AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Good news kids; the guys in charge are working hard on giving those of you who weren't old enough to experience the daily insanity phase of the War on Terror your very own MENA forever war with unclear objectives and no solutions on offer.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-troops-to-israel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/us-troop</span><span class="invisible">s-to-israel</span></a></p><p>"Journalist Séamus Malekafzali argued the U.S. deployment of troops and the THAAD system shows that "the Israelis are clearly planning something for Iran that is going to cause a retaliation they know their own systems are unable to take."</p><p>"U.S. troops being deployed to Israel in this matter is seismic," Malekafzali added. "The U.S. military is now inextricably involved in this war, directly, without any illusions of barriers. Netanyahu is as close as he has ever been to his ultimate wish: making the U.S. fight Iran on Israel's behalf."</p><p>Up until this point, I've largely shied away from the idea that we were looking at the opening phases of a region-wide MENA war that could metastasize into a full blown global conflict primarily because while the US is happily funding a genocide, it hasn't (openly) committed American troops to the conflict and no matter how aggressively Netanyahu has been lobbying the Biden administration to start a war with Iran on Israel's behalf, the IDF simply isn't capable of fighting that war on its own even with American weapons. This, right here, changes that calculus in a way that does not feel like an accident. By committing US personnel to Israeli defense at the exact same time Israel is gearing up to attack Iran (in retaliation or otherwise) we've now crossed a threshold where a US-led forever war in the Middle East is a very real possibility. I can't predict the future, but assuming we live long enough to write history books about this era of global meltdown, rising fascism, climate crisis, and resource wars, there is a very good chance you could be reading about this as the moment the die for World War III was cast. This is an absolutely bonkers idea and I emphatically reject the proposition that Biden is being led on a leash by Netanyahu and doesn't know what he's doing here; the Pentagon is fully aware of what happens if US troops get killed in an Iranian strike in the middle of a conflict Israel is dead set on prosecuting. It seems after forty plus years of manufacturing consent, our leaders and warpigs are finally ready to touch off the war with Iran they've wanted every single day since the revolution in 1979. And that's terrible news for Americans, and the world at large.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oil</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ForeverWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeverWars</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ArmsSales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArmsSales</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MENA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MENA</span></a></p>