A very interesting interview of Col Macgregor on what is going on in the Middle East currently and what we should expect going forward. (Nothing good!)
The US is now a declining empire and as they ALL do in history, before retreating, they always lash out on weaker powers until they are broke and suddenly the game is over. This is what we are witnessing in the Middle East right now and unfortunately this will continue until the music stops.
The area around the Hormuz Strait on the Iran side alone is larger than Vietnam where the US lost 55,000 soldiers and at some stage had over 500,000 involved. Qshem island alone right in the middle of the strait is larger than Okinawa which cost the lives of 18,000 US soldiers in 1945. Iran cannot be crushed with bombs alone. The country is far too big at over 2M square kilometers nor does the US has the resources for a ground operation. The Kharg Island is 800 km inside the Gulf. And the temperatures are hovering close to 50C right now.
Both Bahrain and Kuwait are committing suicide. These are countries with no history whatsoever which at some stage or another belonged to different empires, the latest being the Turks and the British. You would expect them to want to negotiate instead of going for broke.
And now of course the huge funeral in Iran last week displayed the support of the population for the regime which like it or not the Iranians can now leverage against the Americans.
A better display of incompetence by the Trump administration would be hard to imagine. Well played Mr Trump! I share the pessimism of Col Macgregor: Trump will most probably not complete his mandate. (which by the way will change very little!)
BREAKING: BAHRAIN & KUWAIT JUST STRUCK IRAN - w/ Col. Macgregor
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