Thoughts On The Trump Team's Signal Chat About Bombing Yemen

Thoughts On The Trump Team's Signal Chat About Bombing Yemen

March 26, 2025

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Caitlin Johnstone

It’s always fascinated me how much empire managers focus on messaging. Their focus is never on whether or not they should do evil things, it’s on what narrative they’re going to sell to the public about the evil things they’re going to do.

The Atlantic has published the full contents of a Signal chat from earlier this month featuring top Trump administration officials discussing the bombing campaign the president was about to begin in Yemen.

There’s a whole scandal in mainstream U.S. politics right now about the Trump team’s carelessness in letting the conversation become public. The story goes that Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz accidentally included in the chat Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who then swiftly exited instead of staying and doing some actual journalism by observing what these warmongering swamp monsters were up to. Goldberg did this because he is not actually a journalist, he is one of the most virulent war propagandists working in U.S. media today, having famously worked to manufacture consent for the invasion of Iraq by publishing false narratives linking Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda. He is also a former IDF prison guard.

At no time does anyone ever raise the issue of whether or not it’s ethical to rain military explosives on an already war-ravaged and deeply impoverished nation in order to protect Israel’s right to commit genocide. Hegseth’s interest is solely in what stories will be told to the public to justify those actions.

These are the kinds of people who rule our world. This is how they think.

The powerful understand that narrative control is everything. Power is the ability to control what happens, but ultimate power is the ability to control what people think about what happens. Human consciousness is dominated by mental narratives, so if you can control what narratives the humans believe about their reality, you can control the humans.

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