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🇺🇸 “Short-term pain for long-term gain” - This seems to be the new propaganda angle from the US.
Video source with the compilation of US news media repeating that phrase -> https://xcancel.com/Mollyploofkins/status/2030957349347668470#m
First stage: "Our capabilities are overwhelming, we will utterly and easily annihilate Iran."
Second (current) stage: "Ok, they are causing us a little bit of pain and damage, but it's temporary, we promise."
I wonder when the third stage will be.
I dunno what the third or fourth stages are but the fifth stage is either "profit" or "sticks and stones".
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
(some in the comments even pointed it out too, from the other end lol:
And the US has to gall to accuse other countries of blatant narrative manipulation against the population's own interests. As usual, every accusation is a confession.