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| As Pentagon Sends Reinforcements To Straits Of Hormuz, Iraq Redux Looms |
| 2012-02-26 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 OOOOPSIES, forgot POSTERS = opine that the THE COUNTDOWN TO DE FACTO US-ALLIED-VS-IRAN WAR BEGAN WHEN IRAN DECIDED TO CUT OFF OIL SUPPLIES TO SEVERAL EU COUNTRIES, as the US-West take oil cutoffs most seriously. * "JULY 2012" = either IRAN BLINKS, OR THE US WILL BLINK IN "NUCLEAR GAME OF CHICKEN"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-26 22:24 |
| #5 IRAN = IRAQ = "NO WMDS IN IRAN"! Unlike Iraq, POST-INVASION IRAN = NEW, GIANT OR SUPER-SIZED "AFPAK", wid ARMED BASIJ + IRGC + LOYALIST MILFORS + OTHER ALIGNED MOVING BACK-N-FORTH INTO OCCUPIED IRAN ACROSS "NEUTRAL" SOVEREIGN BORDERS FOR THE CONDUCT OF ANTI-US/NATO/COALITION "RESISTANCE" = TERROR OPS = MIL OPS??? * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN: TROUBLE BREWING, domestically + politically, + likely to worsen or explode once the new EU Embargo goes into effect this coming July 2012. * SAME > FULL-BLOWN "PERSIAN AUTUMN" [Spring?] EXPECTED IN IRAN | [Gulf News] IRAN: THE WAR WITHIN. ANALYSTS EXPECT RESENTMENT FROM SANCTIONS-HIT PEOPLE TO EXPLODE INTO "PERSIAN AUTUMN". versus * WORLD NEWS > [Foreign Policy] "IT IS NOT IN THE US NATIONAL INTEREST TO GO TO WAR WID IRAN ANYTIME SOON". * SAME > US COULD BE PULLED INTO WAR IFF ISRAEL STRIKES/HITS IRAN, EXPERTS SAY. * SAME > {Times of Indjuh] BRITAIN DRAWING UP IRAN BATTLE PLANS, SAYS REPORT, in case it gets "sucked" into a Mil Conflict agz Iran. 00's of Troops + a Nuke Sub - repor may base Troops in BFF UAE, its strongest Gulf ally. versus * RUSSIA TODAY > {Patrick Young] "GREECE IN DEATH SPIRAL". ARTIC > YOUNG = Greece should've left the EU + EUroDollar three years ago. * SAME > IRAN DENIES GREECE 500,000 BARRELS OF OIL SHIPMENT, which Debt, EuroDollar-troubled Greece sorely needs. Is Iran attempting to foment or spark GREEK REVOLUTION + AEGEAN, BALKAN CHAOS, i.e. FIGHTING THE US "OVER THERE" IN EUROPE'S BACKYARD, NOT THE GULF??? We have our benchmark - JULY 2012. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-26 22:16 |
| #4 Foreign policy IS about national economies and national interest, but Zerohedge has a blind spot for areas where US self-interest meshes with its foreign policy. At least Rantburg regularly discusses these issues. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-02-26 21:33 |
| #3 Excellent article. 'Nice job of integrating game theory - the "iterated prisoner's dilemma." What was new to me was the close tie-in of Iranian oil exports to the continued functioning of Greece. If there were two pending calamities that I would want to keep clearly unentangled, they would be the Iranian "cruising for a bruising" situation, and the slow meltdown of Greece. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2012-02-26 21:01 |
| #2 Zerohedge and foreign policy commentary do not go together. LOL. All foreign policy is about economics, or rather self interest. Did I emphasis ALL? Well I'll emphasis it again. |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-02-26 13:45 |
| #1 Zerohedge and foreign policy commentary do not go together. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2012-02-26 13:02 |