The US doesn’t have small enough nuclear penetrators to even try hiding something anyway, they can use tactical warheads as bunker busters but they can’t be meaningfully hidden. Meanwhile all these Iranian installations have been built with conventional bunker busters in mind so the existing American GBUs that must have been used may not have caused much real damage after all even if they double tapped the exact same spot.
While the masses that supported the regime change in Libya that Obama and Hillary were pushing with straight up KKK level propaganda (“Gaddafi handing out viagra for mass rapes” + “Gaddafi recruiting mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa” = real migrant workers from Chad were getting hanged from bridges by the “rebels for democracy”) and is currently a slave market are what? Unfrustrated, tolerant, intellectual, classy liberals?
The entire US middle class on both sides turns to a cheerleader for the military industrial complex with only slightly different narratives to support it each time. The presidents are puppets of economic forces, snap out of it.
Oh yeah the standard comparison between western liberal republics versus “theocracies” and “single party system totalitarian regimes”. Meanwhile most of NATO is still nominally ruled by hereditary monarchies (the United Kingdom of King Charlie that still doesn’t have an official constitution isn’t just England, Wales and Scotland, it includes Canada, Australia and a ton of former colonies abroad), socially progressive key allies in Scandinavia that make bag from arms manufacturing are almost all still ruled by kings, the USA itself only introduced a presidential term limitation after Roosevelt did four consecutive terms but act like this is now abnormal universally as if all countries have or should have term limits, the few Catholic majority allies like Spain, Portugal and Italy have the Pope as their spiritual supreme leader that has his own private sovereign country with his private army, bank, intelligence services and religious-fascist organizations internationally like Opus Dei that infiltrate governments and have vast political and economic activities etc, not to mention that the Vatican has never seen any repercussions for sheltering and aiding Nazis after WWII, all of whom sought refuge in CIA backed South American dictatorships or “liberal democratic monarchies-colonies” like Canada and Australia etc.
Somehow the US constantly tries to export democracy in every other place except its own allies that need it the most. There are even tax havens (global financial crime hotspots) like Monaco and nobody cares about the lack of democracy there. It’s a tragedy that Murica cares so much for the world that all these allies must wait until they also get some democracy. It’s an absolute tragedy.
Can you imagine someone ever saying that the Vatican is a theocracy? It literally is though. Or that Saudi Arabia or Brunei aren’t democracies? That’s easier. But try saying that Denmark and the Netherlands are also monarchies? Or that Iceland had to gain independence because it was basically a colony? Unthinkable. So it seems it’s perfectly fine having any system you want as long as you’re a US lapdog.
We could also think about Northern Ireland and why Murica doesn’t invade to liberate the Irish from the illegal Brit occupation, that would be even funnier since apparently Brits oppose landgrabs and imperialism on principle and since always hence why they got so involved in expanding NATO in Ukraine and opposed bad unfree capitalist republic no-monarchy Russia.
“The posts have sparked outrage among pro-foreign nation circles in Washington.” Can’t think of any other US ally including the no. 1 lapdog UK that would ever receive this royal treatment.
And besides this it’s not like there’s no labour aristocracy that primarily gains from this while other working class groups get much less and get ideologically gaslit about not being members of some potentially either fully corrupt or workerist union with zero radical ultimate aims.
Even the global North(west) contains highly exploited groups with only a minority getting the benefits.
Where are the nafo chodes to point out that NATO “is a defensive alliance what’s wrong with defense why not expand it everywhere to protect people XD”?