Not another Iraq
The West is now on a collision course with Iran. By ratcheting up its threats, the US and the EU are making it less and less possible for the regime to climb down. The February 4 vote has, therefore, set in motion a chain reaction that will end in a military strike on Iran. That will be another gross violation of Article 2 of the UN charter, and will destroy what is left of the Westphalian State system. But it would not end there. Iran would retaliate by turning Iraq into a living hell for the foreign troops that remain. Since it would almost certainly do this by unleashing a new wave of Shia ‘terrorism’ in the country and forging an alliance with the Sunnis in central Iraq, that could easily become the excuse for more American or ‘allied’ military strikes on its defence establishments and its infrastructure on the Kosovo and Iraq models. No one can predict where this escalation will end.
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