From Venezuela to the Middle East, this is gangsterism fused with colonialism. It repudiates the moral language through which US power once justified itself<\/p>\n
Gone are any pretences about saving the Iranian people. \u201cThey really are a nation of terror and hate,\u201d Donald Trump says of Iran<\/a>. Asked if he would like to help its people, he replied<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019d like to, if they can behave, but they\u2019ve been very menacing.\u201d Perhaps even he sensed the counterproductive ugliness of this, hastily adding that they are \u201cgreat people \u2026 smart, brilliant, energetic\u201d.<\/p>\n It gets worse. Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a> that Iran had \u201cplans of taking over the entire Middle East\u201d and \u201ccompletely obliterating Israel,\u201d adding: \u201cJUST LIKE IRAN ITSELF, THOSE PLANS ARE NOW DEAD!\u201d Pronouncing the death of a nation hardly screams liberation.<\/p>\n Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Venezuela to the Middle East, this is gangsterism fused with colonialism. It repudiates the moral language through which US power once justified itself Gone are any pretences about saving the Iranian people. \u201cThey really are a nation of terror and hate,\u201d Donald Trump says of Iran. Asked if he would like to help its … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}