John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY SIMON TISDALL IN THE GUARDIAN
(AND NOTE: NOT MANY DAYS AFTER THIS POST, THE GUARDIAN YET AGAIN SUSPENDED ME FROM MAKING COMMENTS – I HAD BEEN MAKING THEM UNDER A PSEUDONYM SINCE THE PREVIOUS SUSPENSION)
"Trump and Putin’s unholy alliance could lead to war with Iran”
Unholy alliance?
Are we to take the writer seriously using a phrase like that?
They've met briefly, likely have spoken a few times on the phone, and they are an unholy alliance?
Moreover, the United States remains at loggerheads with Russia, a totally artificial state of aggression by America's establishment, and I don't see where he's lifted a finger to make things better.
Indeed, Trump promotes war everywhere. In personal relations. In international trade. In intelligence activities. And with record spending and bomb-dropping.
He has troops illegally in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, and a lot of other places. He speaks now of invading poor democratic Venezuela, a government the CIA has worked to destroy for several years.
He has done nothing about the mess America created with a coup in democratic Ukraine. He sends fleets charging around to anger China. He supports horrific acts in many places, including notably in Gaza by Israel.
The US drops a large bomb somewhere today every twelve minutes. And it spends almost a trillion dollars a year (when you take all the costs into account such as veterans' hospitals) on death and destruction. A trillion dollars, and it doesn't have a dime in its pocket.
The pragmatic, calm, even-tempered Putin maybe could teach Trump something. We'd all benefit.
In truth the only thing on earth pushing anyone towards war with Iran, a country which has attacked no one, is the influence of Israel, a country which literally has attacked every neighbor that it has, some more than once.
Its dark influence upon the United States has never been greater or more dangerous than under Trump.
