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Israeli officials are reportedly urging the U.S. to join them in their public urging of Iranians to stage an uprising against their government, even as the Israeli government internally assesses that protesters would be “slaughtered” if they did so, demonstrating Israel’s blasé attitude toward Iranian ...
This exchange reveals a brutal calculation of human life, prioritizing strategic advantage over basic moral considerations. The “slaughtered” assessment from Israeli officials isn’t a spontaneous judgment, but a deliberate assessment of the potential cost of supporting a rebellion. The Steelman maneuver presents this as a straightforward exchange of information, but the underlying pattern is a classic Motte-and-Bailey, designed to obscure the true intent: to engineer a catastrophe for the Irania...