Feeling that America failed in one scheme and came up with another.
If Iran doesn‘t surrender by fighting alone, the United States can’t do anything about it. What should we do if we both want to win and not fight?
Trump has come up with another “wonderful plan” — economic sanctions.
Looking at Trump‘s latest announcement, it goes something like this.
1. “I declare that this is the most destructive economic action the United States has ever taken against any country in history! This will be economic war and isolation on an unprecedented scale.”
2, “This will be an economic version of D-Day, and we need all our allies to stand together with the United States to isolate and defeat the Iranian threat.”
3. “I declare that any country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide Iran with any form of lifeline will face enormous economic consequences. Oil smuggling, swap quotas, cash transfers, currency exchanges, ship registration, front desk companies—all of this must cease immediately. You know who you are.”
Please note:
The Economic Version of the Normandy Landing,
The most destructive economic action in history,
You know who you are…
That‘s tough enough!
The boss made this domineering announcement, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent immediately stepped forward to cheer:
“We will implement the harshest sanctions in history, and I tell you, it will work.
It worked in Venezuela, once we implemented the blockade. It is currently working in Cuba, it will work in Iran, and we will collapse this regime.”
Oh, Bessent also warned: Our allies and the rest of the world must now make a choice. Countries that do not support America‘s economic offensive will be seen as standing against us.
Another choice!
I have to say, America really likes to choose one of two.
But let‘s give it a quick rundown:
The United States has been imposing sanctions on Iran for decades. Iran is very difficult, but Iran is very stubborn. Seeing that Iran has not yielded, the United States and Israel launched a military attack on Iran.
But they fought and bombed, and the result was a disaster. Iran‘s Supreme Leader was killed in the bombing, but was replaced by a stronger Supreme Leader. The United States attacked Iran, and Iran attacked American bases and surrounding targets. The Strait of Hormuz was also blocked, and the United States had no choice.
Economic sanctions began again.
How should I put it?
After a fierce operation, I looked back and saw the pestle standing in place.
I saw that Iran seemed to disdain it.
Iran‘s foreign minister, Araghazi, immediately made a statement:
The so-called “Economic Normandy Day” was merely a diversionary view of America‘s own crisis: unprecedented debt and soaring interest costs.
A policy of redoubling persistence in failure will only lead to further failure—and the hostility of the Iranian people. American economic terrorism threatens the global economy and sovereignty around the world.
Iran‘s deputy foreign minister, Ghali Babadi, put it even more bluntly:
They claim that Iran is on the verge of collapse, life hanging by a thread, yet they beg all their allies to help them!
The problem was the miscalculations, and each time to cover them up, they had to create bigger failures for themselves.
The military war had not achieved results, so now they would name their next failure as “economic war.”
What does that mean?
1. America, you‘re committing economic terrorism.
2. The so-called “Economic Normandy Day” is just a way for the United States to divert attention from its own crisis: U.S. Treasury debt exceeds 40 trillion, which is already difficult to sustain.
3. The United States is begging its allies for help, but it is doomed to fail.
Iran also sees through it. America, can you do something with higher technology content?
After all, Iran is not a small country. Iran has trade with Turkey, trade with Pakistan, trade with the UAE, trade with Russia, trade with Iraq. Can the United States manage it?
The United States could make the UAE stop trading with Iran, but Russia definitely wouldn‘t fall for this trick. Anyway, Russia has also been sanctioned by the United States. So what if there are one more sanctions?
The United States also expects countries such as Pakistan and Turkey to mediate. If Pakistan cuts off trade with Iran, how can it persuade Iran?
Not to mention, these countries are all neighbors of Iran, connected by mountains and rivers, and some border trade, which the government sometimes can‘t control even if it wants to.
A blockade can cut off a road, but it cuts off thousands of small paths; it can close a door, but it cannot close countless cracks. This is the resilience of geography, and also common sense of life.
In addition, there is another key role that we don‘t need to avoid, and that is our China.
On August 20, at a press conference of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, there was such a conversation.
Bloomberg: U.S. President Trump announced that he will launch what is called the “Economic Normandy Landing” operation against Iran, threatening Iran‘s trade partners. Although China is not directly mentioned, considering that China has purchased many Iranian oil, the target of the U.S. threat is obvious. What are the foreign ministry‘s comments on this? What will be the impact on China?
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian: Sanctions and pressure do not help solve the problem. The Chinese side calls for relevant parties to take responsible measures to resolve the problem through political and diplomatic channels.
I saw another detail that made many American journalists chuckle.
A reporter asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent: Do economic sanctions against Iran include China? Because China is Iran‘s main economic partner.
Bessent replied: Many conversations are best conducted privately…
Finally, what do you think?
Let‘s go with three points of shallowness.
First, the entire world was dumbfounded.
It‘s indeed stunning, one big news every day that shocks the entire world.
But what happens next? Sometimes we don‘t see what happens next.
I saw Reuters comment that Trump‘s threats and statements on social media do not always carry out as planned, and he did not specify what specific measures the United States would take against such countries, which seem to include U.S. allies helping mediate peace negotiations, but he did not specify any allies…
How to sanction? Who to sanction? What about other countries‘ counter-sanctions?
Anyway, it‘s all a mess.
But the cruelest words must definitely be said first.
I saw one netizen exclaim: Too much bullshitting, even Newton was stunned.
When power loses its measure, when promises lose their credibility, all that remains is volume. And history repeatedly proves that volume is never authority, it is only an echo of anxiety.
But this is the absurd world of today.
Secondly, a new round of torment begins.
If the U.S. does this, it‘s obvious that a large number of countries will be affected, and then the entire world will be affected.
In normal international trade, why should other countries have to do what the United States says?
Japan might cower, South Korea might listen, Turkey and Pakistan might not necessarily comply, not to mention other hard-core countries.
After rounds and rounds of struggle, the entire world is also very clear that the current United States has neither enough authority nor enough ability to force the entire world to abide by its own rules.
Moreover, U.S. regulations, which are like this in the morning, may turn around 180 degrees in the evening.
After tormenting himself, he would torment the entire world, and then it would be a field of goosebumps, ending up in a sorry state.
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Third, we still need to get back to the negotiating table.
I feel that the United States is now also somewhat helpless-no matter what strategy the United States uses, Iran will defeat the enemy with one move: I blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, global oil prices will skyrocket, and America will have trouble sleeping and eating. After all, midterm elections are imminent, oil prices are so high, the Republican election situation is urgent, and Trump also has the possibility of becoming a lame duck…
Limiting sanctions would certainly cause greater difficulties for Iran, but making Iran submit might really be thinking too much. Instead, it would make Iran more determined to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. I can‘t live well, and all of you can forget about living well.
The best way is to resolve this through political means, back to the negotiating table, back to the previous memorandum. The United States should lift the sanctions, lift the sanctions, and compensate the war for the war compensation, in exchange for Iran no longer blocking the Strait of Hormuz.
Although it was a bit of a loss of face, where was the face in the face of a more dangerous future?
Iran seems more confident, looking at the latest speech by Iran‘s senior official Aziz:
“We are closely monitoring your every move. Any further mistakes or miscalculations will bring far more serious consequences than before.
End your presence in the region immediately and accept Iran‘s new regional order before it’s too late.”
Alas, after fighting for several months, spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and killing thousands of people, in the end, it was not a new order in the American region, but a new order in the Iranian region.