Can a Theocratic Empire be Deterred?
Laith from Free Palestine TV joins to talk about the battle with Israel at the Lebanon border, the imminent Israeli attack on Iran and the inevitable response, and the question of whether anything can stop escalation at this point.
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Regarding nukes, it seems that MAD operates best when all sides are reasonably sure what the others have, and yet are not sure that they themselves can prevail. So for Laith to say Iran and Syria both have nukes…well, and then to say that no one will use them because… Read more »
Deterrence… This is not an endorsement. It’s a blunt quote from a post at Locals, featuring Nima and Larry. “Israel is a mad dog. Unless the US stops military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel, the only way to stop it is to shoot it in the head.” I posited… Read more »
Where does Zion end and the Anglos begin at this point? Is there sufficient wholesome tissue left, that isn’t cancerous? Is it a pantomime, as with the proferred disagreements between Biden / Nutty? In the past, has Empire behaved differently in Africa or elsewhere, prior to internet, and especially age… Read more »
I thought that Larry was incorrect about “Israel” – it’s a mad puppy, not the dog. Was it Santos Trafficante who said that whacking Bobby was a waste of time, “cutting off the tail of the dog” iirc, but that cut off the head of the dog and the tail… Read more »
Perhaps the Alpha of the pack lacks sufficient control over the puppy. It does what Alpha wants and then some.
Metaphor may tend to mislead. Like the goodcop/badcop routine, there’s an alignment and an illusion. Actually, the relationship is well covered at> https://sovereignista.com/2024/10/12/richard-d-wolff-michael-hudson-israels-end-game-under-netanyahu/
Noting> “…anxiety a little bit and uh I can assert to you that Iran has 39:47 actually nuclear weapons yeah and so does Syria 39:53 oh and uh those were War heads given by 39:58 patriotic Anti-Imperialist generals and um uh and 40:04 scientists at the time of the collapse… Read more »
I am skeptical too. He’s taken to making this claim now. Even if true, which is unlikely, how did having nukes deter the deranged? Who has more nukes than Russia? Have they served as deterrence from what they experience, and will continue to experience?? I think both the host and… Read more »
i’ve long supposed iran has nukes. syria…that was a surprise! but russia rescued syria from the satanists…& so…who knows? iran, though, is different. there were any number of possible sources, north korea, pakistan could’ve answered the call way back when. iran was openly searching, offering a king’s ransom. i remember… Read more »