Trust That Agreements Will Be Respected Helped To Keep The Peace Since WW11…

In 1914 the world was plunged into a glob­al con­flict, we have come to refer to that con­flict as world war one (ww1). That con­flict began after the assas­si­na­tion of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
According to History​.com, ten­sions had been brew­ing through­out Europe — espe­cial­ly in the trou­bled Balkan region of south­east Europe — for years before World War I actu­al­ly broke out. A num­ber of alliances involv­ing European pow­ers, the Ottoman Empire, Russia, and oth­er par­ties had exist­ed for years, but polit­i­cal insta­bil­i­ty in the Balkans (par­tic­u­lar­ly Bosnia, Serbia, and Herzegovina) threat­ened to destroy these agreements.

The spark that ignit­ed World War I was struck in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand—heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire — was shot to death along with his wife, Sophie, by the Serbian nation­al­ist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. Princip and oth­er nation­al­ists were strug­gling to end Austro-Hungarian rule over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Thanks to new mil­i­tary tech­nolo­gies and the hor­rors of trench war­fare, World War I saw unprece­dent­ed lev­els of car­nage and destruc­tion. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed vic­to­ry, more than 16 mil­lion peo­ple — sol­diers and civil­ians alike — were dead.

World war one last­ed from 1914 until 1918, as stat­ed in History’s report­ing, by the time the con­flict end­ed over 16 mil­lion human beings were dead.
By 1939 the sec­ond world war had bro­ken out in Europe, a mere twen­ty-one years (21) lat­er. One would have thought that the death and destruc­tion of world war one would have served as a wake-up call to the European con­ti­nent, that they must set­tle their dif­fer­ences through dia­logue and con­ver­sa­tions, not so.

History​.com char­ac­ter­ized the rea­son for the sec­ond world war thus; The insta­bil­i­ty cre­at­ed in Europe by the First World War (1914−18) set the stage for anoth­er inter­na­tion­al con­flict – World War II – which broke out two decades lat­er and would prove even more dev­as­tat­ing. Rising to pow­er in an eco­nom­i­cal­ly and polit­i­cal­ly unsta­ble Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strate­gic treaties with Italy and Japan to fur­ther his ambi­tions of world domination. 

The truth of the mat­ter is that the rea­son for the break­out of world war two was far more com­pli­cat­ed than the fore­gone para­graph syn­op­sized.
Hitler felt that the Treaty of Versailles that brought World War I to an end, blamed Germany for the start of (WW1) and placed oner­ous con­di­tion­al­i­ties on the German peo­ple. Adolph Hitler promised that he would bring Germany out from under what he saw as an unfair treaty.
With the full back­ing of the German peo­ple behind him on the treaty issue, Hitler was able to devel­op his racial­ist mil­i­taris­tic goals for Germany.
The sec­ond world war end­ed in 1945, thank­ful­ly the Western pow­ers had defeat­ed the Nazi Axis of Germany, Italy„ and Japan.
Critical to the war effort in Eastern Europe was the effort of the Soviet Union against Hitler’s war machine.

In 1945, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of 50 coun­tries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. Those del­e­gates delib­er­at­ed on the basis of pro­pos­als worked out by the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States at Dumbarton Oaks, in the United States in August-October 1944.
The Charter was signed on 26 June 1945 by the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the 50 coun­tries. Poland, which was not rep­re­sent­ed at the Conference, signed it lat­er and became one of the orig­i­nal 51 Member States.
The United Nations offi­cial­ly came into exis­tence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been rat­i­fied by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a major­i­ty of oth­er sig­na­to­ries. United Nations Day is cel­e­brat­ed on 24 October each year.

Since the incep­tion of the United Nations, in 1945 there have been many con­flicts, to include the Korean, Vietnam, and Iraq wars and many oth­er con­flicts in which America’s actions are less overt, to include the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Bosnian war and America’s excur­sions in places like Panama and Grenada.
Despite those con­flicts, the world has dodged major esca­la­tions com­pa­ra­ble to the two pre­vi­ous glob­al con­flicts of 1914 and 1939.
A full 75-years has passed since the last world war. The avoid­ance of a world­wide con­flict may have some­thing to do with the two com­pet­ing forces of the United States and the Former Soviet Union bal­anc­ing each oth­er out with their expan­sive nuclear arse­nals.
Since the end of the sec­ond world war, sev­er­al nations have also acquired for­mi­da­ble nuclear arse­nals which may have some deter­rent effect.

Those nations now include “Israel”, Great Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and of course the Russian Federation and the United States.
When the his­to­ry books are writ­ten on world his­to­ry let it be fac­tu­al­ly depict­ed, not by alter­na­tive facts, but by hard truths.
Let it be doc­u­ment­ed that President Barack Obama was able to bring the Islamic Republic to the table along with oth­er nations and ham­mer out an agree­ment.
By all accounts, Iran stuck to the terms of the agree­ment. The ene­mies of peace argue that it was not a [Treaty] and as such tear­ing up the deal was no big deal.

It is not the first time that we have been brought lied to, remem­ber the nar­ra­tive that Iraq had weapons of mass destruc­tion, and that Iraq was about to unleash them in a mush­room cloud over American cities?
That was the jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for a total­ly unpro­voked war against a sov­er­eign Iraqui nation.
Hundreds of thou­sands of Iraquis were killed and for what? Not that there could be any legal or moral jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the ille­git­i­mate inva­sion of a sov­er­eign nation, the top­pling of its gov­ern­ment and the slaugh­ter of its people. 

WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED UNDER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

The JPOA or Joint Plan of Action was a frame­work agree­ment that encour­aged the P5+1 to con­tin­ue to nego­ti­ate a com­pre­hen­sive deal on Iran’s nuclear pro­gram in exchange for nar­row and tem­po­rary sanc­tions relief. That frame­work deal helps pave the way to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA, which is also com­mon­ly referred to as the “Iran Deal”.
The JPOA was entered into on November 24^th, 2013. It is a nar­row­ly-con­strued sanc­tions relief pro­gram designed to encour­age Iran to stay at the nego­ti­at­ing table. It is the only eli­gi­ble sanc­tions relief until Implementation Day.

The JPOA relaxed eco­nom­ic sanc­tions direct­ed at non‑U.S. per­sons when con­duct­ing busi­ness with Iran relat­ed to petro­chem­i­cal prod­ucts; the auto­mo­bile indus­try; Iran’s pur­chase and sale of gold and oth­er pre­cious met­als; and Iran’s export of crude oil to China, India, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, and Taiwan. The United States also autho­rized U.S. per­sons to sup­ply Iran’s spare parts in sup­port of the safe oper­a­tion of Iran’s civ­il air­craft. Furthermore, the JPOA estab­lished a finan­cial chan­nel to facil­i­tate human­i­tar­i­an trade with Iran. This lim­it­ed relief was offered in exchange for Iran tem­porar­i­ly lim­it­ing its nuclear pro­gram while the par­ties negotiated.

There was no rea­son to walk away from the deal. The Iranians by all accounts were adher­ing to the rules of the JCPOA.
The prob­lem with the JCPOA is that it bore the sig­na­ture of Barack Obama the 44^th pres­i­dent of the United States.
And that was a prob­lem for the moral­ly bank­rupt nar­cis­sis­tic racist who suc­ceed­ed him.
He could not bear to leave in place a plan that no oth­er American pres­i­dent of the United States was able to secure.
So he tore up the deal claim­ing that he could get a bet­ter deal, the truth of the mat­ter is that he can­not even get Iran to the table to talk, because world lead­ers have zero respect for him.
And so now the cam­paign of lies and defama­tion has increased as the war­mon­gers build a case for war against anoth­er sov­er­eign nation.
Do not be fooled by the lies. 

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
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