Faces of Death

Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan announced on Sunday, February 4, that he could not rule out attacks on Iran itself as retaliation against the terrorist attacks on American military. Those terrorist attacks in Jordan took place in a made-for-TV ambiguious terrorist attack that killed three African Americans (two women) in Jordan. The attack seemed to be a multi-cultural gender-inclusive false flag operation to start a world war.

The attacks were supposedly by a militia called Kataib Hezbollah. Doubts were raised about this point immediately and it appears that there was an intentional effort to force the Americans to accept an unbelievable story as a means of dumbing down the population and inducing passivity.

I cannot pretend to know what actually happened. All I can say is that the United States military has no credibility in light of the continuing lies being told and the large number of qualified people leaving the military at this moment—not to mention the explicit policy of promoting in the US military those who show no promise of individual initiative or bravery.

What I can say is that Jake Sullivan’s facial expression was clearly one of someone who has entered a catatonic state, who is responding entirely to immediate tasks, doing his assigned work, but no longer capable of conceiving of the deadly implications of his actions.

He is no longer capable of understanding the significance of his actions.

He was not a man of integrity, from the start. Yet we can feel for how he has gotten himself trapped in a machine, a system that is set on self-destruction. He is right there in the middle, telling the lies he must tell, pretending that the push by the United States and Israel for a world war, starting from Iran and extending to Russia, a world war to save the Netanyuhu and Biden administrations (which have essentially merged) is natural, balanced and limited.

The essential thing for those trying to understand American politics and diplomacy in this moment of institutional decay is to pay attention to the facial expressions of the politicians, more than to the words they say. We already know what they will say.