Ignoble puppetry — versus genuine honor — Caitlin Johnstone's accurate perspective

© 2026 Peter Free

 

19 July 2026

 

 

Regarding the Iran War — which the United States started

 

From Caitlin Johnstone — here in resequenced excerpts for clarity:

 

 

Those [US] soldiers killed in Jordan did not die doing anything noble. They died meaningless, undignified deaths for an immoral and unworthy cause.

 

Those soldiers weren’t killed by Iran. They were killed by Donald Trump.

 

They were killed by the oligarchs and empire managers whose decisions sent them to die in yet another middle eastern war based on lies, and who will never lose a wink’s sleep over it.

 

The Iranians are dying for their country.

 

The Americans are dying for Israel, for money, and for geostrategic control.

 

Not a single American life in the United States is being protected by the actions of US service members in the middle east.

 

They’re not defending their homeland, they’re attacking people who are defending theirs.

 

This isn’t worthy of praise, it’s worthy of anger and outrage.

 

There’s this bizarre, cultish belief among Americans that you have to play along with the idea that every US soldier killed in action died doing something heroic which benefited the American people, even when every reasonably intelligent person knows that’s objectively false.

 

All this does is make it easier for the US military to recruit more soldiers and to manufacture consent for more depraved wars of aggression.

 

Everyone thinking of joining the US military should refrain from doing so, and everyone who is already in the US military should do everything they possibly can to get out.

 

© 2026 Caitlin Johnstone, Trump Killed Those US Troops in Jordan, caitlinjohnstone.com.au (19 July 2026)

 

 

The moral? — Murdering innocents is not an honorable occupation

 

If we make our living extinguishing innocent people, we have chosen a dishonorable and spiritually unworthy path.

 

This is why the 'war criminal' question is embodied in international law.

 

War criminality is a concept about morally correct behavior. One which the Fascist United States thrashes as a matter of national principle.

 

Being Satan's murder-minion makes one a puppet. Not a patriot.

 

The American Oligarchy feasts on We the People's easily manipulated, generally lazy rejections of awareness.