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Tucker Carlson says Iran conflict has bankrupted United States (tass.com)

submitted 8 hours ago by Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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American journalist Tucker Carlson said the conflict over Iran has bankrupted the US and brought an end to the American empire.

"The United States has gone bankrupt" because of the war with Iran, threatening the dollar, and many other things, Carson said in a video on YouTube.

According to Carlson, because of the war with Iran and involvement in other conflicts in the Middle East, the US was forced to "borrow trillions of dollars." Servicing that debt is currently devastating the federal budget, he added. According to Carlson, everyone knew that the Republicans were headed for "a major defeat" in the US midterm elections to Congress precisely because of the war with Iran and its consequences.

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[–] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net [S] 4 points 3 hours ago*

Good response. Tucker Carlson is extremely famous. When he says Washington should not have attacked Iran and that this war caused the Republicans to suffer a humiliating election defeat, it actually is newsworthy, interesting, and amusing to many of us anti-imperialist posters. That doesn't mean we love everything else he has to say.

I also post quotes from other right-wingers (like Peter Thiel, a few weeks ago) saying basically the same thing. In fact, having right-wingers come out and criticize a US imperialist war is a pretty good barometer reading for indicating that the war in question is going terribly wrong for the US ruling class. And that is precisely why I pay attention to it.

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