trump used the argument today that appeasement doesn't work - invoking the spectre of hitler, and the memory of chamberlain.

it's the same argument that antifa uses, and so i'll admit i'm partial to it. it's funny how you can use the same argument to come up with conflicting deductions, isn't it?

the issue all along has been around the question of whether iran is a threat or not. i don't think bush really thought iran is a threat, he was just a tool in the hands of an aggressive policy of conquest. and, i distinctly recall interviews where obama literally laughed at the prospect - he realized that iran is barely even a regional power, and he could just send the turks after them or something if he really had to. he openly referred to the idea that they're any kind of serious threat as comical - as not serious.

trump is a product of right-wing cable news. his ideas were placed in his head by the demagogues that frequent fox news. he seems to honestly believe that iran is a threat to the united states, and that he is truly taking steps to protect the world from harm.

again: i don't think this man is particularly stupid in a literal sense, but he is clearly incredibly ignorant and simply doesn't know how to consult sources, or separate good information from bad information. he is consequently very easily misled. and, i saw that coming.

the threat that the administration should be focusing on is not iran, but the saudis. i am convinced that the next world war will be fought to contain saudi expansionism, under the guise of some kind of neo-islamic imperialism. if we are to learn a lesson from the run up to the second world war, it should be that we cannot be funding the saudis - as we funded hitler.

if the idea of iran as a threat is a farce, the saudis are truly a tragedy waiting to happen.

he has chosen the wrong side of history.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.