John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK COCKBURN IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Iran Sanctions Could Turn Into Demonstration of US Weakness
"The danger for the US is not only that these countries are opposing sanctions against Iran, but that they all have an interest in making sure that they fail"
https://russia-insider.com/en/iran-sanctions-could-turn-demonstration-us-weakness/ri25289
An excellent summary analysis of the situation.
The United States is pretty much trying to demonstrate its capacity to do whatever it feels the urge to do despite the harm it may do to others.
And a good deal of the world, and especially some important American friends and allies, seem very much to be saying, "No, you can't do that! We want to stay as your friends, but this action is just going too far, and it works against peace and reason."
It's an interesting, if distressing and dangerous, situation, and it could prove a kind of watershed event towards the coming new era of a multi-polar world or, at any rate, to the American establishment's falling on its face in public with its aggressive policies to assert a new authority over the planet.
Of course, the real fundamental cause of all this, the mass killer running Israel, stands to see his years-long struggle to throttle Iran defeated, and be defeated by a number of Israel's friends and allies who just happen to recognize that he has pushed things much too far, although they aren't able to say that in public.
It is a very consequential set of events underway, and we have the parallel struggle over the murderous Saudi Crown Prince which is closely related because he was to provide a cornerstone in America's efforts to re-make the Middle East and is a much-favored ally of Netanyahu's.
