On COI #728, Kyle Anzlaone updates Washington and Tel Aviv’s Middle East wars.
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Col. Daniel Davis Refutes Mitch McConnell’s ‘Isolationist’ Smear
Foreign Affairs just published an article by Senator Mitch McConnell: “The Price of American Retreat: Why Washington Must Reject Isolationism and Embrace Primacy.”
Col. Daniel Davis does a great job refuting his falsehoods and explains the errors of current US foreign policy. Check it out:
Attacking Iran Would Be Insane
According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump is considering military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities:
President-elect Donald Trump is weighing options for stopping Iran from being able to build a nuclear weapon, including the possibility of preventive airstrikes, a move that would break with the longstanding policy of containing Tehran with diplomacy and sanctions.
The surest way to convince the Iranian government to build nuclear weapons is to attack their nuclear facilities. In addition to being reckless and wrong, “preventive” military action would practically guarantee the outcome that hawks say they want to prevent. The only thing stupider than using force to eliminate a non-existent threat is using force to create a threat that wouldn’t have existed otherwise.
Conflicts of Interest: Will Israel Attack Iran Next?
On COI #727, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the last news from around the Empire.
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Can We Ever Just Mind Our Own Business?
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
Attacks on Iran are already being explored by the incoming Trump administration, which put me to mind of this article I wrote in 2016. Collectively, the U.S. government and its apparatus is the world’s biggest and noisiest busybody. We just can’t leave well enough alone. It’s time for a new approach: not isolationism, because that’ll never happen, but an MYOB approach, as in minding your own business. (Quick Note: the $700 billion for national “defense” mentioned below in 2016 is now $900 billion for 2024-25. And the U.S. has even more military bases overseas: 750-800 of them. Looks like MYOB is even more of a long shot as we approach 2025.)
The Failure of Yoon’s Desperate Power Grab
More than a week after Yoon’s attempted coup, the South Korean president is digging in his heels and refusing to quit. Yoon is now under investigation for insurrection, and he is under a travel ban so that he cannot leave the country. The disgraced president delivered another speech in which he repeated many of the same deranged claims he made when he declared martial law. He has vowed to “fight to the end.” Yoon’s party shielded him from impeachment last week, but that support has crumbled as more details about the coup have come to light and Yoon refuses to resign:
South Korea’s ruling party has thrown its support behind attempts to impeach embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol over his ill-fated decision to declare martial law that sparked a political crisis and widespread public anger in the country.
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