Americans
have a foreign policy of never admitting error or unforeseen policy
drift and that can be costly. There were reasons the United States
choose to orchestrate a coup against Iran’s lawfully elected Prime
Minister during the Eisenhower administration. The Shah was restored
and decades of antipathy followed.
The
Shah restored was the son of an ersatz Shah whom had been a military
officer before making himself Shah in a minor Napoleonic redux. The
United States until the overthrow of the Shah tended to regard
Iranians as a little inferior. Iranians that worked in hospitals for
Americans weren't allowed treatment in them. Oil and gas exploitation
as well as keeping communists at bay were the prime interests in
Iran. Iranian sensibilities were trampled. The United States never
understood that it created much of it’s future problems with Iran.
The
left supported the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution against the Shah
as he and the secret police agency SAVAK were soundly hated. When the
Ayatollah took over the communists were liquidated directly. They
made a wrong choice of who to support in that revolution.
With
Russia, the United States just failed to recognize historical Russian
interests in or ownership of the Ukraine and Crimea. The Obama
administration and President Bush before threw away the opportunity
given with God’s grace and President Reagan to end the cold war
with the Soviet Union and establish a friendly democracy in Russia.
The left in the United States soundly hates Russia in response to the
end of communism and socialism and have sought to restore the Cold
War relationship with it- largely with success. The left hate Donald
Trump as an unrepentant capitalist and Russia for for giving up
socialism.
Those
policies were errors and reinforced with accusations against Russia
and Iran. The dynamic in Washington are to hate both nations by
either Democrats and Republicans or both at various times. The media
is for and against the bifurcated policy ineptitude that is their
own.
The
Military-Industrial complex probably doesn’t need a Cold War with
Russia to stimulate weapons development and sales for China alone is
enough to keep that business growing (China is perceived as a
long-range threat as well as business partner- another odd policy).
Because
the left have been attacking President Trump for years trying to show
that he is in collusion with President Putin or associates to be
elected, the President hasn’t been realistically able to increase
friendly relations with Russia. President Putin has utilized the
opportunity to send military forces to Venezuela to reinforce a
corrupt socialist President. President Putin likes the tropical
products in Moscow, can use a base close to the U.S. in the event the
United States increases adverse relations to the brink of war, and
knows the left in the United States won’t be too critical because
he is after all supporting a socialist regime.
When
the American intelligence establishment is so uncreative and
maladroit, one wonders how people muddle through these things without
megadeath. American leaders seem to be playing two-dimensional chess
on a three dimensional holographic board.
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