I Will Not Help Manufacture Consent for Your Imperial War of Aggression.

In 2011 Iran imported 1,200 troops along with armored vehicles from Saudi Arabia to ruthlessly crush protestors, ultimately resulting in 122 deaths with reports of torture and abuse of detained protestors. Oh wait, that was Bahrain, who is a U.S. ally, houses the U.S. Navy’s 5th fleet, and is ruled by a brutal repressive monarchy.

“Using an array of tools of repression, including harassment, arbitrary detention and torture, the government of Bahrain has managed to crush a formerly thriving civil society and reduced it to a few lone voices who still dare to speak out,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa. - Amnesty International

Iran exe­cut­ed 81 peo­ple on March 12, 2022, the largest mass exe­cu­tion in the mod­ern his­to­ry of the coun­try, elic­it­ing out­rage from United Nations and non-gov­ern­men­tal human rights organizations. Oh I’m sorry, that was Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, hosting five U.S. bases and ruled by an oppressive absolute monarchy.

Human Rights Watch issued a news release stat­ing that “[r]ampant and sys­temic abus­es in Saudi Arabia’s crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem sug­gest it is high­ly unlike­ly that any of the men received a fair tri­al.“ The organization’s deputy Middle East direc­tor, Michael Page, called the Saudi mass exe­cu­tions ​“a bru­tal show of its autocratic rule.“

Mohammad Bin Salman, the current ruler of Saudi Arabia, was the one who ordered the kidnapping, brutal torture, murder, and dismemberment of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Trump loves MBS because he loves corruption, and money.

A 60-year-old British man has been charged under cyber-crime laws in Tehran after allegedly filming Israeli missiles over the city. Oh I’m sorry that was actually in Dubai, the largest city in the UAE, a U.S. ally, hosting 5,000 U.S. troops at Al Dhafra Air Base, and ruled by an oppressive federal monarchy. 20 people have now been charged for filming and posting videos of drone and missile impacts in the city.

The 2023 Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2021, there were 132,000 individuals living in modern slavery in the UAE while the population is only 10 million. This equates to a prevalence of 13.4 people in modern slavery for every thousand people in the country. The UAE has the second highest prevalence of people in modern slavery of 11 countries in the Arab States region, and the seventh highest prevalence out of 160 countries globally.

The UAE practices Kafala. The Kafala system binds a migrant worker’s visa and legal residency to a specific employer (sponsor or kafeel), giving them significant control over the employee’s mobility, job changes, and ability to leave the country. Vice’s 2016 episode, “Trump in Dubai and China in Africa” exposed the awful living and working conditions of migrant workers that were building Trump properties. This is exactly the same system that trump talked about implementing in the U.S. by making farmers responsible for migrant farm workers.

Skip to 5:30 in the video to see the segment about Trump, but the whole thing is worth the time.

Nearly 42,000 Iranians have been stripped of their nationality in just six months and in defiance of international law. My mistake, this is 2025 reporting out of Kuwait, a U.S. ally, hosting 13,500 U.S. troops at 4 different bases, and repressive constitutional monarchy.

Launched under the increasingly authoritarian rule of Kuwait’s new monarch, Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the policy claims to target foreigners who illegally obtained Kuwaiti citizenship – but naturalized citizens and political opponents are getting caught up in the campaign.

To justify its campaign against foreign nationals, the government at times uses xenophobic rhetoric mirroring that used by the far right in the US and Europe – notably, warning that foreign criminals are taking advantage of the generous welfare benefits meant for Kuwaitis and should be punished. The trump regime has been very vocal in its desire to denaturalize their political opponents including Zohran Mamdani and Ilhan Omar.

In 2024 the U.S. State Department’s Human Right’s Report stated that Iran had, “Significant human rights issues includ[ing] credible reports of arbitrary arrest or detention and serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom, including censorship.” No wait, that was Oman, a key strategic partner to the U.S. and repressive absolute monarchy.

A total of 42,200 women, children and elderly people were killed between 7 October 2023, and 5 January 2025, a new study has found. Was it Iran? Nope, it was Israel, the U.S.’ “greatest ally in the Middle East.”

Israel, the apartheid state which Amnesty International cites as causing the “highest known death tolls among children, journalists, and health and humanitarian workers of any recent conflict in the world.” Israel, who has attacked six countries since 2023 and who is, right now, preparing for a large ground invasion of Lebanon. “We are going to do what we did in Gaza,” a senior Israeli official told Axios.

No, I Will Not Help Manufacture Consent for Your Imperial War of Aggression.

The U.S. doesn’t give a flying fuck about freedom and democracy. The U.S. loves to install authoritarian dictators, like Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was brought back to power after a CIA and MI6 coup in 1953, after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh nationalized Iran’s oil in in 1951.

Just like how the U.S. didn’t free Venezuelans. The same government is in charge, Maduro was just replaced with Rodriguez, who is allowing U.S. interests into the country. To list a few more:

• Guatemala (1954): The CIA (Operation PBSUCCESS) ousted democratically elected Jacobo Árbenz, replacing him with military dictator Carlos Castillo Armas.

• Brazil (1964): The U.S. supported the military coup against President João Goulart, ushering in a 21-year military dictatorship.

• Chile (1973): The CIA heavily supported the coup against socialist President Salvador Allende, leading to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

• Argentina (1976): The U.S. supported the military junta that overthrew President Isabel Perón, initiating a period of intense repression.

This war has nothing to do with liberating the oppressed people of Iran. It’s only bots and useful idiots spreading this propaganda talking point about “40k protestors killed in Iran.” And it’s only bots and useful idiots who want to conflate opposition of imperial wars of aggression with defending authoritarian regimes. This war is about securing Israeli regional dominance.

The U.S. loves brutal authoritarian regimes, as long as those regimes work toward the interests of the billionaire Epstein class. That’s the difference between Iran and all these other Gulf nations. The problem isn’t that Iran is ruled by a brutal authoritarian regime. The problem is that Iran refuses to bend to the will of the Epstein class, and therefore the Epstein class has sent their vassal states of the U.S. and Israel to war.