There is a new not-Iran Deal, which means the Republican Iran Hustlers are again demanding that we debase ourselves by mindlessly repeating their talking points and ignoring everything we know of their malfeasance.
According to the Hustlers, we are supposed to join them in their incantations of “$6 billion!,” “appeasement!,” “$1.2 billion per hostage!,” “rewarding Iran for terrorism!,'“ “20% is most of the way to 90%!” “nuclear threshold status!,” “entire military budget in 2021!, ”and the original hit, “pallets of cash!”
Of course, Trad World Order devised this humiliation ritual just as Ukraine began achieving undeniable battlefield success in its latest offensive. Axis magicians know that as long as Ukraine continues to fight, it keeps the anti-Axis struggle out of suspended animation and drains the Axis magic that Trump needs to return.
In their desperation, Axis magicians hope to spoil Ukraine’s trust in the hand of Biden through another path. And they know we wait in ambush for them in its defiles.
Trad World Order wants us to perform their humiliation ritual, so we abandon our unassailable positions and join their host. They inimically despise any independent thought or action and suppress it as a material condition for their project. We are the hill tribes in their rear that they must pacify to secure their most vulnerable lines.
Engaging in the humiliation ritual debases us and makes us more amenable to Tradic domination. In doing so, we also reject Truth for Trad World Order’s revisionism, banishing our untamed virtuoso for the player piano’s roll that Axis magicians can replace with another as they require.
The most humiliating new incantation may be “the regime can buy whatever it wants!,” as the Hustlers now insist we unthinkingly trust the regime figure’s claim amid their frenzy about the regime’s fundamental untrustworthiness, as it is also gaslighting, as there is nothing to imply trust was a factor at all in negotiations.
Yet it would be hard to top the Hustlers’ Obama-coding of Bret McGurk. a 2005 Bush-era appointee now retconned as a chief villain in the Obamaworld pantheon.
The humiliation ritual bridges the vast gulf between the Reality we know and the alternate Trad World Order seeks to impose, taking us from ours to theirs. Given the distance we must cross, magic is the only force suited to the journey. For how could we traverse the chasm by mortal means knowing all we do?
Republicans kept Assad in power under Obama, saving Iran’s regime from destruction.
Republicans cut off arms to Syrian rebels in 2017 after Trump met Putin at G-20, saving Iran an absolute minimum of $15 billion a year in war costs.
Republicans sided with Iran in the 2017 Kurdish Regional Government’s referendum.
Republicans withdrew from the original Iran Deal in 2018 and, as they worked toward Israel’s destruction, both as a democracy and in toto, they didn’t launch military strikes against Iran’s nuclear programme as the logic of such a withdrawal dictates. At most, they offloaded this responsibility to Israel and framed it as a favor, even as it was a setup, because Israel does not have the strength or ability to accomplish this task alone or with any conceivable non-US ally. Republican Iran Hustlers then blamed Biden for Iran’s nuclear advances.
Maximum Pressure Republicans stopped Obama’s heroic liberation war against Iran in Yemen and, of course, blamed Obama.
Maximum Cope Republicans allowed Iran to collect a massive windfall in oil revenues after they conducted a cruise missile attack on Saudi oil installations that knocked out 60% of Saudi oil production, the Bush-era Iran nightmare scenario.
Maximum Cope Republicans also pretended Iran’s 2020 cruise missile attack on US troops in Iraq never happened, allowing them the last word in the Soleimani saga and directly undermining their rhetoric about “deterrence.”
Of course, these are just a few times in recent years Republicans aided Iran in ways that eclipse anything the regime would have received from any hypothetical not-Deal through Rob Malley (targeted by regime outlets in conjunction with Republicans).
Yet not one of the Hustlers ever took issue with any of these events or any others excised from the official alternate history they promulgate. Most Hustlers actively supported these actions, ignored them entirely, or, at best, raised a few meek objections to be on record. They never launched a massively coordinated campaign with shared talking points as they have against the not-Iran Deal.
Even worse, the Hustlers and their he/him/she/her reply-guy levies write off anyone who challenges their cherrypicking as a “Dem hack.” Many have blocked me on Twitter and forever established themselves as Axis agents for resisting their attempt to impose Tradic revisionism on free humans.
Trad World Order knows the stakes for their Iran and Syria projects. Unable to make headway on dooming Ukraine to surrender despite their best efforts, they pivot to a seemingly-neglected front.
The Republican Iran Hustlers carry the vital task of recharging the Axis magic reserves through gaslighting about Iran.
Republicans are trying to sabotage Ukraine’s war effort and nearly succeeded by casting Democrats as mere cowardly placeholders for the Real Reagan Republicans who are just waiting in the wings to return to power.
Team Zelenskyy believed this until perhaps recently and very likely still does, with Arestovych being a primary driver of this thinking. These attitudes are the default setting for all non-USians, who absorb Republican-approved data points as their basic framework for understanding the world, as Republicans are the only “real Americans.”
However, as Ukraine continued to fight, it resolved the state of uncertainty Axis magic requires to thrive. As Ukrainians engage with Reality, reified by open war, Republicans can make little headway in their goal.
But as Ukrainians are International Republicans, they will believe any version of the recent history of Iran and Syria that Republicans feed them. If the Hustlers can successfully establish their version of the meaning and context of the not-Iran Deal, they may renew the doubts Ukrainians have about Biden that Visegrad’s “F-16s and ATACMS!” campaign alone could not.
All Ukrainians already subscribe to the Republican revisionism that Obama didn’t enforce the red line and “emboldened” russia, even as it was Boehner who moved immediately to stop Obama from carrying out airstrikes against Assad and Congressional Republicans sabotaged a rapid US response to the Crimean invasion.
Ukrainians are so thoroughly International Republican that they even blame russia’s invasion of Georgia in August 2008 on Obama. Trad World Order knows just how easy it could be to poison Ukraine from within.
The success of this operation will fundamentally alter the way Ukraine approaches every aspect of its liberation struggle in ways that favor russia.
Trad World Order is counting on us engaging in the humiliation ritual to clear their only obstacles to total dominance. Even in opposition, they want us to fight on their terms because they constructed their terms to lead inexorably to their victory.
The Republican Iran Hustlers want us Mad About $6 Billion. They do not want us asking why they weren’t Mad About Daraa and getting others to ask the same.
Your analysis is half right. Unfortunately it’s also half wrong so you’ve had nothing to illuminate the issues.