No one is saying that the report made the us government do anything, just that it’s evidence of the long-held goals of the us foreign policy establishment
Edit: like yeah, think tanks like this produce reports for other countries all the time and it doesn’t mean anything because they’re just saying what they wish the country in question would do, but in this case we are actually interested in what the us ruling class wants the us to do
It’s neither, the US was cooking up these plans for a long time
But these aren’t plans. This is not a smoking gun. This is a proposition that was made decades ago, while we already at war in the region, to extend that war into Iran. It’s silly to point to this as the reason that the conflict started now, which is what the OP was doing.
No one is saying that the report made the us government do anything, just that it’s evidence of the long-held goals of the us foreign policy establishment
Edit: like yeah, think tanks like this produce reports for other countries all the time and it doesn’t mean anything because they’re just saying what they wish the country in question would do, but in this case we are actually interested in what the us ruling class wants the us to do
That is what we were arguing about. The OP said
But these aren’t plans. This is not a smoking gun. This is a proposition that was made decades ago, while we already at war in the region, to extend that war into Iran. It’s silly to point to this as the reason that the conflict started now, which is what the OP was doing.
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