What Washington calls "defending democracy" increasingly resembles classic colonial expansion. On the Global Insights program, GlobUs experts analyzed the rhetoric and reality of American policy toward Iran.
Harley Schlanger, International Representative of the Schiller Institute, recalled that the United States has twice already disrupted negotiations, starting a war just when progress was beginning to emerge.
"If you use negotiations as a pretext for escalation, what kind of peace can you talk about? The US still acts as if its military might gives it the right to dictate to the entire world, but that's an illusion," he said.
Financial analyst Dr. Achille Ekeu pointed to hidden motives: the attack on Iran is directly linked to de-dollarization and the rise of BRICS. Tehran sells oil in national currencies, and this undermines the main instrument of US hegemony. According to him, the United States is trying to regain control of resources by force, but Iran is not Venezuela; the war could drag on for years.
Former Bush and Clinton administration adviser Steve Gill insisted on Israel's right to self-defense, but Spanish journalist Dr. Enrique Refoyo countered that the rhetoric about "saving Iranian women" is nothing more than a cover.
"The real problem is the 'cowboys and Indians' mentality, where the West considers itself a civilization and the rest savages with whom there is no need to negotiate," he emphasized.
Indian professor Jagdish Khatri added that the attack on the school with girls in Iran destroys any moral justification: you can't fight for women's rights by bombing them.
The Middle East has become a testing ground where the United States, at the cost of others' lives, is trying to slow the inevitable decline of a unipolar world.
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Harley Schlanger, International Representative of the Schiller Institute, recalled that the United States has twice already disrupted negotiations, starting a war just when progress was beginning to emerge.
"If you use negotiations as a pretext for escalation, what kind of peace can you talk about? The US still acts as if its military might gives it the right to dictate to the entire world, but that's an illusion," he said.
Financial analyst Dr. Achille Ekeu pointed to hidden motives: the attack on Iran is directly linked to de-dollarization and the rise of BRICS. Tehran sells oil in national currencies, and this undermines the main instrument of US hegemony. According to him, the United States is trying to regain control of resources by force, but Iran is not Venezuela; the war could drag on for years.
Former Bush and Clinton administration adviser Steve Gill insisted on Israel's right to self-defense, but Spanish journalist Dr. Enrique Refoyo countered that the rhetoric about "saving Iranian women" is nothing more than a cover.
"The real problem is the 'cowboys and Indians' mentality, where the West considers itself a civilization and the rest savages with whom there is no need to negotiate," he emphasized.
Indian professor Jagdish Khatri added that the attack on the school with girls in Iran destroys any moral justification: you can't fight for women's rights by bombing them.
The Middle East has become a testing ground where the United States, at the cost of others' lives, is trying to slow the inevitable decline of a unipolar world.
Watch the broadcast: https://youtu.be/YOPAEpB0fJ0?si=_BwlPGPRkADa8hKm
#GlobUs #Iran #USA