{"id":347036,"date":"2018-02-06T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-needs-wars-conflicts-to-survive-analyst\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:45:38","slug":"presstv-us-needs-wars-conflicts-to-survive-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-needs-wars-conflicts-to-survive-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US needs wars, conflicts to survive: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States thrives on wars and military conflicts, says Ohio-based analyst Gordon Duff, arguing that a reported US plan to redeploy troops from Iraq to Afghanistan is an attempt to create new crises.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to an Associated Press report citing Western contractors in Afghanistan, American forces are leaving Iraq after the defeat of Daesh terror group there and are now taking position in US forces across Afghanistan to allegedly fight the Takfiri group\u2019s sympathizers there.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,000 US troops had been stationed in Iraq as of 2016, with nearly 4,000 others deployed to the Arab country later on to purportedly assist local groups fighting Daesh.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Press TV on Monday, Duff said the US military\u2019s alleged plan for withdrawing troops from Iraq and redeploying them to Afghanistan was \u201csilly\u201d and further proved Washington\u2019s penchant for war.<\/p>\n<p>He said the US was looking to keep the fight going by \u201cplaying one side&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/06\/551454\/US-troops-Iraq-Afghanistan-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States thrives on wars and military conflicts, says Ohio-based analyst Gordon Duff, arguing that a reported US plan to redeploy troops from Iraq to Afghanistan is an attempt to create new crises. According to an Associated Press report citing Western contractors in Afghanistan, American forces are leaving Iraq after the defeat of Daesh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}