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i have a simple take about this that i think is borne out by tucker's general history of spreading white replacement theory on his broadcast and being a cia guy: tucker is just on the antisemitic JQ side of the current fascism. there's video of him not long ago back in 2012 talking about how iran is a backwards nation of savages. i highly doubt he's turned around his tune on the ayatollah. he's also deep in the putin camp on the question of eastern europe. now that there's a conspicuous but not quite mainstream well of fascists that genuinely are relitigating the JQ as if it's a serious topic of political inquiry and not archbigotry.
especially telling is that he's not like, making an argument here about the rights of iranians or their personhood or their geopolitical position. he's pointing out simply that ted cruz is an idiot that doesn't care about the position he wants to put amerikkka in. that's not an explicitly antizionist position here, it's just not maximalist.
He's playing Cruz to make him look dumb while making himself look smart. He's not taking any actually positions here, he's just saying "HAHA LOOK AT THE STUPID MAN" which is really easy because Cruz is an absolute dullard.
Tucker knows the Trump Train is coming to an end, and he's positioning himself as the renegade outsider for the next round.
I think it's this too. I think Tucker is looking at the likely outcomes here that either, despite all the bluster and some missile strikes Trump moves away from war with Iran in a climbdown that further splits his base & cooks him with Washington hawks, or he escalates and joins a war on Iran on behalf of Israel that's already incredibly unpopular before US planes start getting shot down and ships sank and bodies start coming home in coffins on TV at the airport. He's positioning himself outside of the lose-lose scenario using their incompetence as the predetermined arguement for why he's not a dove / pro-Iran etc.
I feel like that tack works pretty well in media, and as much as I think people like Tucker and Tulsi Gabbard are freaks, I do appreciate them throwing up some barriers to US involvement. Not because I care about the US, I don't want our comrades to have their lives destroyed by the great satan.
Someone else described him as a contrarian, but I see your angle too. I had the impression that the cultural forces of anti-islam where much stronger than those of anti-semitism within his cabal.
with the US mostly being out of Iraq and Afghanistan i think that's all wound down a bunch. Probably not a pre-9/11 level, but certainly regressed to the mean while the hate machine is spun up for russia and china.
plus they had to pretend to care about muslims for a while with the uyghur lies
The only muslims on earth the western empire cares about (but not really) 🤣