William Lindsey 
"Israel launched huge attacks on Iran and Lebanon overnight."
~ The Guardian
"The war serves Israeli, Saudi, and (with qualifications) Russian interests; the war has led the White House to share Israeli, Saudi, and Russian messaging. These are the outputs thus far.
And so from the inputs and the outputs, we get a certain picture, one in which America is peripheral, and the oligarchical corridor is central."
~ Timothy Snyder
"I think it is more fruitful to imagine the corridor in which an ongoing conversation takes place: one in which the American people are absent, American institutions are absent, and indeed everything American is absent. And through this absence we see the emerging reality: the American state is allowed to decay and falter, while oligarchs use the bits that remain to pursue private interests and private fortunes."
"The story kind of begins in 1996. Some of you guys might be aware of this document that was published. It was called A Clean Break. This was prepared for a Jerusalem-based think tank. I think it was called the Institute for Advanced Political Studies or something like that."
~ Nafeez Ahmed
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/iran-and-the-30-year-neocon-plan
Iran And the 30 Year NeoCon Plan For Regime Change
Watch the Byline Times podcast with Adrian Goldberg and Nafeez Ahmed,
Several American authors, people like Richard Powell, who ended up being part of the Bush administration, he headed up the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and Advisory Board. So this was this little group of people. drafted this blueprint, which was supposed to be for the same guy who's in charge of the show in his role right now, Benjamin Netanyahu.
They prepared this blueprint for him."
"And this blueprint was quite a shocking kind of... planned advocating that Israel, backed by kind of unconditional force from the United States, should seek security by completely redrawing the map of the Middle East. ... Much of what we see unfolding today can be traced back to the strategic parameters that were set out in this document, which really was a roadmap for reshaping the entire region through force."
"Donald Trump has lit a global match. Trump and his aides think the United States has global leverage that his predecessors refused to use. He seems to forget that other countries have leverage, too—and they’re intent on using it to stop him."
~ Jordan Michael Smith
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war
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https://newrepublic.com/article/207218/donald-trump-global-leverage-foreign-policy
"If Trump insists on steamrolling over other countries, the United States will eventually discover—like Napoleon’s France, Hitler’s Germany, and Stalin’s Soviet Union before it—that other countries always have options to resist."
"If, instead, he wants to team up with autocrats to share the spoils earned by plundering and coercing weaker nations, Trump will join Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in ushering in a new age of corrupt authoritarianism unseen since the Middle Ages."
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