Which "West?" Not the National Conservatives, so near and dear to us here, as represented by JD Vance and Trump as the US-wing of Likud/Otzma Yehudit, with their Israeli fascist partners of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, et al., that demands absolutely no constraints be placed upon Netanyahu. With full U.S. National Conservative concurrence, sharing the same ideology as they do with Likud/Otzma Yehudit. As Vance makes crystal clear:
"It took about five minutes for Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance to begin beating the drums of war. In a Monday interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Vance declared, "A lot of people recognize that we need to do something with Iran—but not these weak little bombing runs. If you're going to punch the Iranians, you punch them hard."
"For all the talk of "isolationism," it appears that Vance is looking for yet another U.S. war in the Middle East. Apparently, 20 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq weren't enough."
But he and Trump are to remain blameless here and their incessant "Incitement of Aggressive War/Genocide" uncriticized, especially by Conservatives. And libertarians like Ron Paul and others who shift all blame on to the "NeoCons," while omitting all that Trump did/does to promote Israeli fascist expansionism while in office, and since, as he and his best friend Miriam boast of. We know why National/Traditional Conservatives are silent as they're part of and an extension of the Israeli fascist coalition, and they're not to be criticized here. But they're joined in that by too many (all?) libertarians who engage in "propaganda by omission" in promoting Trumpism with their silence on Trump/Vance's continuous Incitement of Aggressive War/Genocide, by Trump/Vance's Israeli ideological partners, as can be seen here: American Neocons Get Their Iran War as Congress SleepsQuote: "Will the Biden/Harris Administration greenlight Israel taking out Iran’s oil production and other energy facilities? That would mean the average American already suffering under high inflation and an economic downturn would be paying orders of magnitude higher for not just gasoline, but everything."
Don't know about Biden/Harris, but we do know what Trump said:
Trump slams Biden for saying Israel shouldn’t target Iranian nuclear sites: ‘The craziest thing I’ve ever heard’
One would think things can't get any worse than currently under Biden/Harris but Trump/Vance/Adelson/Koch/Thiel have made it abundantly clear that we "ain't seen nothin yet." How could they not get worse under a Trump/Adelson co-Presidency, just as they did under the last one? And when Trump tossed the libertarians a "bone" in the form of tax cuts, they became some of his most loyal "soldiers." Or at least ones I know did.
On Oct 26, 2024, at 11:12 AM, Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
The Financial Times Editorial Board, October 25, 2024
[Too late....]
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