by Caitlin Johnstone, Caitlin Johnstone:
This was all so, so avoidable. The US and Israel sprinted straight at this war, cruising past off-ramp after off-ramp. The Iran nuclear deal was working as intended. Israel could have negotiated an agreement with the Palestinians, thereby cooling things off with both the Palestinian resistance and with Hezbollah long before October 7. The US empire didn’t have to insist on hegemonic control over the entire region.
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There was no good reason there couldn’t have been peace. It was right there, ripe for the picking. Begging to be picked. Practically leaping into our hands. It was only by the most tenacious of efforts by the very worst people in the world that we wound up here. It is only by those same efforts by those same terrible people that we continue along this horrifying trajectory instead of taking the final off-ramp.
Peace is still there for the taking. It’s being actively sabotaged by the very worst among us.
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Obama’s Iran deal was working. It was working. Iran was still challenging US/Israeli hegemony in the region, but it wasn’t building a nuke and was following the rules. And Trump shredded it to start all this shit. It was never about nukes, it’s about dominating the middle east.
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Remember Americans, you’re getting sicker and poorer as your government deprives you of even the bare minimum social safety nets people in other countries get to have while sending in the marines to quash protests in LA, so it’s important that you get very, very angry at Iran.
Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Netanyahu. Western liberals keep trying to make this about Netanyahu and a few far right extremists, but if you removed the entire Israeli government and had new elections today, nothing would change about Israeli policy and behavior. The problem is Israel. https://t.co/kNvwtD7h5z
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) June 14, 2025
Watching the internet’s glee at Israel getting smashed with missiles is like watching the internet’s glee at that Irishman beating up that Israeli cage fighter the other day, but with two whole countries.
Imagine living in a nation that’s so evil and reviled that people love watching you get hit.
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I have never in my life been more worried about a coming false flag attack than I am right now. There are powers who will easily have the means, motive and opportunity to pull off such an operation in order to drum up support for the US entering Israel’s war.
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