Artsakh The Inadequate Response

  Almost a year ago, it was obvious to me that America has a vested interest in triggering a “War of Choice” with Iran, and under one narrative or another, the U.S. Administration will launch a war to cripple Iran’s oil exporting capacity, and create a serious shortage on the international oil market. I wrote the following Facebook post , published one year ago, in response to a docu- video produced by Prof. Abraham Gasparyan, who indicated in the video (after the 40 minutes mark) that the possibility of a U.S.-Iranian military confrontation is too remote, and highly unlikely to happen. The following is my post reproduced in full: While I have a tremendous respect for Prof. Gasparyan’s understanding of international relations, and the fact that all wars are based on rational calculations of national interests, I respectfully disagree with his argument that the United States of America has no vested interest in destroying Iran. America has a long list of reasons and ben...

Trump’s “War of Choice” targeting Iran moved into week three. The U.S. President boastfully declared on day two of the war: “We won the war, in the first hour, it was over.” No one in The U.S. Administration managed to explain why the “Victory” achieved very quickly during the early stages of the war, failed to produce a total cessation of military confrontations between the two aggressors (Israel, USA) and the victim of the aggression Iran.  To defend the narrative/lie that he won the war, Trump produced a set of new lies to justify the shallow claims he conveyed to the public, and directed his anger to the independent media outlets that dared to humiliate him by debunking the baseless dimensions of his bravado.  To his MAGA followers trumps insisted that many news outlets are promoting “Fake News” because the “Media actually want us to lose the War.” To caress the big ego of his boss, The chair of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Mr. Brendan Carr, threatened ...