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1. U.S. Says Iran War Over, But Continues to Fire.
2. Whose Victory Day Is It?
3. Are We Already in a World War?
There was a strange series of events over the past seven days in the war in the Gulf. U.S. officials insist that the war is over. SoS Marco Rubio held a press conference on Tuesday to declare that Operation Epic Fury (some call it Operation Epic Failure) was over.
It “is concluded,” he said. “We achieved the objectives of that operation.” Something we will talk about on this show.
Instead a new operation had begun, the U.S. is now in a defensive posture under Project Freedom, said Rubio. This sounded like a Rubio Ruse to get around the War Powers Act, to pretend one war is over and another, separate one could begin with a fresh 60 days on the clock.
He was asked about that and called the Act “100 percent unconstitutional.” Getting a declaration of war from Congress is constitutional. But the Trump administration didn’t get that either.
A day later, Trump ended Project Freedom too, we later learned, because Saudi Arabia wouldn’t allow U.S. jets to fly over their country.
It’s been a strange ceasefire, which Trump himself still insists is in place, what with Iran and the U.S. shooting at one another nearly everyday now.
Trump is indeed playing with fire if he lets Israel talk him into restarting full-scale war, which is virtually guaranteed to destroy the Gulf’s energy industry and the world economy.
Meanwhile they are still shooting at each other in Ukraine in a war that Russian political analyst Sergei Karaganov says is linked to Iran: the European theater and the Middle East theater in a new world war. A war in which Trump plays with the flames of a potential nuclear conflict (which Karaganov says Russia must prepare for.
The end of the last world war was celebrated in Moscow today. The question is, Whose Victory Day was it? Is it only Russia’s? Where are its allies that helped the Soviet Union defeat Nazi Germany? How does Russia view Germany today?
The Red Square parade went off without incident after Zelensky had said the Russians “fear drones may buzz over Red Square,” which Russia understandably interpreted as “aggressive and threatening.”
From the Kiev Post on Friday:
“President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree excluding Moscow’s Red Square from Ukraine’s target list during the Victory Day parade. The move is framed as a humanitarian step linked to ongoing negotiations, including a prisoner exchange and temporary ceasefire. … The decree, published on Friday, authorizes the parade to take place in the Russian capital and designates a specific geographic area around Red Square as off limits for Ukrainian during the event. The temporary restriction applies during the parade timeframe, beginning at 10 a.m. Kyiv time, and outlines exact coordinates covering the Red Square area.” [Emphasis added.]
Trump then got into the act announcing a three-day ceasefire. But what role did he play in it?
Meanwhile, European Council President António Costa said he thought there was “potential” for the EU to negotiate with Moscow to end the war, and said Zelensky agreed.
“I’m talking with the [EU’s] 27 national leaders to see the best way to organise ourselves and to identify what we need effectively to discuss with Russia when it comes to the right moment to do this,” he told the Financial Times on Thursday.
“We cannot change the geography. We are in Europe, we are neighbours of Russia, and of course we need to talk with them about the future of the security architecture of Europe,” he added.
Is this a real diplomatic opening, to even mention the security architecture of Europe, or another illusion?
It “is concluded,” he said. “We achieved the objectives of that operation.” Something we will talk about on this show.
Instead a new operation had begun, the U.S. is now in a defensive posture under Project Freedom, said Rubio. This sounded like a Rubio Ruse to get around the War Powers Act, to pretend one war is over and another, separate one could begin with a fresh 60 days on the clock.
He was asked about that and called the Act “100 percent unconstitutional.” Getting a declaration of war from Congress is constitutional. But the Trump administration didn’t get that either.
A day later, Trump ended Project Freedom too, we later learned, because Saudi Arabia wouldn’t allow U.S. jets to fly over their country.
It’s been a strange ceasefire, which Trump himself still insists is in place, what with Iran and the U.S. shooting at one another nearly everyday now.
Trump is indeed playing with fire if he lets Israel talk him into restarting full-scale war, which is virtually guaranteed to destroy the Gulf’s energy industry and the world economy.
Meanwhile they are still shooting at each other in Ukraine in a war that Russian political analyst Sergei Karaganov says is linked to Iran: the European theater and the Middle East theater in a new world war. A war in which Trump plays with the flames of a potential nuclear conflict (which Karaganov says Russia must prepare for.
The end of the last world war was celebrated in Moscow today. The question is, Whose Victory Day was it? Is it only Russia’s? Where are its allies that helped the Soviet Union defeat Nazi Germany? How does Russia view Germany today?
The Red Square parade went off without incident after Zelensky had said the Russians “fear drones may buzz over Red Square,” which Russia understandably interpreted as “aggressive and threatening.”
From the Kiev Post on Friday:
“President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree excluding Moscow’s Red Square from Ukraine’s target list during the Victory Day parade. The move is framed as a humanitarian step linked to ongoing negotiations, including a prisoner exchange and temporary ceasefire. … The decree, published on Friday, authorizes the parade to take place in the Russian capital and designates a specific geographic area around Red Square as off limits for Ukrainian during the event. The temporary restriction applies during the parade timeframe, beginning at 10 a.m. Kyiv time, and outlines exact coordinates covering the Red Square area.” [Emphasis added.]
Trump then got into the act announcing a three-day ceasefire. But what role did he play in it?
Meanwhile, European Council President António Costa said he thought there was “potential” for the EU to negotiate with Moscow to end the war, and said Zelensky agreed.
“I’m talking with the [EU’s] 27 national leaders to see the best way to organise ourselves and to identify what we need effectively to discuss with Russia when it comes to the right moment to do this,” he told the Financial Times on Thursday.
“We cannot change the geography. We are in Europe, we are neighbours of Russia, and of course we need to talk with them about the future of the security architecture of Europe,” he added.
Is this a real diplomatic opening, to even mention the security architecture of Europe, or another illusion?
