Listen to my radio show of friday, January 10, 2020, for my summary of the past week’s events involving Trump’s assassination of Iran’s general Soleimani and subsequent developments bringing the US and Iran to the brink of war. Why both parties, US and Iran, temporarily pulled back. What’s likely next to occur in weeks and months ahead in run-up to the US 2020 election in November.
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SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. Rasmus provides an analysis of the events of the past week involving Trump’s ordered assassination of Iran’s general, Soleimani, and how it represents the way the USA typically precipitates military confrontation that often lead to war. (Read Rasmus’s article, Trump’s Déjà vu Wartime Playbook and 2 other articles posted on the blog, jackrasmus.com). How the US wartime playbook involves a definable pattern of provocations followed by issuing an unacceptable demand that often leads to military action—similar case examples from Vietnam to the 1st Gulf War to Afghanistan to the Iraq war and now being repeated in the Trump provocation (assassination) and eventual unacceptable demand aimed at Iran.
In the second half of the show Dr. Rasmus follows up his last week discussion of the 10 most important US Economic events of 2019 with a discussion of the 10 most notable US political developments of 2019: the Trump v. Iran provocation set in motion in December 2019, Trump’s Impeachment; the Mueller Report; the growing US Constitutional crisis; Trump’s packing of federal courts; Neocons taking over US foreign policy; US ‘Red’ states continued anti-democracy drift expanding voter suppression and gerrymandering; US social-cultural decline (record levels in opioids deaths, suicides, gun deaths, homelessness, millions still without health insurance or access, and growing US household debt crisis); Trump’s ‘Space Force’; and the continued internal realignment of the Republican (aka Trumpublican) and Democratic Parties.
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