“More of the Same” was what Paul Watzlawick called the tendency in humans to try again and again and again – although it obviously does not work… “Counseling”: That’s what you get when you hit a blind spot and are unable to find your way out of a tight place alone.
But: This president is famous for his set ways and the need for ‘winning’. He always ‘sells’ anything he did or does as a great idea and the winning streak. That’s part of the family history; and in an interesting and strange way also part of the founding myth of the United States: The greatest, most free and of course always ‘successful’ nation on the planet…
What is success, exactly? It depends, actually. On your definition. Basically and rather simply put, if you want to knit a jumper and it involuntarily turns out a scarf, you might call that unsuccessful… In this day and age, based on a money-ruled outlook, anything less than extreme wealth is, what…? Freedom…? ◕‿↼)
Getting down to brass tacks here:
In 2018 this scoundrel and criminal of a president (ruled guilty in a US court of law on 34 counts) cancelled working contracts with Iran on uranium enrichment control. Working, as confirmed at the time by the IAEA.
Iran as a nation has a wonderful culture and history of a couple of thousands years standing. The businesses are served well too by the wisdom and knowledge of it.
One of the most striking attributes of the culture is the calm, quiet pride they carry. At the same time a high amount of resilience based on hundreds of years of history fraught with earthquakes, attacks by foreign nations because of greed and a challenging climate that encompasses all you can think of: Deserts, snowy peaks and lush fields and gardens.
They won’t succumb.
What is the ‘end’ to those desparate means of this ‘limited’ president and his administration? Oil, of course. I posted about it before and I feel like repeating it as often as possible: The last shah was dependent on US support. In return he sold them oil on the cheap.
The US-American modern culture thinks of cars as almost an appendage: No car, no ‘drive’… The idea of freedom (what is that exactly… ◕‿↼) ? ) is based on being able to go anywhere, anytime; on cheap petrol, of course.
That means, cheap oil.
Iran’s oil recovery industry is the largest of the world, with natural fossil fuels such as gas and – oil in abundance. Any questions?
This shameful war and pressurizing has to stop.
More of the same? Yes, indeed, trade and business sanctions have been tried already, for decades, at this point. To think that the Iranian peoples (rich even in languages and dialects) have to suffer death and dire straits because of a couple of greedy people who can’t get enough, is a shame. Period.