{"id":34207,"date":"2018-05-14T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34207"},"modified":"2018-05-14T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:30:32","slug":"iran-and-syria-why-regime-change-in-one-means-regime-change-in-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34207","title":{"rendered":"Iran And Syria: Why Regime Change In One Means Regime Change In\u00a0Both\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran And Syria: Why Regime Change In One Means Regime Change In\u00a0Both\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Probably the weirdest, dumbest, most annoying thing about writing on US foreign policy right now is the fact that regime change in Iran and regime change in Syria have been falsely spun into the illusion of two separate issues along partisan lines. People who are more aligned with America\u2019s Democratic Party are a lot more opposed to the overthrow of the Iranian government and a lot more sympathetic to the idea of getting rid of Assad, and with those who are more aligned with the Republican party it\u2019s the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

Partisan politics turn people into such drooling idiots. Democratic Party-aligned Americans oppose Trump\u2019s withdrawal from the Iran deal because it was Obama\u2019s baby, while Republican-aligned Americans support it for the exact same reason. This is a deliberate provocation designed to enable crushing economic sanctions, which the US-centralized war machine always uses as a prelude to war<\/a>, to weaken and destabilize the nation. Plan A will be for imperial intelligence agencies to stage a coup or fund a violent uprising in order to either throw Iran into impotent chaos or replace its government with a puppet regime (either one satisfies Plan A). Plan B will be something more direct<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re seeing the reverse in Syria: Democratic Party-aligned Americans are virulently opposed to Assad because Russia is actively fighting on his side, and the Russiagate psyop has Democrats hating anyone who they suspect might have anything to do with Vladimir Putin. They also need to justify the fact that the Obama administration helped stage a premeditated<\/a> violent uprising and flooded Syria with terrorists<\/a> with the goal of destabilization or regime change. Trump supporters, meanwhile, oppose regime change in that nation largely because it\u2019s a secular government besieged by violent deep state-funded jihadists.<\/p>\n

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Iran And Syria: Why Regime Change In One Means Regime Change In\u00a0Both\u00a0 Probably the weirdest, dumbest, most annoying thing about writing on US foreign policy right now is the fact that regime change in Iran and regime change in Syria have been falsely spun into the illusion of two separate issues along partisan lines. People […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17039,441,1343,776,827,1174],"class_list":["post-34207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-iran","tag-regime-change","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34208,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34207\/revisions\/34208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}