The US "republican" party is now defending an open wannabe king while it also attacks the only people free and proud enough to administer republican justice to a crowned head of Europe on American soil (Mexicans, to Maximilian Hapsburg "the First").

Is this ironic or just profound?

Any reason you’re not posting this fucking insane clip everywhere?

Important corollary: 2 doesn't exclude 1, in fact they're commonly understood as the same

For my purposes:
1 is a pacific transfer of power with no economic redistribution or retributions.
2 is more of a revolution, with land reform and other expropriations, and extensive truth and justice measures

That's why I believe 🇮🇱 will collapse long before that. A form of government that now requires a constant genocidal campaign, perpetually sinking the country's int'l image to inconceivable lows, can't in any honesty be called "stable".

/Fin

Worst case scenario: 🇮🇱 settler-colonizes all of 🇵🇸, but
What then?
What holds 🇮🇱 together after there is no more 🇵🇸?

More expansion wars until their neighbors finally have enough and attack them? Now that support for 🇮🇱 them is political suicide, with no peace deal with 🇵🇸 to hold hostage?

9/

What happens now that so many people in the West have personal experience being persecuted for supporting 🇵🇸?

Will 🇮🇱 also try to destroy every cross-border refugee camp? Every 🇵🇸 neighborhood? Hunt down ALL of the diaspora?

Global public opinion matters, esp for 🇮🇱, their obsession is proof
8/

🇮🇱 can't stop the genocide because the status quo ante (de facto military occupation of the West Bank + new settlements; siege + bombings of Gaza) requires global (mostly western) public opinion brainwashed into assuming 🇵🇸 can never be as legitimate as 🇮🇱
But the genocide itself dispels this!
7/

And so the only move, from the perspective of zionism, which is literally just baseline israeli nationalism, is to keep fighting in Gaza to prevent a stable 🇵🇸 from making its case to the world.

6/

To the large extent that it does matter, especially for the purposes of hasbara, 🇮🇱 is unsustainable if the 🇵🇸 case comes to be seen as not only equivalent but even more just than their own.

Which, ofc, it already is, but 🇮🇱 actions now only make that fact more and more evident. 5/

If 🇮🇱 concedes defeat in Gaza, it will face Palestinian interlocutors (maybe Hamas!) who will not only have survived and thus disproven 🇮🇱 "invincibility", but will also have a fresh, unassailably legitimate claim to the moral authority of surviving genocide.

An Israeli-level claim, if you will. 4/