Post #472936

"There’s lots of attention on Israel, and indeed Israel and the U.S. worked together in the bombing campaign against Iran in June, and again in this new war that started Saturday. But it is the Gulf Arab states who are all against Iran, who want Iran removed as their regional rival. It’s those countries that have been assiduously buying up members of the Trump family and the Trump administration with just astonishing amounts of cash in recent years, and particularly in recent months. And now for that low, low price, they appear to have rented the services of the United States military to start a war that they want, but that the American people do not, and that our American government hasn’t bothered to explain in terms that are even internally consistent, let alone rational and sound. Why did Donald Trump just start a war with Iran? You tell me. https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-trump-war-iran-benefits" (via https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/809907305151873024/theres-lots-of-attention-on-israel-and-indeed)