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Mossad, Eichmann, and America's Clumsy Regime-Change Playbook
from The Middle Of The End · #109
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
7 minPrompted by a cab conversation about Israel, Tim details the Mossad's operation to capture Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, contrasts it with America's bumbling interventions (Paul Bremer in Iraq, Kermit Roosevelt in Iran), and cites Chomsky on Israeli lobbying power versus Russian interference claims.
- 40:26America's regime-change model relies on buying off generals and circus strongmen, which always fails
- 41:01Noam Chomsky argued the Israeli lobby has more influence over U.S. politics than Russia does
- 41:44Chris Hedges and other anti-war figures have spent decades warning about escalating global instability
- 42:27America will embrace fascism as unemployment rises and conditions deteriorate
- 43:00QAnon believers think a Trump insider is leaking coded messages that need to be deciphered by fans
- 43:41QAnon followers believe Guantanamo Bay stays open so Trump can imprison Obama and Hillary for human trafficking
- 44:02The fact that people take Alex Jones seriously signals the end of something, whether collapse comes in 50 years or sooner
- 44:42Across the political spectrum, people operate outside logic with conspiracy theories they can't reason through
- 45:06Technology's impact on human cognition over the past decade is fundamentally unknowable and unprecedented
- 46:09Tim believes the CIA and NSA committed documented atrocities, though the full extent remains unclear
Alex JonesQAnonChris HedgesNoam ChomskyBarack ObamaHillary ClintonDonald Trump