On COI #122, Kyle and Will break down a controversy centered on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who landed in hot water after suggesting that the United States, Israel, Hamas and the Taliban all commit atrocities alike. While she was accused of equating “democratic countries” with “terrorists,” Will and Kyle explain that the backlash was overwrought, and that Washington and Tel Aviv are, in fact, responsible for war crimes.
The Pentagon is sounding alarms over two Iranian military vessels transiting the Atlantic Ocean, a first for Tehran’s navy. Nobody knows for sure what the ships intend to do or where they’re headed, and the US military appears to not believe its own hype, having no plans to intercept the vessels or even monitor them more closely. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the two ships pose a serious threat to the entire Western Hemisphere, though declined to explain how, saying nothing about the massive arsenal of US naval power stationed in Iran’s backyard.
The White House has released its war powers report to Congress, outlining the status of US forces around the world and the legal justification for their deployment. The report comes as several bills introduced in the House and Senate aim to claw back war-making authorities from the executive branch. Will and Kyle explain that many deployments are based on outdated authorizations that have nothing to do with the current realities.
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One of the two Iranian ships is a converted oil tanker, whatever that means. I’d wager it still has the capability to carry “some” oil, but with unknown modifications other stuff as well. The smaller vessel is a brand new little warship. Since it could not possibly hold enough fuel to go all the way from Iran to Venezuela, Iran has obviously devised some sort of refueling system for it. Because the US has turned into quite a bullying sort of pirate, the small naval ship is armed well enough that any new new episode of piracy won’t go unchallenged.
What is the big one carrying? Iran made a big point of putting a few tiny speedboats right out in plain view. In the past Iran has sent refinery supplies the US has kept from Venezuela. It might have some Iranian groceries – the filthy rich in Venezuela still have plenty of money.
The part which continues to puzzle me is what Iran will get in exchange. Venezuela mines gold, but is the government there oganized enough to purchase the output of the mines?
It might come down to a case of “birds of a feather flock together”. Both nations are heavily sanctioned by Imperial US. Iran may be giving Venezuela some lessons in withstanding US sanctions.
Sanctions Are Driving Iran and Venezuela Into Each Other’s Arms
Iran and Venezuela should also form an economic alliance with Cuba and North Korea. They need each other to find ways to get around the sanctions that cripple their economies.
They could stay in international waters, and with the right prevailing winds,explode a “dirty bomb” off the US coast.
And US vessels equally far from home could conduct various types of attacks on Iraq as well.
Fortunately, not every regime bases its own actions on what bad things another regime “could” do. If they did, the first and foremost global policy would be the eradication of the US regime, which has pretty much done it all at one time or another and shows no signs of reform or remorse.
i think you meant Iran, not Iraq. US motivations include greed and power lust;Iran’s motivations are largely hated.
February 8, 2014 US Regime Change: “We initiate Terrorism to create Terrorists to Overthrow Governments”
The Pentagon admitted a strategy to do so (here, here, here): the US conducts acts of terrorism in nations they want to control, the US continues terrorism to provoke an act of reprisal, the US labels the reprisal “terrorism” to justify covert and overt military operations to overthrow targeted governments.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-regime-change-we-initiate-terrorism-to-create-terrorists-to-overthrow-governments/5312682