BREAKING NEWS: THE WEST IS TURNING TAIL. NATO staff were branded “cowards” by US President Donald Trump last night as they left their base in Iraq, citing danger from Iranian attacks.
But Trump himself then admitted that the US intended to wind down the US attack on the oil-rich nation, calling on China and Japan to take over the American assault on the Strait of Hormuz.
NATO OUT, U.S. TO FOLLOW
Trouble started when the US President last night reacted furiously to news that Poland, and later NATO, were moving out of Iraq to head back to Europe.
“COWARDS, and we will REMEMBER!” Trump wrote.
But in another statement, he made it clear the US also intended to leave soon.
“We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran. The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it.”
He named China and Japan as countries to take over military duties in those waters—although no analysts think this is remotely likely.
Analysts said it was impossible to avoid the conclusion: Iran is winning, or has won.
HOW THE RETREAT WAS REVEALED
Following a similar step by Poland, NATO yesterday admitted that its mission in Iraq had quietly fled to Europe, with the last personnel leaving on aircraft earlier that day.
“Nato Mission Iraq has adjusted its posture, safely relocating all its personnel from the Middle East to Europe,” said a statement from the alliance’s European command.
Iraq, which the US took in 2003 in a murderous invasion widely recognized as the first great war crime of the century, has been a major base for America’s mission to control West Asian oil.
The NATO mission to Iraq was basically set up around Baghdad in 2018 to remold Iraqi authorities as tools for US-led western dominance in West Asia.
But this month, as UK and European leaders sided with Trump and Netanyahu in their surprise attack, Iran responded with attacks on troops at British, French and Italian bases in northern Iraq.
This triggered the decision to remove the NATO operation, which has large numbers of non-military staff.
The Nato statement said its mission would continue, but from a safe distance--a military headquarters in Naples, Italy.
Meanwhile, Trump’s admission that the US was looking to pull out of the operation was harder to parse—as it is among several contradictory steps the US is taking.
At the exact same time that the US President admitted to wanting to “wind down” his war on Iran, two ships full of US Marines continued to head to the area to bolster the US-Israel attack.
And other nations have also stepped up their role. The UK has shifted its definition of "defensive" to an absurd degree. Providing UK facilities to US bombers who then attack Iranians defending their homeland is now defined as "defensive".
But Trump’s words were unusually clear. The US will no longer be involved in efforts to force the Iranians to abandon their closure of the Strait of Hormuz, he said, as others will take that duty.
The most the US would do would be to stand by to provide aid. “If asked, we will help these Countries in their Hormuz efforts …” he said.
NATIONS REBRAND IRAN AS THE AGGRESSOR
In yet another contradictory move, more pro-US nations yesterday said they were joining the UK and some EU nations pledging to help the US force the Iranians to reopen the waterway.
The countries siding with Trump are Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Romania, Bahrain and Lithuania.
All signed a document that portrayed Iran as an illegal military aggressor, making no mention of the fact that the Iranians were responding to a US-Israel attack.
The list is valuable, giving the rest of the world a clear indication of which countries ultimately see the US as their ultimate leader, happy to subvert reality to rebrand the Iranians as the aggressors in a war in which they are clearly the victims.
If these nations ever had any moral high ground, they have lost it forever.
