Good Wednesday morning beloved sentients. Yesterday was a travel day and now we’re safely ensconced in our little suite in the lower mainland. I have to admit my prediction in my last post that Trump would TACO out of his trip to China was wrong. He’s there now. I guess I thought the pressure of time–trying to resolve the insoluble mess he’s made vis a vis Iran plus preparing for the FIFA cup would keep him from travelling.
Going hat in hand to meet with Xi with a mess on his hands is a signal of acceptance of defeat in one sense. According to what the Iranians said yesterday, Xi has presented them [Iran] with a peace plan which they have accepted. They believe that now Xi is going to present the same plan to Trump. Trump having to accept a peace plan from China [or even consider one] is a huge come down.
Of course as my regular readers know, Trumpanyahu is so morally bankrupt that he could pretend to go along with a Peace plan–until he feels it’s time to break it. These entities are totally untrustworthy anyway. Not negotiation-capable–as Putin has put it for decades.
Below is the first part of a very important analysis from none other than Robert Kagan who is the husband of the architect of the Ukraine War–USSD’s Victoria Nuland [Kagan] these are members of the Israeli Deep State handlers of the American bureaucracy–whether it be Democrat or Republican. I found this article from The Atlantic on the excellent blog of Penny for your thoughts…my longtime Canadian blogging colleague. I highly recommend readers read the entire article because it is important to understand the war from the side of the enemy. This article represents what the US Deep State now thinks about the current geopolitical status resulting from the Iran War:
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Checkmate in Iran
Washington can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.By Robert Kagan
“It’s hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored. The calamitous losses suffered at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and throughout the Western Pacific in the first months of World War II were eventually reversed. The defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan were costly but did not do lasting damage to America’s overall position in the world, because they were far from the main theaters of global competition. The initial failure in Iraq was mitigated by a shift in strategy that ultimately left Iraq relatively stable and unthreatening to its neighbors and kept the United States dominant in the region.
Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The Strait of Hormuz will not be “open,” as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished. Far from demonstrating American prowess, as supporters of the war have repeatedly claimed, the conflict has revealed an America that is unreliable and incapable of finishing what it started. That is going to set off a chain reaction around the world as friends and foes adjust to America’s failure.
President Trump likes to talk about who has “the cards,” but whether he has any good ones left to play is not clear. The United States and Israel pounded Iran with devastating effectiveness for 37 days, killing much of the country’s leadership and destroying the bulk of its military, yet couldn’t collapse the regime or exact even the smallest concession from it. Now the Trump administration hopes that blockading Iran’s ports will accomplish what massive force could not. It’s possible, of course, but a regime that could not be brought to its knees by five weeks of unrelenting military attack is unlikely to buckle in response to economic pressure alone. Nor does it fear the anger of its populace. As the Iran scholar Suzanne Maloney noted recently, “A regime that slaughtered its own citizens to silence protests in January is fully prepared to impose economic hardships on them now.”
Some supporters of the war are therefore calling for the resumption of military strikes, but they cannot explain how another round of bombing will accomplish what 37 days of bombing did not. More military action will inevitably lead Iran to retaliate against neighboring Gulf States; the war’s advocates have no response to that, either. Trump halted attacks on Iran not because he was bored but because Iran was striking the region’s vital oil and gas facilities. The turning point came on March 18, when Israel bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field and Iran retaliated by attacking Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world’s largest natural-gas-export plant, causing damage to production capacity that will take years to repair. Trump responded by declaring a moratorium on further strikes against Iran’s energy facilities and then declaring a cease-fire, despite Iran’s not having made a single concession…”
Continued at The Atlantic link HERE
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Greencrow continues: Now for a perspective from the other side of this conflict–our side. Here is former US Colonel Douglas Macgregor describing the hellish mess that the US is now in as a result of Trump’s folly:
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Greencrow continues: Folks. I am shocked that Trump went to China, I now believe he has given up on the War on Iran. Perhaps his generals told him point blank that they would NOT go along with such a catastrophically losing war. That must have been it. He must have told them to “go back to the drawing board” and come up with another perhaps “asymmetrical war” plan to defeat Iran. There must be a lot we don’t know for it to have ended up in this stalemate.
Iranian foreign minister greeted this morning in India as “hero” by other BRICS foreign ministers during meeting.
Trump has placed the world in a perilous position because of his abject stupidity. But we must also look at the American people–who have allowed it to get to this state by putting up with the Israeli occupation of their government and institutions for at least 65 years.
Below are a few links to news about the FIFA cup–slated to start in a week or two. As you will see there are a lot of unresolved issues about Iran’s involvement in that event. I do believe there will be very low turnout for the games held in American–compared with past years in other countries. Nobody wants to go there. All the people I speak to are terrified to get caught on the border due to what might be discovered on their phones or in their social media history.
We used to own property in the states [a ski cabinat Mt Baker Washington State] but now I would not even attempt to cross the border–due to my history as a blogger. Listen, I don’t care. I don’t ever plan on going down there again.
Please review the following FIFA related links. I will have concluding comments to follow:
FIFA Update
Iran wants team members who served in the Revolutionary Guard to get visas for the World Cup
Iran demands guarantees for World Cup participation
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Greencrow concludes: Trump’s caustic and corrosive personality has jeopardized all American foreign relations for a very long time. Here’s a typical example of how he treats people. MTG used to be one of his most vocal and effective supporters. She was one of the supporters who got him elected. This is how he treats her:
IMO, Americans put up with increasingly weak, compromised and stupid presidents ever since the assassination of JFK and now they have a psychopathic, malignant narcissist in the White House. He has effectively destroyed their national reputation all over the world.
Now Trumpanyahu is over in China taking orders from Xi. Perhaps he will find some way to totally insult Xi and the entire Chinese population–it’s not beyond him to do that. Look how he managed to insult and alienate all of Canada over the course of one dinner in Mara Lago with Trudeau in January of 2025. Believe me, when Canadians found out about the “51st State” insult–that was it. Canadian trust in the US dissipated in an instant–just like air escaping from a hot air balloon that night.
And the trust will NEVER be restored. Never.
Stay tuned.
Greencrow as the crow flies 