In the first 15 minutes of this video he states in the most plain possible terms the situation in the Middle East right now, I have not yet heard such well-informed clarity from any other commentator. It is refreshing even if it does not ease the knots in my stomach. So I am making an exception to my moratorium on posting YouTube videos here on the Fediverse so you can have a chance to watch this interview with Douglas MacGregor on the US/Israel’s war of aggression against Iran.

In short, Iran is fighting a defensive war, so their strategy is to turn this into a war of attrition. The US has bases throughout the region and have a very, very large attack surface against which they have to defend — it is the same stupid error driven by hubris that every large empire makes eventually. So far, Iran’s strategy is working.

So the Iranian “regime” has not fallen yet, and now that Khameni and their president is dead, the people of Iran seem to have re-unified in support of their government in the hopes that they will have a chance to elect new government under the same constitution of the Islamic Republic, hopefully which will be less despotic than before, while maintaining their military to protect their people’s sovereignty, and more importantly, their civil infrastructure that protects their people from starvation.

The USA’s allies in the Gulf States, who had been made prosperous by cooperating with the US, have now realized that the US has no interest in defending their wealth. Really, it seems the United States is not interested in defending anyone at all except for Netanyahu and his corrupt cronies. And I have heard rumors that these Gulf States are already initiating talks to re-align with Russia instead of the US. And by China and Russia not getting involved, they know that they can become stronger if the US becomes weaker, but have most likely already started work to assist Iran militarily so as to defend their oil resources.

All I can say is, “know thy enemy.” Knowing anything at all, much less a complex enemy of some 90 million people, seems to be far beyond the collective mental capacity of the Trump administration, or the Netanyahu crime syndicate. The only question I have now is, how much more damage and senseless death and destruction can these morons continue to cause before this all ends?

Quoting MacGregor:

“You can kill a leader, but you can’t bomb a civilization into submission, and [the US] has never understood what we were dealing with in Iran. Everybody talks about Iran as some sort of radical Islamic state. Nothing could be further from the truth. Iran is ultimately Persia, and that civilization is older. And Persian civilization, Persian thinking, Persian philosophy, Persian art, and history, all of those things have been asserting their dominance over the last 25-30 years. And the people of Iran have largely walked away from this ideologically rigid form of Islam….. so I think we have galvanized [the Islamic world] against us.”

End this damn pointless war now, and make the war criminals Trump and Netanyahu face justice under international law.

#politics #EndTheWar #NoWar #Iran #Israel #USA #UnitesStates #Trump #Netanyahu #EpsteinWar #OperationEpsteinFury

I see the #ClownCar that is the Government if the #UnitesStates has ‘insisted’ allies lift their defence spending.

I have two thoughts on this:
1. The Clown Car is clearly expecting their multi-national arms manufacturers will make more money if they ‘force’ allies to lift spending.

Fuck em - if nations are going to spend more on defence, buy French and boycott everything from the United States.

2. The Clown Car seems hell bent on picking a fight with China, who is sitting back and watching the Fall of the United States in real time and not actually doing a lot.

Assuming #TACOTrump does not chicken out again, Australia should make it clear right now to the Clown Car that if they decide to get a bloody nose then we are not going to be helping them - it will all be on them.

#auspol

"The story of how the #UnitesStates identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. In #AmericaAmérica #GregGrandin vividly demonstrates that the nation’s unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south toward #LatinAmerica"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAko46HvZSQ

#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #books @bookstodon @histodons