That moment when John McCain in Kyiv in 2013, was openly admitting on CNN that the US delegation was there to "orchestrate" a regime change in Ukraine?
He flaunted it, with Victoria Nuland at his side, actively manipulating the overthrow of the democratically elected President Yanukovych.
-No subtlety.
-No pretense.
Just raw, brazen intervention.
"Peaceful transition"
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🇺🇸/IRAN - Washington Post Claims "Clash" Between Trump-Hegseth is a Fiction, But to What End?
▪️Neither US President Donald Trump nor US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are in charge of anything - both demonstrate profound ignorance and incompetence daily;
▪️Both are merely figureheads serving the role of loud distractions and/or scapegoats/excuses;
▪️The US is almost certainly suffering from a well-known shortage of munitions, but has settled on an achievable strategy of controlled demolition of West Asia's energy exports as a means of cutting exports to China & the rest of Asia - it must pretend to seek dealing with Iran, create excuses why it cannot, all while in reality constantly degrade West Asian energy exports, and slowly deepen the economic crisis across the rest of Asia;
like I said, Iran didn't "win," it survived, and that is what it will need to continue to do.
The US also continues to wage war on Russia while Russia is only able to strike back at America's disposable proxies.
The US is creating the same situation in the Asia-Pacific in hopes of targeting China in a similar war.
The US cannot match multipolarism - it knows this - what it is in the process of doing is flipping the game board over.
Multipolarism will need to weather this process - building faster than the US can destroy everything.
🇺🇸/IRAN - US-Israeli Strikes on Iran & Wider Regional Conflict
There are NO real negotiations taking place. The US has ZERO interest in peace or making a "deal" with anyone.
The US goal is to permanently reduce energy production from the region, as well as weaken and maintain pressure on Iran.
In this sense, at the moment the US is succeeding. It has reduced energy production and exports from the region, forcing Asia into greater energy dependence on the US while forcing China to replace up to half of its energy imports it previously received from the Middle East.
Iran's ability to import and export has also been reduced in addition to the military strikes, internal subversion, and decades of sanctions applied to it by the US.
Maintaining this process requires knocking everything over every couple of weeks or months since the US and its proxies don't have the ability to wage high-intensity warfare for protracted periods of time.
Neither does Iran.
Negotiations are for both sides to try to rebuild/rearm/reorganize as much as possible between escalations.
For the US, negotiations are used to avoid high-intensity protracted warfare it cannot maintain.
Escalations might stay just below the threshold of all out war or occasionally move into wider war as it has already done in 2025 and earlier this year.
This process favors the US unless Iran and its allies can actually enhance their position amid this pressure from the US over time.
Iran is rebuilding and rearming, but just enough to survive at this point. This could change, but not at the moment.
The US will maintain this approach unless Iran collapses or Iran and its allies can build up sufficient capabilities to break this cycle.
If you're wondering how long this might go on for, look at the US proxy war on Russia in Ukraine...
Western analysts say Russia is losing 50,000 soldiers a month. A Meduza investigation suggests those estimates are based on manipulated data. https://t.co/hIHWcREu7T via @meduza_en
‘Outright capitulation’: Reactions to Trump’s new ‘peace plan’ for Russia and Ukraine are in — and they’re mostly negative https://t.co/GyYtmVrbPH via @meduza_en