Just a quick note now that this is looking likely.
The delusional establishment is desperately trying to pretend that it's still 2006. Almost all social media, political propaganda, debate / discussion, is really trying to LARP back to the days when global trade was new, failure in the M-E wasn't guaranteed, and the big hot topics were abortion, climate change, and the personal behavior of whoever the candidate was.
It's not that they're out-of-touch, though a lot of them are, it's that they actively use propaganda to insulate themselves from the real world. Contact with reality would be a dreadful reminder of how inadequate and pathetic they are, what failures they are, and how disastrously their plans are going-- so they just ignore it and go back to their BS echo-chambers.
Anyone that isn't on that sinking ship knows that this war is 100% doomed, guaranteed to be another failure, just like all the others have been. In fact, potentially even more catastrophic, since this could collapse the global economy, something that didn't happen during the previous invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The only silver lining will be the end of the forever wars, and possibly the whole neolib / neocon political order.
The Persians sat down and negotiated a nuclear agreement with the US government. They complied with it, and both sides were happy. Then the agreement was torn up by the GOP / Trump W.H and one of their leading generals (Soleimani), a national hero, was assassinated.
ReplyDeleteAll the violence from Iran's allies, Hezbollah and the Houthis, stems from this declaration of war by the US. It was a deliberate decision to incite a regional war, which may not have started immediately, but which has been slowly escalating since then.
Now the US government is telling Iran to renegotiate the deal, or face war.
US realpolitik geniuses have effectively made going to war with America a more logical decision than cooperating with it. They've turned America's world reputation into that of a madman, a temper-tantrum throwing maniac, who rampages around scaring everyone.
They style themselves as master negotiators and elite war-fighters (just look at the slop they churn out), but they've forgotten that the weaker side of a conflict should never escalate it. America has never won a war in the region, or a proxy war, and delusionally escalating conflicts towards open warfare GUARANTEES defeat, not victory.