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More on what Iran is up to these days:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ilhan-omar-attacks-trump-for-killing-top-iranian-terrorist-promotes-conspiracy-theory<\/a><\/p>\n The list of past events sponsored by Iran is at the bottom of the article.<\/p>\n This view from the NY Post is worth a careful read, too:\u00a0 https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/03\/attack-on-qassem-soleimani-was-deterrence-not-escalation\/<\/a><\/p>\n In particular, read carefully this view of Iran’s attempts to provoke Trump into real warfare:\u00a0 \u00a0The mullahcracy in Iran, supported by Soleimani\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps, seeks to expand its influence in the region through the use of force. It believes in force. It sees glory in the use of force. And it sees no difference between conventional battlefield exchanges, ginned-up demonstrations at the US embassy in Baghdad or terrorist strikes.<\/p>\n For such an adversary that does not view peace as the ultimate goal, the calculus is simple: They test and prod and dare and in so doing seek to exhaust and debilitate their foe.<\/p>\n The way to stop it is not \u201cpeace.\u201d It is, rather, deterrence. – article<\/p>\n If you go back to when these oddball attacks started in the Middle East, it starts making a lot more sense. The slaughter of Israeli athletes at the Olympics; hijacking a passenger plane and killing a US Navy sailor and dumping his body on the tarmac; the bombing of the Pan Am airliner; the constant conflict in Northern Ireland that carried over to a bombing in London; the truck bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut; the bombing of US Navy ships Stark and Cole; the constant poking like this, culminating in the 2001 plane hijackings and destruction – all of this is part of a long-term pattern that was meant to start a major war, if you will, to “end all wars”. And China, which has a vested interest in the rare earths in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is keeping a very watchful eye on what happens there.<\/p>\n There has never been “peace” in the Middle East, not since civilization was invented and people started cultivating wheat and domesticating wild cattle, sheep and goats.\u00a0 Never. When Crassus, who was supposed to govern the land of the Parthians, took his army there to defeat the Parthians, he made every mistake possible and it cost him everything. He went to a meeting with them and they executed him by pouring molten gold down his throat… or that’s the story that came back. Those people do not want peace<\/em>; they want turmoil and destruction. If you try to appease them, you are dead meat on a fork. Ask Crassus about that.<\/p>\n If you really want to stop them, you will have to bite the bullet and pound them into the ground. Trump knows it, and does not want that.<\/p>\n On a side note: Norkiland’s Glorious Leader has announced that he is reviving his nuclear testing and missile program, because he did not get what he wanted out of Trump. Can\u2019t leave him out, can we? He\u2019s going to restart his rocketry and nukes science again, because he didn\u2019t get to have his way with Trump.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-northkorea-missiles-technology-analys\/faster-rockets-more-warheads-what-north-korea-could-gain-from-new-weapons-development-idUSKBN1Z10BQ<\/a><\/p>\n Faster rockets. More warheads\u2026. Hmmm\u2026.<\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0 This week North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that the world would soon see his country\u2019s \u201cnew strategic weapon\u201d and that there was no longer reason for Pyongyang to be bound by a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests.<\/p>\n Kim\u2019s comments were the strongest indication that the North could resume some of the major tests it had suspended more than two years ago in the run-up to summit diplomacy with the United States.<\/p>\n After years of development, the weapons programs of North Korea are now advanced enough that it is hard to predict what it might test, said Jeffrey Lewis, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).<\/p>\n U.S. military officials have said they see a long-range missile launch as one of the most likely possibilities. – article<\/p>\n Hey, ND:tBF didn\u2019t get what he wanted out of Trump when he took the train to Hanoi, so he\u2019s gotta get attention somehow.\u00a0 Since his missiles are more successful than Iran\u2019s (remember the missile blowing up on the pad in Iran?), is he going to go commercial and sell his rocket science outside Norkiland?\u00a0 Stay tuned. He may find some solace in dealing with Iran, since their test rocket self-destructed on the pad a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More on what Iran is up to these days:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ilhan-omar-attacks-trump-for-killing-top-iranian-terrorist-promotes-conspiracy-theory The list of past events sponsored … Iran and Nork Updates<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,214,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-north-korea","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93997,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983\/revisions\/93997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}