Pentagon Pete Admits MAGA’s Worst Fear May Happen
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The Defense Secretary had a near meltdown when asked to explain whether the U.S. had an exit strategy for Iran.

“We will go as far as we need to go to advance American interests… Why in the world would we tell you, the enemy, or anybody what we will or will not do in pursuit of an objective?” he added.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    What exactly are America’s interests in Iran? Eradicating Islam? That’s a big mistake. 1 in 8 people are Muslim — that’s based on I heard once that Islam is the biggest religion with one billion members, but I’m not sure how accurate that is. They’re everywhere though, and they wouldn’t take a war on Islam laying down. Palestine is one thing, but expand that to Muslims en masse and you’re going to have a problem. Establishing the US as a fossil fuel empire by taking over Middle Eastern countries and making them vassal states? Maybe a bit more realistic, but we’ll see what OPEC thinks about that.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Who benefits from Trump’s war in Iran? The answer is disturbingly clear.

      Who wants Iran bombed off the map, for their own reasons? Who are their rivals and enemies? Perennially, the Gulf Arab states, countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

      You know, Qatar. The country that just gave Donald Trump a really, really nice $400 milion-dollar plane, a gilded flying palace for his own use both during his presidency and after?

      And you remember the United Arab Emirates, recently structuring a totally pointless crypto financial transaction so that $2 billion of it was stuffed into the Trump family’s otherwise worthless brand-new crypto financial firm?

      And you remember the Saudis who stuffed $2 billion into the pockets of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner just as Trump’s first term in office came to a close? Enough people were alarmed about that they actually bothered to come up with an excuse for what made it OK. They said, don’t worry, Jared will never again work for the U.S. government; he’s never coming back to Washington, so we’ll never have to worry about having someone involved in U.S. policy who has also been given billions of dollars by Saudi Arabia.

      Well, who was leading the negotiations on behalf of the United States with Iran before we just started this war with them? I mean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in St. Kitts and Nevis. It wasn’t him. It was Jared Kushner, who was recently paid billions of dollars by Iran’s chief rival, sitting alongside Trump’s tiny real estate friend, Steve Witkoff, whose son recently sought to improve his family fortunes by going to Qatar to seek money from its sovereign wealth fund.

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