• Huldra [they/them, it/its]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Like for example with this excerpt.

    Backers of such military action against Iran undoubtedly would sell the war as an effort to keep nuclear weapons out of the Middle East, and many Americans would believe that sales pitch, even though that is not at all what would be happening.

    If we look at it through the lens provided in the essay, many Americans would be indifferent to the reality of the pitch, because they can read the same pitch that the guys making it are reading, which is that it furthers US hegemony and dominance, as well as other specific US geopolitical goals like keeping Israel secure as a western enclave in the region.