Saw War in Warsaw
So much for the much heralded conference on Middle East peace in Warsaw, called by the Trump/Dotard administration. Pompous Pompeo is there to lecture everybody else about how horrible Iran is. Seeing thru this, most European countries decided to only send lower level diplomats, instead of Foreign Ministers as initially planned. WaPo wrote - What Pompeo originally billed as a major conference to pressure Iran on its regional influence, missile testing and terrorism is now as likely to be defined by what it is not — and who is not coming.
Pompeo immediately claimed that it was about the Middle East, and NOT about Iran, and they would be discussing Syria, Iraq, Yemen and so on. All without mentioning Iran, I suppose. Even as Pompeo was saying that in Warsaw, Bolton was tweeting about the demise of the Iraqi regime, and Guiliani was also in Warsaw railing against Iran. So much for Dotard’s well-oiled administration, where no one knows what the party line is.
In any case, meeting in Warsaw was already a signal to put off most EU countries. With Poland and Hungary moving inexorably towards quasi-dictatorship, trust Dotard, who would love to be a quasi-dictator himself, to give them legitimacy. The end result was that Iran was able to mock the whole thing and expose US hypocrisy. Maybe Dotard/Pompeo will try to do another one in Budapest.
There are plenty or actual dictators in Warsaw, since most of the Gulf countries are represented, as they understood this was all about condemning Iran. Now the big success of the conference is going to be a photo of Netanyahu and the Gulf leaders smiling together. For all concerned, I suppose you are known by the company you keep.
The sad end result, as predicted by many when the US pulled out of the Iran Nuclear agreement, is that the hardliners in Iran will get strengthened. As it happened, we just had the 40th anniversary of the revolution, and Rouhani’s speech was far more fiery than his normal moderate stuff. If the moderates have to give in to the hardliners there, the future doesn’t look too good.
Pompeo immediately claimed that it was about the Middle East, and NOT about Iran, and they would be discussing Syria, Iraq, Yemen and so on. All without mentioning Iran, I suppose. Even as Pompeo was saying that in Warsaw, Bolton was tweeting about the demise of the Iraqi regime, and Guiliani was also in Warsaw railing against Iran. So much for Dotard’s well-oiled administration, where no one knows what the party line is.
In any case, meeting in Warsaw was already a signal to put off most EU countries. With Poland and Hungary moving inexorably towards quasi-dictatorship, trust Dotard, who would love to be a quasi-dictator himself, to give them legitimacy. The end result was that Iran was able to mock the whole thing and expose US hypocrisy. Maybe Dotard/Pompeo will try to do another one in Budapest.
There are plenty or actual dictators in Warsaw, since most of the Gulf countries are represented, as they understood this was all about condemning Iran. Now the big success of the conference is going to be a photo of Netanyahu and the Gulf leaders smiling together. For all concerned, I suppose you are known by the company you keep.
The sad end result, as predicted by many when the US pulled out of the Iran Nuclear agreement, is that the hardliners in Iran will get strengthened. As it happened, we just had the 40th anniversary of the revolution, and Rouhani’s speech was far more fiery than his normal moderate stuff. If the moderates have to give in to the hardliners there, the future doesn’t look too good.
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