Pompeo threatens to light the fuse in Persian Gulf

[Klaralven]

The US Fifth Fleet announced last Friday that a carrier strike group led by USS Nimitz passed through the Strait of Hormuz with the guided-missile cruisers USS Princeton and USS Philippine Sea and guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett.

After a gap of some 10 months, a US aircraft carrier is being deployed to the Persian Gulf.

This news will fuel speculation that a military flare-up involving Iran is in the making. In an article on September 16, Trita Parsi, a well-known expert on Iran who heads the Washington-based think-tank Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, wrote that a “first direct clash [with Iran] may take place as early as this coming Monday,” September 21.

In Parsi’s estimation, if President Donald Trump’s campaign for the US election fails to make headway, he might resort to some desperate gimmicks that give him mileage in the news cycle and help whip up jingoism among a gullible American public who would rally behind their commander-in-chief.

Therefore, Trump’s Plan B might well be to engineer a military flare-up in some form involving Iran in the few weeks remaining between now and the November 3 election.

Parsi sees Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as the mastermind behind this Plan B. And the intention seems to be somehow to provoke Iran to use force, which would provide an alibi for the US military to carry out “reprisal” attacks.

https://asiatimes.com/2020/09/pompeo-threatens-to-light-the-fuse-in-persian-gulf/

[secondwind]

1. God almighty!!!! What a fekking nightmare scenario!!!

[Chainfire]

2. Anything for a vote

[smirkymonkey]

3. This is one of the things I have been afraid of.

And I have no doubt he will think twice about it if he thinks he's going to lose.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. Me too.

I feel a lot of emotions about the state this country is in and the possibilities of what Trump might do to hang on to power, but more than anything I feel a seething anger toward him and all those who've enabled him. The fact that we are so vulnerable to this evil man and those around him makes my blood boil. I sure hope someone who is in the know about Trump's plans will step forward and enlighten everyone before the election takes place, if that isn't too late.

[Mike 03]

8. Me too, but I thought it would be a staged scuffle with Russia.

It would be hideous to force an unwanted clash on Iran. I doubt they want anything to do with this.

[Demsrule86]

5. What a nightmare...pandemic, economic collapse, packing the courts...and now like

all blood thirsty Republicans...let's start a war!!!! 'But her emails'. Fuck the Greens$

[Laelth]

6. Has this been posted in LBN?

If not, it probably should be.



-Laelth

[pwb]

7. Well the attempted race riots didn't work so now this.

Nothing they do can change who they are. Trump and McConnell have exposed the inner Republican Party for us all to see. They will be humiliated in defeat very soon. Big time Blue tsunami is here to stay this time.