Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • Debbie Young
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Key West
  • Your Survival Guy
  • How We Are Different
  • Paris
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • The Great Reset
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • Dick Young
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool
  • Anti-Gun Control
  • Anti-Digital Currency
  • Joel Salatin and Alfie Oakes
  • World Gold Mine Production
  • Fidelity and Vanguard Since 1971

Trump’s Erasing Soleimani Good News for Western Hemisphere

January 13, 2020 By Debbie Young

President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, meets with senior White House advisors Tuesday evening, Jan. 7, 2020, in the Situation Room of the White House, on a further meeting about the Islamic Republic of Iran missile attacks on U.S. military facilities in Iraq. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

The killing by drone of General Soleimani is not only a blow to Iran’s theocratic efforts to assert its power across the Middle East, explains Mary Anastasia O’Grady in the WSJ. President Trump also did Latin America a big favor with the death of “a hero of hemispheric criminality.”

Soleimani’s Friends America’s Enemies

The dead general was also mourned by the drug-trafficking terrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, members of the Venezuelan dictatorship, and Iranian proxy networks in Brazil, Peru, Argentina, El Salvador and Mexico.

The Gangsters Are Sad and Worried

As if to make the point, Cuba’s military dictatorship quickly condemned the U.S. action. A hero of hemispheric criminality has been lost, and the gangsters are sad. They may also be worried.

It has been a mistake to let Iran’s incursions into the region during the last two decades go unanswered. If the end of Soleimani is the beginning of a more muscular U.S. policy toward Tehran, it’s good news for Latin America.

Iran Looking to Undermine U.S. Leadership

Iran plays the long game in its effort to undermine U.S. leadership and expand its influence around the world. In the Western Hemisphere, the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence has taken the lead by establishing “cultural centers” in many urban areas, from which it can spread propaganda, proselytize, radicalize converts and recruit locals as spies.

Iran Looking to Secure Lithium Sources

Tehran was also looking to secure sources of lithium and support at the United Nations. Bolivia hoped to get hold of some Iranian drones; before he left, Mr. Zarif gave a speech at a public university to praise the deepening of ties between the two countries.

Ms. O’Grady also reports that, closer to home, a reliable intelligence source assured her that since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office 13 months ago, Iran has been getting closer to Mexico.

That fits the Soleimani pattern, continues Ms. O’Grady, adding that it is cause for alarm.

The end of the terrorist mastermind is a message to those in the region who harbor his networks.

More from M. A. O’Grady here.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • More Good News on President Trump’s Judicial Confirms
  • Trump’s Tax Plan
  • Resistant to Western Assimilation
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • Fighting Russian Power with a Hill of Crosses - September 26, 2023
  • Speaking of Bad Ideas … - September 25, 2023
  • Skyrocketing Costs of Building a Green Grid Are Starting - September 22, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Yes! Money Can Bring You Happiness
  • When the Black Swan Swoops In for You
  • Stunned Democrats Against “Defund Police”
  • America’s Number One Patriot: Naples Florida’s Alfie Oakes
  • Florida: Enjoy Certain Freedoms and Individual Liberties
  • Why You Miss <em>Richard C. Young’s Monster Master List</em>
  • My Key West Garden Office
  • Your Survival Guy at Fidelity and Your RMD Compliance
  • “An Epic Struggle Over the Definition of America”
  • Why Investors Should Forget Prices and Focus on Income

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Skyrocketing Costs of Building a Green Grid Are Starting
  • Wellington and Wellesley Funds Not Managed by Vanguard
  • The Government Attack on Americans' Independence
  • Your Survival Guy Fishing with Dolphins
  • Fighting Russian Power with a Hill of Crosses
  • “You Didn’t Eat That Again, Did You?”
  • A High-Speed Collision with Reality
  • Speaking of Bad Ideas …
  • The Single Worst Market Timing Event in History
  • The Constitutional Case Against CBDCs

Compensation was paid to utilize rankings. Click here to read full disclosure.

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • “You Didn’t Eat That Again, Did You?”
  • Your Survival Guy Fishing with Dolphins
  • The Single Worst Market Timing Event in History
  • Government Intervention Begets More Intervention
  • Wellington and Wellesley Funds Not Managed by Vanguard
  • Inflation Could Kill Social Security
  • Will the Fed Hold Up Its End of the Bargain?
  • Should America Move Closer to the Saudis, or Push them Away?
  • Don’t Ask Me When to Haul Your Boat
  • Robot Warehouses Need Better Internet

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • “You Didn’t Eat That Again, Did You?”
  • Is McCarthy Up to the Task?
  • Rising Costs Are Hammering Commercial Real Estate
  • Your Survival Guy Fishing with Dolphins
  • Judge Shatters California High Capacity Magazine Ban
  • Is Your Water Safe to Drink? NOLA Residents Aren’t Sure
  • Wellington and Wellesley Funds Not Managed by Vanguard
  • Remembering Jimmy Buffett: The Oldest Surfer on the Beach
  • The Folly of Windmills from Nowhere USA
  • NYC Rolling Out the Robocops

US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

Five Year Treasury Yield

Fighting Russian Power with a Hill of Crosses

“You Didn’t Eat That Again, Did You?”

Does Donald Trump Need the Pro-Life Vote?

What’s Happening with Iran?

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives