Yesterday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told the Sunday Times that Pakistan serving as a mediator in the U.S.-Iran war is “one of the shining moments in our history.”
The Biden administration gave us the prolonged Ukraine proxy war, the Israeli Gaza genocide, and the collapse of the elected Pakistani government. What did I leave out? Oh, he failed to prosecute Trump’s attemped insurrection for three years while allowing him to run for another term in violation of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Wow. This is a **big** read - in several senses of the term.
Two takeaways from my first read-through:
1) Western "democracy", as always, is being delivered to other parts of the world through very undemocratic processes. No thought whatsoever to the **human** impact of its policies.
2) The current military-controlled government of Pakistan is untrustworthy and unstable, therefore a very poor base for negotiations as consequential as those between the US and Iran - unless, Washington is not truly pursuing a negotiated settlement, which from my window, it isn't.
The Biden administration gave us the prolonged Ukraine proxy war, the Israeli Gaza genocide, and the collapse of the elected Pakistani government. What did I leave out? Oh, he failed to prosecute Trump’s attemped insurrection for three years while allowing him to run for another term in violation of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
More dr Strangelove references thank you
Wow. This is a **big** read - in several senses of the term.
Two takeaways from my first read-through:
1) Western "democracy", as always, is being delivered to other parts of the world through very undemocratic processes. No thought whatsoever to the **human** impact of its policies.
2) The current military-controlled government of Pakistan is untrustworthy and unstable, therefore a very poor base for negotiations as consequential as those between the US and Iran - unless, Washington is not truly pursuing a negotiated settlement, which from my window, it isn't.