My TRT tv interview Saturday just as the US attack on Iran was announced

I tried to highlight the tensions among the futility of Western bombs against nationalists in the Global South, Iran's need to respond against US targets, and its desire not to hurt Arab Gulf states.

I was hesitant to discuss these issues just as the US attack was completed, but felt the issues it captures are so central to understanding the conflict that it was worth trying simply to point out some of the core drivers. In any case, most of the questions media ask today about how Iran will respond have been answered in the past month by Iranians themselves, so it was not difficult to mention a few. The attack against the Udaid US air base in Qater today is an example. We are still at the stage when too many variables are swirling around to allow for any credible assessment of the long-term significance of what has happened, and how the consequences of the Israeli/US joint venture attack against Iran will play themselves out. A core reality which the Trump team has reaffirmed in every media interview and social media post is that this US government, like most of the previous ones, either has no idea of how individuals and societies in the Middle East and the South react to foreign attacks by imperial forces who seek to subjugate them — or they understand them but do not care about the people of the Middle East and treat the people and their natural resources as assets in a contest that should be determined by the use of force by the Israeli-Western combines that have attacked, plagued, and ravaged much of the Middle East since Napoleon in 1798.

The US/Israeli and broad Western inability to grasp historical context, the power of identity, and cultural drivers across the region is on display by the Trump team more glaringly than ever before. I will discuss this more deeply in posts soon, as it seems to me to be critical to meaningfully assess what is going on today and what we might expect to happen in the near future.