Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi explains the real reason the US and Israel are targeting Iran: “This is a doctrine of domination... It is the enforcement of permanent inequality”
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi speach was right on. yet here we are: Israel and the USA and our allies are shock and aweing its way thru Iran as we speak.
As long as everyone avoids talking seriously about the religious aspects involved, especially the Eschatological elements, the region of the Levant will be mired in conflict. I understand it's very inconvenient in modern polite society, especially because any serious discussion involving God and religion runs the risk of upending the entire Western atheist materialistic construct of reality, but unless the religious elements within Judaism are examined, just as we have learned to do with the more extreme fanaticism found in Islam, we won't be able to make sense and find peaceful resolution to all these conflicts.
Also many Jews had fled eastern Europe and esp. Russia to Germany and elsewhere because of agrrssive anti-semitism (pogroms). (Reversing from the Middelages, when many german Jews had fled Germany to Eastern Europe and Russian Empire, because of atrocities.)
In Western and Middle Europe much emancipation had taken place because Enlightenment ideas. Still many (highly educated/secularized/assimilated) Jews didn't feel fully accepted by westerners or western high-class. There were some high-profile cases of anti-semitism.
Others, reversily, saw 'Jewishness' being lost by this.
At the same time in western culture, ideas about nationalism (nation-country) were popular, and (paradoxically?) colonialism was hardly considered a problem, i believe. Although nonZionists -nd non-hardline-Zionists, considered the opinions of the communities already living in the area of high importance.
Okay, i didn't exactly about US immigration laws.
Christan Zionism may be a (even late?, and at first american?) 20th century term/word. But the beliefs undergirding it are much older, and precede Zionism itselve by far. At least in the idea that people/believers should actively pursue the actual return of all jewish people to the 'Holy Land' and have them actually re-establish their ancient country there, as part of a fixed set/series of circumstances/conditions that are considered prophesized as leading up to an actual return of a physical Jesus (which is considered as important as literally real (and to be realized) by these branches of christianity).
Among religious Jews along the centuries in exile the (important!) connection with the ancestral homeland for the very most part was more spritual/religious/idealistic and the like, and never had this idea that an active and actual return and re-establishment of the ancient country/nation (pre-Messiah) was what it was all about.
That only came up very slightly among some rabbis in the 19th century, was only a small part of the Zionist motivation (rejected by most rabbis), only began to grow in Palestine itselve after Mandatory Palestine was established, grew after WW2 and 1948, even more after 1967,
but only started to dominate after the 1990s until now (is what about i believe/ sort of remember).
Before end 19th century actual returning was individual and small scale, often old people deemed to deserve so, and about living in the Land, or spending ones old days in the Land. Not about owning or ruling it.
The predecessors of nowaday Christianzionists started advocating for returning of 'The Jews' to their ancestral homeland, in church, in politics and with individual Jews, already in the 19th or even earlier. They did so for their own religious reasons.
In the 19th century they already established some shortlived colonies in Palestine to do some biblical lifestyling in authentic surroundings themselves. Very popular already then, also as stories.
It probably had (some?) influences on Zionism, if only as a tactical extra motivation in its chosing for Palestine, next to the own still cultural connection, albeit not religious anymore for most.
Zionists certainly recognized the extra support in the West it could provide them, and started supporting it back. But i don't know to what extend a large academic publisher like Oxford University Press can be considered "Zionist". Maybe it played a role, with someone, back then. The idea was popular and influential i understand.
I believe Jews played a by average larger role in all kinds of modern developments anyway. Modern developments had al kinds of positive and negative consequences.
Modern things in the hands of pre-modern minds can be scary.
I heard about complaints in the US army, about Hegseth and some commanders internally (not so much on tv) being scarily jubilant about Armageddon-to-be-finally-here.
Although fanatical Religious Zionism like with many setlers is a modern movement that only came into existence with the Zionist project in the 20th century. With a boost post1967.
Traditional Judaism often opposed Zionism, i understand. Even often return in general (depending on the branch of Judaism), which was sometimes only granted (by a rabbi) to old people whoms lifepath was deemed to have made them worthy of it. But especially to Political Zionism, so to the (active re-)establishment of a Jewish national state in the holy ancestral lands of Israel/Palestine, before the Messiah had come. Who would take care of that anyway when he arrived.
So at first many/most Zionists were secular and also socialist Jews. Rather fleeing western anti-semitism than searching religious fulfilment. More influenced by liberal, socialist and also nationalist ideas (also trending within the Arab and Ottoman world). Often probably happy to live in newly established Jewish communities in the area under Ottoman rule. While others strove for a national state. Not being religious also not being bound by religious limitations.
After WW1 and the establishment of Mandate Palestine (which included nowadays Jordan, at least administratively) secular Revisionist Zionism of Jabotinsky considered all of Palestine as promised to the Jews. This is the basis for the later Greater Israel-ideas. Also a quite new Religious Zionism started to sprout and pick up on this (rabbi Kook).
At he same time in the 1920s e.g. the Palestinian communist party was made of Palestinians (a new official entity) of all backgrounds: local Jews, Arabs/Arabized (islamic, christian, secular), immigrated Jews, Others. In short, Palestinians (although many locals didn't like the term, i believe, and esp. immigrated Jews did). Those opposed the establishment of an exclusively Jewish (Zionist) state.
And there were many traditional religious branches of Judaism, locally and abroad, opposing this for religious reasons. Those still exist and are active.
Originally eschatological religious reasons for the establishment of a Jewish state in, or at least the return of all Jews to, the land of the Bible are more to be found within branches of Christianity.
Those that consider a physical return of Jesus the most important part of their religion, striving to make that happen the most important goal/assignment, and the return of the Jews to The Land, incl. re-establishment of the Temple, as a most important condition for this.
(pre/post) Millenialism, Dispensationalism/Darbism, Christian Zionism, and all kinds of other names/sub-branches. I call them 'Endtime-christians'.
At least until recently especially very big and influential in the US. But also in Europe still active. And elsewhere.
Now it is indeed the eschatologicals from all sides setting the agenda here. Or using this narrativity. Each with their own Messiah. And on the Islamic side especially from Iran.
Zionism originated in the USA in the 19th century. There's no separate thing called "religious Zionism", at least as far as I know. Zionism as an ideology has strong financial backing and serves to bridge the gap between Judaism and Christianity by creating ambiguity and bringing politics into the fray.
Many Jews reject Zionism and not all Jews view the State of Israel under a positive light. It's quite complicated in the details.
To better appreciate the complexity of Judaism we also need to highlight the distinct groups like the Chabad-Haredi and Ashkenazi sects or groupings. Netanyahu subscribes to Chabad, and unless mistaken they want to get the third temple built and welcome their Messiah.
The greater Israeli project sees all the territory from the Nile to the Euphrates as promised to the Jews by their Elohim.
If you're interested in the subject, you can research the links between communism and Judaism. The Bolsheviks in Russia were 90% Jewish. This is another aspect of history seldomly discussed.
'Christian Zionism', although the term was not used then, precedes Zionism. It developed on many branches of Protestantism i believe. Esp. in England. But it got especially (also) huge in and since the 19th century in the US (Darby!>Scofield Bible> many 20th century Evangelicalisms.
Zionism is more European , and a reaction to European/Western anti-semitism. In combination with liberal/Enlightenment ideas, emancipatory processes AND the new fashion of nationalism.If i'm not wrong (poor?) Jews were not even allowed or restricted access then into the US i believe?
I do believe Zionism went for Zion (and not other countries considered, thus becoming Zionism) because Christian Zionism would probably generate higher chances of support in the West for this country for the Jews to flee from Europe (also Russia!) to, than other countries maybe would. So Zionist Jews reversely also started supporting Christian Zionism.
Afaik Netanyahu himselve is a secular, non-religious Jew more in the tradition of Jabotinsky (> Likud). But he supports the 'modern' fanatical Religious Zionism of the settlers becuse he supports settling (the 'From the river to the river' Greater Israelism seems to me typically religious, because Bible-inspired). And also it explains his many visits to CPAC and such, bypassing government, speaking religiously and smirkingly receiving all the Hallelujahs.
Religious setteler Zionists and Christian Zionists probably have about the same ideas about Greater Israel and the Temple?
As far as I know Zionism originated in America. The Jewish diaspora was spread across many countries. Germany had a large Jewish population because throughout the 19th and early 20th century they had the best universities in the world. Jews weren't restricted from the USA until 1924 when the USA restricted all immigration.
Christian Zionism was created to support and in the service of Jewish Zionism. If you research who funded the Scofield bible you'll find the usual suspects who financed wars and the takeover of America through JP Morgan.
90% of Bolsheviks were mostly Jewish. The history of Communism is intertwined with Judaism. It's a weird rabbit hole.
Unfortunately there are a lot of doomers in the world who want to accelerate the end times.
Ottoman-like (or Ghadaffi-like?) high level of local (democratic?) sovereignty-among-ones-own-religious/cultural group, under a just, lawful, preferrably neutral and strong (democratic?) superstructure?
Those who want could maybe live directly under the (secular? law of the) superstructure, individually, without belonging to a group. Or being the seculars or so.
??
(secular in the sense of no religion prescribed, free in beliefs. Although the rules that guarantee this freedom need their own beliefs and customs. That's unescapable. But still it can be freeer for some/ many. They can choose this option.)
Unfortunately it's not only the West ruled by sociopaths. Although it's not only sociopaths. But the sociopaths make with the most ease the decisions that affect people the most negatively. So less sociopaths in power would be great.
Yes, certainly true. It was a disastrous mistake. Based on a remarkably superficial good-bad assessment. (Not that i knew btw, but..)
Ghadaffi was not stupid, Libya was a prosperous and on a local level very democratic country, i understand. Much was destroyed, nothing achieved, problems added.
The elephant in the conversation is oil. Religion is just another human construct used to terrorize/subjugate the masses or inflame them to fight wars they are told are about "god" but never actually are.
Yes, the U.S. has plenty of oil for its own needs. It doesn't seek self-sufficiency though. It seeks empire. It seeks to control the global FLOW of oil (and LNG) and thus to enrich the global corporations (all of them including all-dependent Big Ag) that use "protecting Israel" as an excuse t get US taxpayers to foot the bill for the military bases and wars and coups whose only real purpose is to protect and grow U.S. corporate power. Ukraine was used in the same way. It is our proxy. And like the Islamic nations now at war, Russian/Ukrainian slavs have much in common—and THIS is what must be addressed, by inventing and fomenting differences among them that can be used to get then to fight our wars.
The sooner we see this clearly, despite the efforts of the corporate-sponsored media to prevent us from seeing it, the sooner the American people can rise up against its ruling class. We-the-people are the world's only check on our elites' country's rapacious ways.
The BRICS nations led by Russia and China can only do some much to counter the out-of-control U.S. war machine. Job one is to protect themselves by building defensive weapons and trading among themselves and reducing the power of the USD by setting up alternative currencies and their own version of Swift.
Taking us on in a military confrontation would end in humanity's extinction. They know that too. And they know that our leaders DON'T know that because they are like children obsessed with their video games.
They are biding their time. They know they can't destroy us militarily. They CAN and WILL destroy us economically. Without taxpayers shoveling money into the war machine, there can't BE a war machine. If the economy collapses, which it will because the stock market is an AI-driven bubble (and because of our enormous debt), it will be curtains for U.S. unipolar hegemony. Our elites bet on it in an all-or-nothing way. The rest of the world hates us, even ordinary Europeans who are NOT our elitist puppets. We will lose.
Frankly, that sounds like wishful thinking. There is no eleven-dimensional chess, no master plan.
Anyway, if you are so convinced that the economies of the west are about to collapse, why do bond prices not reflect this? For that matter, why do Venezuelans take bribes in yankee dollars, why do Gulfie tyrants invest in western businesses and not Chinese?
Analysis of the Iran conflict has largely been silent on one crucial contingency: mounting American casualties in an unpopular war may be the final straw for many Americans who have thus far silently endured Trump 2.0. Analysis must come before ideology.
In light of how his government treats/treated its own people (30000?, with Hezbollah?, apart from day to day suppressions), didn't he have some homework to do first, before complaining about others? They seem sort of the same kind.
Although he is right of course. Esp. about the Greater/post67 part, and certainly post okt.7th.
But Iran's own (proxy) armies are also very active outside its own borders. Israel wants to attack Iran because it attacks Israel.
This is a heartbreaking speech, it outlines the great war of our times: Dominationist war on humanity and replacement of law with the New Iron Age.
This speech reads like a letter signed by millions of humanitarians and intellectuals from all over the world, yet it is just one single person saying it, from a country that is being demonized beyond measure and targeted for destruction.
I am afraid there is nothing that can be done to stop Zionist machine from advancing. The corruption, subversion and depravity runs too deep and there is no state or institution in the world that is able to stand up to the Anglo-Zionist-NATO monster, in all aspects and on all fronts.
It's out in the open now, as is the US intention to ride roughshod over any nation in its path. This can't be ignored. The believe that the rest of the globe will move to rein this in.
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi speach was right on. yet here we are: Israel and the USA and our allies are shock and aweing its way thru Iran as we speak.
"if that becomes the model — then the West Bank will be next."
Will be? Happening now
As long as everyone avoids talking seriously about the religious aspects involved, especially the Eschatological elements, the region of the Levant will be mired in conflict. I understand it's very inconvenient in modern polite society, especially because any serious discussion involving God and religion runs the risk of upending the entire Western atheist materialistic construct of reality, but unless the religious elements within Judaism are examined, just as we have learned to do with the more extreme fanaticism found in Islam, we won't be able to make sense and find peaceful resolution to all these conflicts.
Zionism is (mainly) european.
(Afaik/remember:)
Also many Jews had fled eastern Europe and esp. Russia to Germany and elsewhere because of agrrssive anti-semitism (pogroms). (Reversing from the Middelages, when many german Jews had fled Germany to Eastern Europe and Russian Empire, because of atrocities.)
In Western and Middle Europe much emancipation had taken place because Enlightenment ideas. Still many (highly educated/secularized/assimilated) Jews didn't feel fully accepted by westerners or western high-class. There were some high-profile cases of anti-semitism.
Others, reversily, saw 'Jewishness' being lost by this.
At the same time in western culture, ideas about nationalism (nation-country) were popular, and (paradoxically?) colonialism was hardly considered a problem, i believe. Although nonZionists -nd non-hardline-Zionists, considered the opinions of the communities already living in the area of high importance.
Okay, i didn't exactly about US immigration laws.
Christan Zionism may be a (even late?, and at first american?) 20th century term/word. But the beliefs undergirding it are much older, and precede Zionism itselve by far. At least in the idea that people/believers should actively pursue the actual return of all jewish people to the 'Holy Land' and have them actually re-establish their ancient country there, as part of a fixed set/series of circumstances/conditions that are considered prophesized as leading up to an actual return of a physical Jesus (which is considered as important as literally real (and to be realized) by these branches of christianity).
Among religious Jews along the centuries in exile the (important!) connection with the ancestral homeland for the very most part was more spritual/religious/idealistic and the like, and never had this idea that an active and actual return and re-establishment of the ancient country/nation (pre-Messiah) was what it was all about.
That only came up very slightly among some rabbis in the 19th century, was only a small part of the Zionist motivation (rejected by most rabbis), only began to grow in Palestine itselve after Mandatory Palestine was established, grew after WW2 and 1948, even more after 1967,
but only started to dominate after the 1990s until now (is what about i believe/ sort of remember).
Before end 19th century actual returning was individual and small scale, often old people deemed to deserve so, and about living in the Land, or spending ones old days in the Land. Not about owning or ruling it.
The predecessors of nowaday Christianzionists started advocating for returning of 'The Jews' to their ancestral homeland, in church, in politics and with individual Jews, already in the 19th or even earlier. They did so for their own religious reasons.
In the 19th century they already established some shortlived colonies in Palestine to do some biblical lifestyling in authentic surroundings themselves. Very popular already then, also as stories.
It probably had (some?) influences on Zionism, if only as a tactical extra motivation in its chosing for Palestine, next to the own still cultural connection, albeit not religious anymore for most.
Zionists certainly recognized the extra support in the West it could provide them, and started supporting it back. But i don't know to what extend a large academic publisher like Oxford University Press can be considered "Zionist". Maybe it played a role, with someone, back then. The idea was popular and influential i understand.
I saw this book. But it's a bit expensive
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/zionism-and-the-arabs-1882-1948-9780198227212
And wikipedia
I believe Jews played a by average larger role in all kinds of modern developments anyway. Modern developments had al kinds of positive and negative consequences.
Modern things in the hands of pre-modern minds can be scary.
I heard about complaints in the US army, about Hegseth and some commanders internally (not so much on tv) being scarily jubilant about Armageddon-to-be-finally-here.
Although fanatical Religious Zionism like with many setlers is a modern movement that only came into existence with the Zionist project in the 20th century. With a boost post1967.
Traditional Judaism often opposed Zionism, i understand. Even often return in general (depending on the branch of Judaism), which was sometimes only granted (by a rabbi) to old people whoms lifepath was deemed to have made them worthy of it. But especially to Political Zionism, so to the (active re-)establishment of a Jewish national state in the holy ancestral lands of Israel/Palestine, before the Messiah had come. Who would take care of that anyway when he arrived.
So at first many/most Zionists were secular and also socialist Jews. Rather fleeing western anti-semitism than searching religious fulfilment. More influenced by liberal, socialist and also nationalist ideas (also trending within the Arab and Ottoman world). Often probably happy to live in newly established Jewish communities in the area under Ottoman rule. While others strove for a national state. Not being religious also not being bound by religious limitations.
After WW1 and the establishment of Mandate Palestine (which included nowadays Jordan, at least administratively) secular Revisionist Zionism of Jabotinsky considered all of Palestine as promised to the Jews. This is the basis for the later Greater Israel-ideas. Also a quite new Religious Zionism started to sprout and pick up on this (rabbi Kook).
At he same time in the 1920s e.g. the Palestinian communist party was made of Palestinians (a new official entity) of all backgrounds: local Jews, Arabs/Arabized (islamic, christian, secular), immigrated Jews, Others. In short, Palestinians (although many locals didn't like the term, i believe, and esp. immigrated Jews did). Those opposed the establishment of an exclusively Jewish (Zionist) state.
And there were many traditional religious branches of Judaism, locally and abroad, opposing this for religious reasons. Those still exist and are active.
Originally eschatological religious reasons for the establishment of a Jewish state in, or at least the return of all Jews to, the land of the Bible are more to be found within branches of Christianity.
Those that consider a physical return of Jesus the most important part of their religion, striving to make that happen the most important goal/assignment, and the return of the Jews to The Land, incl. re-establishment of the Temple, as a most important condition for this.
(pre/post) Millenialism, Dispensationalism/Darbism, Christian Zionism, and all kinds of other names/sub-branches. I call them 'Endtime-christians'.
At least until recently especially very big and influential in the US. But also in Europe still active. And elsewhere.
Now it is indeed the eschatologicals from all sides setting the agenda here. Or using this narrativity. Each with their own Messiah. And on the Islamic side especially from Iran.
Zionism originated in the USA in the 19th century. There's no separate thing called "religious Zionism", at least as far as I know. Zionism as an ideology has strong financial backing and serves to bridge the gap between Judaism and Christianity by creating ambiguity and bringing politics into the fray.
Many Jews reject Zionism and not all Jews view the State of Israel under a positive light. It's quite complicated in the details.
To better appreciate the complexity of Judaism we also need to highlight the distinct groups like the Chabad-Haredi and Ashkenazi sects or groupings. Netanyahu subscribes to Chabad, and unless mistaken they want to get the third temple built and welcome their Messiah.
The greater Israeli project sees all the territory from the Nile to the Euphrates as promised to the Jews by their Elohim.
If you're interested in the subject, you can research the links between communism and Judaism. The Bolsheviks in Russia were 90% Jewish. This is another aspect of history seldomly discussed.
'Christian Zionism', although the term was not used then, precedes Zionism. It developed on many branches of Protestantism i believe. Esp. in England. But it got especially (also) huge in and since the 19th century in the US (Darby!>Scofield Bible> many 20th century Evangelicalisms.
Zionism is more European , and a reaction to European/Western anti-semitism. In combination with liberal/Enlightenment ideas, emancipatory processes AND the new fashion of nationalism.If i'm not wrong (poor?) Jews were not even allowed or restricted access then into the US i believe?
I do believe Zionism went for Zion (and not other countries considered, thus becoming Zionism) because Christian Zionism would probably generate higher chances of support in the West for this country for the Jews to flee from Europe (also Russia!) to, than other countries maybe would. So Zionist Jews reversely also started supporting Christian Zionism.
Afaik Netanyahu himselve is a secular, non-religious Jew more in the tradition of Jabotinsky (> Likud). But he supports the 'modern' fanatical Religious Zionism of the settlers becuse he supports settling (the 'From the river to the river' Greater Israelism seems to me typically religious, because Bible-inspired). And also it explains his many visits to CPAC and such, bypassing government, speaking religiously and smirkingly receiving all the Hallelujahs.
Religious setteler Zionists and Christian Zionists probably have about the same ideas about Greater Israel and the Temple?
https://youtu.be/rHBiT6eJaQQ?si=2A0tVWCY8OQRABvj
As far as I know Zionism originated in America. The Jewish diaspora was spread across many countries. Germany had a large Jewish population because throughout the 19th and early 20th century they had the best universities in the world. Jews weren't restricted from the USA until 1924 when the USA restricted all immigration.
Christian Zionism was created to support and in the service of Jewish Zionism. If you research who funded the Scofield bible you'll find the usual suspects who financed wars and the takeover of America through JP Morgan.
90% of Bolsheviks were mostly Jewish. The history of Communism is intertwined with Judaism. It's a weird rabbit hole.
Unfortunately there are a lot of doomers in the world who want to accelerate the end times.
Of course. What does anyone propose to do about it?
Ottoman-like (or Ghadaffi-like?) high level of local (democratic?) sovereignty-among-ones-own-religious/cultural group, under a just, lawful, preferrably neutral and strong (democratic?) superstructure?
Those who want could maybe live directly under the (secular? law of the) superstructure, individually, without belonging to a group. Or being the seculars or so.
??
(secular in the sense of no religion prescribed, free in beliefs. Although the rules that guarantee this freedom need their own beliefs and customs. That's unescapable. But still it can be freeer for some/ many. They can choose this option.)
Thst didn't help Ghadaffi. The Americans just smashed everything up.
Unfortunately it's not only the West ruled by sociopaths. Although it's not only sociopaths. But the sociopaths make with the most ease the decisions that affect people the most negatively. So less sociopaths in power would be great.
Apparently i read the qeustion wrongly.
Yes, certainly true. It was a disastrous mistake. Based on a remarkably superficial good-bad assessment. (Not that i knew btw, but..)
Ghadaffi was not stupid, Libya was a prosperous and on a local level very democratic country, i understand. Much was destroyed, nothing achieved, problems added.
No, i don't know what could be done either.
Force is the only language that the sociopaths ruling the West understand.
The elephant in the conversation is oil. Religion is just another human construct used to terrorize/subjugate the masses or inflame them to fight wars they are told are about "god" but never actually are.
Yes, the U.S. has plenty of oil for its own needs. It doesn't seek self-sufficiency though. It seeks empire. It seeks to control the global FLOW of oil (and LNG) and thus to enrich the global corporations (all of them including all-dependent Big Ag) that use "protecting Israel" as an excuse t get US taxpayers to foot the bill for the military bases and wars and coups whose only real purpose is to protect and grow U.S. corporate power. Ukraine was used in the same way. It is our proxy. And like the Islamic nations now at war, Russian/Ukrainian slavs have much in common—and THIS is what must be addressed, by inventing and fomenting differences among them that can be used to get then to fight our wars.
The sooner we see this clearly, despite the efforts of the corporate-sponsored media to prevent us from seeing it, the sooner the American people can rise up against its ruling class. We-the-people are the world's only check on our elites' country's rapacious ways.
The BRICS nations led by Russia and China can only do some much to counter the out-of-control U.S. war machine. Job one is to protect themselves by building defensive weapons and trading among themselves and reducing the power of the USD by setting up alternative currencies and their own version of Swift.
Taking us on in a military confrontation would end in humanity's extinction. They know that too. And they know that our leaders DON'T know that because they are like children obsessed with their video games.
I suspect that Russia and China are hiding their heads in the sand, while the west picks off their friends, one by one.
They are biding their time. They know they can't destroy us militarily. They CAN and WILL destroy us economically. Without taxpayers shoveling money into the war machine, there can't BE a war machine. If the economy collapses, which it will because the stock market is an AI-driven bubble (and because of our enormous debt), it will be curtains for U.S. unipolar hegemony. Our elites bet on it in an all-or-nothing way. The rest of the world hates us, even ordinary Europeans who are NOT our elitist puppets. We will lose.
Frankly, that sounds like wishful thinking. There is no eleven-dimensional chess, no master plan.
Anyway, if you are so convinced that the economies of the west are about to collapse, why do bond prices not reflect this? For that matter, why do Venezuelans take bribes in yankee dollars, why do Gulfie tyrants invest in western businesses and not Chinese?
The key word here is “consequences.” The people—the ummah, “we the people,” el pueblo, and the working class—
have to organize to ensure consequences. That’s the only way.
Analysis of the Iran conflict has largely been silent on one crucial contingency: mounting American casualties in an unpopular war may be the final straw for many Americans who have thus far silently endured Trump 2.0. Analysis must come before ideology.
If you really want to know: https://gemmaodoherty.substack.com/p/iran-the-bogeyman-just-another-vassal
There is only one war: them against us and the rest is smoke& mirrors to divide and distract us even more.
https://substack.com/@gasaxe/note/c-222471609
Some people struggle to understand that there is NO resistance. The agreement has been made.
THEY ARE ALL DEPOPULATING
Trump isn’t fighting the Empire, he’s expanding it. He’s not stopping mass migration, he’s enabling it.
China is not winning by doing nothing
The people of Iran, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine ect are not the resistance , they are a human sacrifice
Before you Build Back Better, you must destroy
The Rulers of this World are not human
“Palestine” is the colonial name the Romans gave to Judea to spite the indigenous Jews
In light of how his government treats/treated its own people (30000?, with Hezbollah?, apart from day to day suppressions), didn't he have some homework to do first, before complaining about others? They seem sort of the same kind.
Although he is right of course. Esp. about the Greater/post67 part, and certainly post okt.7th.
But Iran's own (proxy) armies are also very active outside its own borders. Israel wants to attack Iran because it attacks Israel.
This is statesmanship at its best...
This is a heartbreaking speech, it outlines the great war of our times: Dominationist war on humanity and replacement of law with the New Iron Age.
This speech reads like a letter signed by millions of humanitarians and intellectuals from all over the world, yet it is just one single person saying it, from a country that is being demonized beyond measure and targeted for destruction.
I am afraid there is nothing that can be done to stop Zionist machine from advancing. The corruption, subversion and depravity runs too deep and there is no state or institution in the world that is able to stand up to the Anglo-Zionist-NATO monster, in all aspects and on all fronts.
Hope there are a few Pursian genes in this USA citizen Italian genome.
Peace world citizens.
Support Francesca Albenes and her family
And ration heads od state.
Thank you so much Thomas Fazi🙏❤️ This is one of, if not The Most Important speeches of our time. Thank you for sharing it.
It's out in the open now, as is the US intention to ride roughshod over any nation in its path. This can't be ignored. The believe that the rest of the globe will move to rein this in.