Is the United States a Sovereign Nation or a Mute Appendage of Israel?

Hossein Askari
8 min readOct 3, 2024

Americans Should be Terrified About the Answer and the Future!

Although the latest cycle of violence in the Middle East was initiated by Donald Trump at the behest of Israel’s Netanyahu in 2020, Netanyahu has taken it to a new level, endangering the lives of millions in the Middle East and around the world.

Back in 2020, Trump ordered the assassination of General Ghasem Soleimani, the top Iranian military commander and advisor to Iraq’s anti-terror forces (fighting ISIS), and of an Iraqi militia leader as they descended from a plane in Baghdad on a diplomatic mission aimed at normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia. Thus Trump had taken war to a new level, the assassination of a foreign military advisor in a third country. Earlier Soleimani had cooperated with the United States in Afghanistan and had also been instrumental in defeating ISIS but had fallen out with the U.S. over its presence in Iraq and had been behind the killing of some American soldiers. He was charismatic and undoubtedly Iran’s top military mind, a man Netanyahu saw as dangerous to his dream of creating a “greater Israel.” So Trump obliged the Israeli leader by committing what was a terrorist crime, but we are careful never to call our or Israel’s attacks of this kind terrorist, saving…

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Hossein Askari
Hossein Askari

Written by Hossein Askari

MIT engineer-economist. Prof: Tufts, UT-Austin, GW. IMF Board. Gov Mediator: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Focus on Econ-Fin, Oil, Sanctions, Mid-East, Islam

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