🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇶 The U.S. broke the truce it had with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as soon as the evacuations of Victoria Base and the Green Zone in Baghdad were done by assassinating the PMF commander in Anbar province, Hajji Saad Duway al-Baij.

Iraqi sources report that Saad al-Baij played a crucial role in negotiating this truce with the US allowing the USAF to safely evacuate all remaining personnel at the Victoria Base and the U.S. in response, killed him, hence last night's retaliation by the PMF against other American bases in Iraq.

This act continues to reinforce the rule that the U.S. is not a trustworthy, credible negotiation partner that will always go behind your back once they get what they wanted from you. This act continues to discourage any real diplomacy between Tehran and Washington D.C.

📝 Ahmad Askary: The one lesson we must take from the past 30 years is that what begins as an experiment in the periphery eventually makes its way back to the imperial core in a much more refined manner. The Israelification of the world is such a process.

The treatment of Palestinians became the treatment of neighbouring states in the region (destroying cities, infrastructure, expelling entire populations, killing governments to make governance impossible), which has become the treatment of countries further afield like Cuba (under siege with no electricity) and Venezuela (helicoptering in and kidnapping a country’s leader).

All norms incubated by Israel in the Arab world and, through colonisation of US halls of power, now spread to every node of decision-making in American empire, which has abandoned any pretense to a higher moral Christian or post-war Universalist notion of international law, and now fully adopts Israel’s Bronze Age/Old Testament mindset.

And all of these practices, incubated and proliferating in the periphery, will come back in refined form and deployed on the core’s citizens. The War on Terror brought back surveillance, militarised policing, “domestic threats”, etc. Palantir’s surveillance empire is another forward example.

The Israelification of the world is here. And what Israel does or wants is no longer a distant sand people affair, but something that increasingly defines the architecture of this decrepit civilisation.

🔗 Ahmad Salman