According to a former Italian Ambassador to Iraq Marco Carnelos, speaking on the Il Contesto YouTube channel, both Israel and Iran, as well as Trump, “are racing against time.” However, Iran is better positioned. “While Iran can go on—I don’t know how long with this war—Israel cannot go on without American aid. … Are Israel’s missile stocks unlimited? I don’t think so. And we have already seen that the capacity of the Western military-industrial complex to deliver large amounts of products in a short time is quite low.”
After pointing to the irony of “one of the biggest economic-financial scandals and hoaxes of all times,” i.e., the largest defense budget ever, which is incapable of replacing supplies in acceptable time, “there is a race against time between the two countries and by Trump,” Carnelos said. “…[H]ow long can America go on in sustaining all those fronts [Iran, Ukraine], in the face of its domestic economic situation? They are desperately asking Jerome Powell to lower rates, and Powell does not lower them, because, with what is going on with the threatened closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a potential spike of oil prices and therefore inflation, how can he lower rates?”
