{"id":232057,"date":"2023-03-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=232057"},"modified":"2023-03-22T03:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T03:58:15","slug":"endless-wars-us-escalation-to-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/03\/endless-wars-us-escalation-to-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Wars: US Escalation to the East"},"content":{"rendered":"

20 Mar 2023 – <\/em>Twenty years ago on March 20, 2003, the U.S. and the Coalition under their command attacked and invaded Iraq, which was accused of possessing weapons of mass destruction based on \u201cevidence\u201d that later turned out to be false. Secretary of State Colin Powell<\/strong> himself, who had presented them to the U.N. Security Council, would be forced years later to call his 2003 speech to the U.N. a \u201cblot\u201d on his record.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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U.S. Army guarding Rumaylah Oil Fields, Southern Iraq, 2003.
Photo credit: U.S. Navy via WikiMedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

On March 20, President George Bush<\/strong> announced,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cOn my order, coalition forces have begun striking to undermine Saddam Hussein\u2019s ability to wage war. More than 35 countries are providing crucial support, up to and including the deployment of combat units. Every nation that is part of this coalition has chosen to take on the duty and share the honor of serving our common defense.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The coalition under U.S. command included 30,000 Italian soldiers. Thus began the war that would kill more than a million Iraqis and cost the U.S., along with the war begun in Afghanistan in 2001, more than $14 trillion. The U.S. strategic goal was to control not only Iraq, but the entire Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n

March\u00a02023 \u2013 \u201cChina-mediated Iran-Saudi Arabia deal sketches a new Middle East,\u201d writes the Wall Street Journal, while the New York Times writes, \u201cThe deal between regional rivals highlights China\u2019s growing economic and political importance in the Middle East and the decline of American influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unable to prevent the \u201cdecline\u201d with political and economic tools, the U.S. and its allies are increasingly resorting to military ones. This includes the \u201clandmark agreement with Australia and Britain,\u201d announced by President Biden. It provides for the construction of a new fleet of nuclear attack submarines built by the U.S., Britain and Australia. This will make Australia the de facto tenth nuclear power tasked with holding China at gunpoint. The new nuclear attack fleet will operate not only in the South China Sea and the Pacific, but also in the Atlantic against Russia.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Manlio Dinucci is a research associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, a geographer, and geopolitical scientist. In the 1980s, he directed the magazine <\/em>Lotta per la Pace (born from “Appeal against the installation of nuclear missiles in Italy”) and was Executive Director for Italy of the <\/em>International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. <\/strong><\/em>His latest books are <\/em>L\u2019arte della guerra\/Annali della strategia USA\/NATO 1990-2016, Zambon 2016; and <\/em>Guerra Nucleare Il Giorno Prima, Zambon Editore; 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

This article was originally\u00a0published on<\/em> byoblu in Italian.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original – globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

20 Mar 2023 – Unable to prevent the \u201cdecline\u201d with political and economic tools, the U.S. and its allies are increasingly resorting to military ones. This includes the \u201clandmark agreement with Australia and Britain,\u201d announced by President Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":112211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[867,2642,417,1126,1050,112,2159,2200,70,1594],"class_list":["post-232057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-anglo-america","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-bullying","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-pentagon","tag-rogue-states","tag-us-empire","tag-usa","tag-war-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232060,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232057\/revisions\/232060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}