@dominicholland
Posted here are politically relevant notes to myself, publicly available. Apolitical is political; no one is beyond politics, or history. And physics is not a good lens through which to view social reality.
New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
So, the USA has learned from Russia and is now committing double-tap war crimes.
Very strongly.
Witkoff adopting Trump-speak.
But anyway, reduced sanctions on Russia is even more strongly a signal to Russia that Trump has their back.
"By far the President Trumps choices for his cabinet."
It's hard to be a Republican and not be a Nazi.
And so much damage has been done that even when Trump is gone and Republicans are out of power, there will be very little trust in the federal government. Republicans did this. They poisoned the USA. The only way out is a full reckoning: criminal proceedings against all the perpetrators.
We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.
Picture of Elie Wiesel and quote: "Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented." Elie Wiesel; Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust surviver
Thank you for your work! 💙
Yes:
"Silence is not civility. Silence is complicity. As an ally, we must be louder because progress has never come from silence."
"These times demand the courage to stand up & fight back for equality."
PPOB: "Trump’s decision to attack Iran is an economic, political and military windfall to Russia at exactly the time that the Russians desperately needed help."
Republicans and all Trump supporters are Team Dumbass Traitors.
"It is amazing to see the top of the US government immediately jump to Russia’s defense as the Russians are helping Iran try to kill Americans."
Apocalyptic.
"The skies above Tehran turned black following overnight Israeli airstrikes on energy facilities.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times"
[Article in post below]
"a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children"
This too has echoes of Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine: target hospitals and blame the Ukrainians.
And another very interesting discussion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8f...
"In the beginning, there were the 9/11 attacks. It’s important to stress that no one can fairly blame George Bush for them."
But you can fairly blame GWB for contemptuous disinterest in national security, particularly regarding bin Laden. How can we know this? Ron Suskind. For example:
The US transforming the Middle East? A reminder of how well it went last time…
open.substack.com/pub/timothyg...
(*) Except not, i.e., we won't know then either because at that point there will be yet another new option for him to take to prove his bona fides, and so on, ad infinitum.
OK. So, are we clear *now* that Trump is a Russian asset? Or is there yet some new red line, some new option (always a new one, always further off, always available) that, if he does not take (whatever new option), then(*) we will know he is a Russian asset?
(*) Except not, i.e., we won't know then either because at that point there will be yet another new option for him to take to prove his bona fides, and so on, ad infinitum.
