Now after a month of attacks and counterattacks, alternately hopeful negotiations are mentioned in official statements and yet at the same time attacks continue. We all know that a truce could be a first step in negotiating peace.
But, what if certain parties don’t want peace, really?
“A Bully’s Paradise” ?
Because the ulterior motives are not part of statements – but can be deducted based on similar occurrences and past events?
Again, this is about power, money and thus oil; natural resources. Iran has the largest oil recovery industry in the world. Which can be partly seen from the prices rising currently to breaking point.
“Levers”: They are technical appliances; but the term is also used for an artificial ‘bottleneck’, a pressure point that is meant to make the other party to the conflict more lenient.
Or make them buckle and give in.
None of the parties concerned is apt to do that soon, so it seems: Iran, because they know what it could mean to the country as a whole, if they would ‘sell out’.
Netanyahu and Trump because they need this war: Their respective administration’s support is waning, their population needs reasons why they are put through such a lot of suffering.
But: There are no reasons that bear inspection or a closer look:
Except greed – and a too large ego – and selfishness.
Stop killing people! Dar(…)n it!!