RI... If there's one thing that the United States truly excels at — aside from diabetes and predatory lending — it's psychological projection.
For those uninitiated in this ancient art, psychological projection "involves projecting undesirable feelings or emotions onto someone (or something) else, rather than admitting to or dealing with the unwanted feelings." It's a defense mechanism to avoid dealing with your own bullshit, to put it simply.
So, for example, when you terrorize half a dozen countries with flying bomb-dropping robots, or are caught operating secret torture dungeons in Africa and Eastern Europe, or arm Takfiri maniacs in hopes of destroying peaceful nations on the other side of the world, or bomb multifarious brown countries with conventional planes flown by pilots hopped up on amphetamines, or impose sanctions that kill 500,000 children, or just straight-up occupy countries, sometimes for dozens of years or more, and then point the finger at a nation that you can't destroy, because it's actually capable of defending itself and protecting its national interests — this is the crème de la crème of psychological projection. Sorry for the run-on sentence. [Edit: It's not a run-on sentence. Thank you commenter "tom".]
And so we are not even remotely surprised that James Mattis, Defense Secretary of the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism, just accused Iran of being "the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism".
Mattis made the remarks one day after Donald Trump’s government imposed new sanctions on Iran in response to it testing a ballistic missile. Because if there's one thing the United States will not tolerate, it's any country that can protect itself from the United States.
Here's more from our friend Mattis: "We have seen [Iran's] misconduct, their misbehavior, from Lebanon and Syria to Bahrain and to Yemen and it's got to be addressed at some point."
We love how Mattis includes Bahrain in his laundry list of Iranian horrors. As if we're supposed to be outraged that any country might oppose a despotic regime propped up by the United States and Great Britain. How could you, Tehran?
And of course, it's hard to get too upset about Iran's role in Syria, considering that Tehran was invited by the sovereign government of Syria to help defeat extremists armed by the U.S., Turkey, Saudi Arabia — all the big names in the democracy promotion industry. Yes, Iran was "asked" to get involved in Syria. Is Washington even aware that this word exists? Certainly not when it comes to its "anti-terror" operations in Syria...
It really is special when the United States — a country that deposed the democratically elected leader of Iran, and then replaced him with a murderous autocrat, and then a few years later helped a neighboring rival use chemical weapons against the Iranian people, and then a few years after that shot down an Iranian airliner — wags its finger at Iran and says, "these monsters have to be 'addressed' at some point!"
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sierravic Avramijevdan • I'll be happy when I see the Clintons swinging from the end of the rope, and not a moment sooner. Same goes for those psychopaths Blair, Albright and Clark. During their stupid little war on Serbia that only lasted a few weeks, they dumped hundreds of tons of their nuclear waste and condemned our people to suffer from cancer and all sorts of other diseases for eternity. I mean, plutonium has been found on the gound among various other isotopes. Plutonium does not occur naturally, and has a half life of over twenty thousand years. According to Albright herself in off the record conversation with journalists about the Ramboulliet ultimatum, "Serbs need some bombing and that's what they are going to get". Never mind entire future generations will be suffering the consequences. But perhaps that is exactly the point. The world's biggest state terrorist has to stay true to itself, and terrorise. +17
Avatar teddyfromcd Avramijevdan • concerning SERBA - CHINA-
let us note -- that CHINA has basically sent a SERIOUS message t0 the west. .in its own ''understated" way..
remember how CLINTON USA bombed ''accidentally' the chinese embassy in belgrade to 'send a message" tht ''serbia yugoslavia is OURS??"
AND NEVER has apologized on what amounted to
1) a criminal violation against SERBIAN sovereignty 2) a criminal act of war also against a GUEST sovereign state of China?" WELL -- we now know that not only has china been coming around to Serbia - DESPITE serbia being a land locked country right in the middle of what really as HOSTILE NATO/western vassals - with plenty of big partnerships/development/investment/ cultural projects - as part of china's land-SILK ROAD -
IT IS IN SERBIA - in BELGRADE that china PUT DOWN the MARKER of the eurasian integration FINANCIAL SYMBOL by having serbia as the FIRST AND ONLY COUNTRY to be location of china's global development banking system.
why NOT in -- SAY -- austria ? poland maybe? why not in GENEVA or BERN the centers of the econolmic system of the west?
but china establishes it in BELGRADE - sending a 'message' -- ''not only are we back - SERBIA is going to be the RED LINE over which you will NOT cross against us in eurasia".
BWAHAHAHAHAA....AND what comes in addition to THAT?
NOT JUST carefully re-constructed meetings between BLOOD TIES of Russia and Serbia
but RUSSIA'S sending (at discount as was reported) something like a dozen Sukhois to serbia - that the serbians say "they are going to be sufficient to defend our airspace" - in perfect calculation .
there is one of those serbian veterans in fighting over the decades -- who volunteer in DONBASS AND DPR - - who openly gives interviews -- including saying 'in serbia they have made it illegal - a crime -- but we know they are instructions from the AMERICANS -- that to be supportive of russia and our true slavic roots is unpatriotic - but we serbians know who we are..i am fighting in donbass with my brothers and sisters in ukraine and from russia because we are defending our common heritage and ties from the western, fascist assaults...
we are one people and we will never submit no matter how long it takes..one way or another we are going to make this the LAST WAR of ukraine that the fascists will never conquer our slavic culture --
"the russian people and the serbian people are ONE SOUL in TWO BODIES".
BWAHAHAHAHA -- soon - let us HOPE that the american/western ''instructors" controlling the serbian government still in many ways - are KICKED OUT!! and let serbia BE FOR SERBIA!!
mark • America is the Third Reich on steroids. The folk who have been running things there make Hitler seem quite sane and moderate by comparison. But America will destroy itself just like the first Third Reich for the same reason - poor leadership.+4
Tatarewicz/ mark • America will destroy itself... (because of)... poor leadership. But look where leadership is coming from: Congress. It's members are helped into office by the Israeli lobby and Sayanim in "exchange" for US providing security for Israel, fighting its enemies. There is probably no foreign lobby in Washington with an annual budget of $70-million, so powerful and influential that it gets "paid" for by American taxpayers; an arrangement so preposterous that few Americans are aware of it.