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[Video] Rachel Maddow with the biggest propaganda plot twist in recent history (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 12 hours ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

You mean like maybe Jared Kushner is acting in bad faith as an ambassador?

This is not some wild leap.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Can’t watch the video right now, anyone have a tldr or transcript?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

She asks a lot of questions about which country benefits from the US bombing Iran, which country would push Trump to do this, which country has large influence over Trump, etc etc

And then reveals that it is indeed all because of

spoiler

The Gulf States (and does not mention Israel)

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

Ty, appreciated.

[–] pigeonofparadise@lemmy.org 0 points 4 hours ago

I feel like this isn’t a plot twist but just the plot of every conflict since dessert storm.

[–] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

Well. It makes more sense to me now. Not the Israel part, I’ll never figure out why any remotely civilized society would side with them on anything, but at least the Iran thing is just greedy capitalistic corruption.

That’s something we are all used to.