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Our blog says the US and Israel want regime change in Iran because, among other things, a friendly Iran would facilitate military action from the south against Russia.
So, are we still saying a nuclear holocaust isn’t on the cards and that the weapons are only for deterrence?
From Al Jazeera:
Israel’s campaign in Iran seen as big win at home for Netanyahu and army
Orly Noy, editor of the independent Hebrew-language Local Call news site, says there is broad support among Jewish Israelis for Israel’s attacks on Iran despite the retaliation they have provoked.“Netanyahu has been building up Iran as the ultimate demon of the world for so many years, so I think in a way now he’s enjoying the fruits of that campaign,” Noy told Al Jazeera.
“There is for sure fear. But at the same time, this attack allowed not just Netanyahu, but the Israeli army to really very quickly rehabilitate their broken image after more than 20 months of this war of annihilation in Gaza that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.”
The army, whose image had faltered as more reservists refused to serve in Gaza, is now seeing a boost in recruitment, Noy explained.
“Netanyahu enjoys bigger support, the army for sure has restored its image. There is fear, but there is also incredible trust in the army.”
If US capital requires this war (and I agree it wouldn’t matter who was President), why is it that only a few of US capitalism’s political representatives are openly supporting it and applauding Trump for it? Are the rest brilliant and convincing actors, happy that Trump is the fall guy for what they secretly wanted themselves, and milking his big “faux pas” for what isn’t a faux pas?
Happy that they
1) have got what they want, and
2) even better: don’t have to take the fall for what they knew would be an unpopular war, and can pass it all onto Trump the sap.Is this so?
The Rt. Dishonorable Sir Snivel. N. Wretch.
The majority have no awareness of history. So they are unable to think chronologically and sequentially. In their minds events just appear from nowhere. For example, in the case of the Ukraine war, it begins for them with Russia’s invasion, which came because Russians are baddies and was completely unprovoked and without antecedents.
Similarly, Iran is bombing Israel because Iranians are evil, not because of any antecedent events, not even Israel’s initial attack.
For most, war is a playground model, where bad kids fight good kids. They don’t relate anything to anything, which is why they never comprehend cause and effect. Their view is the playground one of Goody vs Baddy.So “Got to stop him” is the catchphrase for them, with personalities as the only reality for them: Got to stop the Mahdi, got to stop the Boers, got to stop the Kaiser, got to stop Adolf, got to stop the Rusky, got to stop Saddam, got to stop the Mullah, and so on.
Al Jazeera:
Trump, Netanyahu want a ‘controllable and not free Iran’
Iran could “easily become the hegemonic power in the region in a matter of a few years”, Professor Lorenzo Kamel, an assistant professor of global history and history in the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Turin, tells Al Jazeera.Iran has the second-largest oil reserves in the world, the third-largest gas reserves, and approximately 90 million inhabitants, which creates a very strong internal market he said.
The potential of its oil and gas industry means that Trump and Netanyahu want a “controllable Iran, and not a free Iran”, Kamel explained.
This is not the first time the US had acted to control oil production, he noted, including the events of 1953, when the CIA, along with the UK’s MI6, orchestrated the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, who had moved to nationalise Iran’s oil industry from the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
Will Netanyahu also be nominated?
Take the current situation/s:
We might see the protests against Israel etc. if we check Youtube or dissenting news reports, but mention anything to neighbours in the “real world” here, as they say, and it’s
1) “Oh the poor Israeli hostages!”
2) “We need to stop Iran!”
3) “Palestinians are terrorists!”And on Ukraine:
1) “We must stop Putin!”
2) “Poor Zelensky!”
3) “Putin will try to conquer Europe!”And the all-time favourite, often accompanied with a hard poke in the chest:
“Two words to say to you: HUMAN NATURE!”
They passively support it.
Their priorities are a wage coming in, and supporting families. For very many, the priorities are induced through the media’s (and by extension, their peers’) “body fascism”: constant judging of appearance, “coolness” and sexual “success” or failure. Hence, many in the hi-tech countries are coerced into navel-gazing neurosis. As, for most, the psychological upheavals of youth give way to the resignation of “maturity”, the tired majority, without any background in learning (apart from state/business outlets and agencies), passively believe whatever they get from newspapers and tv news, mouthpieces for the national bourgeoisie and its state. They consider anything at odds to be youthful folly or the treasonous obsessions of unruly types and odd-bods (including us).
By comparison, ACTIVE support is more minimal, except when war breaks out – which is when one is “trampled by the boots of former pacifists in their rush to enlist”, as some wit said of the two previous world wars.
