31 May: War or Not???

A friend says that the US must restart the war, but will wait until after the World Cup. However, Michael Hudson figures the US will start the war today, Sunday, 31 May 2026, or tomorrow, 1 June.

The US goal is control of all the oil in the world. Some say the Iraq war was a disaster, but it wasn't: the US got all the Iraqi oil, and generously gave 10% to the UK for helping. Some say the US got nothing out of killing Qaddafi, but, again, that's not true, the US got all the Libyan oil and gave 10% to the UK and 10% to France for helping (the French learned from the Iraq war that one should always help the US, since that pays better than not helping).

Syria was a little different. The US got all the oil, but there wasn't that much. The idea was to get rid of the horrible dictator Assad and replace him with a good, democratic leader like Jolani, a good Zionist who helped Israel with their 13 June and 28 February attacks on Iran (Assad had anti-aircraft that he used against any Israeli plane that flew over Syria, so Iran had to fly around Syria or, if the target was in Syria, use expensive missiles rather than cheap bombs, so he was obviously a horrible dictator and anti-Semite who had to go).

In any case, Iran has to go. All Iranian oil was discovered by UK developers, so it was all UK property until Prime Minister Mosaddek nationalised the oil in 1951. After WWII, the UK was too weak to get rid of Mosaddek, but MI6 knew to ask the CIA who arrested Mosaddek, made the Shah supreme leader of Iran,  and the Shah returned all the oil in Iran to the rightful (under US/UK law) owners, BP, now 50% owned by the UK and 50% owned by the US.

Great! But then, in 1979, the Iranians, led by an Ayatollah, overthrew the Shah and not only took all the oil, they took every American in the Embassy in Tehran hostage. President Carter sent a rescue mission that was destroyed by a desert sandstorm, so Carter lost the 1980 election and was replaced by President Reagan who paid a big ransom to Iran and got all the American hostages released.

But the Iranians kept all their oil, totally illegally under US/UK law,, so the US blockaded Iran, making it impossible for anyone to buy any Iranian oil or sell Iran anything like food or medicine. The blockade of Iraq killed about 500,000 Iraqis, and the US said it was well worth it to get all the Iraqi oil back in the hands of the legal (under US law) owners.

But Iran grows enough food to prevent starvation or even malnutrition, and enough medicine for the most common diseases, so the Iranians dying from no access to medicine was not nearly as many as in Iraq (and Iran have a larger population).

So the US keep pressing on to get that oil returned. As Trump says, no president has been able to get that oil back, but he's making great progress and will get it all bacdk and will remove a horribly anti-Semitic government of Iran that condemns Israel killing Arab terrorists like the babies in Gaza and South Lebanon (but he still doesn't have the oil back).

That the US will attack again to get their (and the UK) oil back seems certain, but whether it will be before or after the World Cup is anyone's guess.