The Emerging Multipolar World with the Saker - Will the U.S. Go to War with Iran?
The Emerging Multipolar World with the Saker – Will the U.S. Go to War with Iran?
“CAF NOTE: We published this interview with Saker in May 2019. In light of recent events, we are republishing.”
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“I do not understand why the world must follow Israel. The world has the power, but they choose to obey Israel.” ~ Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Saker spent many years as a professional military analyst and has lived, studied, and worked in both the United States and Europe. For more than a decade he has written and corresponded with analysts and citizens around the world from his website The Vineyard of the Saker. He has published two of the most insightful books available on the geopolitics of the emerging multipolar world: The Essential Saker and The Essential Saker II.
The Saker joins me this week on The Solari Report to talk about the dramatic developments in the Middle East. The tensions grow between Iran and the U.S.—with allies Israel and Saudi Arabia—as Israel seeks to establish itself as the Middle Eastern hegemon and use that position to assert dominance in technology and ventures for its companies and investors along the Silk Road.
Our topic is simple: Will the United States go to war with Iran? Can such a war be won, or is it a suicide mission for the Empire? Is this the end of the unipolar world? Why has Israel lobbied so intensely for such a war? And why would President Trump renege on his campaign promises to decrease the U.S. troop commitment to the Middle East?
What happened to the words from President Trump’s inaugural address, “We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world—but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.”
Why are the Neocons back in the White House? Was the foreign campaign interference that we should have worried about in 2016 actually Israel and its financial backers? Are dual citizens in the American Congress going to send American soldiers to die in the Middle East to line their pockets? Why is General Kelly saying it is time to send “Javanka” home?
What does the flow of Iranian oil mean to the petrodollar? And are we back on the “seven countries in five years” plan?
Watch General Wesley Clark describe the memo from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld immediately after 9-11 to take out seven countries in five years:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw
This week on Let’s Go to the Movies, check out the documentary The China Hustle. This documentary helps describe one aspect of the economic warfare involved in our capital flows and trade with China. As the documentary maker says, this is a story with no good guys. The tensions with Iran are a direct result of the rise of China and the power and importance of exploding growth in trade between Europe and Asia through Eurasia.
Someone somewhere didn’t want this report published and heard.
Prayers for you and all of the Solari team.
I know most of the people I hear discussing Iran believe It’s is just another 3rd world Middle East county to be “leveled” if they don’t fall in line.
It’s crazy. When I point out that US has not had a military Victory since WW2, I’m met with hostility and accused of being a Traitor for not supporting our troops. Most loathe Israel for seemingly racist reasons. The authentic threat from the ZioCons is met with contempt. These people are Conservative Christian Republicans.The mind control is palatable. The blank stare when an alternative perspective is presented, the angry hostility bordering on rage must be part of the program. It’s something to note. These folks are heavily armed and prepared bunker style even in City.
The Russians are bad meme has infiltrated both the Left and Right in the diverse groups of people I know.
Few to their peril, will listen or read Saker. It’s sad.
The Cradle of Civilization is just another country? That is mind control. What amazing people the Persians are.
I have never met more warm, generous, and hospitable people than Persian folks.
When I first got to know someone from Iran, I just thought he was a particularly impressive human being (…of course, he is that). In the years since, I discovered that extraordinary courtesy, warmth, generosity and kindness to be typical of Persian folks.
Me too. All of the Persians I have met are most impressive.
Someone somewhere didn’t want this report published and heard.
Prayers for you and all of the Solari team.
I know most of the people I hear discussing Iran believe It’s is just another 3rd world Middle East county to be “leveled” if they don’t fall in line.
It’s crazy. When I point out that US has not had a military Victory since WW2, I’m met with hostility and accused of being a Traitor for not supporting our troops. Most loathe Israel for seemingly racist reasons. The authentic threat from the ZioCons is met with contempt. These people are Conservative Christian Republicans.The mind control is palatable. The blank stare when an alternative perspective is presented, the angry hostility bordering on rage must be part of the program. It’s something to note. These folks are heavily armed and prepared bunker style even in City.
The Russians are bad meme has infiltrated both the Left and Right in the diverse groups of people I know.
Few to their peril, will listen or read Saker. It’s sad.
The Cradle of Civilization is just another country? That is mind control. What amazing people the Persians are.
I have never met more warm, generous, and hospitable people than Persian folks.
When I first got to know someone from Iran, I just thought he was a particularly impressive human being (…of course, he is that). In the years since, I discovered that extraordinary courtesy, warmth, generosity and kindness to be typical of Persian folks.
Me too. All of the Persians I have met are most impressive.
Catherine,
There needs to be a follow up to this interview now that Netanyahu hasn’t been able to form a government and a re-election. Both you and Saker did not see that coming. No one did. First time in Israeli history. So what happened…?
Actually, we knew he was having trouble forming one and this could happen. I assumed this was as a result of the people who do not want war pushing. It is a good development but short term. The push – pull is going to continue. The only indication of real change is if something big results from the re-election process.
Catherine,
There needs to be a follow up to this interview now that Netanyahu hasn’t been able to form a government and a re-election. Both you and Saker did not see that coming. No one did. First time in Israeli history. So what happened…?
Actually, we knew he was having trouble forming one and this could happen. I assumed this was as a result of the people who do not want war pushing. It is a good development but short term. The push – pull is going to continue. The only indication of real change is if something big results from the re-election process.
I have tried to understand the logic of US neoconservative policy of the last 15 years in Middle East, and I have this hypothesis. The end goal is not, and perhaps has never been, occupation or regime change. Too difficult and expensive.
The end goal is to destabilize and destroy infrastructure in key countries that cannot be brought under the US umbrella. Once you have a power vacum, it’s possible to sponsor internal chaos much cheaper than it would cost to maintain a US presence there.
That way, no other power can control the ME oil market once US power declines in the region. You only have Saudi Arabia as last regime standing. The rest will be chaos and no one will invest in places that are so unstable.
That is the only logical explanation that I can find to explain the govt’s actions. I don’t think these are stupid people. Crazy, maybe, but not stupid.
So it’s not really relevant that the US cannot win a war with Iran. That’s not the framework for this strategy. The goal isn’t to control the territory or the people. The goal is to destabilize and create chaos. The conflict itself is the goal as it creates the chaos. It doesn’t matter who wins in a conventional sense.
There is a joke that sums up this thinking. A farmer has a genie grant him one wish. The farmer thinks and says, “Well, my neighbor has a cow which gives him a 100 liters of milk a day.” The genie asks, “So you want a cow which gives you 200 liters?” “No,” the farmer replies, “I just want his cow to die.”
It’s a policy of destruction. There are two ways to be number one. Either rise above all others, or drag everyone else below you. The latter is the only way I can make sense of what is happening.
I agree – this is part of a logical explanation. I also think it creates deflation that helps you offset the extraordinary monetary inflation going on. The notion that the $21 trillion is not real because otherwise we would have inflation is complete bunk. If you looked at labor deflation and covert and war deflation, it is a significant and sufficient offset. However, I also think there is a desire to destroy history and the places being targeted are losing their libraries and antiquities. One of my allies is convinced that part of this is about portals and exopolitics – I can not prove that it is not.
It also works as a warning on the IT and cybersecurity shakedown across the silk road. Lets us control, install, manage and/or back door your systems or else – see what happened to so and so. This is another reason why the Huawei fight is so interesting. In part this is about how much equity Sheldon Adelson and the Beverly Hills crew can control on the Silk Road.
Can you direct me to credible information on “portals and exopolitics”?
I wish I could. I have never found anything that I trust. All “squishy”
I have tried to understand the logic of US neoconservative policy of the last 15 years in Middle East, and I have this hypothesis. The end goal is not, and perhaps has never been, occupation or regime change. Too difficult and expensive.
The end goal is to destabilize and destroy infrastructure in key countries that cannot be brought under the US umbrella. Once you have a power vacum, it’s possible to sponsor internal chaos much cheaper than it would cost to maintain a US presence there.
That way, no other power can control the ME oil market once US power declines in the region. You only have Saudi Arabia as last regime standing. The rest will be chaos and no one will invest in places that are so unstable.
That is the only logical explanation that I can find to explain the govt’s actions. I don’t think these are stupid people. Crazy, maybe, but not stupid.
So it’s not really relevant that the US cannot win a war with Iran. That’s not the framework for this strategy. The goal isn’t to control the territory or the people. The goal is to destabilize and create chaos. The conflict itself is the goal as it creates the chaos. It doesn’t matter who wins in a conventional sense.
There is a joke that sums up this thinking. A farmer has a genie grant him one wish. The farmer thinks and says, “Well, my neighbor has a cow which gives him a 100 liters of milk a day.” The genie asks, “So you want a cow which gives you 200 liters?” “No,” the farmer replies, “I just want his cow to die.”
It’s a policy of destruction. There are two ways to be number one. Either rise above all others, or drag everyone else below you. The latter is the only way I can make sense of what is happening.
I agree – this is part of a logical explanation. I also think it creates deflation that helps you offset the extraordinary monetary inflation going on. The notion that the $21 trillion is not real because otherwise we would have inflation is complete bunk. If you looked at labor deflation and covert and war deflation, it is a significant and sufficient offset. However, I also think there is a desire to destroy history and the places being targeted are losing their libraries and antiquities. One of my allies is convinced that part of this is about portals and exopolitics – I can not prove that it is not.
It also works as a warning on the IT and cybersecurity shakedown across the silk road. Lets us control, install, manage and/or back door your systems or else – see what happened to so and so. This is another reason why the Huawei fight is so interesting. In part this is about how much equity Sheldon Adelson and the Beverly Hills crew can control on the Silk Road.
Can you direct me to credible information on “portals and exopolitics”?
I wish I could. I have never found anything that I trust. All “squishy”
What immediately struck me in the conversation was Saker’s use of the term ‘the US’ when he means The Deep State, which has become a CIA operation almost exclusively. The psychopaths are not primarily elected nor electors. During the cold war, we were taught that Russians were bad, but I couldn’t buy that (particularly since I had ancestors who spoke that language). I could understand the threat that the Soviet Union represented militarily, but never thought that hundreds of millions should be killed over political theory differences. Additionally, if the US was destroyed in 120 minutes, then the rest of the world is gone in a day or less, so that’s the classic definition of ‘pyrrhic victory.’ Qui bono?
I continue to expect that the Iran dustup is a sideshow in the US-China war of dirty tricks. Besides the weather and cyber attacks, I feel certain the Chinese have a down card on disclosure that the US won’t risk their playing.
Definately part of the US-China tug of war