israel when provoking a regional war doesn't make the US immediately nuke their enemies
🎶 Hezbollah has parity with Zionist missiles without going nuclear. Zionism is in free fall. Destructioooon is mutually assuuuuuurred 🎵 🎤🥰
Don't target American facilities.
Wouldn't be a problem if the US weren't building facilities half a world away
The physical infrastructure is still there but power projection capacity has clearly retracted a lot, a few years ago I would have said this was entirely due to lack of willpower but I'm thinking something a lot deeper has to be badly broken.
The capitalist class drank their own neoliberal Kool Aid, and now the country is deindustrialized and debt-ridden due to the financialization of everything.
Michael Hudson: Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy (PDF)
CounterPunch book review: How Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts, Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
I think the military industrial complex started out growing its profits by actually growing out productive capacity for arms, then during the W Bush era increased profits by replacing everything with private contractors, and they're now trying to increase profits by not actually doing the work they're paid for. Like the history of industrial capitalism, neoliberal capitalism, and finance capitalism playing out at triple speed.
America is that kid who encourages the other kids to do something bad and then runs away
Usually snitches on you to Mrs. Nielson afterwards too
It be wild if Iran took the bait and the US told Israel, "Nah, you did this to yourself."
Fun fantasy.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it sounds like Iran might retaliate for the embassy and is making it widely known, and the US is signalling it would stay neutral as long as appearances were kept up.
Not an embassy. Iran has made it clear that should the US push too far their plan is to start blowing up the hundreds of billions of dollars of US industrial infrastructure (oil, refineries, docks, etc) in the Gulf region and North Africa. Most of those state oil companies have their infrastructure owned and operated by US companies like Exxon who then cut them a percentage of the profits.
In a now famous interview with the Iraqi leader, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam, '[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. ' The U.S. State Department had earlier told Saddam that Washington had 'no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.
