Brian Berletic. Professor Jiang says the same

<The Western media continues to portray US-Iranian talks as a means for US President Trump to end the war many portray as a "failure" even as the US continues striking Iran amid a "ceasefire."

But the US wanting to end the war is a false assumption.

The US goals are:

1. Continue weakening Iran but without triggering wider, unsustainable hostilities;

2. Continue decreasing Middle East energy exports to Asia, including China by maintaining constant instability and threat of wider war;

3. While preventing a rapid global economic collapse and instead using the crisis to incrementally impose dependence on US energy exports onto Asia just as the US did to Europe;

The worst part about Western reports regarding supposed US "diplomacy" is that the last 26 years alone of US aggression against Iran prove the US uses diplomacy only to further war on its own terms, not to avoid or end it!

The US is currently managing similar balancing acts of hostility just below all out direct war with both Russia and China.>

This makes sense. I hope he is wrong in thinking America intends European troops to fight Russia in Ukraine on behalf of the American empire.

In a sensible world European countries would be on good terms with China and Iran to balance their ties to America and insist on a peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia on terms that protect Russia as well as Ukraine.