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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNothing like a potential major regional Middle East War to push Trumpy Thee Traitor's Trial off the front pages.
Not to mention, IF shit really hits the fan, how potentially sustained 8, 10 dollar a gallon (or higher) petrol prices in the US will effect the 2024 election.
Fucking Netanyahu shivving Biden in the back with a broadsword. That motherfucker Bibi has been trying to spin up a war with Iran (with the US as the war hammer) for ages.
H2O Man
(73,994 posts)Diraven
(600 posts)Luckily
Bundbuster
(3,453 posts)and whatever evolves from it on Biden and the Democrats. They're already howling about Joe's one-word "Don't" warning to Iran.
Just imagine Shitler as President when something like this happens.
Beastly Boy
(9,909 posts)What better time to deflect from Iran's decades-long imperial ambitions to destabilize the entire Middle East region which have precious little to do with Trump's trial itself, and lament about Netanyahu pushing Trump off the front pages in the US media?
It would be fair to argue that, front-page media coverage of Trump's trial being likely to trigger all sorts of right-wing conspiracy theories and Trump's own abuses of the whole media ecosystem, having the trial moved to the second page for a while would bring some welcome relief to due process of law. I doubt that Netanyahu came up with with THAT brilliant plan.
Not that Netanyahu is not a backstabbing motherfucker (a rather general and not quite controversial observation), but sometimes, to mangle metaphors and Freud in one fell swoop, a cigar is just a cigar, and a drone attack is just a drone attack.
Celerity
(44,477 posts)deliberately provoked Iran via this:
https://apnews.com/article/israel-syria-airstrike-iranian-embassy-edca34c52d38c8bc57281e4ebf33b240
Beastly Boy
(9,909 posts)Because this is what I addressed in my post.
To tell you the truth, I would be very interested in their expert opinions on the latter subject.
Celerity
(44,477 posts)That was all me, they did not mention the trial at all.
senseandsensibility
(17,560 posts)I knew what you meant. It's certainly curious timing and worth noting.
Beastly Boy
(9,909 posts)Israel's bombing of the embassy, or the opinions expressed by the experts you are referring to.
My comment about them is separate and aside from the attack. If you remove all mention of them, I still see no relevance in mentioning Trump's trial or Netanyahu in the context of Iran's imperial ambitions.
BTW, congrats on Post 43,000!