Pithy explanation: The tail is wagging the dog, but the dog is allowing itself to be wagged.
More complicated explanation: We talk about states as if they’re unified actors, when in reality they’re complex organizations made of thousands of individuals with their own beliefs, opinions, skills, knowledge, feelings, etc., making individual decisions.
Trump is an angry, egotistical, senile old man high on success after Venezuela, and who was dumb and violent even before his brain stopped working.
Mike Huckabee is a member of an apocalypse cult and believes he’s acting to bring about the end times. Lindsey Graham also falls into this group, as do several others. Pete Hegseth is a violent alcoholic and white supremacist who just wants to kill brown people, consequences be damned.
Marco Rubio sees this as a mistake and a distraction from the more important goal of conquering Latin America - not a moral mistake just a tactical one. JD Vance… I’m not really sure what he’s thinking actually, I do actually believe he was against this (and he’s been leaking to the press as such), my guess for why is just that he knew it would be unpopular and a failure?
Oil executives have their own goals, both personally and for their business. Weapons manufacturers do too. And again for the tech billionaires.
The Israelis are mostly more unified, they want regional chaos to allow them to do more territorial expansion. Benny from Cheltenham High has been pushing every US president for decades to do it, and up until now they’ve all said “Fuck off that’s stupid and dangerous.” But with the angry, stupid, senile president surrounded by people who wanted this for various reasons, he was able to get it going.
These are just my reads of these people and their motivations, and I’ve probably got a couple of them wrong. But the point is that states aren’t single organisms, they’re made up of people with varied and conflicting goals and beliefs, which leads to complicated situations that aren’t as clearly explained by broad statements about the actions of imperial states and their puppets.
Pithy explanation: The tail is wagging the dog, but the dog is allowing itself to be wagged.
More complicated explanation: We talk about states as if they’re unified actors, when in reality they’re complex organizations made of thousands of individuals with their own beliefs, opinions, skills, knowledge, feelings, etc., making individual decisions.
Trump is an angry, egotistical, senile old man high on success after Venezuela, and who was dumb and violent even before his brain stopped working.
Mike Huckabee is a member of an apocalypse cult and believes he’s acting to bring about the end times. Lindsey Graham also falls into this group, as do several others. Pete Hegseth is a violent alcoholic and white supremacist who just wants to kill brown people, consequences be damned.
Marco Rubio sees this as a mistake and a distraction from the more important goal of conquering Latin America - not a moral mistake just a tactical one. JD Vance… I’m not really sure what he’s thinking actually, I do actually believe he was against this (and he’s been leaking to the press as such), my guess for why is just that he knew it would be unpopular and a failure?
Oil executives have their own goals, both personally and for their business. Weapons manufacturers do too. And again for the tech billionaires.
The Israelis are mostly more unified, they want regional chaos to allow them to do more territorial expansion. Benny from Cheltenham High has been pushing every US president for decades to do it, and up until now they’ve all said “Fuck off that’s stupid and dangerous.” But with the angry, stupid, senile president surrounded by people who wanted this for various reasons, he was able to get it going.
These are just my reads of these people and their motivations, and I’ve probably got a couple of them wrong. But the point is that states aren’t single organisms, they’re made up of people with varied and conflicting goals and beliefs, which leads to complicated situations that aren’t as clearly explained by broad statements about the actions of imperial states and their puppets.