In the Unz Review, Philip Giraldi discusses the many wars and rumors of wars that the “America First” “no new wars” presidential administration of Donald Trump is currently surrounded by. Further along in his piece, Giraldi notes that the flailing campaign against Iran has shown America’s Middle Eastern allies that perhaps America’s “security umbrella” wasn’t what it was made out to be. He writes:

There has been considerable news concerning Iran while Trump was gone, most notably in the United States due to the release of several articles in the mainstream media suggesting that the politically powerful neoconservatives, who normally delight both in global dominance by Washington as well as in any conflict directed against Israel’s enemies, are now calling the Iran war an unmitigated disaster, a “checkmate” by Iran and a “humiliation.” They are even arguing that there is no way to move forward with it. And there is more than that with the Saudi Arabians also chiming in on what a disaster the war has been to themselves and also to the other Gulf States. The Arabs now believe that the assumption that they were protected by a US security umbrella proved to be absolutely worthless. Beyond that, they also have observed that they were without any consultation dragged into an unnecessary and unwanted war against Iran by the US and Israel.

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