Justin Ling: Donald Trump und Benjamin Netanyahu haben im Iran ein gefährliches Wagnis eingegangen. Warum feuert Mark Carney sie an?

Because no one, outside North Korea, China and Russia actually thinks the regime is a net positive. Outside of their support for Russian invasion of Ukraine , helping Russia with drones and sanctions evasion, There’s been pushes to classify the IRGC as a terrorist organizaiton in Canada for years until they finally were put on the list in 2024, we’ve sanctioned them and put out statements against the regime for its many brutal crackdowns on protest, with the most recent one in January being quite horrific, including mutilation of protestors.

This is why commentary on Trump’s insane moves feel like the lethargic Senate trying to outmeanuvre Julius Caesar. Everyone’s talking process, but no one is paying attention to what they are really doing.

The more concerning part to me isn’t the legality of it, it’s always been a veneer put on by powerful states, see Iraq in 2003, it’s the naked use of power and Israel’s apparent strangehold on Trump’s foreign policy.

Love this line from Ling regarding Carney’s endorsement of this completely insane decision:

>It is a feckless, bewildering, totally unnecessary position. It should call into question the prime minister’s supposed belief in the “prohibition of the use of force, except when consistent with the UN Charter,” as he told the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year.

>Carney’s statement does not even make a boilerplate call for de-escalation. Instead, it cheerleads America “acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.

>That is a painfully naive and obsequious statement which blindly accepts an entirely unconvincing casus belli.

Absolute scorcher.

>But America isn’t even trying to pretend that there is a nuclear program left to destroy. Earlier this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that “given the opportunity, (Iran) will return to enrichment one day.”
They are lying to justify war. And they are risking international peace and security in doing so.

This is scathing, and rightfully so. Carney said that the concept of human rights is selectively applied, and then at his first opportunity, he selectively applies the concept of human rights to Iran, while defending a country that blew up a Girls‘ elementary school.

Absolutely appalling from our government, but not surprising. We need to demand better, for ourselves and especially for the victims of American imperialism. We made the mistake of thinking standing up for „Canada“ meant standing up for its people. Evidently, it meant quite literally standing up for Canada, the state – meaning the political and economic structures, and their elites. *We* have to make sacrifices, and *they* get to keep steady and stable profits.

Something’s gotta give, guys.

The dangerous gamble would have been to let Islamic Republic keep growing in power and get their hands on nukes… Unless you’ve lived under their dictatorship you can’t properly understand how dangerous and vicious they are and how big their plans are for the world