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"Nine days in, the conduct of the unjustified, illegal US-Israel war against
Iran grows ever-more disproportionate, dishonourable and deranged. The
torpedoing of an Iranian navy ship off Sri Lanka by a US submarine demonstrated
that for reckless Donald Trump, the whole world is his battlefield. Diplomacy,
treacherously sabotaged by Washington, has been replaced by unceasing
airstrikes that are murdering and maiming hundreds of Iranian civilians.
Trump’s White House increasingly resembles a madhouse. War aims shift daily. A
clueless, rambling president insists he must help pick Iran’s next ayatollah.
Meanwhile, his “secretary for war”, Pete Hegseth, rants manically about killing
without mercy.
Nine days in, it’s clear Iran’s leaders, those who survive, are not going to
roll over in a repeat of Trump’s Venezuela coup. Their forces, though
drastically outgunned, are succeeding in spreading pain across the Middle East,
inundating defences with waves of drones and missiles. That’s no surprise. Iran
warned of a region-wide conflict if attacked again. Trump is now at war with US
allies, too, having adopted George W Bush’s crude Iraq war “for us or against
us” maxim. The Gulf Arabs – and cruelly battered Lebanon – just want it to
stop. Britain and Europe mostly want no part of it, but are being sucked in
anyway. The global economy is tumbling into crisis. In Trump’s war on the
world, there are no heroes, only victims. Spain’s defiant leader, Pedro
Sánchez, is one exception.
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, already charged with war crimes in
Gaza, and Trump must now face prosecution by the international criminal court
for atrocities perpetrated in Iran, notably the appalling 28 February bombing
of a school in Minab. They should both be sanctioned by the UK and all other
governments that still respect the UN charter, human rights and the rule of
law. And their countries should be sanctioned, too. Many Americans and Israelis
deplore their leaders’ crazed behaviour. Yet these two thugs act in their name.
Concerned citizens, failed by an emasculated US Congress and Israeli Knesset,
must demand a halt to the mayhem.
It’s long been obvious Trump is no friend to Britain. But this latest act of
lethal hubris, of which the UK received no advance warning, shows he and his
administration must now be considered an enemy. Just look at the facts. The US
(like Russia in Ukraine) has launched an illegal war of aggression against a
sovereign state. Its claim of an “imminent” threat is unsupported by evidence.
Its armed forces are unrestrained, lacking any rules of engagement. Moral and
legal considerations are ignored; it has brazenly assassinated a head of state.
This US-led rampage, this homicidal turkey shoot, is terrorising and displacing
millions while disrupting trade, travel and energy supplies. What more proof is
needed that the US, an outlaw state like Israel, is a hostile power that
fundamentally threatens the UK?"
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
