A new cohort of emotionally unstable journalists are leveraging the moral panic that has erupted in the past several weeks to seize power within their respective media institutions. And their insane tactics are working. It’s a total nightmare scenario:https://unherd.com/2020/06/how-us-journalism-lost-its-spine …
And yet they didn't. The neocons lost the zeitgeist resoundingly after Iraq and Katrina. Their heyday was very brief and they are no longer a force in politics. Routine spectacles re Iran and VZ are about shoring up the status quo ante.
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Can you explain this to a layperson?
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You know how every two years for the past twenty years there's been an imminent war between Iran and the US that never happens? At some point you have to accept that there is no will in DC to transform these societies by military force.
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There was a coup in Venezuela as well. And guess what? When it failed, the US did not use it as a pretext for invasion. They take advantage of local instability to harass the remaining nominally leftish countries but they have no desire to go to war.
End of conversation
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