Ray McGovern

Pope Francis, while a real Mensch, was almost as timid as Pius XII during the FIRST Holocaust. Nice guys don’t win ball games – or stop genocide. “A gospel that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin – what kind of gospel is that?” Bishop Oscar Romero (1917-80).

Larry Johnson’s instructive simile: Demanding Iran stop its “nuclear weapons program” is like telling Ray to stop driving his Lamborghini. Tell ‘Dick Tracy’ Hegseth Iran stopped work on a nuclear weapon 22 yrs ago, about same time I totaled my Lamborghini.

Dominoes Vobiscum: 50 years after the debacle in Vietnam, “WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN?” Are there lessons here for the Ukraine war? Robert Scheer and I discuss this on weekly edition of “Bob and Ray II”. Bob titled it Vietnam-China: Dominoes That Didn’t Fall.

Born a week before WWII, I have lived through Hot War, Cold War, détente, rapprochement and proxy war. JFK 5 months before his murder: “Almost unique among major world powers, the US & Russia have never been at war with each other.” Indeed, we were ALLIES.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/what-russia-rightfully-remembers-america-forgets/

Pushing on an open door: “Iran must not have a nuclear weapon.” All right already. Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon; we will find out quickly if they start. Sophisticated verification already in place. US Intelligence is telling the truth this time.

Russian ForMin Lavrov offers diplomatic answer to why the NATO-not-one-inch eastward-agreement offered by Secy of State James Baker in Feb 1990 was not written down. Lavrov: “It’s not my fault that Western tradition does not include honoring commitments.”

Gaza: Best exposure/refutation of Netanyahu/Trump fairy tales is “The Gaza Bombshell” by David Rose https://vanityfair.com/news/2008/04/gaza200804 It’s a MUST-READ for context. Larry & I differed re White House meeting Monday. Has Putin talked Trump out of doing stupid on Iran?

David Lin interviewed me on March 31 on Ukraine-Russia, Iran, and other front-burner issues.

Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi meet Saturday in Qatar. Russia and China, with HUGE stakes in those talks, will be watching as closely as Russian, Chinese and Iranian “experts” in Moscow watched Trump Monday deny Netanyahu the war he wanted.