• freagle@lemmy.ml
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    24 hours ago

    Found on an Iranian Telegram:


    "As for people betting “Trump” won’t use nuclear weapons - they still don’t get “Trump” isn’t in charge of anything.

    This is an all-or-nothing bid by the US to maintain primacy over the planet before losing it permanently.

    The unelected US corporate-financier establishment - pushing for wars since the inception of America as a nation - have ALREADY USED NUCLEAR WEAPONS - TWICE!!!

    They considered using them on Korea, Vietnam, and even as recently as Afghanistan.

    DO NOT let the US pin this solely on a single politician, or an administration or a US proxy. Make sure EVERYONE involved is blamed and held accountable.

    This is called compartmentalization - dividing up your political fronts when dirty work is required so you can flush the consequences down with one or more of these fronts while keeping the political whole more or less intact.

    The US literally does this every 4-8 years with presidents and scores of wars of aggression and other horrible foreign and domestic policies - and they will do it with this time as well.

    It wasn’t “Clinton,” “Bush,” or “Obama’s” wars (although they are accomplices and equally guilty) - they are Wall Street and Washington wars - every single one of them - no matter who is picked to sell them and take the fall for them.

    If you never expose and hold Wall Street and Washington as a whole accountable, they will continue their compartmentalization game forever without end."

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Correct: Statesian foreign policy has been fairly consistent. Internationally it matters less whether it’s a republican or a democrat in the white house (the biggest change is how much funding USAID gets and where it goes. Everything else remains consistent. At least that’s how it looks to me because I move in the nonprofit/NGO world) It’s where we see the ratchet effect most clearly.