Drums of War

ā€œPeaceā€.

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Manufacturing consentā€¦

https://twitter.com/innerpartisan/status/992086316883107840?s=21

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Same spy company as Weinstein used, BTW.

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Report from one of the targets:

https://twitter.com/colinkahl/status/993000884169666561?s=21

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NATO at work:

https://twitter.com/icafrinresist/status/993408298723500032?s=21

https://twitter.com/icafrinresist/status/993412520563093504?s=21

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When spite and ignorance meet war will follow.

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ā€œWhat kinda preznit would I be if I didnā€™t plunge the country into a major war, I mean, conflict? And you DO know that weā€™re on Israelā€™s side over there? Anyway, waitā€™ll you see what it does to my approval ratings!ā€

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https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/995840324642725891?s=21

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/995840903549014016?s=21

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ā€œMiddle East War Clouds Gatherā€

Almost no one, even the most dedicated citizen, has a complete and accurate understanding of the scope of U.S.military action in the Middle East spilling out into Africa and into Asia. The attack of the Afghanistan based al-Qaeda in 2001 replaced the Cold War as focus and motivation for U.S. attention, treasure, and military action. The Cost of War Project has identified 76 nations involving 39% of global population involved in this war. Bin Laden is dead, AL-Queda supplanted by Isis as the U.S. is resolutely involved in the Long War, our own multigenerational conflict. Donald Trump in his second year of power has become a new, increasingly enthusiastic recruit.

What has characterized the Long War so far has not been combat between nation states, but so-called asymmetrical warfare, a score of men with box cutters crashing planes into sky scrappers and unleashing holy hell. But current developments in the MiddleEast suggests that the Long War may be entering a new phase, of war between major Middle East states and their big power sponsors. What has been a drip, drip, drip of casualties and fighting, punctuated by occasional horrific slaughters, may be about to increase by several orders of magnitude.

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I had not heard of the Emu War until now. This made my day. Thanks for posting it.

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ā€œPompeo listed 12 demands that range from Iran ending all uranium enrichment and providing anywhere, anytime access to ā€œall sitesā€ within the country to stopping support for Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranā€™s other historic partners in the Middle East. He also demanded that Iran withdraw ā€œall forces under Iranian commandā€ from Syria, where Iranians and Shia militias have been fighting at the request of the Damascus government.ā€ -Axios

These demands are from an unachievable neo-con wet dream and will ultimately lead to conflict.

Missing from his list was that Iranians must stop speaking Farsi and switch to English.

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Fear factor:

Shaping minds to be more approving of defense spending? or they know something we donā€™t?

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lockheed-f35-israel/israel-says-it-is-the-first-country-to-use-u-s-made-f-35-in-combat-idUSKCN1IN0ON

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ā€œFreeā€ advertising.for Lockheed.

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Fucking hell.

I was going to :heart: that comment, but I just canā€™t.

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From https://www.sigar.mil/interactive-reports/stabilization/index.html