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by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme
April 27, 2026
from
VoltaireNetwork Website
Translation from Spanish by Ouahiba Souilah-Guedioura
Original La Jornada version in Spanish
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Donald Trump |
General Dan Caine |
Donald Trump
appears to be moving towards
a strategy of
escalation regarding Teheran:
since Iran's conventional bombing
was
ineffectual - or achieved very little purposes -
why is a nuclear bomb
not used,
whether tactical or strategic?
After all, the United
States remains
the sole possessor of this weapon, not Iran.
This
radical shift
sparked a major rift between Trump
and the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
The 'fourth stage' of Robert Pape's 'Escalation Trap'
1 is
unfolding amidst global chaos and geostrategic fracking, in unison
with the almost paroxysmal burning of other multidimensional fronts.
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The epicenter of the US-Israeli war against Iran - henceforth embodied
in the vital Strait of Hormuz and the focal inalienable
Iranian-Omani sovereignty over the strait - triggered a 'butterfly
effect' that changed the rules of the game on a very wide scale with
its successive metastases in geo-economy - massive disruptions in
oil/gas/fertilizer/food supplies - and in geo-financial matters,
accelerating the rise in oil/gas binomial, stock market crashes and
the collision between the petrodollar and the petro-yuan.
The headline of Russia's TASS news agency wonderfully describes the
shift:
"U.S. ready to bomb Iran anew, to truce or not to truce",
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...while China, the other tripolar superpower, is expressing grave
concern and closely monitoring Japan's war preparations in the South
China Sea. 4
The US ceasefire with Iran, which was set to expire early on
Wednesday, April 22, Washington time, was extended at the request of
Pakistan, acting as the mediator, 5 while awaiting,
"a unified
proposal from Teheran".
The United States maintains its blockade of Iranian ports, forcing
Vice President JD Vance to postpone his scheduled trip to Pakistan.
It should be noted that Vance is a major ally of
Palantir, an
artificial intelligence (A.I.) company created by the CIA that seeks
to monitor the Pentagon.
Iran refused to participate in a second round of peace talks with
the U.S. in Islamabad, citing Trump's "excessive demands", the
ongoing U.S. naval blockade in the Gulf and the capture of a
Persian-flagged cargo-ship, the Touska by Navy pirates.
Late Saturday night April 18, 2026, President Trump gathered his
generals and admirals for an emergency meeting.
Reports described a
stormy session marked by a heated confrontation between the
president and military leaders. An official report was released on
Sunday.
Two days later, former CIA analyst
Larry Johnson, who has close ties
to the US military, detailed what occurred in the White House
Situation Room.
He reiterated in his historic interview with Judge
Napolitano: 6
"Donald Trump demanded access to nuclear launch
codes, and General Dan Caine stood up and refused."
It should be remembered that Trump 1.0 had already clashed with
General Mark Milley 7 and, recently, Secretary of War
Pete Hegseth
had already clashed with Daniel Driscoll, 8 very close to Vice
President Vance.
The disagreement between anti-Catholic Trump and millennial Catholic
JD Vance is becoming increasingly notorious, due to their
fundamentally different approaches to the war against Iran.
According to Larry Johnson, General Caine, chairman of the US Joint
Chiefs of Staff,
invoked the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
9 to stop the request...
Larry Johnson says he witnessed quite a "blow-up" when,
"images of
General Dan Caine looking leaving the meeting with his head down"
were published.
He concludes that,
"There's some bizarre things going
on in DC", while "thick black clouds are shrouding Teheran" due to
bad weather.
The specific privilege invoked by General Dan Caine concerns the
Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which can revoke the
presidential order in the event that the rift between the Pentagon
and the White House reaches a climax.
Larry Johnson's alarming
revelation raises serious concerns. 10
By a strange coincidence, the "Palantir's
22 points Manifesto" - Palantir
is a highly controversial AI company founded by the CIA that runs
the Pentagon's Intelligence/Surveillance/Reconnaissance (ISR), which
was involved in promoting J.D. Vance to the Vice Presidency - was
released on the same day,
as the Washington general's refusal to hand
over the nuclear code to Trump...!
Palantir aspires to impose a "new technological world order" against
Russia and China which would render atomic weapons obsolete through
the monopolistic use of AI bombs. 11
References
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"Trampa
de la Escalada" y Camuflaje Militar de EU/Israel,
Alfredo Jalife, YouTube, 21 de abril de 2026.
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