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The second a ceasefire was mentioned I called it and said, "Ceasefires in general never work". Because they don't.

Ceasefires are agreed on by both sides when both sides need domestic publicity of the other side breaking it. Because 100% of them are broken every time. Anyone who negotiates a ceasefire knows this. I know it and it's not what I do for a living.

What this means is that this war is not popular with any population of any country. So all countries needed a publicity stunt to continue the war longer term. What ceasefires do is let people focus on immediate events instead of recognizing the illegitimacy of the war in the first place. We should ignore the subject of the ceasefire because there never was one, because there never is one, because ceasefires don't work and never have. It's a tiny meaningless blip in the whole scheme of things.

War has momentum. It's happening. And Donald Trump got us involved so every American death that comes over the next 5-20 years of its continuance is his fault because he values Israel above American lives. It's simple. Someone should explain that to his face just to see his response. Ask him why he values Israel over America. Even the media left won't do that and they hate Donald Trump. Which really shows the media is the deep state and an arm of the military industrial complex. They are just a less overtly structured form of state sponsored media. The deep state has no regard for American opinions. It shapes American opinions. To them Israel is important even if most Americans couldn't give a flying fuck.

Some will say the deep state doesn't exist. But the deep state is any time the government (on average) holds an opinion that differs from the public's opinion independent of what party is in power. Deep state is a spectrum. It's how much of the government public will has no impact on. Of course that's not zero. And any time the government attempts to shape public opinion that it is evidence of deep state because that's a part of the government thinking its job is to conform the public opinion to theirs instead of conforming their opinions to ours. And this is what the war machine does. So yes. There is a deep state.

Trump complains about it because sometimes he's aligned with it and sometimes he is not aligned with it. Now that the subject is Israel he doesn't mind the deep state so much.

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