Rev Left Radio - From Iran: Letter to the American People

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

Breht reads and reacts to "A Letter To The American People" written by Masoud Pezeschkian, the Iranian president, as a ground invasion of some sort seems imminent. Check out our new design in collaboration with Goods for the People HERE   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support Rev Left and get bonus episodes on Patreon Make a one-time donation to Rev Left at BuyMeACoffee.com/revleftradio Follow RLR on IG HERE Learn more about Rev Left HERE

Hello everybody. Welcome back to a quick episode of Ref Left Radio. This is going to be pretty quick and it is here to accomplish two things. One is to let people know that we have a brand new t-shirt design. We worked with goods for the people a few years back on an original Rev Left design. And many of you will know it's the burning White House with the little hammer and sickle floating in from above. And Rev. Left Radio spelled out in the smoke. We love that design. loved working with the comrades over at goods for the people. COVID really did a number to their

business. They struggled to survive through it. Even after that sort of supply chain shock passed, they've kind of regrouped, come together, reformed their business, relaunched in a lot of ways. They've upgraded the quality of their merchandise. I mean, the original shirt was already great. They've upgraded the quality. We've worked together on a new design, and that is up today for the first time for listeners. We'll get to that in a second. And then I also wanted to marry that announcement to reading the letter that was put out on on X recently by the president of Iran to the American people. There's been a lot of like meaming on this. Like oh, you know, the Iranian leadership is so like intellectual and advanced. They think that Americans in some cases can read

and making fun of the literacy crisis in the United States, but also the idea that they have the attention span to read four pages, or that, you know, they're curious enough to want to hear this. So there is some light mocking of the idea that the American people in general are even open to reading such a thing, but I think it is worth reading and reflecting on. I think it's well written. It's true. And, you know, I assume many people will not have come across it

or might have missed it or didn't read it. And so I figure, you know, me reading it quickly would be a nice little way, perhaps, to amplify it and get it out to more people for what it's worth. Anyways, our collaboration with Goods for the People, I'll link to the new merch in the show notes. It's fucking awesome. Like, I'm really happy with the design. The quality is high level. It's more stylish and it's cut. And I think people will really like it.

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And I hope we achieve that. So if you're so inclined, I'll link to that in the show notes. It's a great way to start to support goods for the people, which again are close comrades. Anyways, I'll link to that in the show notes. Go check it out. Okay, with that out of the way, head and read this letter from Masoud Possacken, the president of Iran since 2024, I believe. We're just going to read the full statement, and I just want to get it out there to more ears, so let's go ahead and read it. It starts, in the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful. To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life. Iran, by this very

name, character, and identity is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in human history. Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never in its modern history chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination. Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained military pressure from global powers, and despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never in its modern history chosen the path to the path to of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination. Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained pressure from global powers, and despite possessing military superiority over many of its neighbors, Iran has never initiated a war. Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have

attacked it. The Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries. Even in the face of repeated foreign interventions and pressures throughout their proud history, Iranians have consistently drawn a clear distinction between governments and the peoples they govern. This is a deeply rooted principle in Iranian culture and collective consciousness, not a temporary political stance. For this reason, portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts. Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful, the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms

industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented. Within this same framework, the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran, a country that, at least since the founding of the United States, has never initiated a war. Recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is. Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forego strengthening its defensive capabilities. What Iran has done and continues to do is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense and by no means an initiation of war or aggression. Relations between Iran and the United States were not originally

hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American people were not marred with hostility or coup d'etat in illegal American 1953 tension. A weirdly constructed sentence as an aside, but no less, that's how it's written. The turning point, however, was the intervention aimed at preventing the nationalization of Iran's own resources. That coup, they're referring to the coup against Mossadegh in 1953 back by the U.S. and the U.K., that coup disrupted Iran's democratic process, reinstated dictatorship, and sowed deep distress among Iranians toward U.S. policies. This distrust deepened further with America's support for the Shah's regime.

Its backing of Saddam Hussein during the imposed war of the 1980s, the imposition of the longest and most comprehensive sanctions in modern history, and ultimately unprovoked military aggression twice in the midst of negotiations against Iran. As an aside really quickly, the war between Iraq and Iran, in the 1980s is incredibly brutal and leaves its mark remaining on the Iranian people and the Iranian psyche. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians died in that war. Many of the leadership in Iran today have relatives and families who, you know, family members who died in that war. They themselves in some instances partook in it.

And so, you know, that is, you know, it's not often talked about up there with the 1953 coup in the 1979. but it is up there as a major event in recent Iranian history that really informs the Iranian collective consciousness, as it were, and is another, you know, example of just brutal American-backed bloodshed in the region. So that's just worth noting. Back to the letter. Yet all these pressures have failed to weaken Iran. On the contrary, the country has grown. Since the Islamic Revolution, it's grown 30% stronger in many areas. Literacy rates have tripled.

Higher education has expanded dramatically. Significantly over 90%. Revolution to over other advances have been achieved in modern technology. Healthcare services have improved, and infrastructure has developed at a pace and scale incomparable to the past. These are measurable, observable realities that stand independent of fabricated narratives. So as an aside, jumbled sentences aside, this is clearly an articulation. of the fact that Iran, despite all these attacks, have not been weakened in areas of education, healthcare, modern technological development, infrastructure, etc.,

have all actually continued to grow and develop in the face of these hostilities, specifically since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. So that's what's basically being said there. Back to the text. At the same time, the destructive and inhumane impact of sanctions, war, and aggression on the lives of the resilient Iranian, and people must not be underestimated. The continuation of military aggression and recent bombings profoundly affect people's lives, attitudes, and perspectives. This reflects a fundamental human truth.

When war inflicts irreparable harm on lives, homes, cities, and futures, people will not remain indifferent toward those responsible. And this raises a fundamental question. Exactly which of the American people's interests are truly being served by this war? Was there any objective threat from Iran to justify such behavior? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country quote unquote back to the stone age, serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States' global standing? Iran pursued negotiations, reached an agreement, and fulfilled all of its commitments. As an aside, they're talking about the J.P.OCA, the agreement made under the Obama administration,

not to enrich uranium to nuclear weapons grade and to have international third party oversight of their nuclear program so that they could develop it for various medical and scientific uses, but not for weapons, which is ostensibly, although we know this is not the truth, but ostensibly the mystification around this recent slate of aggression was to stop the development of nuclear weapons, something that Netanyahu has talked about since the fucking 80s.

Like they're a week away, They're three days away. They're 37 seconds away from developing a nuclear bomb. Obviously, this is, and Netanyahu himself said it, the culmination of 40 years of his dream coming true to have the U.S. go in and fight Iran on behalf of Israel. So you have an agreement under the Obama administration that ostensibly addresses to the core

the main reason you're stating for more or less going in and committing this war against them. Trump comes in, rips up that agreement, right? This past summer, bombed several nuclear sites saying that we've decimated their nuclear program, and then only six months or so later says,

actually, they're developing nukes or they could develop nukes. They might develop nukes. Who knows they might already have nukes? We've got to go in. This is just a disgusting, sloppy, barely stitched together justification for a war of choice and aggression

on behalf of many interests, specifically the geopolitical interests of Israel and the regional hegemonic interests of the U.S. as well as the material interests of, of course, the military industrial complex and many other things, right? Iran and the axis of resistance more broadly is the main oppositional force to Israeli and U.S. colonialism and imperialism and domination in the region. And that is why they want Israel and U.S. wants Iran to be destroyed and always have. always have and in the multi-decade generational pursuit of the control containment or destruction of iran they have resorted to every means of crime and criminality and murder and assassination and sanctions and starvation strangulation to try to destroy the the Iranian people and the Iranian

state as such to advance their own nakedly imperialistic and colonialist you know, motivations and goals and have failed to do that. And so they, the contradictions have kind of burst on

to the scene in such a way that the only way that they can finally be resolved is through open, declared total fucking war. And that is what we're saying. We're seeing the culmination of processes

that began decades and decades ago. The, the implementation of Israel in 1940, and the ethnic cleansing and the NACVA that created the way for Israel backed by the U.S. and the U.K. to enter the region. The coup in 1953, just a couple years after Israel was established. U.S. and U.K. backed coup of, you know, of Mosec, who tried to nationalize the oil resources

instead of letting them be plundered by Western and controlled by Western fossil fuel corporations, all the way up through these various wars, these, you know, one of the things Israel is, done over the past several decades is again and again assassinated civilian scientists who they think might be related to a potential nuclear program and I don't want to downplay

the necessity of or the seriousness of a nuclear weapon although it is a sort of fig leaf for more naked interests on behalf of the US and Israel there is obviously one thing that a nuclear bomb would do which is act

as the ultimate motherfucking deterrent And we see the DPRK not be fucked with, not get Syria and Libya, precisely because it has the ultimate deterrent. Iran building, constructing, testing, and showing, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it has nuclear weapons would change the entire strategic chessboard of the fucking region. And it would make them more or less untouchable from this exact form of aggression. And that's the irony of it, right? If it wasn't for this persistent generational onslaught by the West broadly,

but specifically initially the UK, the U.S. and Israel, now fundamentally the U.S. and Israel, if it wasn't for this intense, consistent onslaught attempting to decapitate and topple the government, control its resources, destroy its civilization, Iran wouldn't even be in the position of having decide whether or not it needs to rush to a nuclear bomb. Still, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah who they murdered, issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear bombs. Still, they came to the table many, many times, negotiated a contract, agreed to third party international oversight. Still, they are willing every step of the way to be reasonable about this, hoping by their reasonability to prevent exactly this. You cannot satiate these fucking monsters.

Nothing you can do is enough. Only your own obliteration would be sufficient to make these fucking genocidal war criminal freaks happy. And that's just obviously being revealed to anybody that gives enough fucks to pay attention. So just just thinking about Iran's situation, what they've had to deal with, what they've had to face, signing agreements, agreeing to all this years of negotiation, having it ripped up by this fucking asshole Trump. who doesn't have any sense of history or subtlety or the political depth of the Iranian culture or or political system or anything like that comes in, rips up the agreement, bombs the country, threatens it, uses negotiations as as cover for twice acts of of bombing and aggression, open bombing of Iranian infrastructure and military sites. whatnot, in many cases, just hospitals and fucking schools, using negotiations. I mean, this is, to say nothing about international law, just immoral act of radical aggression, allah, very similar to the sort of insatiable aggression of the Nazis of the last century.

Israel wants to expand. The U.S. once, as it's being challenged by multipolarity and a declining social order at home, wants to lash out violently to establish. try to reestablish a waning dominance and this is the sort of political tumult that you get and there's no reasonable, objective way that you can look at this situation and think that the U.S. and Israel are anything but bloodthirsty,

monstrous, genocidal war criminals and that Iran is trying to survive in an impossible situation. Let's get back to the text. I might have already read this, I'll read it again. Iran pursued negotiations, reached an agreement, fulfilled all its commitments. The decision to withdraw from that agreement, escalate toward confrontation, and launch two acts of aggression in the midst of negotiations were destructive choices made by the U.S. government,

choices that serve the delusions of a foreign aggressor. Attacking Iran's vital infrastructure, including energy and industrial facilities, directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran's borders. They generate instability, increase human and economic costs, and perpetuate cycles of tension, planting seeds of resentment that will endure for years. This is not a demonstration of strength. It is a sign of strategic bewilderment and an inability to achieve a sustainable solution. Is it not also the case that America has entered this aggression as a proxy for Israel, influenced and manipulated by that regime? Is it not true that Israel, by manufacturing an Iranian

threat seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians? Is it not evident that Israel now aims to fight Iran to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar? Shifting the burden of its delusions onto Iran, the region and the United States itself in pursuit of illegitimate interests? Is America first truly among the priorities of the U.S. government today? I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation, an integral part of this aggression, and instead speak with those who have visited Iran, observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants, educated in Iran who now teach and conduct research at the world's most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced

technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people? Today, the world stands at a crossroads. Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly. and futile than ever before. The choice between confrontation and engagement is both real and consequential. Its outcome will shape the future for generations to come. Throughout its millennia of proud history, Iran has outlasted many aggressors.

All that remains of them are tarnished names in history while Iran indoors, resilient, dignified, and proud. And that's how the letter wraps up. Now, there were some parts of that letter that were lost in translation or maybe translated onto the page in rough ways. But overall, many, you know, wonderful paragraphs making very cogent and clear arguments, tracing a complicated history briefly and succinctly, and hoping that the American people will see it because Iran feels, and this is a big reason that this letter was released, Iran feels that a ground invasion is imminent. And all objective evidence points in that direction. We never know with this fucking psycho-Trump what's going to happen next. He's lying through his teeth every time he fucking speaks. He is really difficult to predict in that way.

He's, I mean, fundamentally, I think he has a pathological ego mixed with a increasing sense of senility. Like, he is increasingly incoherent. He's always been sort of incoherent on some level, but increasingly incoherent. He babbles on and on. He has these delusions of grandeur comparing himself to Jesus Christ in recent announcements. He's surrounded himself by

sycophants and freaks like Pete Hegeseth and fucking Pam Bondy, who I guess was just fired. Christy Noam, Stephen Miller, these absolute fucking psychos. And somebody like that is hyper-maniputable by Netanyahu

and Israel. That is not to say that the U.S. actually doesn't have from a real politic perspective, from the perspective of empire, interest in the region. Of course, it does. It's not to say that Trump doesn't have full, complete ownership and culpability in these grotesque actions. He absolutely does. I think all of the people involved in these war crimes should face a Nuremberg trial, a Nuremberg-style trial.

If this was a just world, they already would be. The leadership in Israel, specifically. Smoltritch and Ben-Gavir and Netanyahu would be hanging from ropes with the Saddam Hussein treatment in a reasonably just world and figures like Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump who are actively and openly admitting to war crimes and their intention to do more of them would also be hanging from the business end of a rope in a just world. We don't live in a just world, obviously, but these people are open criminals, mass murders, and genocide errors. There's no way around that.

And if mass murdering, just one instance, just the bombing of the school that was the opening salvo of this recent war, just one instance of murdering dozens and dozens of little precious, innocent baby girls in their schools. All other crimes set aside. is punishable in any reasonable justice system by motherfucking death. You cannot kill 150 baby girls and continue to live on in a just world. And if we had anything like an opposition party, those procedures could possibly be started. If we had anything like an actual rules-based international order, those proceedings would already be in process.

And if we have anything like a socialist revolution, and this mother. fucking godforsaken country and continent to say nothing of this planet these motherfuckers will be hunted down and held accountable until their last breathing breath but again Iran endures

they fight back as they mentioned in other airings they've they've survived Alexander they've survived the the Mongolian invasions they've been around for thousands and thousands and thousands of years literal millennia of ancient

civilizational history. They are not just a country. They are a civilization. One of the crown jewels in the headdress of humanity. And a country 70, a settler colonial, disastrous genocidal entity like Israel of 75 years old and a grotesque, monstrous creation of European colonialism, 250 years old this year, the United States of America, armed with the most violent, brutal, well-financed militaries in human history, in the U.S. case in Israel, because they're backed by that military, are seeking the total destruction

of not just the government, but the state itself and the civilian population and the infrastructure of that civilization after strangling it for years with brutal sanctions. They come in and start bombing

their schools and their hospitals and their industrial facilities. Mossad has been on the ground, launching internal sabotage attacks against infrastructure for years now. There is no way in which history and posterity doesn't look back on the U.S. and Israel in this period of history and see them as the 21st century version of the Nazis. And it is only our proximity to it in space and time and are being embedded within the belly of this particular beast that more of us don't see it.

But I see it. I know if you're listening to a fucking show like this, you probably probably. see it. And what is so clear to us today, which is considered a fringe opinion in the United States, by the way, when we talk like this, people think that we are fringe extremists. What is fringe and extreme and radical today will be fucking common sense and taught in history books tomorrow. So that's the letter from the president of Iran and the seemingly inevitable fucking ground invasion, the deepening of the quagmire, the insanity of this approach

seems like it is imminent. Again, there's no guarantee, but just like before the initiation of this war, there was a couple week period where there was a mobilization of military assets to the region leading up to the ultimate declaration of war, just Trump saying we're going to war, by the way. What a democracy?

That one psycho-senile freak can just decide military policy, who we go to war with, what happens to people around the, what are the beautiful democracy, no checks and balances, no opposition party, what a fascinating democracy we have. This world order that tells us that Israel, Ukraine, and U.S. are brave defenders of freedom and democracy. And all these other countries are authoritarian hellholes that need to be destroyed. It's sickening. Anyway, in the same way that leading up to this war, there was a couple weeks of moving military assets to the region and the ambiguity that surrounded whether or not there was actually

going to be a war. Sure enough there was. There's been a mobilization of troops in the same exact way over roughly a similar period of time a week or two into the region, which seems by any reasonable deduction from the evidence, would seem to mean that there is a ground invasion imminent. And it seems pretty clear that Iran also thinks that. By this letter, by their other statements, by things that the representatives of Iran, have put out online

and Iran isn't scared of that like you're sending thinking about this Israel by the way says hey we're not sending troops to this isn't that convenient very nice for you that must be nice so you can do genocide in southern Lebanon to not have to get involved with this fucking fight so we're going to send Americans to die

for this bullshit and you know the Americans that still they have access to the internet they can get online and read this they can they actually have a constitutional legal right to oppose what they perceive as illegal orders. There's never been a declaration of war by Congress. You could honestly analyze this and say that this has in no way, shape, or form benefit to

the United States, that this is an unnecessary war of aggression, not a war of defense or necessity, and refuse orders. Okay, yeah, we're dealing with 19, 20, 21-year-olds, and on top of that, they're American 1920 and 21-year-old. So, truly some of the most misinformed people on the planet. but at what point do you have moral culpability? So I'm not necessarily shedding tears over this, though families and communities

will certainly be shedding tears when their sons and daughters get packed up by the IRGC in fucking Iran. What is the American fighting for? Let's just think about it psychologically. I'm a 19-year-old American dumb fuck, and I'm being sent over, like, cattle, to Iran.

And what am I thinking in my head? I'm doing this for my country. I'm doing this for freedom and democracy and the Constitution. I mean, do they really think that? No, I bet a lot of them are scared. A lot of them are confused. A lot of them are too cowardly to resist orders. They're thinking about their own.

So like, maybe I'll get locked up. Maybe I'll get sentenced. I'll get court-martialed or something. Maybe some of them are. Hurrah, we're doing this. That's why the militaries tend toward a recruit. 18, 19, 20s, their brains aren't fully formed yet. They're at the peak of their manipulatability.

But again, the question of culpability arises. Just because there might be some manipulation doesn't mean that there's no agency or autonomy at all. As a parent, I sure as fuck am not sending my kid to the fucking U.S. military, let alone allowing Trump and Hegsseth to send them to their possible death in Iran for what? So there's no psychological oomph behind this. This is needless. This is meaningless. This is incoherent.

From the perspective of an American soldier sitting there holding his backpack being shipped over to fucking Iran. Now think on the other side of this. Iranians are defending their motherfucking homeland. They are defending their culture and their people and their families from two of the most brutal. murderous regimes on earth. They are willing to fight and die like Hamas, like Hezbollah, like Ansar Allah, for their land and their dignity and their self-determination and their families and their futures. That is something that any human being would die for.

If in a vacuum, I lived in a country that I actually gave a fuck about it and they gave a fuck about me, that I was indigenous to an area that I had lived there and my family had lived there for generations and generations. and they were invaded by an outside empire trying to slaughter and murder everybody in my fucking family and everybody in my community and drowned us in blood for their land and power grabs, I would fight.

Fuck, I live in America as a settler colonial entity. You know, if anybody came into Omaha and tried to kill my family and my friends, even in that context, I would resist. I would have, I would die trying to defend the people I love. If somebody breaks into your house in the middle of night and you got toddlers sleeping in the room over and your wife or your husband next to you

and somebody breaks into your house, are you not going to fight and try to rip their fucking heart out of their chest and use any weapon you can possibly lay your hands on to protect the things you love most? That's a different psychology. And that's the psychology at play here. So yes, the U.S. and Israel by fucking grotesque extension have clear superior military means,

much more financing. What is Iran before this war spent $10 billion a year on its military? America is trying to up it to $1.5 trillion. The Pentagon can't even pass an audit, by the way, so that's just an assumption, that's an approximation.

So there's clear asymmetry here. But there's a geographical advantage for Iran. You're coming to our territory. You're coming to our home field. You have to create. supply chain supply lines feeding into this invasion

there's a psychological advantage we're fighting for our families and futures and land and culture you're fighting for the Epstein class so Net and Yahoo can pursue the greater Israel project so Trump can erect a Trump

tower in Tehran or Gaza that's what you're dying for anyways I'm dying to protect my fucking children and my grandmother and my grandmother and my fucking family and my best friends and the beautiful culture and language and history and religion I grew up in. And there's the asymmetry of guerrilla warfare. The U.S. is fighting a 20th century

war in the 21st century context. We have, we have cheap, you know, $30,000 drones that can make you launch several million dollar interceptor missiles to prevent. There's an asymmetry in the investment here and what an asymmetrical war looks like in the 21st century. country. Iran, as I said, geographically, is a mountainous, in many cases, desert terrain, a mountain desert terrain. Like, holy shit, those are two terrible geographies if you're an invading army to contend with. Now, it could just be the case they're trying to take Karg Island and not invade the mainland. Obviously, that's probably something closer to reasonable. I can't imagine they're just going to land on fucking Iran and try to penetrate the fucking country. But if you're trying to

dismember their uranium production, if you actually want to go into that country and take the enrich, find and take out the uranium to really truly ultimately prevent them from ever possibly getting a nuclear weapon. That would have to be on some level an invasion of the mainland. But maybe they're just trying to take strategic islands and Karg Island is something that's been talked about and discussed quite a bit. And it's sort of essential to oil production and distribution for Iran in the region. But then you're just piling on to an island. end and I mean there's still lots of leverages there that Iran can play so you know there's no way to predict what's going to happen again it is a David versus Goliath part in the irony of

that particular pun or metaphor but it's a David and Goliath situation for sure but in that historical mythology David won again saturated in irony here for obvious reasons but that's what that's what the situation is what it's looking like I'm recording this on April 2nd, you know, news of an invasion could pop any, any moment. Trump's, you know, modus operandi is to appease the markets on Monday and make destabilizing announcements after markets close on Friday, so it very well could be the case that tomorrow, April 3rd, after markets close. I mean, he did it in the middle of the night, I believe, following market close on Friday

for the first initial air striking campaign. So there's no reason to think that he wouldn't do something similar. this time. So it very well could be the case of that happens. Who knows? But that is a situation that we're looking at. And it's a pity that we don't have the organized political forces capable of doing anything meaningful about it. And that is a world historical figure by the failure on behalf of the American left, very much of which I include myself. We have not lived up to our fanani and generational duty thus far, as it were. And so now we are kind of relegated to watching our brutal imperialist machine who is funded from our labor transformed into their tax dollars,

stomp on the throats of innocent people around the world. And to watch many of our families and friends and coworkers and neighbors barely notice or maybe even justify it. And we have to look ourselves in the fucking mirror and work through that contradiction. Because we should be able to do something about this. And we have frittered away for years, for generations, frittered away our opportunity to build a meaningful political force. Now, we are facing, you know, an American state apparatus and Red Scares and Co-Intel Pro and the concerted attempt to destroy with the whole economic and military backing of the American deep state,

foreign and domestic, CIA, and FBI and all the other apparatuses that are relevant to it. You know, I'm not trying to say that there's been no obstacles there. But still, the buck stops with us as far as our inability to do anything to prevent our monstrous criminal government from committing act after act after wretched act of brutal criminality against on almost every case, either totally innocent people or non-aggressive sovereign countries, that whose only crime was not fully capitulating to U.S. and Israel dominance. Their only crime is not getting down on their motherfucking knees

and kissing the boot. For that, American Israel sentenced them to death and is willing to bring us closer to nuclear holocaust, bring us closer to World War III, bring us closer to ecological collapse, all in this

apocalyptic plunderous pathological pursuit of colonialist and imperial power and land and money and all we can do is sit on the sidelines and shout our support of the resistance

forces and try to educate people in our lives about you know the actual dynamics of this fucking thing but it is nowhere near enough love and solidarity talk to you soon Thank you.