“It is so fucking wild to me, how skepticism toward American intervention abroad is still waved off as knee-jerk lefty radicalism, as if the last quarter-century never happened. The recent history of U.S. meddling in the Middle East - wars sold on false premises, states shattered rather than stabilized, millions killed, tens of millions displaced, trillions wasted, resentments deepened for generations - ought to have made caution a baseline, not a fringe posture. Opposing yet another intervention isn’t a matter of ideological purity or reflexive anti-Americanism; it’s the only rational response to a track record of catastrophic unintended consequences that we seem determined to forget.”

— Freddie deBoer

freddiedeboer.substack.com

If You Want Freedom and Democracy For Iranian People and All Peoples, You Must Start By Admitting What America Is and Does

we do not liberate, we do not rescue, and we do not permit democracy to get in the way of getting what we want