(Repost — Odd, part of this is missing. Either there was a mistake on this end, which is most likely, or… well, anyway, I will try to recreate it best I can. This is a repost March 6)

I was saying that the Obama Administration was backing down from confronting Iran, and Israel’s Netanyahu Administration seemed to be doing the same, and that Iran was probably not going to start a war, although they have been putting huge amounts of the

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machinery of war into production and on their front lines. But so has everyone else, and I do mean everyone, including Saudi Arabia.

So, on the surface, it seems that the war that almost was… isn’t going to happen.

But.

There are three factors that could tip the scales at any moment. (more…)