Regime change, you say? I am reminded of Malcolm Tucker's bon mot to the American citizen who objected to him swearing in a public space.

The "best", the least-terrible possible outcome for the US that I can conceive, is that Trump manages to kill some of the senior government / state figures, and a lot of IRGC / Basij thugs and quotidian forces of oppression. But regime change via an air campaign? Never happened before, and I see no reason it could happen now.

Quite possibly his intended exit is a Venezuela outcome, where some second tier stooge gets to be a public figurehead and Trump (likely personally) gets to steal their oil. Basically, he's doing his best to act out a scenario that, say, a naive young anti-Iraq war protester in 2003 thought the Dubya loons were doing.

In short: he's an idiot, with no real grasp of what he's doing or why he's doing it; and he's going to cause the deaths of thousands, possibly tens of thousands, basically so he can look good on TV.

#Trump #Iran #airstrikes #regime_change #evilfuckwitsoftheworld

"U.S. presidents have a long record of backing regime change, and Trump’s Venezuela move fits a familiar pattern. From Iran's Mohammad Mossadegh to Iraq's Saddam Hussein, estimates suggest 70+ Cold War regime-change attempts. But Washington may have mastered overthrowing leaders, but it repeatedly failed at what comes after. Will this time be the same? Palki Sharma tells you."—
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From Caracas to Tehran: America’s 70+ Regime-Change Playbook | Vantage with Palki Sharma >

https://youtu.be/qSpf7490K5s?si=fdCheALeij5HD5Aa

#USA #regime_change #Iran #Iraq #Vietnam #Guatemala #Cuba #Chile #Afghanistan #Venezuela #Trump_regime

The Mass-Media Memory Hole – Blair, Ukraine and Libya (Media Lens)

A key function of state-corporate media is to keep the public pacified, ignorant and ill-equipped to disrupt establishment power.

George Orwell’s famous ‘memory hole’

https://www.medialens.org/2023/the-mass-media-memory-hole-blair-ukraine-and-libya/

#media #news_media #bbc #propaganda #govrenment_propaganda #the_guardian #regime_change #red_line #nato #humanitarian_interventions #military_interventions #ukraine #libia #blair #starmer #us #united_states #iraq