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Donald Trump was savvy enough to ride a growing wave of anger in the American population against the Washington Establishment’s “forever wars,” and the related collapse of the economy under their weight, into the White House in 2025. He quickly opened direct communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin to work on peace in Ukraine, slamming the brakes on Biden’s defiant drive to World War III against Russia. Trump refused to include neocons such as Mike Pompeo and John Bolton in his government, rightly arguing that they had stampeded the country into war one too many times. And he even started cleaning the London-run permanent bureaucracy out of the intelligence community – some refer to it as the “Deep State” – and turned instead to reliable professionals such as Tulsi Gabbard at DNI and Kash Patel at the FBI.

But is that savvy Donald Trump now so foolish – or so manipulable by the know-it-all British and their Israeli junior partners – to be seriously contemplating escalating American attacks against the Houthis in Yemen into an all-out strike against Iran? A strike that would include an attempted knockout blow against Iran’s well-protected nuclear program, which could end up covering the entire region of Southwest Asia in a radioactive cloud, even if a broader war were somehow avoided?

Trump’s own escalating rhetoric against Iran points in that direction. But more than the rhetoric, there is last week’s deployment of a half-dozen B-2 stealth bombers to the U.S.-U.K. military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, within striking distance of Iran. There is the reported shipment of a sophisticated THAAD anti-missile system to Diego Garcia, which is otherwise largely unprotected from air attacks. There is the deployment of a second aircraft carrier strike group, the USS Vinson, to join the USS Truman in the Red Sea.

Have the Israelis and the British managed to convince Trump that Iran would crumble under such a “decapitation” strike? Has his own intelligence team, perhaps still reeling from the British-orchestrated SignalGate scandal, not been able to provide the actual intelligence that shows otherwise?

On April 1, one of Russia’s most level-headed senior diplomats, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, warned against such an American strike on Iran: "Threats are indeed heard, ultimatums are heard… The consequences of this, especially if the strikes are on nuclear infrastructure, could be catastrophic for the entire region.” Ryabkov offered Russia’s help to deescalate the crisis: “While there is still time and the ‘train has not left the station,’ we need to redouble our efforts to try to reach an agreement on a reasonable basis. Russia is ready to offer its good services to Washington, Tehran, and everyone who is interested in this," he said.

That kind of cooperation among the United States, Russia, China and others, is essential to defuse the war danger that now threatens in various theaters -- Southwest Asia, the Taiwan Strait, and of course Ukraine – and to initiate deliberation on the broader issue, a new security and development architecture. It is the old architecture which is spawning war after war, as well as economic looting and financial breakdown.

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