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A few weeks ago, Iran shot down a U.S. spy drone that Iran claims was over its territorial waters, and the U.S. claims wasn't. Either way, U.S. military spying on Iran is a dagger aimed straight at that country's ability to defend itself. The purpose of U.S. spying, by drones and every other means imaginable, is to thoroughly map Iran's military assets and capabilities, including the various transmission frequencies of Iran's military communications and radars, which allows the U.S. to plan jamming and spoofing those systems as part of bombing and missile attacks on them and on other targets. So Iran, by shooting down that U.S. drone, was committing an act of self-defense, NOT "aggression," as Western propagandists uniformly styled it.
Trump was then maneuvered by the extreme imperialists he's unwisely surrounded himself with (top culprits being Michael Pompeo and John Bolton) into ordering a military strike on Iran, but cancelled it before munitions were released. For this, he was attacked by various U.S. politicians (especially those of the Democratic Party) and career imperialist "experts" and polemicists. (One of Murdoch's Minions, Tucker Carlson , who has his very own television show on Fox "News," was oneof those credited with talking Trump out of the attack on the grounds that a war with Iran would damage Trump's re-election chances. So it wasn't that Trump suddenly turned into a hippie peacenik.)
Now the U.S. Navy has brought down an Iranian surveillance drone, with Trump himself spewing the standard self-righteous U.S. blather about self-defense, freedom of navigation, and what are intended as scary threats to Iran to Not Mess With The U.S.
The Navy warship U.S.S. Boxer was escorting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. It downed an Iranian surveillance drone by electronic means. The drone was 1000 yards away, according to the BBC. That's 3,000 feet, almost 3/5ths of a mile, or about a kilometer. [Propagandists reading their script on WCBS radio "news" stations called it "very close" without stating the actual distance.] The Boxer also threatened an Iranian patrol ship that was 500 years away (1,500 feet or about 500 meters). Apparently the U.S. doesn't like others observing its military assets too closely. It knows well from its own practice how the information can be used to plan attacks.
So what we are left with is this: U.S. is free to spy in ways that endanger nations it has already repeatedly attacked and threatened. The U.S. has been hankering to overthrow the Iranian government since 1979. Any interference with this U.S. "intelligence gathering" for purposes of future aggression is "aggression" and "illegal." The U.S. also insisted its drone that Iran downed was over international waters and thus legal.
But being in international airspace didn't give the Iranian drone any right to exist, so the U.S. took it down, in "self-defense."
No nation on earth compulsively creates more double-standards, which it imposes on the rest of the world, than the U.S.
Trump was then maneuvered by the extreme imperialists he's unwisely surrounded himself with (top culprits being Michael Pompeo and John Bolton) into ordering a military strike on Iran, but cancelled it before munitions were released. For this, he was attacked by various U.S. politicians (especially those of the Democratic Party) and career imperialist "experts" and polemicists. (One of Murdoch's Minions, Tucker Carlson , who has his very own television show on Fox "News," was oneof those credited with talking Trump out of the attack on the grounds that a war with Iran would damage Trump's re-election chances. So it wasn't that Trump suddenly turned into a hippie peacenik.)
Now the U.S. Navy has brought down an Iranian surveillance drone, with Trump himself spewing the standard self-righteous U.S. blather about self-defense, freedom of navigation, and what are intended as scary threats to Iran to Not Mess With The U.S.
The Navy warship U.S.S. Boxer was escorting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. It downed an Iranian surveillance drone by electronic means. The drone was 1000 yards away, according to the BBC. That's 3,000 feet, almost 3/5ths of a mile, or about a kilometer. [Propagandists reading their script on WCBS radio "news" stations called it "very close" without stating the actual distance.] The Boxer also threatened an Iranian patrol ship that was 500 years away (1,500 feet or about 500 meters). Apparently the U.S. doesn't like others observing its military assets too closely. It knows well from its own practice how the information can be used to plan attacks.
So what we are left with is this: U.S. is free to spy in ways that endanger nations it has already repeatedly attacked and threatened. The U.S. has been hankering to overthrow the Iranian government since 1979. Any interference with this U.S. "intelligence gathering" for purposes of future aggression is "aggression" and "illegal." The U.S. also insisted its drone that Iran downed was over international waters and thus legal.
But being in international airspace didn't give the Iranian drone any right to exist, so the U.S. took it down, in "self-defense."
No nation on earth compulsively creates more double-standards, which it imposes on the rest of the world, than the U.S.
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