“I’m hearing out of service members’ mouths the words, ’We do not want to die for Israel — we don’t want to be political pawns,” she said. Another reservist in touch with current troops separately reported hearing similar comments.
Boy do I have bad news for them.
it really exposes the necessity of a functional messaging apparatus to invent reality for imperial subjects.
the executive can’t just pull the trigger on some heavy shit without steady indoctrination to ideologically prepare subjects for it.
the leadup to the 2003 Iraq invasion was 18 months of focused effort to generate nominal buy-in from vassals, the ruling class, and the lumpenproletariat all on top of the endlessly media repeated grievance of the attacks on sept 11.
this iran move was after one of the administrations constant harping on “no new wars” to the isolationist/america first lumpen. not to mention, it seems it was only done with almost no buy-in across the ruling class, save the AIPAC faction. and forget about vassal buy-in. they just did it with no recognition that the vassals have their own domestic projects to administer to maintain some scaffolding of popular support, after like a year+ of tarrif whiplash burning up goodwill.
its all just hard power and coercion now, and while that works on the sniveling compradors with dynasties to lose, it exposes the fault lines in the structure too as the veil of a “higher calling” floats away and random people wonder, “wait… why am i sacrificing for this?”
Then fucking quit!
I vaguely wonder if this is some sort of plan to liquidate the non-MAGA elements of the US military by feeding them into the Iranian woodchipper.
I mean if that’s the plan, it’s not a smart one. But then again, the burger reich isn’t exactly known for its sophistication.
