Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... Given Iran is clearly under attack from US/Israeli forces, defending its airspace is not so much an escalation as a perfectly reasonable defensive response (and certainly legal as far as international law is concerned).

But the narrative remains, whatever the media may think its doing, one that privileges the US's positioning on the 'war'!

#Iran #InternationalLaw

@ChrisMayLA6 It’s the same as Russia/Ukraine & Israel/Palestine: ”How dare they defend themselves?!”

Authoritarian conservatism has become the dominant narrative of our time.

@gimulnautti @ChrisMayLA6
> conservatism
Fascism is not conservatism. Nor any other stolen word has suddenly changed meanings in the mind of the free man, because propagandist of supreme leader lies. Please use quotation marks, please, please.
@ohir @gimulnautti @ChrisMayLA6 fascism is where conservatism goes when it starts losing to progressives. Every fucking time.