npub1g0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msp3tvm4 (npub1g0t…tvm4) I've seen the comparison to the Falklands a lot in the past 24 hours, and I'm sorry, but I don't buy it.
For one thing, there is a much more recent example of how military involvement in the Middle East is really not very popular.
Moreover, it overlooks the reason why the Falklands conflict had such a distinctive political presence: it was a British territory full of British citizens, invaded by an unfriendly dictator. The wrong political lesson seems to have been taken; it's not that war is popular - I would argue that war hasn't been politically popular since about 1915 - but that defending British territory and citizens is popular.
No, I think this is all looking for subterfuge rather than the boringly prosaic answer: big corporations need to use the the Strait of Hormuz. Especially including fossil fuel giants. The US is always going to help out its corporate interests, and always has done, and the UK does what it's told.
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2024-01-13 09:11:59
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