Trump says Rex Tillerson out as Secretary of State, replaced by Mike Pompeo

[AZJoe]

Throwback from Assange:

 

[AZJoe]

From Liberty Blitzkrieg:

Here’s the bottom line. As I outlined multiple times last year, Trump is determined to have a war with Iran and Rex Tillerson was standing in the way. Putting unhinged war hawk Pompeo in place as Secretary of State is simply Trump getting his ducks in a row ahead of confrontation. Watch as the sales pitch for another war in the Middle East picks up considerably in the months ahead. …

I believe this forthcoming war against Iran will have almost no international support. … just autocratic regimes in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Israel and possibly the UK … The rest of the world will be against it, which will lead to spectacular failure. ...
Such a confrontation is now increasingly likely with Tillerson out of the picture

 

[Vieux Canard]

He doesn't.

Once I would have said it didn't matter. Then I discovered mondoweiss.net

 

[AZJoe]

Tulsi Gabbard:

 

[Vieux Canard]

From Liberty Blitzkrieg:

Here’s the bottom line. As I outlined multiple times last year, Trump is determined to have a war with Iran and Rex Tillerson was standing in the way. Putting unhinged war hawk Pompeo in place as Secretary of State is simply Trump getting his ducks in a row ahead of confrontation. Watch as the sales pitch for another war in the Middle East picks up considerably in the months ahead. …

I believe this forthcoming war against Iran will have almost no international support. … just autocratic regimes in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Israel and possibly the UK … The rest of the world will be against it, which will lead to spectacular failure. ...
Such a confrontation is now increasingly likely with Tillerson out of the picture

Yup. Except that all the signs point to a war with Russia over Syria long before the JCPOA is dead enough that Iran returns to producing 20% uranium to fuel their US supplied reactor that makes isotopes to treat cancer patients.

 

[AZJoe]

Stephen Lendman:

Pompeo is the latest in a long line of rogue CIA directors. The agency's diabolical agenda is incompatible with democratic values and rule of law principles. It's largely a global Mafia hit squad, its unchecked power threatening everyone. As long as the agency exists, no one anywhere is safe.

Pompeo is a neocon hawk, fully supporting Washington's imperial agenda, its permanent war on humanity - beliefs incompatible with diplomacy. …

He's militantly anti-Russia, anti-Iran, anti-North Korea, anti-other sovereign independent governments, anti-world peace and stability.
He lied calling Iran "a very dangerous threat to the United States…the world's largest state sponsor of terror (with) a significant foothold in Syria."
He lied saying Russia is America's "enemy," its intervention in Syria (at the behest of its government) certainly…worse for the Syrian people."
He lied claiming "America's interests (involve) providing the conditions (for) a more stable Middle East."
He lied calling Assad "a puppet of the Iranians…not a stabilizing influence in Syria."
He lied calling Hezbollah an Iranian "proxy" force, pursuing an "expansionist" agenda with Tehran.
He lied claiming Russia isn't combating ISIS in Syria. He lied saying Washington is "diligently working to defeat ISIS" it supports.
He lied calling North Korea an existential threat, saying it's "a handful of months" away from being able to attack America with nuclear weapons.
He threatened Russia, saying "America has an obligation to push back against" Putin.

He's a rogue actor … His undiplomatic record in Congress and at Langley should have automatically disqualified him. …
Pompeo earlier said waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation methods don't constitute torture. He called CIA operatives using them "patriots."

 

[AZJoe]

 

[specsaregood]

Nothing good has ever come out of the CIA.

I'm no expert, but:

That sure looks like the makings of a coup to me. Esp. given that agencies history of such in other countries.

 

[AZJoe]

PCR:

The firing of Secretary of State Tillerson, the movement of CIA Director Pompeo to Secretary of State, and the promotion of Gina Haspel, who oversaw the secret CIA torture prisons in Thailand, indicate that the military/security complex has closed its grip on the Trump regime. There will be no more talk of normalizing relations with Russia.

The combination of the Israel Lobby, the neoconservatives, and the military/security complex have proven to be too powerful for peace to be established between the two nuclear powers. … Israel remains determined to use the US military to destabilize Syria and Iran … The neoconservatives both support Israel’s interest and their own desire for Washington’s hegemony over the world. The military/security complex intends to hold on to the “Russia threat” as a justification of its budget and power.

The presstitutes are in complete harmony with the scheme. … Russiagate has been proven to be false charges orchestrated by the DNC, FBI, and CIA, the presstitutes continue to repeat the charges … now we have a new charge, that Putin ordered a former British spy in England to be eliminated while sitting on a park bench with the use of a highly unlikely form of military poison. The charge is preposterous, but that is not preventing the fiction from becoming fact.

Having served in Washington for a quarter century and having known members of the British government, I do not believe that any of them believe the Russiagate and Skripal poisoning stories. What is happening is that an agenda has taken precedence over truth.

This is an extremely dangerous agenda. Russia’s new weapons easily give Russia military superiority over the US. As China and Iran see the situation similarly to the Russians, the US is greatly out-classed. Yet, Washington and its vassals persist in making violent and false charges … Confronting an endless string of false and hostile charges, they prepare for war.

The world is being driven to war, which would be nuclear, by a tiny minority: Israeli Zionists, neoconservatives, and the US military/security complex. We are witnessing the most reckless and irresponsible behavior in world history. …

 

[goldenequity]

Great analysis. thnx 4 posting...
(why does that guy look like Paul Simon??? Is it just the haircut??? hahaha)

 

[Jan2017]

Interesting: The new CIA Director Haspel, who "tortured some folks," probably can't travel to the EU to meet other spy chiefs without facing arrest due to an @ECCHRBerlin complaint to Germany's federal prosecutor. Details: https://t.co/7q4euQKtm7
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 13, 2018

More at: https://www.infowars.com/snowden-criticizes-new-cia-pick-for-involvement-in-torture-program/​

The American CIA Director will be arrested in Germany for war crimes.​

 

[Vieux Canard]

PCR:

The firing of Secretary of State Tillerson, the movement of CIA Director Pompeo to Secretary of State, and the promotion of Gina Haspel, who oversaw the secret CIA torture prisons in Thailand, indicate that the military/security complex has closed its grip on the Trump regime. There will be no more talk of normalizing relations with Russia.

The combination of the Israel Lobby, the neoconservatives, and the military/security complex have proven to be too powerful for peace to be established between the two nuclear powers. … Israel remains determined to use the US military to destabilize Syria and Iran … The neoconservatives both support Israel’s interest and their own desire for Washington’s hegemony over the world. The military/security complex intends to hold on to the “Russia threat” as a justification of its budget and power.

The presstitutes are in complete harmony with the scheme. … Russiagate has been proven to be false charges orchestrated by the DNC, FBI, and CIA, the presstitutes continue to repeat the charges … now we have a new charge, that Putin ordered a former British spy in England to be eliminated while sitting on a park bench with the use of a highly unlikely form of military poison. The charge is preposterous, but that is not preventing the fiction from becoming fact.

Having served in Washington for a quarter century and having known members of the British government, I do not believe that any of them believe the Russiagate and Skripal poisoning stories. What is happening is that an agenda has taken precedence over truth.

This is an extremely dangerous agenda. Russia’s new weapons easily give Russia military superiority over the US. As China and Iran see the situation similarly to the Russians, the US is greatly out-classed. Yet, Washington and its vassals persist in making violent and false charges … Confronting an endless string of false and hostile charges, they prepare for war.

The world is being driven to war, which would be nuclear, by a tiny minority: Israeli Zionists, neoconservatives, and the US military/security complex. We are witnessing the most reckless and irresponsible behavior in world history. …

I fucking love PCR. Can I say fuck here? I just skimmed the article so I didn't notice if he used the word insouciant this time...

 

[juleswin]

Great analysis. thnx 4 posting...
(why does that guy look like Paul Simon??? Is it just the haircut??? hahaha)

Paul Simmon? More like Alex Jones

 

[dannno]

Can I say fuck here?

Ya, but it will look something like f#$^ to most people unless they disable their profanity filter in their settings.

 

[goldenequity]

Paul Simmon? More like Alex Jones

I was talking about the host/interviewer.... not Pompeo (yea.. HE does look like AJ lolz)

 

[AZJoe]

 

[Jan2017]

Moving to a war footing or posturing in the "Top State" . . . (?)

Obama never got rid of Secretary Clinton, which would have destroyed her ambitions at that time
that her true colors were being shown

 

[goldenequity]

From Liberty Blitzkrieg:

Here’s the bottom line. As I outlined multiple times last year, Trump is determined to have a war with Iran and Rex Tillerson was standing in the way. Putting unhinged war hawk Pompeo in place as Secretary of State is simply Trump getting his ducks in a row ahead of confrontation. Watch as the sales pitch for another war in the Middle East picks up considerably in the months ahead. …

I believe this forthcoming war against Iran will have almost no international support. … just autocratic regimes in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Israel and possibly the UK … The rest of the world will be against it, which will lead to spectacular failure. ...
Such a confrontation is now increasingly likely with Tillerson out of the picture

Gregor Peter
TRUMP: IRAN BEHIND EVERY PROBLEM IN THE MIDDLE EAST


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[AZJoe]

 

[kpitcher]

Sci Fi author had an interesting take on the change in Sec of State :

https://www.facebook.com/thedavidbrin/posts/819300408286

Here comes war. Everyone watch for the coming Tonkin Gulf "incident," staged in the Straits of Hormuz. Or Gleiwitz Incident, or Reichstag Fire... whatever trumped up excuse to rationalize war. Elsewhere I've cited all the reasons why every tyrant on Earth, including the Iranian Mullahs, wants a US-Iran tomahawk tiff, followed by the real Master stepping in. But DT may need a bigger distraction. Something more violent. If it happens, come here for recommendations. SPREAD AWARENESS OF THIS POSSIBILITY FAR AND WIDE. Nothing else stands a chance of preventing it.