Agent Scorpio

WHICH PATH TO PERSIA? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran - Brookings 2009: brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…

Iran is doing the work of God.

@MasarwehTony @JohannaNyman5 I responded to the claim that Russia is targeting children which the stats clearly proves that they do not. And if the international community hardly cares about the outrageous civilian slaughter in Gaza why would they care more when the ratio is 96% combatants in Ukraine?

@AgentScorpion1 @JohannaNyman5 Where did I ever say that Israel or the US hasn't bombed civilians or children. They both certainly have. I simply stated that your claim that russia doesn't do so is absolute Bullshit. russia almost exclusively targets civilians daily.

The international community appears less concerned with Russia bombing children than with Ukraine targeting oil refineries. Such is the moral depravity of our time.

@EventsUkraine "Ukrainian Patriotic Society"

'Putin truly wanted to give the Donbass back to Ukraine [after 2015] That's because their electorate, with their special political rights [granted by the Minsk agreements] would have pushed all of Ukraine back into the Russian sphere within a decade. But Ukrainian patriotic society refused to let this cancerous tumor return. That is why Putin invaded in 2022. ' Dmytro Kuleba, foreign minister 2020-24.

"Iranian gays want us to bomb Iran" 🤡

@MasarwehTony @JohannaNyman5

@AgentScorpion1 @JohannaNyman5 GFY vatnik. russia killed a 2 year old last night in Odesa while she slept, asshole. Bombed her apartment building with a drone in the middle of the night, destroying the top 3 floors.

@TheFP "one expert tells Eli Lake" 🤡

‘Iranians want the regime gone and they don’t want the country destroyed,’ one expert tells Eli Lake. ‘Now they fear that the country will be destroyed and the regime will remain.’ thefp.com/p/mr-president…

After its petrochemical hub was attacked by the US and Israel, Iran responded by striking the Saudi industrial hub. Jubail is Saudi Arabia’s main industrial hub and operates with nearly 300 active industries. It produces about 7% of all petrochemicals in the world. SATORP and SASREF together refine 770,000 barrels per day. In addition, there are large-scale dedicated power stations and desalination plants. We are talking about a giant complex of fertilizers, steel, aluminum, and chemical products that suffered a violent Iranian attack today in retaliation for the strike on its own petrochemical complex. All of this is connected to the King Fahd Industrial Port, the main industrial port of the complex, with 34 berths and a confirmed annual capacity of 70 million tons. The attacks today on Iran and the Iranian attacks on Saudi Arabia will directly impact global inflation.

Bloomberg acknowledges that the US war on Iran is backfiring, undermining the petrodollar system that gives the US empire so much power. Gulf regimes are exporting significantly less oil, and they're not reinvesting those petrodollars in US assets. Meanwhile, many foreign central banks have been selling US Treasury securities (US government debt) to prevent their currencies from depreciating, leading to US bond yields rising markedly -- not falling, as they typically did in past crises, when investors engaged in a "flight to safety". The US financial sector is losing its perception of having "safe haven" status. This means that both key aspects of the petrodollar system are breaking: there are fewer oil exports in dollars (Iran wants oil to be traded in Chinese yuan), and there are fewer petrodollars recycled into US financial assets.

Hezbollah FPV pilots putting explosive-laden quadcopters through the rear door of a Merkava tank and the front door of an IDF base. [Hezbollah 6/5]

Isfahan, Iran's energy hub, is being bombarded by the United States and Israel. And as a reminder: these crimes will not go unpunished.

The longer the war lasts, the more missiles Israel will be targeted with. I don't see any problem with that.

@battle_hans @LukeGromen The USSR asked to join NATO in 1954

@LukeGromen Before that, when told not to be concerned about NATO expansion because it wasn't a bloc opposing Russia... Putin asked if Russia could then join NATO (since after all, it wasn't supposed to be anti-Russian). But the US told Putin to go pound sand. Inflection point in history.

Here’s another one: Many on X seem to forget that Europe also tried to separate from the US 16 years ago, when Putin said Russia would join the Eurozone, which would have married Russian energy with German engineering, a combo that surely sent panic thru certain DC circles:

@Tort77019 @roojoo3 @allcapallstrat The US made billions from the NATO protection racket and NED regime change ops

@roojoo3 @allcapallstrat “The ones where reality is brought up is what I don’t like”

How can I unsubscribe from anti-Europe twitter? This is all beginning to look like China-level propaganda.

@Ayrenn2E582 @roojoo3 @allcapallstrat x.com/AgentScorpion1…

@roojoo3 @allcapallstrat If you don't want to live in reality, go to Reddit. I'm sure there's a nice echo-chamber for you to exist in.

@TheRealJamesRea That people seem to have some urge to resurrect Nazis just because Zionists behave like Nazis now. The point is that the Nazis supported Zionism as I already pointed out.

@AgentScorpion1 The Israelis are the Nazis now so what point are you trying to make?

He wanted them to have their own place... because he wanted them out of Germany, not a great expansion taking over the world.

@RnaudBertrand timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said…

It's incredible that Trump would admit to this because the "Iran killed peaceful protesters" narrative was pretty much the only moral fig leaf the pro-war camp could still hide behind. In effect he's confirming: "no, I assure you, my war is 100% indefensible. Zero moral basis whatsoever." It's also yet another immensely depressing illustration of the extent to which we're still all manipulated by the media. Which mainstream outlet, globally, questioned the "peaceful protesters" framing? The Iranian government kept saying this wasn't true, but which outlet even entertained the possibility they were telling the truth? Not one, as far as I could see: this was universally dismissed as Iranian propaganda. As is sadly almost always the case, the media just ran the US State Department script: the Iranian "regime" is massacring innocent civilians for wanting "freedom". The ridiculously cartoonish narrative that women just want to show their hair and get killed for that... Except we now have the President of the United States confirming that the protesters were in fact sent "a lot of guns," making them actual US-armed insurgents🤷 Hopefully it finally shames the media into doing the bare minimum, i.e. their actual job: treat Western government claims with the same skepticism they reflexively apply to official enemies. But I'm not holding my breath...

@bigmadcrab rand.org/content/dam/ra…

How is it that it’s always the same villains

@robinmonotti You got to count NED invasions as well.

Countries invaded by each of these nations: Iran 0 Israel 5 USA 80 UK 171

Many are overstating the significance of the division between the US and the EU. The US's goal — for at least half a century — has been to shift a greater part of the burden of maintaining the imperialist system from Washington to Berlin, London, Paris, and Brussels. The apparent "conflict" between the White House and various European leaders is the lubricant for that transition — one that serves the European ruling class as much as it serves the US's, because they form part of a single transnational capitalist class. The geneology of this policy goes as far back as Wilson's vision of a cordon sanitaire, which sought to mobilize reactionaries in Eastern Europe to contain the nascent Soviet Union. That agenda accelerated after WWII. The very reason for establishing NATO was to tie Western Europe to a foreign policy agenda authored in Washington. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, senior US officials complained about European “freeloading” — that the US shouldered the entire burden of the imperialist world system while Europe struck deals with the Third World and Eastern Bloc. Kissinger compared Europe to an ungrateful teenager. In the 1980s, there were repeated US threats to leave NATO and the concurrent deployment of US nuclear missiles on European soil — both of which sought to rekindle the specter of European militarism. US imperial propagandists complained about the "dangerous currents of pacifism" sweeping across the continent, and successive US administrations sought to spark the return of European nationalism of the warmongering variety. The dramatic transformation of the German Greens from an anti-NATO party to one of NATO's loudest cheerleaders is just one testament to the success of that strategy. In the end, much of that success lies with Biden and Trump. The proxy war in Ukraine and the genocide in Palestine got Europe to love war again. “Germany is back,” as Merz has said. What he meant is that the European ruling class has had its hands untied. By pretending that the US is an antagonist, Europe's transnational oligarchy can complete the project of dismantling the welfare state and return fully to the belligerent, genocidal imperialism that birthed it in the first place. If the US leaves NATO, Europe will pick up as much of the burden as it can — effectively carrying on the agenda of US-led imperialism without US support. NATO, in that sense, can be thought of as the training wheels to Europe's imperial bicycle, which plods along in Washington's shadow. The belief is that the bicycle will continue on its path after the training wheels have come off. This strategy cannot succeed — the crises of the imperialist bloc are too deep and too intractable. But it does threaten a radical acceleration of the violence that is rapidly sweeping across the planet.