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Trump's 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign Is Blowing Up in IraqJason DitzAntiwar.com Jan. 01, 2020 |
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  President Trump's go-to policy on Iran, the "maximum pressure" campaign, has been based on blaming Iran for every single thing that goes wrong in the region, and threatening to make them pay, as Trump put it today, "a very BIG PRICE!"The threats hadn't accomplished anything, despite confidence from the administration that they eventually will. Instead, they seem to have brought US ties with neighboring Iraq to the verge of collapse, with the US attacking Iraqi militia Ketaib Hezbollah, presenting them as "Iranian," and then threatening more attacks. Sunday attacks on bases inside Iraq led to protests at the US Embassy in Baghdad. The embassy was stormed, and the US responded by blaming Iran some more, and threatening to make them pay. Because that's the sum total of the maximum pressure campaign. But that campaign against Iran is bringing US ties with Iraq to the brink of outright collapse, with influential Iraqi politicians at the protests and warnings that US attacks and sovereignty violations are forcing Iraq to revise the relationship. Read More |
