@snoopydawg  
Thoroughly horrid, but not a Death Eater, and certainly not a Voldemort. Just a tool.

The real Death Eaters in this real-life, all-Muggle Harry Potter saga are the PNAC and their ilk.

The only thing that has changed since Trump became president is the number of civilian casualties going up.
However, none of this would be happening if the PNAC group wasn't in charge of our foreign policy.
Just the fact that this country thinks that it gets to decide what happens in other countries is disgusting. How many lives will we take before someone stops us?
Gotta love this road show of spreading freedom and democracy.

@snoopydawg
for the next contingent - the neoliberals who proceed to rape and pillage.

I'm thinking the only solution, short of world war, is for the US to overextend and overspend on its global military might as it rots and disintegrates from within.

The only thing that has changed since Trump became president is the number of civilian casualties going up.
However, none of this would be happening if the PNAC group wasn't in charge of our foreign policy.
Just the fact that this country thinks that it gets to decide what happens in other countries is disgusting. How many lives will we take before someone stops us?
Gotta love this road show of spreading freedom and democracy.

@Steven D @Steven D And be surprised that the worst keeps getting worse. It's the Zeitgeist, I guess, or an historical poltergeist...

Was hoping you would write about it. All fits in with the sudden expulsion of Qatar from the coalition of the Saudis.

http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.793798

So they isolate Qatar and keep that gas field from being exploited while also moving on Iranian militias. A concerted effort militarily and economically to ramp up pressure on Iran. Have to figure this is designed to push Iran's moderate gov't into a corner and loosen its control over the hardliners among the mullahs and the Revolutionary Guard. Can't wait for the false flag incident where those militias are blamed for some incident: use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians, an attack on one of our warships in the Gulf, or possibly against one of our bases in Iraq.

The Saudis and Trump seem to have come to an arrangement to start a war against Iran, with Israel no doubt providing intel support on the downlow. If they pull it off oil and gas prices go sky high again, with all the fracking and pipeline operators back in the USA making out like bandits. It has the makings of a much wider conflict, as well, should China, Russia and God knows who else provide support to Iran.

Anymore I expect the worst I can imagine will happen, only to find out I lack sufficient imagination.

@Steven D election and kept our country from a war with Russia. Oops. I misunderstood the power of the Deep State.
If we do start a war with Iran, what happens with our military base in Qatar?
If Israel gets their wish, they should have to put their own troops in harm's way. For too long it has been our troops and our allies' troops who have been doing Israel's fighting. And using our tax dollars.
I know that will never happen because as Pat Buchanan said, Israel owns our government.
We saw Johnson cover for the Israelis when they attacked the USS Liberty. There were two ships that had tried to come to its defense, but McNamara told the ships to return the jets to their ships.
Johnson said he would rather those men die than to upset our relationship with Israel. And the incident has been covered up for 50 years tomorrow.

Was hoping you would write about it. All fits in with the sudden expulsion of Qatar from the coalition of the Saudis.

http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.793798

So they isolate Qatar and keep that gas field from being exploited while also moving on Iranian militias. A concerted effort militarily and economically to ramp up pressure on Iran. Have to figure this is designed to push Iran's moderate gov't into a corner and loosen its control over the hardliners among the mullahs and the Revolutionary Guard. Can't wait for the false flag incident where those militias are blamed for some incident: use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians, an attack on one of our warships in the Gulf, or possibly against one of our bases in Iraq.

The Saudis and Trump seem to have come to an arrangement to start a war against Iran, with Israel no doubt providing intel support on the downlow. If they pull it off oil and gas prices go sky high again, with all the fracking and pipeline operators back in the USA making out like bandits. It has the makings of a much wider conflict, as well, should China, Russia and God knows who else provide support to Iran.

Anymore I expect the worst I can imagine will happen, only to find out I lack sufficient imagination.

@Steven D
Whoever gets it first is the winner. It's like a big bowl of punch with two straws.

Was hoping you would write about it. All fits in with the sudden expulsion of Qatar from the coalition of the Saudis.

http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.793798

So they isolate Qatar and keep that gas field from being exploited while also moving on Iranian militias. A concerted effort militarily and economically to ramp up pressure on Iran. Have to figure this is designed to push Iran's moderate gov't into a corner and loosen its control over the hardliners among the mullahs and the Revolutionary Guard. Can't wait for the false flag incident where those militias are blamed for some incident: use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians, an attack on one of our warships in the Gulf, or possibly against one of our bases in Iraq.

The Saudis and Trump seem to have come to an arrangement to start a war against Iran, with Israel no doubt providing intel support on the downlow. If they pull it off oil and gas prices go sky high again, with all the fracking and pipeline operators back in the USA making out like bandits. It has the makings of a much wider conflict, as well, should China, Russia and God knows who else provide support to Iran.

Anymore I expect the worst I can imagine will happen, only to find out I lack sufficient imagination.

@gjohnsit
if the Syrian forces do fight back against the US, do you think that Russia will help them if they cross the red line?

link

A military alliance fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday it could hit U.S. positions in Syria, warning that its "self-restraint" over U.S. air strikes on government forces would end if Washington crossed "red lines".

The threat marks an escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran-backed forces over control of Syria's southeastern frontier with Iraq, where the United States has been training Syrian rebels at a base inside Syrian territory.

The United States launched air strikes on Tuesday against what it said were Iranian-backed fighters who it said posed a threat to U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in the area, the second such attack in three weeks.

The statement from the pro-Assad alliance was issued in the name of the "commander of the operations room of the forces allied to Syria", and was circulated by a military news unit run by the Lebanese group Hezbollah, one of Assad's military allies.