The US Will Seek to Destroy Iran as a Nation
Scott Ritter with Glenn Diesen
I had a conversation with Scott Ritter, a former intelligence officer in the US Marine Corps and a former UN Weapons Inspector. Ritter is convinced that the US will go to war unless Iran agrees to a new nuclear agreement, and in such a war, the objective will be the complete destruction of Iran as a nation.
Scott Ritter expresses his full understanding for why Iran does not trust the US and he has been very critical of US and Israeli aggression in the region and threatening behaviour toward Iran. Nonetheless, Ritter argues that irrespective of which side is right or wrong, the reality is that the US will attack Iran if it cannot get a deal. The US could not be successful in a prolonged war, and it could not risk Iran developing a nuclear deterrent after the war. As a result, the US would likely attack Iran with overwhelming force, possibly involving tactical nuclear weapons, and the objective would be to completely destroy Iran as a nation.
Ritter is known for his excitability (I say that as a fan), and I really think he needs to calm down on this one. There is absolutely no chance that the USA would use nukes in a first strike. The consequences for the US would be unknowable, and highly deleterious - just for starters, it would also be nuking the non-proliferation treaty. The USA has shredded its soft power in support of Israeli genocide for the previous 18 months, and cavalier use of nukes in an act of blatant aggression, against a non-nuclear state, would finish the job - forever. I could, just conceivably, see the USA panicking & threatening to loose a few off, in the event of a carrier going down, but even in that extreme scenario, it seems to me to be beyond all rationality. I think it’s just Trump bully-bluster. Just like he tried with Kim Jong Un - didn’t work there either. Let’s face it, if America was ever going to attack Iran, it was going to be in the noughties, when it occupied the countries on either side, the USA was much stronger than it is now, and Iran was much weaker than it is now. Also, given that the USA demonstrably cannot be trusted to live up to ANY agreement it ever signed, with anyone, how would this one be different? Furthermore, is Ritter really suggesting that Iran giving up its nuclear industry, would be the end of demands made upon it? Won’t the very next thing be a demand to give up its missile stocks and production, and then its support for the axis of resistance? Iran should stick the finger up to Trump, then it’s a Zugswang for him. Iran needs to remember what happened to Carthage, when it ran out of road giving in to Rome’s escalating demands.
- Alastair Crooke has the same opinion (in conversation with Larry C. Johnson (SONAR21.com)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/dQ2gyFWRVEY/
- This is related to the following video (see below):
"David Hearst: Trump's cabinet is a recipe for all-out Middle East war | MEE Opinion"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoBalmuWf0A
(In that regard it's Israel that is wreaking more and more havoc / unrest).