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sop

(18,351 posts)
1. What happened to all those honorable military officers who wouldn't carry out illegal orders?
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:12 PM
Feb 28

RainCaster

(13,617 posts)
5. They don't exist
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:32 PM
Feb 28

There is no such creature. They are all spineless weasels with a woody for destruction. I'm ashamed to be an American.

Tim S

(196 posts)
2. Trump is being used by Netanyahu to enact the final part of "A Clean Break" involving Iran
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:19 PM
Feb 28

A commentator on Al Jazeera English mentioned this today, so I had to look it up.

Here’s background on a plan Netanyahu commissioned in 1996 to break with the Oslo Accords and change politics in the Middle East:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break%3A_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm

This Substack story from January entirely predicted this:
https://the307.substack.com/p/how-regime-change-in-iran-is-the

From the above:
As the U.S. General Wesley Clark revealed the clean break went from a plan to take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq to a plan to “take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and, finishing off, Iran”.

Edit to add: “A Clean Break” preceded the Neocons’ “Project for the New American Century” by 1 year and they dovetail together a little TOO well. Here’s a Wikipedia link to refresh our memory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

Ilsa

(64,240 posts)
4. The retired admiral on MSNOW seems to be for it.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:30 PM
Feb 28

His name is Robert Harward. Said US and Israeli intelligence will have sussed out a replacement in Iran for the regime.

haele

(15,326 posts)
6. Yah, Reza Pahlavi - a really corporate friendly dude.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:39 PM
Feb 28

Son of the former Shah, you know, the guy whose SAVAK internal police could give the Republican Guard and ICE a lesson in sly, torturous brutality against civilian dissidents?

If he's anything like Dad, he's a kinder, gentler whip hand, without religious extremist baggage.

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