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[?]Anthony ยป 🌐
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The USA is engaged in a war of choice to defeat itself. It certainly is a special moment.
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-20-each-day-the-us


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    [?]Anthony ยป 🌐
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    Apparently 0 oil tankers transited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday and Thursday. It's astonishing to me how little public dialog is occurring on the massive, ongoing energy disruption this is causing and what the likely effects will be. Shades of COVID minimization and climate change denial, "urgency of normal", "vax and relax", "calmmongering", etc.


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      [?]Anthony ยป 🌐
      @abucci@buc.ci

      The "ceasefire" was never a ceasefire. This should have been obvious from the absurdity of the terms, which clearly would never be acceptable to the US or Israel. It's bizarre and surreal to see so many media outlets and commentators taking it seriously even today. It doesn't make sense to publish articles debating the durability of the ceasefire when it was never a ceasefire, yet here we are. I can't pretend to know what's actually going on, but it's very clear the "ceasefire" is a pretext. I'd guess the US is buying time to make up for the failure to plan in advance adequately. I've also taken to interpreting many of Trump's statements as market manipulation attempts, and this one seems to fit that bill too.

      The US had been playing the fake ceasefire/fake peace talks game with Ukraine before attention shifted.


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        [?]Anthony ยป 🌐
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        I realize he speaks mostly theatrically, but when Pete Hegseth says of Iran "We will continue operations until we stop these savages threatening U.S. interests", we need to pay attention to his use of the word "savage".

        That word has a long, nasty history in the mouths of US officials. It can mean, and has often meant, this: a people who control resources but who do not put those resources to what are considered "productive" purposes by a would-be colonizer. The indigenous peoples of the North American continent were called savages in this specific sense, which led to "legal" justification for taking their land and other resources from them (obviously they were called this word for many reasons, but this is one of those reasons). Even if he's not aware of it or purposely doing so I think Hegseth is channeling this history when he uses that particular word. I think the tell is that he's suggesting there are "savages" that threaten "US interests", i.e. resources the US claims ownership of.


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          [?]Anthony ยป 🌐
          @abucci@buc.ci

          We are using military force to take the side of precisely the countries who have enriched Trump and his family. This backdrop must at the very least be stated in the reporting of the war. Along with the subversion of democracy, personal corruption provides a second interpretive framework.
          From https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack-iran


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