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• “….The imperial machine – following trademark, decades-long mockery of international law – assassinated a de-facto diplomatic envoy….Soleimani’s assassination had been “encouraged” since 2007 by a toxic mixture of Straussian neo-cons and neoliberal-cons -supremely ignorant of Southwest Asia’s history, culture, and politics – in tandem with the Israeli and Saudi lobbies in Washington. Trump, blissfully ignorant of international relations and foreign policy matters, could not possibly understand The Big Picture and its dire ramifications when he had only Israeli-firsters of the Jared“of Arabia” Kushner kind whispering in his ear”

How General Soleimani kick-started the multipolar world

by Pepe Escobar

The consensus among future historians will be inevitable: the 2020s started with a diabolic murder.

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Baghdad airport, January 3, 2020, 00:52 a.m. local time. The assassination of Gen.Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy…