It appears Iran might collapse before the ink is even put to contracts by the multinational security firms that keep the Muslim elites on both sides of the Koran well cared for in their bubbles.
Although the article is a screed, there is possible truth to it. Presidents are hemmed in by what narrative gets to them through their advisors, the news, and their informal sources.
People who want to go to war can manipulate what the news shows pretty effectively. Right now, I’m seeing stuff that prey’s on patriotic Americans best instincts — crowds in Iran refusing to walk on an American flags, etc.
Maybe this PR campaign represents the best truth en masse about what’s actually going on in Iran today. But maybe it’s just one crowd while the others down the street are viciously anti-american. Maybe it’s completely faked.
We really have no way to assess the truth of these kind of claims in terms of whether the Iranian people en masse are longing for freedom or whether our Deep State, en masse, is longing for a war it can pin to Donald Trump and prevent his election in 2020.
This kind of stuff manipulates Presidents too. And we have a patriotic American president this kind of stuff may be influencing. Or he may be well advised about the real facts on the ground. I just have no idea.
But I’ve gotten very cynical about how we go to war and the public manipulation that paves the way. Gulf of Tonkin (Johnson, Vietnam), Iraqi’s torturing beautiful young Kuwaiti girls (Bush I congressional testimony, Kuwait War), WMD and Iraqi’s longing for freedom (Clinton, Iraq Bombinng campaign, Bush II, Gulf War II), Syrian use of WMD’s (Obama), Turkey’s coming genocide of Kurds (Deep State under Trump) and now Iranians refusing to walk on an American flag (maybe deep state under Trump).
Some of these may have been truth. Some were maybe false but actually believed by our presidents (Iraqi WMD). Others we know were made up.