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00:01:19.000Jake Sullivan, who you might have seen at Davos, is now on MSNBC doing one of those half-interviews that political figures sometimes do where they sort of go on the television and then don't even tell you anything.
00:01:31.000Are you refusing to rule out strikes inside Iran?
00:01:33.000Well, I can't say that on the television.
00:01:35.000What are you doing on the television then?
00:01:37.000So here is Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to your President, Joe Biden, refusing to rule out strikes inside Iran.
00:01:44.000What will happen to the Middle East, and indeed the world, if America starts bombing Iran?
00:01:49.000Is it going to be great for everyone, do you think?
00:02:04.000It's responding to threats as we see them.
00:02:07.000Does your response to those threats as you see them, sometimes to the casual observer or someone who might have studied military history, look a bit like a war?
00:02:16.000With significant but proportionate force.
00:02:19.000Lovely phrase, significant but proportionate.
00:02:21.000That's one of those things that would have been workshop.
00:02:23.000Yes it was significant but it was proportionate.
00:02:26.000People have talked a lot about proportionality when discussing the dynamics between terrorists and national armies.
00:02:31.000Well what would be a proportionate response And actually, it is a ridiculous word when talking about war, isn't it?
00:02:37.000Because if you talked about proportionality and reason, you'd surely get to the point where you agreed that diplomacy and peace was the best proportion to offer everybody.
00:02:47.000This rationalisation of military escalation is a curiously modern phenomena.
00:02:51.000In the days of barbarians and Mongols and Saracen swords swinging about, I think people at least knew, look, We want to be powerful.
00:05:01.000This idea that you can kind of kill everyone that you don't agree with, whether it's in
00:05:05.000Canada for euthanasia or in the Red Sea for this kind of military activity is so ridiculous.
00:05:10.000And now we have the benefit of the kind of hindsight we do, whether it's the invasions and wars in Iraq and what that subsequently led to, or even the Suez Canal like nearly a century ago, 70 years ago.
00:05:20.000You kind of learn first of all of these events through a patriotic lens.
00:06:10.000I don't recognize in my own, such as it is, analysis of global events, an agenda by Russia to start sort of getting into Madrid or New York or for China to start running around in Frankfurt.
00:06:21.000It seems like they're doing stuff in their regions that are mostly connected to trade and geographical disputes that are a significant part of their history.
00:06:29.000Whereas America are bombing Yemen, where they used to bomb Vietnam and Afghanistan.
00:06:33.000All these places they thought, what the hell's that got to do with it?
00:06:35.000with us all of a sudden? What is this role and is this possibly a time to revise it? Even if it's
00:06:41.000being done with the best intentions? We have to do that.
00:06:43.000These people are savages. When we were doing it, the British, that was our idea. These people are
00:06:46.000savages. They need us to do it. And what the version of that's playing out now? Maybe it's time
00:06:51.000to review it. In Iraq and Syria, we need to deal with threats to our troops and we are doing so
00:06:55.000including with the strikes the president ordered Friday night. Why are there American troops in Iraq
00:07:04.000Let me ask you, how do you respond to Iran's foreign minister calling this a strategic mistake that will destabilize the region?
00:07:13.000Is the United States bracing for a counterattack?
00:07:15.000It's weird how they manage to call things not wars but proportionate and significant responses when we've now established in the last three days America's bombed Yemen, Syria and Iraq.
00:07:24.000They're sort of pondering whether or not to bomb Iran.
00:07:28.000Well I'm not a bit surprised that Iran didn't like the strikes that we took on Friday night so that Would be par for the course.
00:07:36.000We are prepared to deal with anything that any group or any country tries to come at us with and the president has been clear that we will continue to respond to threats that American forces face as we go forward.
00:07:49.000So the general posture is that America have the right to have troops in that region, protect commercial interests that possibly are at odds with other regional interests.
00:08:00.000And it's interesting when we discuss migration and border security that America are all over the world.
00:08:05.000Why the hell are these people from all over the world arriving in America?
00:08:09.000Is there anything to do with globalism that your country is engaged in at the moment?
00:08:14.000Yeah, we go around the world bombing loads of people and asserting our right to practice When I say you, I don't mean people in America, I don't even mean your American military, I mean the forces that are behind even your government.
00:08:27.000The deep state, the military industrial complex, who appear to benefit from, they've clearly calculated, this will be good either way.
00:08:33.000Like whatever happens, Iran get involved in a war, that'll be alright, Iran don't get involved in a war, we'll just carry on.
00:08:38.000They've not thought about the impact on you, economically, spiritually, psychologically, or even the mortal impact of more dead service personnel.
00:08:45.000Have you ruled out strikes inside Iran?
00:08:49.000Well, sitting here today on a national news program, I'm not going to get into what we've ruled in and ruled out from the point of view of military action.
00:08:56.000It's funny how meta the news has become.
00:08:58.000Like, everyone knows what this is and this does.
00:09:00.000Well, sitting here on a national news program, I'm not going to get in and out of what we will and won't do.
00:09:04.000Well, what's your bloody job then, mate?
00:10:17.000Are strikes inside Iran off the table?
00:10:20.000Even the way the discourse is conducted, like strikes in Iraq, there's still people dying and stuff.
00:10:24.000If you went to any of these regions, you'd meet people with limbs blown off, and yeah, that's where Michael died.
00:10:28.000You can't even watch these kind of documentaries.
00:10:29.000You try and watch them sometimes, like maybe Michael Winterbottom will make a documentary, and it's like, yeah, this five-year-old kid died, and then you sort of think, oh shit, oh no, they're the same as us, oh my god, they're the same as us.
00:10:38.000I've allowed myself to think that because they've got different sounding names and they've got different outfits on, that it's alright to do this.
00:12:06.000The attacks mark the beginning of our response and there will be more steps to come, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.
00:12:14.000In other words, the United States' endless war in the Middle East, which has killed millions of people.
00:12:19.000Like, the way they're discussing it, it's like, sort of, what brand of cake mix you like most.
00:12:24.000And, like, millions of people have died of this not war.
00:12:27.000and destroyed entire societies over the course of the past three decades is entering a new and more deadly stage.
00:12:32.000Now this has been going on for ages ages three decades we've kind of got used to it tuned it out can't really be bothered with it getting on with life and now it's escalating into actually we're gonna need you to pay a bit more attention to this and maybe even take a little short holiday to the Middle East.
00:12:45.000It's a one-way ticket so it's not too pricey.
00:13:38.000The only thing that's being varnished is the truth.
00:13:40.000The back-to-back appearances by officials of both the Democratic-controlled White House and the Republican-led House of Representatives were meant to convey the unanimity within the U.S.
00:13:49.000political establishment for the escalation of the war in the Middle East.
00:13:52.000Alright, so even the sort of curating and staging of like, here's this guy, what do you think?
00:14:29.000Look, we're just gonna do that in Yemen, then we'll do that in Syria, then that, then that, then that, then... Oh no, yeah, you're right actually, we're all gonna die as a result of this.
00:14:36.000A full-scale US war with Iran would have catastrophic human, political, and economic consequences, eclipsing even the bloodbath caused by the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
00:14:45.000One thing that's worth pointing out is that Iran do have a nuclear arsenal, which means that even though Iran sounds a bit like Iraq, remember, well, no, actually, Iraq also had weapons of mass destruction.
00:14:55.000That's why we went there, to get our hands on those weapons of mass destruction.
00:14:58.000But when we got there, wait a minute, there were no weapons of mass destruction!
00:15:01.000That means, same people in charge now, telling us that we should go to war, 45,000 troops stationed there, millions of people there, This whole thing's our fault!
00:15:07.000Every statement made by the White House to justify this war is a lie.
00:15:49.000with dozens of warships and hundreds of military aircraft.
00:15:52.000Well, that's an interesting perspective on the situation.
00:15:55.000I felt then, like if you have family members that are in the services, that maybe it's just so in us now that the service is sort of a way of life and this is part of what we do.
00:16:04.000This really forecloses on the possibility of a different vision of our future where we're not at war and the best shot for kids from you know what they would call flyover states is to go and die on some far-flung irrelevant campaign at the behest of globalists.
00:16:18.000I think it's There's possibly a better version of reality for the people of Iran, the people of Ukraine, the people of Russia, the people of Delaware, for all of us.
00:16:25.000This can't be the best version of global events.
00:16:28.000And when you watch them discussing it on the television, it becomes clear that it isn't the best version, that they've just not thought enough about it, or they have thought about it, and the conclusions they've reached are at odds with our interests.
00:16:36.000The latest offensive in the Middle East is a crucial element of an unfolding global war centrally targeting Russia and China.
00:16:42.000The subjugation of Iran, lying at the heart of Eurasia, is a critical component of the United States' drive for global military domination.
00:16:49.000In its effort to militarily encircle and economically strangle China, Washington is seeking to drive a wedge between Beijing and Iran, which is a large oil supplier to China.
00:17:01.000A major factor in instigating the escalation against Iran is the massive setback suffered by the United States and the European imperialist powers in Ukraine.
00:17:09.000Even as US imperialism doubles down on its fight against Russia to the last Ukrainian, it has opened up another front in the global war.
00:17:17.000This is why recent events are so significant because now we're gaining access to an entirely different perspective and one that might be more conducive to our shared survival than the one that we're metaphorically bombarded with continually.
00:17:30.000That we are told, oh, Russia is an unprovoked aggressor.
00:17:35.000And what's clear is there is a route to peace, but it involves the withdrawal of a kind of a long established American ideology of kind of commercial imperialism, would you call it that?
00:17:45.000In his appearance on Sunday, Sullivan was keen to point out that the U.S.
00:17:48.000strikes against Yemen and conflict with Iran have absolutely nothing to do with Israel.
00:17:54.000Less than 10 days after the events of October 7th, we warned, the U.S.
00:17:57.000is using the present crisis to put into effect long-standing plans for a war with Iran, as the Middle East is in front of the U.S.
00:18:03.000war with Russia and war plans against China.
00:18:05.000Certainly, whatever the truth of that is, I've heard, and you've heard, loads and loads of times people going, we want a war with Iran, how are we going to get a war with Iran?
00:18:13.000American New Century, those boxes that Trump was meant to have had, war with Iran, it's a thing that's been going on long before I heard the word Houthi, for example.
00:18:20.000The massive armada the United States immediately sent to the Middle East was not just a show of force, it was meant to be used.
00:18:27.000Since then, the United States has mobilized its armada to repeatedly bomb Iraq and Syria while strikes on Yemen have become virtually a daily occurrence.
00:18:36.000American imperialism confronts a staggering domestic crisis in which democratic forms of government are breaking apart under the pressure of enormous and ever-expanding social inequality.
00:18:44.000Even as they are enmeshed in a bitter factional struggle that is rapidly intensifying into a full-scale constitutional crisis, both US political parties are committed to a massive escalation of war throughout the Middle East and across the globe.
00:19:07.000That's the opposite of democracy, I think.
00:19:08.000The domestic political crisis in the United States is a major factor in the global eruption of US imperialism.
00:19:13.000The deeper the crisis, the more aggressive the American government becomes abroad, hoping to project its internal tensions outward.
00:19:19.000Well, you saw for yourself the way that Jake Sullivan conducted that conversation, you saw the way that the media framed it broadly as theatre, and the perspective offered to us here from a, you know, pretty far left Left in the old sense of the word, where what they're really interested in is attacking imperialism, attacking corporatism, attacking crony zombie capitalism, is that this is an exploitative, deceptive attempt to engage in wars against both Russia and China.
00:19:44.000Maybe some of you will argue that the historical affiliation between those nations and sort of old-school communism means you can't rely on this analysis, but I think there are plans to engage in what looks like a global conflict.
00:19:54.000I mean, that sort of makes sense, doesn't it?
00:19:56.000It sounds more true when you hear this is an attempt to encircle Chinese interests and get a stranglehold over their relationship with Iran.
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