While everyone is focused on the pandemic, several extremely important developments have happened in recent weeks that are being mostly overlooked.

Afghanistan

If there's one thing America knows its how to bomb Iraq.

Pity the poor Iraqis. They dared to officially ask us to leave their nation today. They even asked nicely.

Our ADD President doesn't understand that something as subtle as long-term strategy and goals is a thing. The same applies to his fan base.

"History repeats; the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
- Karl Marx

Judith Miller, Karl Rove, Tom Friedman, Joe Lieberman have all crawled out from whatever rocks they were hiding under to step in front of TV cameras and tell us how wonderful a war with Iran will be.

Idaho veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars initiate two resolutions to Bring Our Troops Home:

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/01/06/idaho-republican-party-passes-an...

Idaho Republican Party Passes Antiwar Resolutions
Idaho GOP pressures Sen. Risch: Bring our troops home, expose Afghan war corruption, follow Constitution

In 2000, Iraq switched away from selling oil for dollars, to selling oil for Euros. Then we went to war with Iraq.

Syria is trying to build a competing pipeline to oil to the European market. So we went to war in Syria.

In 2019, Venezuela and Iran created petro cryptocurrencies to use for oil trade. Now we're going to war with Iran. I suppose Venezuela was a little too close to home for an actual invasion, but we came close, didn't we?

As expected Iraq voted to kick out U.S. troops.

The Iranians will strike back eventually, but the costs are already adding up.

We've long since left international law behind.
Russia and China have to think "Could we be next?"

I'm going to update this essay later. This should get things rolling for now.

Both Washington and the news media are bending over backwards to drum up support for a war with Iran. In the proud tradition of incubator babies and yellowcake, they are both twisting the facts and outright lying. The further you go to the right-wing of the news media, the bigger and more belligerent the lies.

First of all, let's look at some examples.

It's complicated.