(if you're not from the USA, you may kindly ignore this, pardon my intrusion into asknostr) Secretary of State - "we attacked Iran because Israel was going to attack, so we had to be preemptively attack to avoid casualties" Implication: "You thought WE were the superpower?? You though we could tell Israel, 'no, you're not attacking Iran, calm down'? No. We do what Israel tells us. THEY call the shots, and we obey." When did this happen? When did a tiny country in the middle east start deciding our foreign policy against our will, deciding where and when we will risk the lives of our own citizens? This is the first time I've really mourned the loss of our sovereignty. It doesn't feel like the United States is a sovereign people anymore. We are subjects. And not even to our own government. We are subjects to a foreign power. You might say we've been 'colonized', 'subdued', 'dominated'. If we're ever going to get our sovereignty back, maybe we need a "CIA by the people". But probably decentralized (maybe Nostr can play a role). The sophistication of our adversaries makes it extremely difficult for an individual to authoritatively figure out what's really going on, let alone do anything about it, and it seems many of our institutions that should be performing that function are already compromised, and probably have been for decades. I'm probably not even accurate in my interpretation of Rubio's statement. Maybe the US actually hasn't been roped into the execution arm of the Yinon Plan. Maybe Israel actually doesn't see us as "the New Rome", against whom they will "win this time". But that's kinda the point. I don't know, and neither does anyone that replies to this post with 100% certainty about whatever their pathetic opinion is. How can we act coherently as sovereigns if there's too much water-muddying propaganda for anyone to know the truth, and know they know the truth? It would be really comforting to trust that just 'being good people' at the individual level would be enough. Maybe it is, in a transcendent sort of way. But either there aren't enough people doing that, or it's just not working. The trajectory we're on is not new, it's been the status quo for a long time. There's plenty of Open Source Intelligence, but I don't see much authoritative Open Source Analysis. Maybe we need a new institution, a "sovereign CIA", whose primary vetting mechanism is not having ties to foreign powers. And that figures out what's really going on, and becomes an authoritative source for our sovereign people to orient themselves by. #asknostr #politics #usa