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By John Helmer, Moscow
@bears_with [2]
Broadcast with Chris Cook on Tuesday evening, the news broke midway that President Donald Trump had withdrawn his CBOU – Crazy Bastards Obliteration Ultimatum – and agreed to a ceasefire for two weeks of negotiations with Iran.
This news followed by several hours in New York, the double veto by China and Russia of the draft UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on the Strait of Hormuz. This was the attempt by the US, through Bahrain and several Arab sheikhdoms, to legalize the use of force by the US and Israel in the war they launched against Iran on February 28.
A UNSC press release claimed the resolution aimed to “coordinate defensive efforts and deter attempts to interfere with international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
This was deliberate soft-pedaling by UNSC officials.
Their description of the resolution, whose text the UNSC refuses to publish, claims the use of force proposed was “defensive”. China’s and Russia’s UN representatives criticized this as unbalanced because “it failed to capture the root causes and the full picture of the conflict in a comprehensive and balanced manner” (Fu Cong); and because it was a “fundamentally erroneous and dangerous approach” (Vasily Nebenzya). The two countries proposed [3] that their draft resolution to come will “be concise, equitable and balanced.”
[4]Source: https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-john-2c1 [5]
The hour-long discussion is in three parts:
The United Nations Security Council and the Hormuz Strait debate — starts at Minute 1.
[6]For more, read: https://johnhelmer.net/gorilla-radio-goes-to-war-at-sea-beating-trump-at-the-bluffing-game/ [7]
The failure of Trump’s Isfahan operation – starts at Minute 30.
[8]The new book for battling in the Canadian, American and UK coroners’ courts – starts at Min 49:17.
[10]Source: https://johnhelmer.net/new-book-published-today-the-coroner-is-guilty/ [11]
For more than twenty years Chris Cook has been producing Gorilla Radio from Victoria, British Columbia. For the archive [12], plus introductions to Canada’s Resistance and the history as it took shape and fought the battles that had to be fought, click here [13].