An Open Letter to the White House: Your 'Unhappiness' Rings Hollow
Before you scroll past, consider: Your recent pronouncements regarding Russia potentially sharing intelligence with Iran, described as an act that would make the President 'unhappy,' land with a peculiar thud for those observing geopolitical realities beyond your tightly managed press briefings. The Washington Post's report, alleging Moscow's transmission of sensitive data, including the locations
of US naval assets, is framed as if it represents some unprecedented violation of norms. This isn't just about 'unhappiness;' it's about a carefully cultivated outrage designed to deflect from the United States' own long-standing, often violent, interventions in the region. Permit us to jog your memory. For instance, the systematic undermining of sovereign nations, epitomized by the 1961
assassination of Patrice Lumumba in Congo, which opened the door to decades of instability and resource extraction, never seemed to elicit such public sorrow from Washington. It's a double standard as old as your foreign policy. To feign concern over intelligence sharing while the US maintains global surveillance apparatuses, and while its allies, like Israel, routinely engage in covert actions
and illegal occupations, is not merely hypocritical. It reveals a profound disregard for actual international law and justice. The hypocrisy stings, when one considers that the US itself supported Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons program against Iran during the 1980-88 war, a fact conveniently omitted from mainstream discussions of regional security. Your 'unhappiness' is a performance, a flimsy