🔵 Please watch this very pleasant interview of Karen Kwiatkowski with Kim Iversen, providing unbelievably candid, incisive analysis of current US and Global reality, filtered via the current US-Israel war against Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3z2uBtmEZE
🔵 Karen Kwiatkowski is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel. Her assignments included duties as a Pentagon officer, and various jobs for the National Security Agency (NSA). She served as a Pentagon analyst on sub-Saharan Africa policy. At her office, she survived the Pentagon attack on September 11, 2001. From 2002 to 2003 she served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia directorate (NESA) as the North Africa Desk Officer.
🔵 Here are some excerpts from her interview.
🔵 "I think we'll thank Trump for... we won't thank him for the murder that he has conducted and the destruction and the cost and the illegality of this war. We won't thank him for those things, but I think we will thank him for shifting the entire globe in terms of who has power, what power looks like, how it's exercised, and America will not be the superpower. We're not actually the superpower now.
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That's the whole point. You know, we're a broke-ass nation, right?
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There's certain things that have been destroyed that will take five years to bring back online. And we're still fighting. So the ramifications of this are very painful and that will go on for some time. Mm-hmm. But the end result of it is that we will be out of the Middle East. Ideally this is going to happen sooner or later. We don't know when. Israel will be kicked out of this country in terms of [being] our -as our political foreign policy manufacturer they will be gone.
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The US relationship with Israel is on a path of a breakup. Which is good. That's healthy. It's what it should be. That's what George Washington said. It's what Jefferson said. You know you don't want entangling alliances and that's one that has really harmed us.
But that's ending. Now the question is will it end demographically as these new generations take power, or will it end more abruptly? And I think we will thank Trump for ending it abruptly with this war. Um we're losing it.
We're losing the war. Um it's predictable that we would.
You can't you can't win a war against a dug-in defense of 92 million people halfway around the world if you don't have the resources to compel that war. Um unless unless somebody pulls a nuclear fuse.
If somebody hits the button that is, that is a dangerous risk that that could happen and I don't know, I can't say that ...that it's obviously in the background line that's one option but if it if it stays conventional we've lost the war. And so has has Israel.
Israel has lost the war too and the whole world will be different after this yeah we you know and it'll be better. It'll be better for free trade, it'll be better for the vast majority of the populations around the world and it will be harder for Americans.
Yeah, in the long run this is positive and I have to say you know I root for Iran to preserve their country and I root for Iran to do what it can. Obviously I don't want them to kill people I don't want us to kill them. That's still happening but we are all going to wake up to a different security architecture in the Middle East. And a different set of alliance in Washington and I do see a break. I do see a break with Israel ...and I think because of this war it's going to change faster than it would have on a natural basis."
Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net
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