caitlin wonders how it is that every country the empire invades had to be done so as the inhabitants really wanted us to come save them from a horrible government not unlike ours but we have some practice or condition, which they want us to bring them;

The regime change supporter’s favorite trick is to pretend the people in the targeted country are an ideological monolith. All Iranians hate their government, all Venezuelans wanted freedom from Maduro, etc. They do this constantly.

Thing is, it requires them to dehumanize the very population they’re claiming to care about. They need to pretend the people in the empire-targeted nation are these weird creatures with some kind of Pluribus-style alien brain virus that makes them all think the same as each other, unlike any other human population they themselves have ever encountered.

You have never been to a country where everyone has the same attitude toward their government. Neither have I. That would be freakish and abnormal. That’s not how humans are. But whenever the warmongers are trying to make the case for US regime change interventionism in a given nation, suddenly “the people” of that nation all have the exact same political opinion, and they know what that opinion is, and they presume to speak for all of them.

Of course there are people in Iran who want their government gone. There are also people in Iran who want their government to stay. That’s normal. That’s how humans work. But whenever there’s a regime change intervention to manufacture consent for we’re asked to believe the people have stopped acting like humans and are now operating more like robots, or ants in an ant colony.............more.............