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The growing tension on the world stage is fast approaching a breaking point. On one front, the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has brought about an economic disaster and general revolt in both the United States and Israel. With the coming midterm elections in the U.S. and the general election in Israel, two stark warnings have been made.
Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, in an article on Oct. 18 titled, "Is President Trump considering the Nuclear Option?," poses the question of whether or not President Trump is desperate enough to use a nuclear weapon against Iran. An informed, long time strategic analyst, Macgregor begins by surveying the terrain in which Trump finds himself: neither the Ukraine nor the Iran wars are going well; the world is in a full blown energy crisis; and 1,400 U.S. stocks are down more than 70% from their 52-week highs.
Trump is already desperate enough to offer $5,000 bribes to voters to vote Republican, Macgregor notes. “This is not the typical forever war that gets a few headlines before gradually fading from view for average Americans,” Macgregor continues. “This time Trump’s reckless war has jolted prices Americans pay at the pump, pushed US refinery capacity to its limits, and directly compromised the Petrodollar, a circular financing model ensuring global oil profits are reinvested in U.S. Treasuries and other U.S.-dollar-denominated assets.”
“The damage notwithstanding, it is clear the President will not withdraw U.S. Military (USM) forces from the region because Israeli-Firsters will not permit it,” he concludes. “So what are his options? Could the president and his advisors be considering more drastic escalation? Is the specter of a nuclear strike against Iran, once viewed as a remote possibility, coming into view? Sadly, I think the answer is yes.”
Another warning in this same vein came in just hours ago from esteemed journalist Seymour Hersh. In an article titled "Will Trump and Bibi Strike Pickaxe Mountain?," Hersh identifies the harsh reality of the tremendous drop in popularity for both Trump and Netanyahu, "both facing imminent elections—are again talking of jointly attacking a suspected nuclear enrichment site in Iran. If the planned attack on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain facility takes place, a well-informed international oil expert told me this week, one sure result will be a response from Iran attacking U.S. allies in the Gulf region. The U.S. will essentially have thrown a beleaguered Saudi Arabia 'under the bus.'"
After laying out the view of an Israeli official as to why they think they must attack the facility, Hersh comes back to an American official: "Netanyahu, the official added, by ignoring America’s current strategy of 'patient economic starvation,' with the goal of creating a people’s movement to finally force the religious leadership out of office, 'hopes to force the nuclear issue as an election tactic' in both Israel and the United States. 'Ain’t working at this end,' the official said."
This brings us back to the importance of the upcoming meeting of International Religious Leaders by Pope Leo XIV in Assisi, October 25-27, as well as the Appeal to Pope Leo XIV To Organize a Global Leaders Summit To Address the Questions of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament. While freshly recovering from surgery, Pope Leo XIV made 2 phone calls. One on Oct 16 to President Putin, and one on Oct 19 to President Zelensky, calling for a humanitarian ceasefire, an important step toward Peace. Can this convergence of minds in Assisi be the catalyst the world needs to achieve true Peace, and a new security and development architecture?
The International Peace Coalition intends to make it so. Join this world citizens’ movement this Friday to discuss how to coordinate our activities and mobilize for a breakthrough.
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