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
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Upon sanctions and the 3rd and and the demand that the United States we 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 heres what i mean i think the fundamental difference is that the radios just. Range all of their assets together that that Foreign Policy that diplomats they bring to get their political leaders they build bringing their intelligence operatives message me people also their economic assets such as they are and they set themselves very clear objectives which they dont let themselves be done from and that objective is not clearly defined easy as to trying to get the United States. The middle east out of iraq specifically areas where they can threaten new iraq iran the United States why contrast what we see there is a dysfunctional government which doesnt have any kind of
All Things Considered on this edition of. A post mortem of the recent us around conflict what has changed and what bodes for the future issues the Mainstream Media refused to discuss. Some real news im joined by my guest going is a professor at the Higher School of economics as well as author of the case of western civilization and resurgence of russia we also have Dimitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst and editor in a smi internet media project. Andy in london we Cross Alexander macarius he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com our german crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to alexander in london you know over the past 10 days or so weve heard the term escalation deescalation proportional and one of the things i think that is mr very much is the how the behave the behavior on the side of the leadership and to iran and in washington we term asymmetrical was used all of the time