https://steemit.com/teaparty/@firstamendment/8-billion-dollar-telescope-1-3-trillion-dollars-wasted-are-we-preparing-for-war-with-iran . (march 24, 2018) The answer may be yes.
-source iran freedom, at about 6:58
On july 1rst, 2017, John Bolton told an audience of people that declared policy of the United states should be to overthrow the mullahs of the [Iranian] regime,and be celebrating in in the streets of Tehran before the start of 2019. John Bolton is now the head of National security and it is after 2019. In anotherwords, we are long overdue for his war-and the way the cards are falling, it looks likely. I am not saying it will happen at this point, it sure does look like it. Maybe the war talk is just to scare Iran into a certain diplomatic position. Thank goodness we have the congress who is supposed to have powers to declare war, and not the executive-absent invoking the war powers act or some other act that most of us has forgotten about...that war hawks most certainly would.
If you have an evil regime in check mate, you don't give them the opportunity to become a nuclear power. And that is exactly what Obama did, while giving them billions of dollars in the process, and thus escalating matters. Really just about everything Obama did has basically destabilized the world, and now even though ISIS is pretty much defeated in the middle east they are all over Europe. Most muslims are decent people, it's just the few who aren't that makes life bad for everyone.
As many of us heard, a torpedo or a mine strike a tanker ship. The USA claims it has a B&W video of Iran removing a mine from a ship. It looks like something from the 1920-1940s thats how comically bad the video is.
source: us dept of defense, formerly department of war
So the narrative goes from "Haha, America, we are going to destroy your japanese vessel", to " We going to help remove the dangerous mine". Supposing it is a recent video, how did the Iranian navy know how to remove the mines without going kaboom. Is it a common occurrence, or have then been keeping that standard training for say 40 years, or did they just learn it because they started using mines. The United states doesn't want to answer this.
Reportedly as many as five ships were struck recently. Is this normal, did some from decades ago get lose are are navigating the oceans? Well, according to the new york times, they have to be manually placed, they attach by magnets, and there is a fuse on them. So again, it goes from an attacking the Japenese to helping the Japanese. With that something isn't making sense. For the US government's narrative to make any sense, they may not have been limpet mines.
The United states, according to fake news cnn, has also reported that Iran has fired upon and even shot down MQ-9 reapers drones. These drones are the expensive predator Drones. It isn't clear whose air space the drone was in, and am not the type to know military law. The one that was shot down was in the red sea, the US only believes Iran did it but apparently has no evidence. The Red sea is still quite some distance away from Iran....not to mention, Somalia, which is known for piracy, is much closer to the red sea. There is no released video from the drones
The United states story, to mind, is very suspect. Allegations but no proof, then contradictory motives. Supposing the ships were actually attacked, that doesn't mean that Iran did it. Donald Trump said, Iran did do it, and UK intelligence basically said no one else could have done it. see cnn link above. Iran denies involvement.
Reportedly mining tankers was a practice done back in the 1980s. https://www.newsday.com/news/world/oil-tanker-attacks-echo-persian-gulf-s-1980s-tanker-war-1.32361954 Was this intentional or coincidence. Did Iran go back to 30-40 year old tactics, or is someone in our government want to make it look that way. As sloppy as the democrats have left our wall, it seems silly to apply land mines to ships. All Iran needs to is collect Ebola, culture it, then sneak it across the us/mexican border if they really wanted to be hostile.
You could have rouge agents in the Iranian Navy. That rouge agent could be in our own CIA. You could have had a group like ISIS smuggle mines or possibly another country...that country could have been our own united states. Maybe it s china, who knows.
A war is something that John Bolton wants, and I would dare say it is something some entity a lot bigger than him wants. It is not something we the people want.
Iran, as seen from the map above, is a rather large desert country. According to the cia world factbook, Iran has about 83 million people and they have compulsory military service. They spend 5% of their GDP on the military-8th in the world.
Notice, a lot of poor countries on the list.
But perhaps the reason why we are really going to war is because our economy needs it. Its going to fund billions into US manufacturing for one thing, it'll put their oil back onto the market lowering production costs, and it will give millennial and gen z a chance to make it. It is the alternative argument to national socialism that the democrats so feircely want (yes, I intentionally called the democrats national socialist/NAZIs). That alternative is to offer it to those who serve in the armed forced. Epic homelessness in America; students have massive debts, high rent, low income, and mostly single.
When a person enlist in the Military they get to live in a barrack for free r a stipend to live off base, they get free health care for life through the VA, students with degrees can qualify to be officers and get more pay, tax exempt combat pay, there are usually sign up bonuses, tax exempt stores, montgpomery GI bills. Some people may correctly argue that we have obama care, but it has been ruled unconstitutional but stayed for appeal and the AG is not going to defend it. Obama care will eventually need to be abolished to cut on federal spending, even if it is saved on appeal. For many people, not all, military service instills a sense of the question of what is law. What am I fighting and dying and killing for, and possibly going to hell for.
War is hell, and those who legitimately fight for freedom deserves just compensation. In they end they get the perks of socialism because they put their life on the line. When there is someone else who wants free medical, or free education, etc, the quick answer is to tell them to serve their country-Something a socialist would rarely do. Tell the socialist if they want socialism to enlist, a nice quick cheap argument against national[ized] socialism
Conservativism is dying in this country-it has veered extremely left over the last 20 years. Libertarianism is growing but not fast enough-and we tend to be against wars anyways. Socialism is growing rapidly, especially among youth. As the older populations die, the republican party risks dying out. It needs to recruit new conservatives, or else this nation will collapse under socialism. How many trillions of dollars, that we don't have, are we going to spend on military socialism to win the argument against socialism.
If we go to war, it will be on questionable grounds, it doesn't seem necessary or just. The quick answer for it is our economy needs to stimulate economy to avoid collapse. An auxilary reason is republicans need more military votes to replace the aging conservative voters as they kick the full metal bucket. The main reason for this is found in conspiracy theory as people try to guess who John Bolton is really working for. Deep state, globalist, military industrial complex, Illuminati, Freemasons, skulls and bones, bilderberg, Rothschild, Rosicrucian, big tech, saudis, Israel, etc, etc. I'll let conspiracy theorist drive themselves crazy trying to arm chair advocating their way into proving whose behind it. FOIA request about his statements on Iran probably won't be made publicly available for decades. I am not even sure house and senate investigations will discover what his true ambitions are.
If the deep state CIA was willing to Bomb Miami and kill Americans to blame the Cubans to start a war, nothing would stop them from attacking a ship to start a war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods We have extremely bad people wanting to start a war with Iran, the evidence is weak, the motives are inconsistent, our government would harm our own to start a war, and we can't even afford another war. The socialist would certainly love to see America, renown for it's so called capitalism, fail just like the rest of he socialist states [like the USA has become].