Hi.
Why are we in Afghanistan now? Nation building? No, you can’t bring a 7th century society into the 21st century.
It’s rare earth elements. Yes my friends, it’s money.
Why are we in Syria? Nation building? No, the attempted overthrow of Assad the lesser. Why? The pipelines to carry natural gas and oil over their territory.
Yes my friends, it’s money.
As many of you know (since 9/11), I would nuke both from orbit and be done with it.
Along with Mecca, Medina and Qom.
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All along, it’s all been about isolating Iran and doing so while avoiding heavy intensity conflict and avoiding friendly casualties and civilian casualties as much as possible.
I’ve also disagreed with the tiptoeing around for political correctness to such extents—a reaction to soothe the feelings of allied leaders and their most influential and worldly constituents. Isolating Iran, though, requires making sure that enemy forces don’t build up in the countries of Iran’s allies, Afghanistan being one of them among Iraq, Syria and others.
So yeah, we’ve kept forces in those countries to keep them from building cohesive armies against us and to eventually isolate Iran and shut down its chances of eventually attacking us with any great force—something it’s threatened to do many times while building up. This is not obvious to most people who talk about politics but quite obvious to all national and military leaders on every side. Iran is the strongest nation of those mentioned and others.
I’ve disagreed with parts of the strategy—for one, waiting until the Russians get huffy before taking Iran down. A few years ago, the Russians said that they wouldn’t get in the way. Now, they say otherwise and are getting physically involved.
Oh, well. I’m guessing that we’ll see a large, high intensity conflict soon, a world war with all of the most powerful nations involved.
As for oil, enormous (and likely unimaginable) quantities of it are needed to finish a large war and avoid being invaded and occupied. That’s very important to every nation involved, too. So yes, as predicted by some strategists in the ‘90s, the fight is on over oil resources. There was a little of it happening before then but much more directly ahead.
Fascist and communist nations live to expand and take more wealth, populations and land. It’s in their culture. They do it incessantly. They perceive themselves to be unworthy and useless without it and inherently, genetically great when doing so.
Rare earth elements, energy resources and money, too. Yes. With more of those things, some nations will continue trying to be idealistic philanthropists for cultures that don’t want to change. Other nations will use those things to try to conquer and enslave the world in more brutal ways than most of us can imagine. But yes, there are greedy individuals involved as always, in every endeavor.
I’m a proponent of study of history in the western way—that is, without the eastern moral equivalence and conspiracy theories. I see vastly different cultures, patterns of thought and customs rather than perceiving a world that things as we do. Foreign propagandists take advantage of our flaw of assuming that they think just like us (that is, victors always write histories of lies, etc.), and they project their ways of thinking on us.
Many of my Baby Boom peers along with our younger Generation X follow and bow to that propaganda and those who disseminate it. I do take comfort in what’s coming after our time. The following is only one way that we’re seeing it.
The Cultural Significance of TikTok
Paul Joseph Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Sre3wEaJs