immuredanchorite

lol, aren't like 30% of the settlers there US citizens?

I appreciate your perspective and effort.

I am not an expert and don't really have a firm grasp on internal Iranian politics, but I am skeptical the Iranian people wouldn't have supported something like this against 'israel' the first time they were attacked...

Part of my thinking behind this is how moved so many in the imperial core were by witnessing the genocide. I know people make a lot of rightful criticisms about the working class and the left in the imperial core, but that thinking tends to gloss over the historic gains too- for the first time since the us war in vietnam era there is a mass anti-imperialist movement. And even more interestingly, it isn't simply an anti-war movement driven in part from fear/anger over the draft/american deaths. The USian movement for Palestine has shifted a huge number of younger, working class libs towards a distinct anti-imperialist consciousness... I only bring this up to say, I can't imagine those images are less stirring or less provocative in Iran. I would think they would also be less censored than they are in burgerland. Where anti-imperialism is likely to be more viscerally rooted in peoples consciousness, and people could conceivably make the connection between their own history of confronting US imperialism and the nightmare in Gaza that is also a product of the US. then again, I am sure Iran's working class has contradictory politics, and there is probably a ton of nuance I am missing. I just don't really see Iran as being such a weak state that it could be toppled so easily... but I admit I don't really have any good understanding of whether that is true- i am mostly basing things off of how Iran has endured every conceivable attempt by the US to undermine it. I think only Cuba and the DPRK have been subject to the same level or more subterfuge than Iran. (of the existing states the US is hell-bent on destroying)

I was just remembering how the apartheid state had occupied a whole new swath of Syria, including the tallest mountain in the region. Is there a possibility of Iranian attacks extending to the occupation forces there... like, would that help ease pressure on Hezbollah and any resistance forces in Syria, or is that all moot at this point. I could see why the Iran would want to focus on tel aviv and the entities core military/industrial/energy facilities, but wouldn't it also be more difficult for the entity to defend its periphery and potentially lead the entity to make a caluculated retreat from the area?

On another note, this whole thing is really making it feel like Iran could have ended all this a long time ago by responding this way the first time around. I know hindsight is 20/20 but if all this was going to be made inevitable, it would have been better to go whole hog on the resistances terms rather than Israel's. Like if Hezbollah was still fighting and taking out the entities defensive infrastructure, Iran would probably have even more unfettered ability to strike targets deep in Israel, no?

Is there any way a wider war between Iran and the apartheid state helps to stop the genocide in Gaza? Like couldn’t iran target troops/bases/operations in/around gaza? or is that just wishful thinking?

second question, why doesn’t iran target israel’s air defenses and runways first? or did they?

there are small business loans that are usually cheap govt backed programs

dc was only a few weeks ago— it will probably be months or even in the coming year by the time the us security state has shifted its weight in the direction of the movement and set up as many cointelpro style operations as possible… the idea that nothing has happened yet, so it won't happen is silly… things are just gearing up

those advisers coming out against the Biden administration would have had a lot more power behind their words if hey hadn't waited over a year until Biden's term was over... for their silence I think they just as much deserve to go to The Hague

I peed my pants in solidarity as I read this

It's true, brainwashing does imply that the brain had been sullied beforehand

having baphomet on the patch would have gone so hard and would have been 10x cooler though

this was already a thing. they called it the up to the mountain, down to the countryside movement

I don’t know who this is an indictment of, but the failure to form a nascent marxist pole at this point feels embarrassing. Germany had a strong (actual) left before the rise of fascism… obviously the left wasn’t strong enough, but now it seems like even the “left” in Germany are more comfortable with serving US imperialism than any talk of socialism. Is this assessment wrong?