I kind of let this one get stale a bit, but I wanted to outline a few thoughts about the propagandistic nature of the name, “The Twelve-Day War.” Certainly the government wants you to believe that everything is over and done with, but we can’t say that about everyone…
Fortunately, the Trump admin’s apparent punt on the Epstein case may be an opening, and I guess now is the time to use it.
The fact is, various things may have been set in motion by the “Twelve-Day War.” Things we might not like, and things which are not entirely within our control, and those things might appear in six months, or a year, or two, or more.
1. For instance, if Iran was aiming to create nukes, why would they have been working at the sites the IAEA knows about? Yes, the IAEA has surely put protocols in place to try and prevent this: radiation detection, material tracking, etc. But have those measures been 100% effective? Possibly not.
Iran is a big country with highly varied terrain and its own mines for uranium ore. It may have been stockpiling un-tracked material somewhere before the war, or it may start now.
2. If Iran is willing to sponsor terror attacks in various places, what prevents them from now planning additional attacks in the U.S., E.U., or Israel? They would need to work hard to ensure plausible deniability, but that is certainly a possibility.
Along those lines, what stops some group sympathetic to Iran from planning an attack?
3. What stops the military-industrial complex from waiting for an unrelated terror attack and blaming it on Iran? They could use something completely unrelated for an excuse to resume aggression. Not all attacks immediately have some group taking credit.
Also, consider this: even if one group took credit for such an attack, and the state said, “No, it was Iran,” what criteria would you have to decide whether to believe or doubt them?
4. Has the U.S.-Israel psy-op (if it is that, I lean more toward Trump being offered a fait accompli and trying to spin it toward his favor) damaged U.S. credibility?
Has it given U.S. “adversaries” new actions that they can take during negotiations?
It would be exactly the opposite of ironic if Russia were to make a huge attack on some Ukrainian target on the eve of some deal. After all, the deal “was to be signed tomorrow.“
Those four scenarios are something we need to watch out for in the long-term. Maybe ten years or more out there. It would of course be great if everybody decided to simply let bygones be bygones, but there’s no guarantee some group–even a splinter group–won’t be nursing a grudge.
The final point I’d like to make is that Iran’s actions during the Twelve-Day War destroy forever the arguments of various war-hawks that Iran’s military is a fanatical, suicidal force. They have shown this to be untrue by their warning of the American base before they lobbed missiles at it. Any hawk psycho that tells you Iran is crazy in the future can and should be summarily disregarded.
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Intro quote by Murray Rothbard in For a New Liberty
https://mises.org/library/book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto
Intro music by Praz Khanal, courtesy Pixabay:
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