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      “Hey can you hurry it up with the genocide? We’ve got an election coming up, and things aren’t looking great for us.”

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      Shitty clone job bc Blinken is far stupider than Kissinger was. Kissinger was a realist who negotiated with u.s. adversaries when it ultimately suited long term political goals, whereas Tony blinken is an idealogue and an idealist and therefore does not see and cannot effectively respond to the massive geopolitical changes the last 30 years have seen. You better believe that Genocide Joe claiming that burgerland is the “indispensable nation” has at least something to do with this dullard. Honestly, critical support to our boy Tony for being such a failure, resulting in a significant dimuntion of u.s. imperial capabilities.

      Obviously rest in pissinger, just saying he wasn’t an idiot like blinken.

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        Agreed. A bad clone, but I meant specifically with regards to the bloodlust and imperialism and the desire to dominate others. The ghoulishness is not unique to Kissinger. I am glad he is in hell but his ideological failsons are everywhere in the state apparatus.

      • Blinken and Biden suffer from the same disease, an unwavering belief in Amerikan Exceptionalism and the End of History. As if we are in 1991 forever.

        Naive, elitist and smug criminals that underestimate their rivals out of sheer racism and ignorance.

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    Gotta wrap things up am divert the munitions towards starting a fight with Venezuela now.

    At least that’s part of my theory.

      • If we Middle Easterners don’t drag the US into another losing multi-decade conflict, then we have let the Palestinians down. The martyrs need to be avenged and the US is the target.

        I really hope the US makes a big mistake and finds itself stuck here for years to come.

        I always thought it was funny that people in the US think we are afraid of their military when we always wanted their warmongering politicians to win elections and so that they get stuck here. “Who do our enemies want to win?” I can guarantee you Billie Bob Frank, that we want the one who is threatening us with invasions.

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        Yeah, that’s why I think they want to wrap things up as fast as possible. So they can take what’s left of Palestine, fortify Israel, and then divert and move on the Venezuela thing. Israel is important to them but it’s also on the other side of the planet. Venezuela is closer to home and is actively threatening a fossil fuel companies profits. IMO we can only hope they get tied up over there for longer than what is sustainable.

        They are basically showing their hand right now and that hand is, “the empire can’t support more than one conflict at a time now.” They tried keeping up both Ukraine and Israel and then almost immediately dropped Ukraine when they realized they can’t do both. Now the Venezuela things popped up and they are stuck in Israel. They don’t HAVE to be stuck there, but I guess they really want to finish off that Genocide since it’s on everyone’s radar. If other countries have been waiting to push back, now might just be the perfect time, but then I’m not a geopolitical expert. It could also just cause ol Joe to nuke the planet.

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          I generally agree, I don’t think they anticipated a war in the Middle East and it kind of blindsided them. Israel is also strategically important to US, so they can’t just let them hang like they’re doing with Ukraine. On the other hand, US i starting to realize that Israel is a geopolitical albatross around their neck. It ruined the whole narrative they had going with Ukraine, and people around the world are increasingly turning both on Israel and US for sponsoring the very blatant and obvious crimes Israel is committing completely unapologetically.

          I get the impression that US admin did not anticipate the political blowback for supporting Israel initially. Biden basically gave Israel a blank check at the start, and Netanyahu is now cashing it in because he knows that if the war ends his own position is going to be shaky. It’s really not clear how much leverage US has over Israel at this point. US created a monster that’s now biting the master’s hand.

          Until they can bring Israel to heel though, there’s little chance of US actually having the capacity to get involved in other conflicts in my opinion.