RANT: UCMTSU! AGAIN

    

ON JUNE 20, PRESIDENT TRUMP was nominated by Pakistan for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in bringing a resolution to the simmering India-Pakistan conflict that flared up in India-administered Kashmir where twenty-six tourists were murdered by Islamic militants. I’m not sure of the extent of Trump’s behind-the-scenes assistance in bringing about a ceasefire to April’s flare-up between the two nuclear weapons-possessing South Asian powers, but Pakistan thought his role was significant enough to submit his name to the Nobel Prize Committee for consideration.

UNFORTUNATELY, the Pakistan parliament hastily withdrew its recommendation on June 22 after American bombers attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran, of course, is a predominately Muslim country. As is Pakistan. Oops! 😝

PERHAPS news travels a bit slower reaching Pakistan because they obviously weren’t aware of the essential support America provides Israel, enabling its genocidal rampage in the Gaza Strip and its military adventures in the Levant: invading Lebanon and Syria, not to mention the on-going forced displacement and murder of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. And as far as the Ukraine conflict goes, there was some hope, early in Trump’s second term in office, that he might enter into genuine negotiations with Russia to end the conflict and “reset” US-Russia relations, but dithering, mixed messages, and the recent deceptions* used by the American president to green light first Israel’s June 13 “decapitation” attack on Iran’s military commanders and nuclear scientists with drones and aerial bombardments meant to “shock and awe” regime change in the Islamic state, and the later B-2 bomber attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Russia and China see this duplicitous behaviour by the American president and conclude he cannot be trusted to keep his word, that any treaties made with the U.S. aren’t worth the paper their printed on. 

 

👉My long-winded point here is that—as far as Ukraine is concerned—there are no worthwhile negotiations to be had with the Americans, given Trump’s deceitful behaviour in the Levant. Putin, no doubt, will resolve the matter on the battlefield.

👉As I said earlier, Pakistan might not have gotten the memo that Trump was complicit in a genocide in Gaza and enabling Netanyahu's fascist government to start illegal wars on multiple fronts.  Trump also has allowed the Ukraine conflict to fester instead of cutting Zelensky off at the knees by stopping shipments of weapons and money. These conflicts may have started under the previous Biden administration but Trump 'owns' them, now. He could have stopped them with a phone call.

👉So, Trump as a “peace” president and legitimate Nobel Peace Prize nominee? GMAB!👎

 

 Cheers, Jake.  ____________________________________

* ISRAEL LAUNCHED its June 13 (Friday) sneak attack on Iran while negotiations were on-going between Iran and the United States to hammer out a deal concerning Iran’s enriched uranium program. Steve Witkoff was to meet with Iranian officials on Sunday, June 15 for the sixth round of talks. It was hoped that a compromise could be found which would allow Iran to develop its civilian nuclear power industry and disavow any attempts towards building a nuclear bomb, something Iran has, for years, stated it did not want to do.

Israel launched its surprise attack using the cover of the negotiations. There are reports the decision to attack Iran was made as early as March, calling into question whether the Americans and Steve Witkoff were bargaining in good faith (they weren’t), and that the negotiations from the get-go were a smoke screen to lull the Iranians into a false sense of security (they were).¹

 

THE SECOND DECEPTION was in Trump’s public statements on Truth Social and elsewhere that he was close to deciding whether to launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, but he’d wait two weeks before green lighting the mission. It was a “head fake”, of course. Instead of a two-week waiting period, the next day (June 22) American bombers and cruise missile armed submarines attacked the large, underground Fordow facility and two other nuclear laboratories.

👉AT THIS POINT, America’s reputation as an actor in good faith, as country that could be trusted and relied on, was circling the toilet and now seems to have been flushed away.

As an aside: there is a high probability that Iran removed critical machinery and uranium stores before the bomber attacks, so there is a “kabuki theatre” feel to the episode, i.e., ineffectual attacks and counterattacks done for show and face-saving. Stay tuned!

 

1. It is interesting to speculate how 'clued in' the American negotiator, Steve Witkoff, was around the deception. Was he in on it from the start? Or only later on? He seemed to have been making headway by early June when he announced the Iranians would accept a deal to enrich uranium domestically up to a maximum 3.67% purity. Then the U.S. flip-flopped on their position saying there could be no domestic enrichment at all. The sixth round of talks scheduled for Sunday June 22 would have continued those negotiations. The Friday attacks by U.S. bombers put the kibosh to any negotiations. So, it will be interesting to learn how culpable he was in the deceptions. Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!