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submitted 4 days ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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No bro this US war in the middle east will be completely different, bro. See, this time the regime we’re trying to get rid of is REALLY BAD!

No no, this is nothing like all those other times. This time military interventionism to topple an oil-rich government in west Asia will lead to peace and democracy. Our soldiers will be greeted as liberators!

You don’t understand, bro. This time the government and the media are telling us the truth! This time the regime really IS committing mass atrocities and they really ARE trying to build weapons of mass destruction.

I know you think this will be a disaster like all those other US military interventions in the region, but you see, unlike all those other times, this time there are many foreign policy analysts from highly respected think tanks and mass media outlets assuring us that it will go perfectly fine.

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[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, to protect the protesters, we overplayed through the western media the size of the protests, and did all we could to help them happen and continue, tried to make them violent, and associated them with the enemy that for all intents and purposes they've been at war with for a couple of years.

So they would get crushed in the rally around the flag effect Iran is experiencing from being attacked by the all powerful enemy they just watched carry out capricious reprisals against their cousins in Gaza and elsewhere under false pretenses with abandon.

So to defend the freedom of Iranian protesters, we are going to bomb them and assassinate their leaders, don't worry, after getting further attacked by those carrying out genocides the protesters will rise up and reinstitute the Shah as a western puppet! It's not like it's all in bad faith and we are using those protesters as a cause to start our forever war. /S

We in this case being Israel using their epstein blackmail to force the US to start the conflict that Israel will reignite every time they need a domestic political boost finding some pretext to assassinate some more Iranians, blow up more of their infrastructure, and the US, in this case sitting in the gimp suit in the cuck chair while Israel rapes it's captor and says it's consensual.