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500 - Iran’s Baddie Era & The Data Center Destiny
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Karl Rove's Dead Empire Doctrine
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Dillon invokes Karl Rove's statement to journalist Ron Suskind — 'We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality' — as the guiding principle of US foreign policy for his entire lifetime. The Iran outcome, he argues, proves that era is over. America failed on both military and narrative fronts: it couldn't win the war, and it couldn't convince anyone at home or abroad that attacking Iran was justified. The tools of modern warfare are drones and propaganda, not aircraft carriers, and the US failed to deploy either effectively.
Karl Rove said 'We are an empire, and when we act, we create our own reality.' Iran just proved that doctrine is finished. America can still bomb people, but it can no longer manufacture the narrative afterward.
Karl Rove told journalist Ron Suskind that the US is 'an empire' that creates its own reality, a quote Tim Dillon used to argue America can no longer do so.
