when the Empire threatens Iran to distract from the war at home, you know it's terminal.
when the Empire threatens Iran to distract from the war at home, you know it's terminal.
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when the Empire threatens Iran to distract from the war at home, you know it's terminal.
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The function of a war then becomes not primarily economic extraction or geopolitical power (though that remains), but political survival domestically. You manufacture an enemy abroad to justify the liquidation of enemies at home.