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US to send three more warships and thousands more troops to Middle East, reports say
(www.theguardian.com)
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So...is this winning? I thought Iran didn't have a navy, air force or missiles? Why send so many?
Because it keeps people distracted from Trump being in the Epstein files & Epstein being a Mossad asset.
This war IS an extension of what the Epstein files are my friend.
I really don't know how to get this through to the "it's just a distraction people". But, at this point, I feel like the "distraction" people are doing the work of the Epstein class in propaganda and I should really have a copy paste for this by now. You're focusing the entire Epstein files on one single guy AND using the Epstein files as the only crime to care about.
If you care about the Epstein files and justice for the victims then please stop focusing them entirely on an old and obese 79 year old man that will see death before justice. Especially when it's used in a way to redirect focus from their current crimes being carried out with the US military. Lock the fuck in. This is part of it.
The Epstein files should make you realize something much more fundamental. That is, there is no justice that the current structures will bring to the criminals within them. That includes Donald Trump. Those structures of class power need to be torn down from their roots.
The same power structures of the capitalist (Epstein) ruling class that lead to the slaughter of children in the Iran, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands in Gaza, the degrading conditions of your own life, are the structures that will will protect every single person in those files from meeting justice.
I'm sorry, but at this point, the "it's just a distraction" crowd is killing me. It feels like you still believe that if, somehow, Trump was impeached and imprisoned that that would be "justice" for the victims. You could go back to not paying attention and feel satisfied that the system works.
That is delusional. Please quit it with this fucking Epstein "distraction" shit in every thread. And if you want the pedophiles brought to justice you should probably care about their current crimes in warfare. Because it's the same class of people that are pushing this war. It's not just some old dementia filled idiot that is our president. He'll die soon. And the same powers that protect the rich ruling class in the Epstein files will continue to exist.
YOU are being distracted by the crimes on one individual that is untouchable; so that you don't focus on the structures of capitalism and it's ruling class that make him untouchable.
I'm sorry but I don't know how you got that I don't recognize that as well from my post. By distraction I mean they intend to accumulate more wealth & power to make the Epstein class more untouchable. I even mentioned Epstein being embedded with Mossad because the genocide is related as well, and likely going to be used as a new generation of traumatized poverty victims for the Epstein class. And the media is helping them do it. I don't disagree with what you're saying but I don't see how what I said makes you think I also don't see what you see.