Yes - that is a huge part of it, and dating all the way back at least to the CIA-backed overthrow of Mosaddegh.
Middle Eastern oil wealth administered by stable and rational governments would be a direct threat to western hegemony so the US has long had a vested interest in destabiliziing the Middle East, and has long pursued that exact goal.
And yes - Israel is key to that.
None of which makes any of it any less insane.
Nearly every day, I'm astonished yet again by how blatantly insane this timeline is.
Think about it - US taxpayers have paid over $20 billion so that a rogue state can massacre tens of thousands of people and displace millions, so that a corrupt psychopath can stay in office and out of prison, so that some other psychopaths can sate their bloodlust, and so that a relative handful of defense contractors and politicians can finance their lives of wholly unearned and undeserved privilege.
There isn't even the faintest vestige of sense to any of that. It's wholly and completely insane. And yet it's reality.
How is that even possible?
That word "overt" isn't there by accident.
There's a significant difference between an oligarchic kleptocracy that has to pretend to be a representative democracy and an oligarchic kleptocracy that doesn't have to bother pretending to be anything else.
I assume it's going to go until World War III, and until the US is an overt kleptocratic police state.
Really.
rogue state
noun
- state or nation acting outside of the accepted international norms and policies.
Israel is a rogue state.
I choose to hold myself to high standards. Writing is one of the great joys of my life, and there are few things I enjoy more than the satisfaction I feel when I do it well.
Additionally:
If someone disagrees or has a problem with what you say then they can just say so and you can clarify.
Would that that were so, but the reality of the internet in this benighted age is that many (most?) who misrepresent another's position do so not because they sincerely try but fail to understand it, but because it serves their purposes to do so, and no amount of clarification is going to overcome that. It's a waste of effort at best, and is actually often detrimental, since saying more just provides them with more fodder for even more fallacies and diversions.
Which is another reason that I write for my own satisfaction.
Thanks for the response though.
Gee whiz - who'd've thought that the woman who married a rich guy who looks (and notoriously smells) like a gigantic ambulatory drain clog would be so mercenary.
It's just so tedious and transparent. He doesn't have the will or the courage to take a meaningful stand, but he has to create some illusion of demanding at least some restraint from Israel, so he draws a line in the sand that's distant enough that they likely weren't going to cross it anyway, and makes his stand there. And it's doubly meaningless, since if they do happen to go so far as to cross it anyway, he'll just let them, with no consequences.
It's all a sham.
About three minutes ago.
I had actually written a few paragraphs in response to another thread, but it wasn't coming together right and would've had to have been rewritten almost entirely to get it to my standards, and I just didnt care that much, so I closed it instead, then went to the main page and saw this.
Overall, I would guess that I post less than half of what I write, either because I'm struggling to get it to my standards and don't care enough to keep going, or because I stop and realize that if I go ahead and post it, it's likely that if it gets a response at all it's just going to be some tunnel-visioned ideologue hurling disinformation, fallacies and/or tired emotive rhetoric.
Oh look - Biden has once again shown his resolve by staking out a position demanding that Israel show just the barest minimum of restraint.
And never mind that in the relatively unlikely event that Israel won't even bother to meet that bare minimum, that's okay, since he'll abandon even that position.
Exactly as intended.