#world order

the government wouldn’t do that

oh…yes, yes they would

MaKe sUrE tHeY dOnT🫵🏼

Before the US’s attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, amid a quickening drumroll for American entry into the war, critics of military adventurism from the left and the right frequently drew a comparison to the post–September 11 bloodlust for the Iraq War. While there are strong rhetorical resonances with that moment—a manufactured panic over nuclear weapons, delusional fantasies about being greeted as liberators—a more apt comparison is the 2011 NATO military intervention into Libya. Unlike Iraq, Libya did not see a major ground invasion; instead, the US-led NATO coalition used a combination of overwhelming air power and special ops missions to destroy the country’s national forces. The campaign lasted just over seven months, and the Americans didn’t bother sticking around to steer the direction of the state after the dust settled. Within three years, the country was engulfed in a civil war. That recipe—rain hell from the skies to annihilate the governing authority along with its national infrastructure, ensuring the state’s indefensibility and instability for the foreseeable future—is what Israel is openly calling for the US to operationalize.