Jeremy Scahill

bribe their own populations with oil revenue and say, oh, my God, oh, our life is so good and our life is so peaceful.

And the past three weeks have just been a huge dose of reality for them that Iran was not going to just sit around.

and say, sure, just overrun our country, overthrow our government.

We can have a whole discussion about the internal politics of Iran, but just on a basic level, this is a lawless series of war crimes that the U.S.

and Israel are committing, and Iran's neighbors are portraying it to the world like Iran is the mad dog biting everyone in the neighborhood, and we just can't figure out why they would ever do this to us.

CENTCOM is in Qatar.

What is CENTCOM?

U.S.

Central Command is the entire brains of U.S.

military action in the Middle East.

And Qatar is saying, oh, my God, why are they attacking Qatar?

Well, it's the entire brain of the operation is there.

Bahrain houses the Fifth Fleet, the most important U.S.

naval base in the region.

All of these countries have massive CIA or military operations inside of them.

What we're witnessing right now, this is an external representation of the kind of corrupt nexus that exists under Donald Trump between Israel, the White House, the Trump family, Jared Kushner, Gulf monarchies, and wars of aggression.

Like I said, it's a combination of some of the worst components of American political and imperial history, all combined into this crazy, erratic lunatic that is currently sitting in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

This is something I've been talking about too, just like with friends who aren't necessarily immersed in this the way that I am.

Trump is without question in a quagmire right now.

And you see this kind of frantic reframing almost on a daily basis of what the objectives are.