As Donald Trump paves the way for direct US entry into the war on Iran, it is worth taking

a moment to absorb our descent into dystopia. Let's not pretend there was a golden age behind us.

This was always a world defined by injustice, but goodness me, our current decline is precipitous.

You may have read or watched dystopian fiction and years gone by and wondered

how such nightmarish futures could ever come into being. And now here we are with a far-right

authoritarian running the world's only superpower, allied to a genocidal state. And this far-right

authoritarian casually posts on the internet orders to the Iranian people, everyone should

immediately evacuate Tehran into sort of digital resurrection of the Mongol invasions.

A promise to unleash mass destruction against one of the world's major cities, with a population

10 million, with anyone remaining, however old, however young, however infirm,

however ill, however vulnerable, judged a legitimate target in practice in total defiance of any

international laws and norms. As justification, Trump declares simply stated Iran cannot

have a nuclear weapon. I said it over and over again. The justification for Israel's entirely unprovoked

and baseless attack on Iran is that it is on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon. An article in

the intercept 10 years ago noted that Benjamin Netanyahu warned that an Iranian nuclear bomb was imminent

in 1992, 99, 2012 2002, 2009, and 2012.

Guess what?

He was talking bullshit.

Let's listen to Tulsi Gabbard, who is Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence,

testifying just three months ago.

The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon,

and Supreme Leader Kamomeini has not

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