Have people look wanting to escalate as you put it which means essentially having a war you see the u. S. Government forced into frantic diplomacy through the Swiss Embassy in tehran which it now turns out it was the United States which initiated it was lee u. S. And having started the escalation became panicked and saw the way out to deescalate in other words they dont have a clear objectives and theyre not working towards those objectives instead you get the impression of a very powerful country stretching around throwing bombs in some directions killing people in other directions threatening people with sanctions but it isnt coherent and. You wouldnt get that impression from Mainstream Media go ahead glenn go ahead last just going to say this theme of. Escalation dominance has been the very central strategic objective by the United States or. In the simplicity that america would be able to increase escalate when it wants and then bring it down so for example if the us drops bombs in
Was used all of the time and i think indeed it was asymmetrical but for very very Different Reasons taran was being strategic and political while trump was relying upon sanctions and the 3rd and and the demand that the United States be remain inside of iraq against the will of the people in government and parliament there that is what makes this all asymmetrical and i think you can draw different conclusions about as the media likes to do who won and who lost go ahead alex and well what is what i mean i think the fundamental difference is that the range to. Range of their assets together that that Foreign Policy that diplomats they bring to get their political aint is they be able to bring in their intelligence operatives manage to me people also their economic assets such as they are and they set themselves very clear objectives which they dont let themselves. It from and their objective is not clearly defined easy is to try to get the United States out of the middle east out of iraq
American hand posters some of the groups before us are chanting america is the biggest satan so there are very strong antiamerican sentiments here and as we speak right now were actually marching across the Hanging Bridge to warn the greens on the left side over there is where the American Embassy is located and thats where these people are headed the message that theyre trying to pass here is that the Popular Mobilization forces including the hezbollah brigades are a legitimate force they form part of the Iraqi Security force about the presence of the u. S. Here in iraq is that as a matter of course there has been a brigade as well as the pm have vowed to retaliate and they also want to a table a bill in parliament to expel foreign troops now the question is how will the government react to rewards for this show of force here and how will the iraqi streets react of course the months of antigovernment protests that we have seen one of the hallmarks is a big anti in rainy and sentiment
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Hong kong rings in the new year with celebrations to actually been scaled down and prodemocracy protesters are making their presence felt as they all stood chairman kahlo scone flees to lebanon from japan where he faces charges of financial misconduct. So the u. S. Says it will send extra troops to the iraqi capital after members of an iranian backed group and their supporters surrounded the u. S. Embassy in baghdad it was in retaliation for sundays u. S. Air strikes on bases belonging to an iranian backed shia group in iraq President Trump has denounced the violence and accused iran of orchestrating it so when a full team has a report from baghdad. It was supposed to be a funeral procession commemorating the 27 fighters killed in the latest u. S. Air strike but instead it turned into an unequivocal message to the u. S. Well over the. Oh hundreds perhaps thousands of people are taking part in this procession currently theyre marching across the Hanging Bridge towards the fortified gree