Thursday, July 18, 2019

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 18, 2019

Reuters

Paul R. Pillar, National Interest: Will Further Trump Sanctions Really Make Iran Cry Uncle?

The Trump administration is in a box of its own making.

This week the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) convened at the request of the Trump administration to discuss Iran’s nuclear activities. There is no action that, according to the IAEA’s charter and terms of reference, can or should come out of this discussion. The IAEA’s board is not the forum to discuss compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal. That is the role of a joint commission established by the JCPOA, but the United States has not been a part of that body ever since the administration reneged on U.S. obligations under the JCPOA and decided it didn’t want anything to do with the agreement.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 18, 2019

Iraq: On the fault line of rising US-Iran tensions -- France 24

On Iran, Is Rand Paul the New John Kerry? -- Bloomberg

How Turkey is planning to handle US blowback over S-400s -- Metin Gurcan, Al-Monitor

AP Explains: Why NATO member Turkey wants Russian missiles -- Suzan Fraser, AP

America No Longer Needs the Middle East -- George Seay, National Interest

China scrambles to deliver new Hong Kong strategy –but military response not an option -- William Zheng, Jun Mai and Chow Chung-yan, SCMP

Taiwan pro-Beijing politician: You can change China -- Alan MacKenzie, DW

How to Confront an Advancing Threat From China: Getting Tough on Trade Is Just the First Step -- Nikki Haley, Foreign Affairs

Decline and Fall of China? -- A.E. Clark, Law And Liberty

As trade war counts down, Seoul offers olive branch to Tokyo -- Andrew Salmon, Asia Times

Thailand's Quiet Crisis: 'The Southern Problem' -- Austin Bodetti, The Diplomat

From plaything to player: How Europe can stand up for itself in the next five years -- Carl Bildt & Mark Leonard, European Council on Foreign Affairs

Is Corbynization the Democratic Party’s Future? -- Robert Philpot, Commentary

Why Puerto Ricans have taken to the streets to oust their governor -- Ramón Luis Nieves, The Hill

Separatists in Canada's Quebec 'potential spoiler' for Trudeau in October poll -- Allison Lampert, Reuters

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Netanyahu to Decide if BDS Supporters Omar and Tlaib Can Visit Israel

Meanwhile liberal hero and heartthrob, Ehud Barak, was photographed trying to sneak into Jeffrey Epstein's love shack.

News is that some ___ hot Democrat operative are coming to Israel to campaign for Ehud and explain it all away.

"In photos obtained by DailyMail.com, Ehud Barak is seen hiding his face as he entered Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion in January 2016"

So according to lib logic partying with Epstein is worse in 1992 than in 2016, because he was not convicted. Those wild and crazy libs!

In 1992 Epstein might still have been on the up and up.

But after 2006 and Epstein's conviction devout liberals like
Ehud Barack
Katie Couric
George Stephanopoulos
Woody Allen (a well known, good liberal, who loves his children dearly)
Chelsea Handler

still associated with Epstein. Probably because they though nothing was wrong with it. After all the liberal leaders of New York state, paragons of virtue, will legalize prostitution.

https://nypost.com/2018/05/23/the-hypocrisy-of-american-election-investigations-into-israel/

Anonymous said...

Moron-this post is about Iran and Trump sanctions
grow the fuck up
if you got the hots for epstein stuff, just wait

fred said...

a new report revealing Lindsey Graham’s Russia-linked donations

Anonymous said...

"Moron-this post is about Iran and Trump sanctions"

This is not specifically about Iran & Trump. The title of the post is
"Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 18, 2019".

Are any of the following about Iran?

- China scrambles to deliver new Hong Kong strategy
- Taiwan pro-Beijing politician: You can change China
- How to Confront an Advancing Threat From China: Getting Tough on Trade Is Just the First Step
- Decline and Fall of China?
- As trade war counts down, Seoul offers olive branch to Tokyo

Maybe someone should review set theory and learn what the word "and" means? That should not be too hard. It is taught in middle school. My language professional have trouble with the meaning of the word 'and' whereas programmers, philosophers, and mathematicians do not.

"if you got the hots for epstein[sic] stuff, just wait"

I am not at all concerned that Trump partied with adult professional cheerleaders, since the era of Bill 'the rapist' Clinton.

Every time I watch one of my favorite series, I am constantly reminded that she accused Bill Clinton of raping her.

I am not going to ask you to grow up. I know that will never happen.

Anonymous said...

This happened in 2011 and Lindsey Graham was not charged, but 8 years later someone is still slavering. Is the right word slavering or drooling?

Anonymous said...


Factbox: Forty Republicans criticize Trump's inflammatory tweets
Forty of the 250 Republicans serving in the U.S. Congress as of Wednesday afternoon have criticized Republican President Donald Trump over his attacks, widely condemned as racist, on four Democratic lawmakers, all minority women. Four Republicans voted on Tuesday in favor a Democratic-sponsored House of Representatives resolution condemning Trump's tweets, despite being told by Republican leaders to oppose it. Will Hurd, Susan Brooks, Brian Fitzpatrick and Fred Upton - along with independent

Anonymous said...


Trump Puts More GOP Money In His Own Pocket During Another Million-Dollar Golf Trip
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump is leaving Friday for another million-dollar golf weekend at his New Jersey course, where he will also host afundraiser that will convert Republican Party money into his own personalmoney.The trip will be Trump's 17th visit to his resort 45 miles west of New YorkCity since taking office, with each costing taxpayers at least $1.1 million intravel and security costs. The trip will bring his taxpayer-paid golf tab to$109.2 million

fred said...

Trump made 20 false claims at his North Carolina rally
--- Record shows close Donald Trump relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Anonymous said...

"My language professional have trouble"

BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LANGUAGE?

Anonymous said...

Poll: McConnell is most unpopular senator | TheHill
--- Trump Now Disavows 'Send Her Back' Chant As Rep. Ilhan Omar Gets Heroes Welcome : NPR
--- Rabbi in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s district compares Trump rally to 'Nazi Germany' - ABC News
---How Trump Changed After Charlottesville

Anonymous said...

Like I have said before Fred. You will go to the voting booth to pull the lever for a straight donkey ticket as some anti-Semitic BDS Democrat hits you from behind.

McConnell should be unpopular. You think all I do is complain about Democrats, when I said 2/3rds of Republicans have to go. You do not listen very well. McConnell is nicknamed "the turtle" with all that the name implies. He hunkers down, takes the beating and trundles on. He is not as odious as Boehner or Cantor, but it is close.

I wondered why in 2006 that Epstein and Prince Andrew were not nuked. The only thing I could figure out at the time was that the Feds did not want to unravel it, because the British asked us not to. Prince Andrew is a prince. I point this out because you are notoriously slow. You have said you were slow in high school and you are slow now. I have to conclude you were slow in all points in between. So let's reiterate. Prince Andrew is a prince. Until Prince Charles had male heirs, Prince Andre was 2nd in line to the thrown behind Prince Charles (if I have my facts right).

I so dearly wanted to See Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton gone. But to get Clinton, you would have gotten Prince Andrew and to preserver our alliance with Britain, we did not go there.

So Attorney Acosta has a sexual predator all teed up and it will make his career, when the Feds read him the riot act. So for the sake of international diplomacy he desists. Now 13 years later the Democrat Party fucks him, because they want Trump.

I believe the the British Royalty is stronger now because Diana's children are three good men. So the Royal family would survive Andrew going to jail and the fact that Prince Charles is an idiot adulterer. So since the Democrats wouldn't let this lie, let's unravel the whole ball and get Andrew and Clinton.

You think you will get Trump. You won't. Trump partied with another super rich guy 3 decades ago and there were adult professional cheerleaders there. What guy would not party with football cheerleaders? A few, but most would party with them. If you were in 40s or 50s and invited you, Mr. Porn, would have partied with those cheer leaders too.

Thing is that Trump learned that Epstein like d more than adult women and distanced himself whereas after a conviction Democrats kept taking his money and kept socializing with him.

The Democrat Party will be ashes when all this is over due to their iniquity.

Anonymous said...

If you are a naturalized citizen (i.e not born a citizen), you can be sent back to your country of origin.

It happens often enough for people who commit felonies or are treasonous. There are famous cases, that a person especially an octogenarian or octopus should recall.

Why a 'Jew" would want a racist, anti-Semitic, felon to not be sent back to their home country is beyond me.

Oh wait, you are not a Jew. You have written that you are an atheist over a dozen time (maybe even a score of time). You are a observant religions liberal in the tradition of 1984 and any Jewish identity is a faint patina to be able to distinguish you from the other drones.

Atheist, I honestly believe that you are a liberal 1st, last and always. To you being a Jew is about 'flair'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtrLKGZZFg