Armstrong, who says having excellent sources posted few words..
Stated 3 of his sources in DC all said Zelensky did not warn Trump of bomber attack
Israel Admits It Cannot Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program:
Israel has asked the Trump administration over the past 48 hours to join the war with Iran to eliminate its nuclear program, according to two Israeli officials. Israel has admitted that it cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear facility, and only the USA has the power to do that. Israel simply lacks the bunker buster bombs and large bomber aircraft needed to destroy Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment site. As shown here, it is built into a mountain and deep underground.
This is a reconstructed image purporting to show a central secret Iranian nuclear facility, based in part on information acquired by Israel’s Mossad in a famed 2018 operation. The website of the intelligence firm the Intel Lab has stated that the images of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant codenamed Al Ghadir were three-dimensional reconstructions put together with an analyst with the code name @Orion__int on Twitter. The firm said they are based on the Israeli-acquired and public documents, as well as photographs and video images. “This multi-disciplinary effort is based on Civil Engineering knowledge, Nuclear Fuel Enrichment Cycle basics, Intelligence Analysis, and advanced skills in realistic modeling and rendering,” the Intel Lab said.
The Trump administration has so far distanced itself from Israel’s operation and argued that it would be illegitimate for Iran to retaliate by striking U.S. targets. The problem here is that any direct UNPROVOKED attack on Iran will bring the US into conflict with both China and Russia. Directly attacking Iran, even if the U.S. involvement is limited to bombing a single site, would pull the U.S. directly into the war, and this could lead to WWIII.
The hard reality is that if the Fordow nuclear facility remains operational, assuming there is an end to this operation, it means that Israel will have failed in its goal to “eliminate” Iran’s nuclear program after all of this. What they may have inspired is that North Korea becomes the proxy to just hand a nuke to Iran.
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"I have criticized Trump for threatening China publicly in trade. There are some conversations you cannot have in public. I have been silent publicly on this Big Beautiful Bill, but not behind the curtain. I have delivered my warnings, albeit too late for the House. I was just too busy with the world in total chaos."
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The United Nations is just as much a failure as the League of Nations, largely due to internal biases and ethical corruption. The Cold War involved proxy wars but avoided direct superpower clashes, maintaining a semblance of containment for image purposes. Every war that the US got itself into, thanks to the Neocons since World War II, has always been about Russia.
In conclusion, war can spread like a contagion under certain conditions, but various factors can contain it only to a point. The idea that war spreads like a contagion holds significant weight in historical analysis, although it’s not a universal or an inevitable law. Several mechanisms demonstrate how conflict can leap from one nation to another, and that MUST be our concern right now between Israel vs Iran, when Iran is by no means standing alone, and the confrontation by the West is in motion against Russia, China, and North Korea, providing incentives to support Iran.
Alliance Systems & Entangling Commitments, as in NATO, are more of a threat of creating a global war contagion than a deterrence. Treaties (defensive, offensive, or mutual aid) can draw neutral countries into a conflict when one signatory is attacked. This is arguably the most direct form of contagion and the very design of NATO. World War I is the quintessential example of how NATO threatens the very future of Europe and the world.
Religious Conflict:
The most significant danger that we have currently is that this war between Iran and Israel is perceived as a religious war. With the massive influx of Muslims into Europe, the danger is that we see major civil unrest in all the major cities throughout Europe as this war is seen through ethnic/religious lines. We find that religion becomes the excuse for civil unrest and war when the economy turns down.
War & Contagions
War demonstrably can and has spread from country to country through mechanisms resembling contagion, like a disease, but also through ideas. This has often been facilitated, particularly through alliances, ideological spillover, physical spillover effects, opportunism, religion, and ethnic or nationalist ties. Our greatest threat with this war between Iran and Israel is that this becomes religiously inspired and spreads, especially in Europe, as a clash between Islam and Judaism, as well as Christianity, from the militants who have flooded into Europe. armstrongeconomics.com |
