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US strikes water desalination plant in Iran
(www.turkiyetoday.com)
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Destroying critical infrastructure like that is a terrible idea. Like, I hate this war, fuck Israel and Trump/GQP but if you're invading somewhere, you don't want that infrastructure damaged/destroyed for your own use.
Following Israeli war tactics. Just destroy it all.
It's clear their plan is to destroy the region and make it a warzone like Libya.
Are they trying to invade with the purpose of taking over? I know it sounds stupid, but I consider this all a distraction from the Epstein files. I think they just want to take shots at somebody for a distraction and then leave a mess. It's the billionaire way.
From a US military perspective, this is actually perfectly in line with standard procedure. Holding ground, especially ground so far away, is costly and difficult. So the new strategy these last 15 years has just been to destroy civic infrastructure and collapse the state. It removes a country's ability to resist resource extraction, it creates a long-term "frontier" combat zone that's highly profitable for arms companies, and it serves as a petri dish for incubating new proxy forces to be used later, either as goons or scapegoats (or both).
Yup, very well put. The whole "freedom and democracy for the iranian people" speech is just there to keep up appearances, the goal has always been to turn Iran into Libya. Like i havent heard a single mention of Libya in mainstream media in decades.
i'd say resource extraction requires political stability, actually, since mining sites are big and difficult to defend and also immobile, so they can't just be moved out of the way when there's danger. and also the long transport lines for minerals are long and therefore difficult to protect.
That low level of area-specific stability can be achieved with proxy forces or mercenaries guarding corporate facilities
i don't think so
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Fuck off, thousands of people are dead this is not a 'distraction' its peoples lives.
You fuck off. I was putting myself in the rapist president's mindset. Not speaking from my own heart about the totality of the horror of the situation.
It literally is a distraction. And your outrage at that is exactly parent poster's point.
The Republican Apparatus (and Conservatives around the world, for that matter) have discovered that they can continuously manufacture new outrage to distract from the actual policies they care about.
With the Tea Party, a couple of decades ago, they mastered weaponized wedge issues to distract. (The "War on Terror" was a manufactured war, and that strategy goes back decades.) But they have since escalated to crimes against humanity.
And it's working. I haven't seen many headlines about ICE or Epstein recently because the average American is bored of hearing about it.
Meanwhile, they are enacting policies to further concentrate wealth and power amongst the 0.1%.
Or more burnt out than bored maybe.
USSA has been terrorizing Iran long before anyone knew who Epstein was.
That whole cancer country is to blame.
Nobody is invading