Imagine being Mohammad Ghalibaf.
You're a veteran of the absolutely brutal Iran-Iraq War (500K casualties), you're a jet pilot and former commander of the IRGC Air Force, you're the former Mayor of Tehran (pop. 10 million), and you have a PhD in political geography from a top Iranian university.
Your opponent, Pete Hegseth, is a former National Guard guy and TV talk show host.
It's just laughable; how could you even begin to take him seriously at the table? The mismatch across every area is just so extreme.
China added MP Materials and USA Rare Earth as well as eight other US entities it said are linked to the US military to its export control list in retaliation for Washington placing several Chinese companies under restrictions this month https://t.co/FjXgVs9oew
Iran single-handedly put an end to the horrors in Lebanon, when the whole world would do nothing. For this alone, Iran deserves all the blessings and good fortunes under the sun. They tower above an entire international landscape of cowardice and complicity
Well there is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. Americans have been taught lies from birth. Israeli's have been taught lies from birth. If someone chooses to believe everything they're told by their government and media when it is blatantly obvious they are being lied to then that is willful-ignorance.
I think those types of people want to believe the lies. The rest are probably just stupid.
Ask a supporter of the U.S. empire:
"How many countries has your government bombed in your lifetime?"
Watch the blank stare.
Then ask:
"How many times have you been told your country is a force for good?"
Watch the smile.
They are not stupid.
They are saturated.
Just so we're all the same page: Elon Musk, Rupert Lowe, Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and co, have never commented on the historical sexual abuse of children within the global Roman Catholic Church over a period of 70 years.
Selective outrage much.
🚨 BREAKING: Al Jazeera confirms Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, blaming the Trump administration for violating the ceasefire.
Tehran warns the Zionist regime to halt its aggression in Lebanon. This is just the first step. Washington's strategy is collapsing!
Abbas Aragachi informed the Pakistani PM they were leaving, SECONDS before the first meeting was set to begin.
JD Vance then rushed to the PM confused and SHOCKED the Iranians walked out.
Trump’s threats and Israel’s actions in Lebanon have violated multiple terms of the MOU
Their country was attacked, and the US sabotaged their visas and denied them residency. Yet, they fought through it all to top their group. Bravo, Iran!
That's a great result for Iran against Belgium.
Given the deliberate sabotage by the USA of all reasonable logistic arrangements for the Iranian team, they have been magnificent.
What a nation!
@nxt888 Compelling reasons why military service is glorified, adored, and adamantly insisted they fight for freedom & democracy. Even decades of wars, bombings, economic sanctions and political hostilities cannot undo the reconditioned mentality. The domestication is complete.
Most Americans are not evil.
That would be too simple.
And too flattering.
Evil at least implies intention.
A great many people inside the empire are not intentional enough to be evil.
They are domesticated.
Domesticated by convenience.
By spectacle.
By the narcotic rhythm of paycheck, purchase, panic, distraction.
They live inside a system that trains them to mistake access for virtue.
If I can still buy coffee, things must be normal.
If Netflix still works, collapse must be exaggerated.
If my neighborhood is quiet, the screams must be far away enough not to matter.
That is how imperial consciousness works.
Not as constant bloodlust.
As managed distance.
Distance from consequence.
Distance from production.
Distance from history.
Distance from the people paying for your calm.
And because the distance is moral as well as geographic, the average citizen can participate in atrocity without ever feeling like a participant.
That is the masterpiece.
Not just killing people.
But teaching millions to live comfortably inside the kill chain without ever seeing themselves in it.