myrmepropagandist1d ago

"Why can't Trump get his story straight about the nukes?"

No one on the CNN panel will *really* answer this question: Trump just ... says stuff.

Creates a kind of halting problem:

“We obliterated the regime’s nuclear program”
(but then there is no reason for war so he says)
"They are close to nuclear"
(but that sounds like we messed up so he says)
“We obliterated the nuclear program”
(but then there is no reason for war so he says)
♾️

etc.

Show threadmyrmepropagandist1d ago
It is surreal to watch people who are experts at using the English language, people whose whole profession and skill is centered on communication trying to parse the words this man speaks. Like someone investigating a splatter of bird poop as if it were tea leaves or art.
Show threadmyrmepropagandist1d ago

There is a cover story for why the US attacked Iran. One that is almost believable. The argument goes like this:

Iran was developing a drone and missile program rather like the Iron Dome that would make it "impossible" for the US to bomb them, and that would mean it's impossible to stop them if they wanted to make nuclear weapons. So they had to be stopped from doing this now.

Does Iran have the right to defend itself? It's an ugly argument.

Show threadProf Lutz

@futurebird "cover story for why the US attacked Iran"?

As the Ukrainian front is a US proxy war against Russia (and as a side bonus, weakening the EU), the Iranian front is a proxy war against China.

cf the infamous ret. General W. Clark "seven nations in five years" 2007 clip and Brian Berletic regular posts on the continuity of the US agenda against a multipolar world.

Apr 2 at 12:47pmWeb
Show threadInga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸17h ago
@pr_ret_lutz @futurebird you must have missed the part where Ukrainians simply wanted to live their lives and then Russia invaded.
(And then used "ah but that's actually the US doing a proxy war against us" as a pretext.)
Show threadProf Lutz12h ago
@IngaLovinde And you, too, must have missed the part where Donetsk, Luhansk and Mariupol habitants simply wanted to live their lives (without being bombed, without tanks in their streets.)
Show threadInga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸12h ago

@pr_ret_lutz yep, until Russian invaders came and tried to annex them and when that failed started the war in 2014.
But I guess when western-aligned (as opposed to being Russian-aligned) country does not let Russia annex one more of its pieces, that's USA starting an aggressive proxy war against Russia.

Someone is also probably currently telling tales about how the last decades in Gaza are just Russian proxy war against Israel.

Show threadInga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸12h ago
@pr_ret_lutz ah sorry, didn't notice you are a tankie. My bad.