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.
Image: Radio Deutschlandfunk (Germany), “Nach einem Luftschlag auf eine Raffinerie in Teheran ging sogenannter Schwarzer Regen auf Teheran nieder (Bild vom 8.3.2026) (AFP / ATTA KENARE)”
Prices are rising… well, what would one expect. People are being killed. Now the ‘black rain‘ over Tehran is another step towards destruction. The region going up in flames. The country scarred already and becoming another Iraq…?
It’s good to see that they are starting to act again, NATO, EU: ‘Trump’s war’ is not his doing alone, of course.
As a ‘figure head’ he ‘works’ based on the interests behind him too: The industries, most importantly the one producing weapons. The population, who as a majority depend on their ‘way of life’, namely cars for moving across country in the USA, with cheapest prices of all… they trust that any president will observe this concept, this idea, and the government will take care of petrol.
War is no heroic deed of people doing the good thing. War is not only a ‘costly affair’… it always is part of a framework of interests and needs of those in power, those with money and those with ulterior motives. Such goals are not always easy to ‘dig down to’, define.
In the news we usually get the actual event. What we need to do is more reading, to get at the facts behind the ‘images’. Reliable sources. Remember that news have statements in them, which in turn are based on interests and needs and – very often also on diplomacy.
What also helps to understand the ‘goings-on’ behind the scenes, the real motives, is this age-old concept:
“Cui bono?” – “Who benefits?”
If you ask that about anything, it will get you farther in understanding.
This is no ‘piece of cake’, especially not for those being killed and wounded every day. Being scarred for life by health risks and cruelty and greed.
We need to prove that the international community is stronger holding out against one or another country and their selfish, incompetent and greedy ‘potentates’.
He seems not to know even himself what he is aiming at. Only yesterday in front of the world’s cameras he said it in so many words. Yet, it is abundantly clear that all of this is just another desperate attempt to divert attention from his problems in regard to internal affairs and his criminal record.
A person like the Secretary of Defense of the USA, Hegseth, even has the unspeakable impertinence to state: ~’no politically correct war; no UNO mission, no plans for the time after. Just plain war.’
A ripe pair.
Two of a kind.
The conflicts between Israel and Palestine and the additional forces stationed in the north and the south, the Guerilla troops of Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as the ‘support’ by the USA:
They are decades old!
Anyone with an atom of reason and smartness would have shied away from such a stupid and cruel step.
But someone like the present president in the US lacks that. What he is interested in is his own position, his power and – the future power in the US.
His affinity for Putin and his love of a dictatorship that allows him unbridled power and say-so without any limitations are legendary.
The New York Times as well as the Washington Post* (when it still was independent) reported on both these facts:
The Pulitzer Prize committee’s information on awarding the prize to both newspapers regarding the connection and election influence in 2016 here.
Trump initiated the storming of the Capitol in January 2021.
He was ruled guilty in front of a US court on 34 counts of bribery, corruption and molestation.
The current Israel president Netanyahu has suffered from lack of support of his ‘subjects’ and the parliament as such for his cruel politics towards Palestinian territories, the Gaza strip and West Bank, going on for almost a decade now.
At this point his actions that started this escalation are another desperate attempt to keep his position as long as possible.
In this respect it is no surprise too, that the talks to Trump were not public and also not disclosed in any way.
The weapons’ industry in the US is the largest and most powerful. Previous presidents were pressurized and even murdered because they tried to limit their profits. (J.F. Kennedy being the most prominent.)
This war is outrageous, it is exactly the same type of action that Putin reverted to when attacking Ukraine, according to international law.
These attacks have to stop!
It will just lay the whole region to waste and land it in a war for years to come.
When we take all these facts together, and use that age-old principle of ‘cui bono?‘, ‘who benefits?‘, some things become abundantly clear.
Shame on such a government as the present US presidential administration.
* The Washington Post since not only was acquired by Jeff Bezos, amazon founder and Trump follower, it also recently suffered a big reduction of staff.
In 2016 it already was clear and being published by reliable sources: Trump and Putin were in close contact. Over the years numerous interviews and remarks, recorded of Trump too, made two things very clear:
He uses scare tactics to ‘make deals’. He proudly calls himself in front of cameras a ‘deal maker’.
But these also are facts:
The most powerful industry in the US is the one producing weapons.
The most needed resource in the US is oil, fuels from fossils, in general.
Now, perhaps even fighting for his life, this sorry excuse for a man called Trump uses any means in the book of cruelty and baseness to get his way.
The Ukraine war is welcome and even obviously one more cruelty that costs thousands of lives – to put NATO and the EU under pressure: Buy more weapons, raising their annual used on ‘protection’. Putin right behind it…
Tariffs raised purportedly to protect the US…
EU leaders have been called one after another to visit and ‘discuss’. The first to fall was Giorgia Meloni, Italy.
The first to go was Britain.
NATO seems at the mercy of the US, since they produce most of the weapons NATO-members so far buy – yet.
Trump has been known for bullying, corruption and bribery, as well as molestation in smaller contexts.
The Epstein papers are another instance and proof of that fact.
The only means to fight back is: Standing together. Because, the US depend on the EU just as much as the EU does.
The Office of United States Trade Representative states so itself in numbers, here.
Mr Trump has to be reminded of his ‘manners’ and the limits he comes off at.
This is no way to deal with a strong, international community. Period.
