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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

What? What messes is the U.S. making? Iran has been a mess for 47 years, the U.S. is finally trying to clean it up. Europe is a mess of their own doing and it looks like we finally have people in office who are tired of helping them and paying to keep it from getting too messy.

Marco Chiesa's avatar

You seem to live in a parallel universe!

Phil Davis's avatar

Cleaning up? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Yes. Venezuela is far cleaner than it was. Cuba seems to literally running out of gas. The Middle East has been a mess since before any of us were born.

Allie's avatar

China courting opposition leaders in Taiwan is nothing new. There were great concerns about PRC’s influence in Taiwan’s last presidential election, and concerns about members of Taiwan’s military working with PRC. This was occurring before Trump. You might want to ask people in the Xiden’s administration about this since Xiden sold out to China.

albert venezio's avatar

As expected John and is inline with Sun Tzu Chinese Military Philosophy. China and Russia are in a much better position before Netanyahu's War on Iran which a Blackmailed, Bribed and Threatened Trump was trapped into.

Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

If there was anything to blackmail T with Biden would have released it.

albert venezio's avatar

Have you read the Epstein files?

Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

No, and nor have you. Do you really think that they just gathered dust during the four years of Biden? Seems like The whole world has forgotten that there was a four year period between T’s two terms in which the government threw everything they had and could invent at him.

DBC's avatar

Yea, when the Iranian negotiators bragged about their stockpile of enriched uranium and their ability to build 11 nukes.... Trump reacted.

All else is noise.

albert venezio's avatar

How about Israel's 100 illegal (With Stolen US Technology which Israel then sold to the Russians, Chinese and others) Nukes with which they have held the Middle East and the world captive?

Iran now has no choice to do it thanks to Netanyahu and his Blackmailed Bribed Traitor Clown Trump!

DBC's avatar

But, they won't succeed.

Who would you rather see as Potus?

tds doesn't cut it imo. Noise.

albert venezio's avatar

Both choices were HORRIBLE!

You do not do deep enough research.

DBC's avatar

Who would you rather see as Potus?

Daniel Wirt's avatar

And now, thanks to people like you, very likely they will…

DBC's avatar

''very likely they will' - will what? more noise?

Flash Gordon's avatar

John, one of the comparisons that immediately comes to mind when thinking about Trump and Netanyahu is that of Mike Tyson and Don King. When Tyson first entered the ring as a professional he was not surrounded by the sycophants that eventually brought him down. These eventually included family members and a handler, Robin Givens, that was likely brought in by King to control Tyson's emotional stability, spy on him, get inside his head and eventually rob him blind. Tyson's own character flaws and weaknesses such as ego and propensity toward women, which were kept in check by Cus D'Amato's straight talk, discipline and sage wisdom, eventually gave way to the exploitation by King and company when Cus died.

Those constantly haranguing you and others who are trying their best to inject some balanced fact-checking and historical warnings into Trump's USIsrael's endeavors and Bibi Netanyahu's morals and motivations are the Tyson entourage. I'd love to hear you dive into that analogy a bit more. It seems incredibly prescient and perhaps a more relatable, working-class example of how a powerful fighter can be brought down by treachery and deceit, eventually knocked out by a journeyman fighter who just focused on the fundamentals; jab and move, jab and move.

SoloD's avatar

Brice Taylor, Thanks For The Memories...

evergreen's avatar

Why do you disparage the US as making a mess and China sliding in gracefully to eat its lunch?

Do you really think the pros in USA are blind and dumb to China/Iran relationship and objectives?

Inisfad's avatar

Hopefully, Taiwan will supply China with oil. In the meantime, as the author here is constantly talking about ‘peace’ with Iranian jihadists, are we now hoping to have to militarily protect Taiwan from China? One wonders at the conflicting logic.

Brian wallis's avatar

Iran is far more important than Taiwan. Seems like the Iran bots are out in full force tying to save their ass. Rather than negotiate US should have finished the take out

David Chere-Bolelwang's avatar

Russia and Iran have shown that with determination, the US can be pushed back and this must have emboldened China like never before.. The Chinese must be thinking. "it is now or never" as the saying goes.. (from Johannesburg)

SoloD's avatar

We (America) are the target.

joe jacovino's avatar

hey where's epstein ?

PLK's avatar

Excellent approach, Mr. Leake. Still don’t love the consistently disparaging titles but really appreciate the analysis and perspective.

Betty Ann's avatar

Here's hoping that Trump will see the writing on the wall. To end the war with Iran, break from Israel, and go after the Taiwan trillions to make U.S.A. solvent again! It will make Trump great again!

Steve Church's avatar

Do you actually know Mr. Perera? Just wondering because he recently popped onto my radar as well. He seems to know an awful lot. He also seems to slip into neocon narrative support mode frequently. I hate to be suspicious.

Rosa's avatar

Thank you, John, for sharing!

Ernest Zurkan's avatar

I bet Leake was a big Biden supporter.

Has he ever criticised the Democrats for the mess they made of America?

Has he ever congratulated the Trump Administration for ANY of its many accomplishments?

Cowards can be expected to cower in the face of adversity!

Leake's continuing diatribe reminds me of the pathetic display of cowardice by one of the characters featured in the movie 'Saving Private Ryan'

This flake allowed the enemy to kill off all the good me in his unit only to save his sorry butt, which unfortunately ensured the continuance of his genetic lineage.

Leake appears to favour and fit right in with the garbage espoused by real world gutless pretend men like Adam Schiff, Richard Blumenthal and Chuck Schumer.

evergreen's avatar

Leake wasn't for Biden. He's just turned off by testosterone in leadership roles where intellect should reign supreme. In Trump's case, Leake see no intellect. Shame, because Trump has a very keen grasp of the human dynamic. Leake discounts that as not intellectual--you know, letters and arts, etc. Trump runs circles around people, Leake included, and they disparage him as quite dumb.

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

The recent events have been a part of reconfiguring the relations with China. I mentioned that a few posts ago. China will be part of deciding what the new regime in Iran will look like... as they want a stable source of oil. That is all part of the negotiation.