I always appreciate Greenwald’s clarity. He’s the only big-time journalist who maintains rigid and precise objectivity about all questions. He has lots of tribal loyalties and biases, but he rigorously separates his private life and private feelings from The News.
In this clip he’s talking with Batya and other Jewish activists. All agree that the current war is unnecessary. Around 1:25 Batya makes a powerful case that Bibi created the current war by stirring up Hamas.
Semi-quoting: Many wars and disputes have turned on a dime when conditions were right. Wars that seem necessary and permanent suddenly go away, and this one will also.
It’s a point we often forget. Wars are EXPENSIVE. When the source of money and weapons dries up, the war stops. WW2 stopped when Germany used up its oil and weapons and soldiers.
US has been helping Israel to maintain its wars by pouring in endless fountains of unearned money and weapons. If we stopped, Bibi would have to slow down. Note that the same thing has already happened with our genocidal war in Ukraine. When we switched the flow to Israel, Our SOB Zelensky had to make peace.
The same thing also happens with internal genocides like the “virus” genocide and the “climate” genocide. The “virus” genocide was EXPLICITLY enabled by a monstrous injection of unearned money into businesses and governments. States and cities competed to get the federal money by creating Innovative Disruptive Torture Chambers. The free money enabled TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF BUSINESS for many months everywhere and for two years in the craziest places.
Without the injection of unearned money, NORMAL BUSINESS would have to keep going in order to pay taxes. NORMAL BUSINESS doesn’t encourage shutdowns and torture, because tortured and unemployed people can’t generate profits. Customers and workers who can BREATHE and SLEEP and EAT and THINK are more profitable than STRANGLED and STARVED zombies.
When Jerome Powell stopped the criminal flow, a lot of ordinary crimes (stock trading and IPOs and bitcoin) dried up, and the total shutdown was no longer attractive to demonic mayors and Public Death Officers and governors.
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Graphic sidenote: The picture illustrates a literal dime-turning that resulted from Batya’s type of dime-turning. George Mason’s only non-brilliant idea was hidden wheels, which he thought were a unique selling point. In fact closed wheels ruined one of Nash’s real selling points. The cars were harder to steer, thus losing one advantage of compactness. After Mason died the ’55 Rambler opened up its wheels, allowing tighter turns, and the ad celebrated the change.
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