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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Does Ukraine Have a Death-Wish? And Does Iran Have a Nuke?

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Ukraine's drone waves continue hitting Russia, last week targeting St Petersburg right as its annual 'Russian Davos' forum opened, Azerbaijani grain ships in the Sea of Azov, and the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye. The Ukrainian puppet regime, egged on as ever by the Western Consortium that runs it, is feeling invincible, but its days are surely numbered.

Meanwhile the American side of the 'US-rael partnership' is showing rare signs of unease over their pact, with anonymous Pentagon sources complaining about the 'critical' extent of Israeli espionage inside the US.

Trump has been noticeably subdued in recent weeks regarding threats to 'obliterate' Iran, so it's worth considering rumors originating in Tehran that its leadership is preparing to demonstrate a 'new-found' nuclear weapons capability. In the meantime, Iran is poised to send new waves of missiles to defend the Lebanese people from Israeli assault...


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: US Govt Make-Believe as Iran Holds Trump & Israel to Fire

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The US government continues dragging out terms of settlement with Iran, Israel continues invading, occupying and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon and Gaza, and the Trump White House continues playing 'MAGA Greatest Hits' to its base. Their detachment from reality is becoming more palpable - and unsustainable, surely? - by the day...


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump Says Iran Deal 'Close', But Can He 'Surrender' US Hegemony?

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Another 'TACO Tuesday' came and went... by Thursday the US military was again 'locked and loaded' for another go at Iran... and by Saturday evening Trump was dangling another peace deal - 'for realz this time'. As American diplomacy erratically yo-yo's, in the real world, some oil tankers are once more sailing the Strait of Hormuz, but now on Iran's terms.

War is a cynical business, a 'racket', as US General Smedley Butler said a century ago. Wars begin because they're profitable, and only end with the promise of more profit. Is it a 'win' for the US if it makes more money selling more oil, even if that means Iran is also doing so? For Trump, perhaps, but for the 'imperial class', this constitutes 'abject surrender'.

While the stand-off between the US/Israel and Iran appears to be reaching a 'conclusion' one way or another, the Russia-Ukraine/NATO War has dragged on for 4 years, and could yet enter a new phase. Drone warfare and 'low-intensity conflict' can co-exist with 'normal life', as we've witnessed in Ukraine, so Euro-Atlantic regimes seem keen to undergo 'Ukrainization'...


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump Goes to China

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Deferred due to the US-Israeli war against Iran, Trump finally visited China last week, where he received an apparently 'warm' welcome from Xi Jinping, along with a stern warning: do not mess with Taiwan, and let us work to avoid the 'Thucydides Trap', wherein a dominant power inevitably wars with a rising power. Whether Trump understood the finer points of Chinese diplomacy is unclear, but it's clear he intended to 'do big business deals' by bringing 'our finest' captains of industry in tow.

Overhanging the event is the 'unfinished business' in Iran, where it's looking increasingly likely that the US and Israel will 'have another go' at 'reopening the Strait of Hormuz'. Should that be attempted, we are staring down the barrel of a gargantuan global energy crisis. Does Trump care? He certainly cares about his legacy, and even he must doubt the chances of the US 'fall-back plan' of North America supplanting the Middle East as the 'global energy spigot' in the event that the Gulf becomes FUBAR...


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: The Madness of King Donald

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Caught in a trap by Iran, the gulf between what US president Trump wishes were true, and what is actually real, continues to grow. While the Strait of Hormuz remains impassable to the US Navy, its distant "blockade of Iran's blockade" is apparently taking effect, with billions of dollars' worth of oil shipments failing to leave Iran and thus reducing the country's cash flows.

Iranian officials remain steadfast, however, denying dodgy Washington outlet Axios' repeated claims that a peace deal is 'ready any day now', and stressing that it's prepared to ride out Trump's attempt at economic siege in the belief that the American president will blink first when actual oil shortages kick in, globally, sometime between now and September.

The rest of us are left with little choice but to watch Trump learn the hard way that there are some things he cannot 'will' into existence...


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Energy Wars on the High Seas - Trump Admits "US Navy Like Pirates!"

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Typically, the American president has blurted out 'the plain truth' about what his government is doing around the world - from the Caribbean to the Arctic to the Black Sea and Indian Ocean: behaving like pirates. This week we review, taking into account Richard Medhurst's excellent dot-connecting in his documentary 'The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War', the string of US and Israeli government moves this year to effectively 'ring-fence' the global flow of oil and gas.

As we've been warning for over a decade, the US was never going to just roll over in the face of Russian defiance regarding Crimea, Iranian resistance against Israeli expansionism, and Chinese 'win-win' geoeconomic strategy towards a multipolar world. They hatched a 'counter-attack', and Trump is playing his part to 'make America great again', which is really just to do whatever the US can to forestall or prevent the end of its currency's status as 'global reserve currency'.


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: 'Assassination Attempt' Farce in DC as US Prepares 'Second Shot' at Defeating Iran

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Three aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea for the first time since March 2003 suggests another 'shock and awe' campaign is being considered. The 'ceasefire' between the US and Iran is holding, but for how much longer? Trump talks up his 'blockade of their blockade', but it's clear what is suffering most from Iranian defiance - Trump's reputation and American 'prestige', which the Americans are itching to salvage.

Meanwhile an armed nutcase attempted to barge his way into the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC, apparently with a view to 'taking out the Trump administration', most of which was in attendance. The buffoon got nowhere but the dramatic scenes did nothing to bolster Washington's self-image as a place where 'important global business' takes place.


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Dire Strait: Deciphering Trump's Crazy Messaging on Tense Iran Situation

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It's not easy to do, and it's tempting to just 'turn it off', but we're all unfortunately doomed to have to endure Trump's erratic statements on Iran and wider geopolitics for the duration of this crisis (which he himself caused). For now a tentative ceasefire is holding, and further talks are scheduled in Pakistan this week, but from one hour to the next no one can tell which way things will go: towards a 'deal', or back towards hot war?

Trump, though manifestly not presidential material, really is the quintessential American to be 'saving America' at the end of empire. Decades ago, the 'quiet American' would covertly 'fix' things abroad, all in service of maximizing American power and wealth. Now a distinctly LOUD American is blurting out loud what we've long suspected the Washington elite think privately: "let's just go take all their stuff and kill them if they refuse..."


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump Card! US Blockades Iran's Blockade to Unblock Strait of Hormuz

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If you were writing this for a Hollywood script, it would be rejected for being unrealistic.

Trump's latest scheme to 'unblock the Strait of Hormuz' is almost certainly not going to work, but more importantly, what is the likelihood that hostilities will recommence between the US and Iran? Also, what really happened during that so-called 'rescue mission' south of Isfahan last week?

And should we have sympathy for Trump? He seems to be at the mercy of forces he can neither placate nor out-maneuver...


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump's D-Day: Do or Die

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A month into his "little excursion" in Iran, Trump's campaign of sustained airstrikes is yielding preposterous results: significant damage in Iran, but also in America's regional client-states, and also in key global supply chains. Every Monday he calms 'the markets' with assurances that the war is won and "very nearly over," and every Friday, when markets close, he threatens "TOTAL DEATH AND DESTRUCTION!"

In the meantime, non-stop rumors of American troop movements suggest Trump is seriously considering a ground invasion of Iran, ostensibly to "reopen the Strait of Hormuz." Which actually is open, just now on Iran's terms. The US president apparently seeks to return shipping there to the status quo ante. But can he do it with a small landing force? And would such a move even work? It's D-Day for the West as we knew it: do, or die.


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