>>499452>It's well known that the hardcore WASP ascendancy wants that,And yet they've spent the last 67 years integrating "israel" with the American governmental/military/corporate state and making neoconservatism the national establishment dogma.
>If there were true lockstep coordination between these camps, America would commit everything to the Iranian adventure and would have done so under Obama.An easy counter-argument is that they had to build to this, and have been doing so since the 1980s, and, especially, since Bush, Jr in the '00s. The condition they sought was not only one where numerous other countries (besides Iran) were first destroyed/occupied (Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc.), but also one where the American public was suitably distracted and surveilled, where internal resistance was sufficiently co-opted and suppressed, where various proxies and vassals were adequately armed and strategically positioned, and where the political state itself was adequately controlled - IE a guy like Trump is perfect for the job. His family, by way of Ivanka, is married into the cult, he himself is both firmly on board with the plan (and too stupid to second guess any of it) and also extensively bribed and blackmailed, with financial interests in the crimes being committed. He has already been put through a series of situations in order to demonstrate how easily he can face consequences and be scapegoated if he does not loyally obey - IE his previous impeachment, his arrest, his sexual abuse conviction, the Butler, PA (
almost certainly staged) assassination attempt. He's a perfectly disgusting figure, and if he ever decided to do one good deed (which he won't), it will suddenly make all of the bad deeds unforgiveable in the eyes of his co-conspirators, and they'll believe that the public will be happy to believe it was all the fault of their reprehensible scapegoat, and his family members won't even come to his aid because they're all as scummy as he is.
So I think that the group at the top of the American state studied history, or had someone study it for them, and although they've been eager to attack Iran for decades, they ultimately sought to push conditions in the country and the world to better suit this ambition. Will it fail? Yes, but I still think that they made an effort to reduce the amount of resistance they'd get and to reduce the speed and extensiveness of the failure and, of course, to reduce even the miniscule risk which may otherwise have existed to themselves.