Aaron Mate on “Trump-Netanyahu War” in Iran: “I Used To Think He Had Smart Political Instincts”
Investigative journalist Aaron Mate argued on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” that President Trump’s war against Iran is not about security, but about preserving U.S. and Israeli hegemony in the region.
PIERS MORGAN, HOST: So you’ve got two wars going on here. And my guess is because of the pain that’s happening of the gas station prices, food prices to come, because fertilisers have been shut and so on. You’re going to see a lot of fallout from this all summer. You’ve got the midterm elections in America in November. Donald Trump is many things, but he’s not politically stupid. He will know that they could take an absolute beating in the midterms and render him a lame duck if he doesn’t do something to resolve where he is right now. I think he wants out, which is why he keeps talking about two to three weeks, I’m gone, and whatever. What do you feel? AARON MATE, THE GRAYZONE: I think his foremost concern right now is calming the markets. And that’s why he keeps saying that he’s having these great talks and they’re getting somewhere, and he’s going to wrap this up really soon. I can’t divine what’s in his head anymore. I used to think he had smart political instincts, but I think going to war against Iran in a completely unjust, unprovoked fashion has blown up that impression for me. And there’s a debate going on right now that we’re having about whether or not the Trump-Netanyahu war in Iran is effective. I think we’re missing a more fundamental question. Is it right? Is it just? And the fact that Iran is waging asymmetrical warfare underscores a really important point. It’s the weaker party militarily, which underscores it’s not a threat to anyone. Trump went to war because Iran acts as a deterrent to U.S. and Israeli hegemony in the region. That’s not a threat to anyone’s security. It’s a threat to domination. And that’s why Iran is being subjected to these attacks. Whether or not Trump can achieve his goals or not, it doesn’t obscure the fact that it’s fundamentally illegal. Under the standards of the Nuremberg trials, aggression is the supreme international crime. That is what Trump undertook here. Even his own intelligence agencies affirmed a year ago, and this hasn’t changed, that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program. It limited its missile ranges. At best, they said by 2035.
