation is good for the Jews but bad for the rest of us.
Yes, we have to see whether “Trump will keep his word and begin to break the war party’s grip on power before they manage to ignite a nuclear war with Russia”.
But please stop the ridiculous comparisons with Rome’s republique and the Roman Empire – they were the first globalization and they lasted 700 years. The so called American empire is only 80 years old.
Did you forget the time Trump launched missiles at Russians?
Lol. Spewed coffee all over the poor monitor.
Trump tried his best to get us into a war but his intended victims refused to rise to his bait. He tried overt and covert means to overthrow the government of Venezuela. He fired 59 cruise missiles at Syria while simultaneously stealing their oil and grain. He threatened and sanctioned Iran, as well as murdering an Iranian General and stealing (piracy) Iranian oil and fuel. He repeatedly threatened North Korea — over and over again. And this is just the abridged version of reality.
Trump might be the last gasp of the republic domestically, but he’s a freakin’ disaster overseas. Trump is the swamp. The pro-war, pro-zionist swamp. He’s a murderer and thief. When he goes to bat for Israel, I seriously hope arrest warrants are issued for him and that part of his crew that are aiding and abetting genocide and crimes against humanity.
His hands are absolutely not clean and it looks like he going to keep the war going ….. on us.
Igor Chudov is reporting that Trump has picked covid deathvax supporter, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, to become US Surgeon General. In the supposed announcement, Trump is blowing his horn that he saved “hundreds of millions” of lives with Operation Warpspeed.
If this report is true, it appears that (A) The swamp just got a whole lot deeper and (B) Brandon is not the only person in serious need of a dementia test ……
Mr. Margolis was a COVID ninny and propagandist for the Establishment and its “admirable Dr. Fauci.” Lies Won’t Stop Covid-19 (April 18, 2020). He’s never owned up to that, and likely never will.