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Trump’s call for allied deployment to strait of Hormuz meets muted response
(www.theguardian.com)
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Iran has already offered all countries the out of kicking out the US and Israel embassadors so that their ships are allowed to pass the Straight.
Further, my impression is that at least in Europe and especially after the Greenland affair, most of the public opinion thinks Trump is an untrustworthy liar AND because they attacked Iran unprovoked, America and Israel are the ones to blame for the increase in fuel and gas prices they're already feeling.
(There's enough independent press in most of Europe that the "blame Iran" messaging is far from dominant)
The idea of sending European ships into Trump's war is incredibly unpopular and whilst I don't think we're quite yet at the stage were kicking out the American embassador would be popular, the more fuel and gas prices go up the more acceptable it looks.
Then the whole Epstein files thing throws suspicion in people's minds on any European politician that's a little too eager to do what America or Israel wants.
At the very least the offer from Iran introduces doubt and confusion making it far harder for blackmailed European politicians to find a way to justify the incredibly unpopular idea of putting European ships and military at risk in a war of pure aggression started by America and Israel.
I don't know about you but my youtube feed is now filled with NATO propaganda...
Consume American media and media hosted by American companies, get fed pure propaganda.
The old Soviet joke of "There is no pravda (truth) in Pravda, there's no isvestia (news) in the Isvestia" also applies to the American (and British, Australian and possibly Canadian) Press and other modern means of "opinion forming".
Most countries in Europe aren't quite as bad, but even there at least some of the Press is very biased and even Propagandistic (except Germany which from what I've heard is especially bad, Britain I know from personal experience is horrible in that sense, possibly worse than the US)
Thankfully we still have the CBC. Privately owned news here is all dog whistling and hand wringing now.