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Iranian state media confirms death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
(www.nbcnews.com)
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In a society that reveres martyrdom above all else 🤔
I feel like its a goal of the MIC as it gives them a reason to exist. Use violence, terror, kill civilians to create more enemies and justify more military spending.
Not a good long term strategy, but the orphan crushing machine still has people willing to operate it.
The US generally benefits from depopulating & undeveloping resource rich or strategically marginal areas for coercion, keeping costs down, denial purposes, or just to keeping value chains stable, but this risks blowing up the petrodollar system. I think they might actually be completely insane. What did WarClaudeâ„¢ tell them?
W.O.C.R. War Operation Claude Response
You forgot the last bit, when we've fucked the whole world up escape to bunker.