Thoughts On The Trump Teams Signal Chat About Bombing Yemen by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2025-03-30 at 15:05:38 )

Thoughts On The Trump Teams Signal Chat About Bombing Yemen by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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It is always fascinated me how much empire managers focus on messaging. Their focus is never on whether or not they should do evil things, it is on what narrative they are going to sell to the public about the evil things they are going to do.

The Atlantic has published the full contents of a Signal chat from earlier this month featuring top Trump administration officials discussing the bombing campaign the president was about to begin in Yemen.

There is a whole scandal in mainstream United States politics right now about the Trump teams carelessness in letting the conversation become public.

The story goes that Trumps national security advisor Mike Waltz accidentally included in the chat Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who then swiftly exited instead of staying and doing some actual journalism by observing what these warmongering swamp monsters were up to. Goldberg did this because he is not actually a journalist, he is one of the most virulent war propagandists working in United States media today, having famously worked to manufacture consent for the invasion of Iraq by publishing false narratives linking Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda. He is also a former IDF prison guard.

What is getting a lot less discussion in mainstream political discourse is the depraved nature of the bombing itself, and the Trump teams exuberance about murdering civilians seen in the brief exchange of messages. Waltz describes to the group how United States forces waited until a target entered an apartment building and then flattened it with an airstrike, eliciting digital applause from the rest of the administration.

So the Signal chat reveals that the United States waited for the Houthis "top missile guy" to walk into a residential building where his girlfriend lived before launching an airstrike that collapsed it, which must have killed civilians. JD Vance said this was "excellent." "please see here:" - Dave DeCamp (DecampDave) March 26, 2025

"The first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriends building, and it is now collapsed," Waltz said.

"Excellent," Vice President JD Vance responded.

"Great job all," said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

"Kudos to all - most particularly those in theater and CENTCOM! Really Great. God bless," said White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

"Great work and effects!" replied intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard.

Waltz and Trumps middle east envoy Steve Witkoff are seen posting numerous celebratory emojis.

Imagine how f-cked up you have to be inside to react this way to the bombing of an apartment building full of civilians. How far gone you have to be as a human being. These are the kinds of freaks who rule our world.

The real scandal here is that the media along with the Democrats are more upset about the fact that Signal was used to make plans to bomb Yemen than they are about the fact that we bombed another country and killed 8 innocent children. "please see here:" - Power to the People (ProudSocialist) March 25, 2025

Another thing that strikes me about the Signal chat is how Trumps supporters are so much more confident that Yemen needs to be bombed than Trumps own cabinet was.

Any time I criticize Trumps ongoing war on Yemen I get his cultists in my replies going "Well obviously the Houthis need to be bombed to protect global shipping routes, what choice did Trump have?" But if you scroll through the chat you will find mixed opinions about it, admissions that there is no urgent need to launch any strikes right away, and nonsense about how the bombings can be used "to send a message."

Trumpers have their tongues so far up Trumps asshole that they are more supportive of Trumps warmongering than Trumps own appointed officials.

In reality this entire conflict could have been avoided by simply using the leverage the United States has over Israel to make it honor its ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

The only reason Yemeni forces began attacking ships in the first place was to blockade Israel because of its genocidal atrocities in Gaza; as soon as a ceasefire was in place those attacks stopped, and the Houthis only announced that their blockade would resume again when Israel announced a genocidal starvation siege on the entire Gaza Strip. The Trump administration told Israel to let the United States handle the Houthis for them, and that is exactly what happened.

US Bomber Deployment to Diego Garcia Suggests Heavier Airstrikes on Yemen Could Be Coming

The US is also deploying a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East
by Dave DeCamp-DecampDave #Yemen #DiegoGarcia #Houthis #Iran
"please see here:" - Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) March 26, 2025

But the main thing that stands out for me right now is a section of the conversation where Pete Hegseth talks about what the administrations "messaging" should be about the airstrikes.

Hegseth wrote the following in the lead-up to the strikes:

"I think messaging is going to be a problem no matter what - nobody knows who the Houthis are - which is why we would need to stay focused on: 1) Biden failed & 2) Iran funded."

It is always fascinated me how much empire managers focus on messaging. Their focus is never on whether or not they should do evil things, it is on what narrative they are going to sell to the public about the evil things they are going to do.

Here we see Hegseth talking about the challenges in the administrations "messaging" regarding its upcoming bombing campaign on Yemen, and the need to establish a public narrative about how (1) Biden is to blame for it and (2) the Houthis are "Iran funded".

At no time does anyone ever raise the issue of whether or not it is ethical to rain military explosives on an already war-ravaged and deeply impoverished nation in order to protect Israels right to commit genocide. Hegseths interest is solely in what stories will be told to the public to justify those actions.

These are the kinds of people who rule our world. This is how they think.

The powerful understand that narrative control is everything.

Power is the ability to control what happens, but ultimate power is the ability to control what people think about what happens. Human consciousness is dominated by mental narratives, so if you can control what narratives the humans believe about their reality, you can control the humans.

The need to control the narrative is why the United States empire has invested so heavily in soft power, and why it has the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever constructed.

It is why Palestinian journalists are being killed in Gaza while western journalists are not being allowed in.

It is why pro-Palestine activists are being silenced and deported.

It is why the internet is being censored with increasing aggression.

It is why Julian Assange spent years in prison.

The empire invests extensively in narrative control, as do manipulative people in general.

If you have ever had the misfortune of knowing a malignant narcissist or sociopath, you will know they tend to pour immense amounts of energy into manipulating the social narrative about themselves and the people in their circle. Manipulators understand the power of narrative control, while ordinary people do not.

And that is why the world looks the way it looks: powerful manipulators understand this dynamic, while the rest of humanity typically does not. Normal people tend to assume they are looking at a more or less accurate picture of what is happening and how the world works from the information that is laid out in front of them, not understanding that the information they consume is being constantly distorted, funneled and manipulated by the powerful to the benefit of our rulers.

That is how consent is manufactured. That is how wars are justified. That is how revolution is suppressed. That is how the political status quo is maintained. That is how the public is duped year after year into signing on to more of the same while being robbed, cheated, exploited, impoverished, censored, oppressed, brainwashed, and driven to environmental disaster.

The real currency of our world is not gold, nor bureaucratic fiat, nor even war machinery. The real currency of our world is narrative and the ability to control it!!

We will keep being manipulated into disaster and dystopia until enough of us wake up to this reality!

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