{"id":68425,"date":"2017-03-11T22:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T02:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68425"},"modified":"2017-03-11T22:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T02:52:01","slug":"is-trump-preparing-for-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68425","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump Preparing For War With Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Carlsbad, CA<br \/>\nMarch 10, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump demonized Iran and said<br \/>\nthe 5 + 1 nuke deal with them was horrible.<\/p>\n<p>Now in office, he has embraced the Zionist party line by sucking up to Bibi and<br \/>\nmaking moves consistent with launching an attack on them:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/03\/09\/new-world-order-agents-seeks-to-start-a-war-with-iran\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/03\/09\/new-world-order-agents-seeks-to-start-a-war-with-iran\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than abandon the efforts at Syrian regime change championed by Hillary<br \/>\nand Obama and working with the Russians as promised, Trump has ratcheted up<br \/>\nmilitary action in the region including:<br \/>\nSyria: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/08\/us-marines-deploy-to-raqqa-artillery-in-tow\/\">http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/08\/us-marines-deploy-to-raqqa-artillery-in-tow\/<\/a><br \/>\nYemen: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/06\/us-airstrikes-continue-in-yemen-killing-former-gitmo-detainee\/\">http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/06\/us-airstrikes-continue-in-yemen-killing-former-gitmo-detainee\/<\/a><br \/>\nIraq: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/03\/07\/trump-israel-struggling-to-save-isis-divide-syria-iran\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/03\/07\/trump-israel-struggling-to-save-isis-divide-syria-iran\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A deployment of 1,000 reserves to Kuwait also now seems likely and would be consistent<br \/>\nwith positioning military forces for a war with Iran:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/08\/us-mulls-reserve-deployment-to-kuwait-for-isis-fight\/\">http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/08\/us-mulls-reserve-deployment-to-kuwait-for-isis-fight\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he is set to restore arm shipments to the Saudis so they can keep bombing<br \/>\nthe hapless Houthis in Yemen:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/08\/trump-to-resume-halted-saudi-arms-sales-for-yemen-war\/\">http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/08\/trump-to-resume-halted-saudi-arms-sales-for-yemen-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With everyone distracted by the sensational Vault 7 leaks, it is easy to miss how Trump<br \/>\nis maneuvering to attack. <a href=\"http:\/\/lawfareblog.com\/cias-no-good-very-bad-totally-awful-tuesday\">http:\/\/lawfareblog.com\/cias-no-good-very-bad-totally-awful-tuesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A compliant Congress is poised to increase the military budget, making Trump the latest version of a &#8220;peace&#8221; candidate coming into office ready to expand our foreign wars.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/08\/house-passes-578-billion-military-spending-bill\/\">http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/03\/08\/house-passes-578-billion-military-spending-bill\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whereas Bush talked of a &#8220;humble&#8221; foreign policy and Obama postured as the anti-<br \/>\nIraq War choice, Trump boldly intimated he would risk being labeled an Isolationist<br \/>\nby putting America First and saying no to stupid wars for regime change that cost<br \/>\nthe public trillions!<\/p>\n<p>Those comments got him lambasted by the entire political establishment of both parties<br \/>\nalong with an unending chorus of negativity from the Main Stream Press.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly he has abandoned that approach if he ever held it in the first place. We&#8217;ve<br \/>\nhad lots of clues since he came to office as to what he is really up to. His love-fest<br \/>\nwith Bibi, the raid into Yemen a few days after taking office and most overtly, his use<br \/>\nof a dead hero&#8217;s widow during his recent address to Congress to ennoble America&#8217;s<br \/>\nwar efforts are some of the events tipping off his true agenda.<\/p>\n<p>With a cabinet filled with those who testified about the Iranian threat and with<br \/>\nincreasing tensions in the Persian Gulf, push may soon give way to shove with<br \/>\nthe posturing and threats turning into something far more lethal.<\/p>\n<p>As outlined by Gordon Duff and others, Trump&#8217;s policy goal appears to be a new<br \/>\nIsraeli\/Saudi\/GCC Alliance backed by the US to unite the Sunni countries against<br \/>\nthe Shia Crescent led by Iran. That ambitious plan is fraught with danger and<br \/>\nincongruent with what he led his supporters to believe would be his approach to<br \/>\nforeign entanglements.<\/p>\n<p>More war seems definitely on tap, perhaps triggered by a false flag event in the<br \/>\nnear future, that will provide the new Commander In Chief a platform to change<br \/>\nthe subject from any bad news his tumultuous beginning has created and rally<br \/>\nthe nation behind a war-time president.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned: more ugly news likely on the way!!<\/p>\n<p>See also:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2017\/03\/05\/into-the-syrian-quagmire\/\">http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2017\/03\/05\/into-the-syrian-quagmire\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/larison\/shameless-coalition-propaganda-and-the-war-on-yemen\/\">http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/larison\/shameless-coalition-propaganda-and-the-war-on-yemen\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}