Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Two Years On, the Soleimani Spirit Gathers Clout

 Two years ago, the 2020s started with a murder.

Baghdad airport, January 3, 00:52 AM. The assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes, deputy commander of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi forces, by laser-guided AGM-114 Hellfire missiles launched from two American MQ-9 Reaper drones, was an act of war.

This act of war set the tone for the new decade and inspired my book Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism, published one year later.

The drone strikes at Baghdad airport, directly approved by then US President Donald Trump, were unilateral, unprovoked and illegal: an imperial act engineered as a stark provocation capable of triggering an Iranian reaction that would then be countered by American “self-defense,” packaged as “deterrence.”

Call it a perverse form of double down, reversed false flag.

Read more: https://www.unz.com/pescobar/two-years-on-the-soleimani-spirit-gathers-clout/

As for the US:


I don’t know how anyone can be against total nuclear annihilation at this point.



And I worked at NORAD in Cheyenne MTN Complex.
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