Ett annat sätt att se på händelserna i Mellanöstern än vad som visas i etablerade media. Inte alls osannolikt!

The recent, more extensive release of the Epstein Files was the closest the ruling class has come to being exposed in centuries. The war in Iran changed the subject.

John Leake Mar 04, 2026

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. —James Madison

Divide et Impera — divide and rule. It’s literally the oldest trick in the political playbook. When the mass of ordinary, naive, hardworking people start to wake up to the reality that they have been manipulated, exploited, and played by an arrogant ruling class that regards them with contempt, the ruling class starts a war abroad against an evil and menacing foreigner. This completely changes the subject and focuses all attention on the evil foreigner, thereby eliminating the revolt at home.

Since the Financial Crisis of 2008, the ruling class has performed various iterations of this misdirection trick. In the wake of the crisis—with the Treasury and Federal Reserve giving hundreds of billions of bailout funds to the very bankers who caused the crisis—the media began incessantly talking about a purportedly resurgent racism in the United States. Don’t focus your ire on Wall Street bankers — it’s redneck plumber with the Confederate flag on his ball-cap that’s the real threat to the nation.

The “divide and rule” trick was also evidenced with the entire “Russian-Collusion” hoax that got the country squabbling about President Trump purportedly being in league with the perfidious Vladimir Putin.

Same trick with the fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine and the hideous lie in 2021 that it was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been performing the same trick in his own country. It’s no secret in Israel that, for many years, Netanyahu endorsed the policy of allowing the funding of Hamas in Gaza, regarding it as a way to maintain a division between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.

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