Trump’s decision could end the very Empire he’s trying to protect: Scholar

US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear deal is going to be catastrophe for the very Empire that Trump says he is trying to protect, according to E. Michael Jones, an American scholar and political analyst in Indiana.

Jones, a writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of the Culture Wars magazine, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday, a day after Trump announced that he was pulling the US out of the nuclear agreement, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA), which was negotiated and signed by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

In a televised speech from the White House, Trump also said that he would reinstate nuclear sanctions on Iran. “We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanctions."

Trump’s decision risked alienating America’s European allies who warned the administration that the JPCOA was a multilateral pact that could not be terminated by only one party. It also raised the prospect of another conflict in the Middle East, they warned.

PressTV-Trump announces 'withdrawal' from Iran nuclear deal

The US president announces his decision with regard to Iran's nuclear deal.

“As everyone expected Donald Trump has announced the United States is revoking or pulling out from the Iran nuclear deal,” Jones said.

“He did this because he needs the support of America’s Jews, and the Israel lobby, in order to stay in power and to protect himself from the US Deep State,” he stated.  

“So the question now that this has happened, now that he pulled out, what is going to happen,” he said.

“I have been saying all along that the main fallout here comes from the fact that he is going to reimpose the sanctions, if he re-imposes the sanctions this means that Germany and England have announced that they are not going to go along with the deal,” the analyst noted.

“All these European countries have already signed deals with Iran. And now if they reimpose the sanctions, that means the United States will be in an economic warfare with Europe, with its partners in NATO. This is going to be catastrophe for the very empire that Trump says he is trying to protect here,” he said.  

“You will be waging economic warfare against Germany. Germany has already gone on record, saying, ‘This is illegal. And they are not going to follow it.’ This is going to break up NATO,” he observed.

“Germany cannot afford at this point to go along with these sanctions. Nobody in Europe can afford to go along with this,” he said.

“What Trump has done here is unite the entire world against him and Israel. This is a catastrophe on any rational point of view for the United States and its interests abroad,” the commentator concluded.

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