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Professor Emeritus, Critical Studies, U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Producer and dj host of weekly radio shows Insurgence, WHYS, Eau Claire and Left Edge Radio, KNSJ, San Diego. Live in San Diego with my husband, Andy Swanson, and our pugs Aidan and Patrick.
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Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
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βU.S. intelligence has concluded that the Islamic Republic is not even close to buckling under this kind of pressure. So, this is being read inside Iran as a war on the nation and on the civilian population . . . and it is increasing . . . the sense of nationalism.β
The damage to the world economy from the Iran war will be severe, but uneven
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Another comparable discussion with more speculation on how this war might end as well as the challenges to getting there along with more focus on U.S. and Israeli domestic politics.
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Well summed up how the war is increasingly becoming a terrible failure for the governments of the U.S. and Israel, and they know it, but thereβs no easy exit so the danger of ever greater war crimes and horrendous atrocities increases at the same time.
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βThese people donβt know what theyβre doing. Theyβre a bunch of incompetent morons. Sadly, a lot of people are going to pay the price in blood, and thatβs a real, real shame.β
βThis is getting away from these people so quickly. They had no plan. Theyβre a bunch of incompetent children who thought this was going to be some kind of joke that was going to help them in the polls, or was going to protect Trump from us noticing that heβs in the Epstein files . . .β
βI essentially, at this point, am anti-war. When it comes to nation-states waging war against each other, I rarely find a conflict where it seems like itβs benefiting normal people, but it always does seem to benefit those in power.β
βSomething that was really important for me . . . was the recognition that all of these people that live in these places weβre conducting these wars, they are just also human beings. And you realize that we have brought this immense amount of suffering and fear and terror to their doorstep.β
βI went to war. Iβve interacted with what happens when high explosives interacts with children and friends of mine. Once you see it, you touch it, you smell it, you emotionally have to engage with it, it ceases to make it a game.β
Wilkerson argues elsewhere in this same interview, based on considerable expertise, that the US and Israel are doing far worse than the Trump administration claims and that Iran is very far from defeated
βI think this is the end of the Trump presidency, actually, because when it gets to the point where the pressure is so great and some of this has to come out and casualties are manifest, then the American people are going to ask really important questions: Why did you lie to us?β
βitβs abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media . . . is telling the American people. And theyβre putting us in jeopardy . . . because the American people have no way of judging just how foolhardy, how stupid, how unwise, how violative of international dictum and rule this war is.β
βTrump has completely misinterpreted it. The only one whoβs interpreted it correctly is Bibi Netanyahu, and I think heβs ready to use a nuclear weapon, should it become as bad as it looks like it might right now, because Iran has not even began to shoot its most sophisticated missiles.β
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βThis administration has committed more war crimes in the last few days than I think any country since Adolf Hitler committed. And that is an incredible condemnation of this entire process.β