The Economist is a very long running (and now globally based magazine and website) that promotes the opinions and views of capital. Rather like the Financial Times but more views than news as such. Below is an extract from a post by Adam Roberts its digital editor on 22nd June.
I post it primarily because it provides a rather more sober corrective to the warmongering headlines which can be found in more or less all the UK media (Socialist Worker and the Morning Star excepted obviously). The ‘isolationists’ refers to Steve Bannon’s proto-fascist MAGA wing of Trump support
The isolationists warned that getting involved in Iran would be wrong in principle. Members of a different camp worried—reasonably—that China, a far bigger threat to America in the long term, is bound to become stronger from all of this. Every extra American satellite, general, diplomat, spy, plane or aircraft-carrier now focused on the Middle East is an asset unavailable in the Pacific or elsewhere in Asia. From that perspective this bombing does look rash. But its full consequences will only be clear once evidence emerges to show whether Israel was right to claim that the Iranians were on the cusp of producing a nuclear weapon. I’m wary about that, not least because I remember the faulty intelligence claims that led Americans into a disastrous war in Iraq in 2003.
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