Konstantin Thinks You're Stupid

How stupid does Konstantin Kisin think his readers are? He has just uploaded his debate with Dave Smith, claiming a win. His readers think that Kisin eviscerated Smith.

So, I had to go and watch the whole debate – and suffer the gormless expression that Piers Morgan carries for nearly an hour.

Kisin: “I believe in speaking the truth and being honest”.

At 38:15 - Israel wants regime change in Iran, but Iran “wants to destroy Israel. There’s a big difference”. So much for speaking the truth and being honest.

Iran has been consistent in calling for the end of the Zionist regime. It has never called for the annihilation of Jews or even Israel as a country.

Even the oft-repeated claim that Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map is a lie; it is a deliberate mistranslation of what the former Presidend of Iran Ahemedenejad really said: “This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”

So, he also was calling for regime change – which according to Kisin is a legitimate goal. Just as Rhodesia has vanished from the page of time, and apartheid South Africa. Or slave-owing America and Jim Crow America.

At 39:15 – “You’ve brought in a different conflict – let’s stick to Israel and Iran”; as soon as the absurdity of Kisin’s position is made apparent, he wants to restrict the playing field: “why are you entering the penalty area; let’s stick to the centre circle, ok?”

Dave Smith is pointing out where Kisin’s policy is heading. It is not a case of a simple regime change in Iran; what does he think will happen? Israel topples the mullahs and Iranians will head to the polling booths to usher in a liberal, secular, democratic utopia?

At 39:34 Kisin complains – “It’s your government that destroyed Libya. It’s not Israel”.

More dishonest, disingenuous drivel from Kisin. “Israel may have lobbied America to do it – but it was the Americans who carried it out. Why are you blaming Israel”?

This is where Kisin protests: “I believe in being honest and speaking the truth”.

Oh, the irony!

No, that’s the wrong word.

Oh, the dishonesty of the man!

General Wesley Clark describes how seven countries were going to be taken out in five years – finishing off with Iran. Speaking to a Pentagon officer, Wesley describes the following exchange.

Are we still going to war with Iraq? He said, “Oh, it’s worse than that. This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years. Starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran”. I said, is it classified? He said, “Yes sir!”.

Six of those countries are now failed states: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan.

It is now Iran’s turn.

The Americans have drawn a picture of their intentions for us. And Kisin still doesn’t get it.

It takes a special kind of stupid to be so blind to what Israel is doing right now.

“The American government is so gullible that they go around invading countries on the say-so of Israel”.

And that is what a strawman is. Kisin’s readers complain that Smith doesn’t understand a strawman. It is Kisin’s subscribers that don’t understand.

Kisin’s remark about American gullibility is as perfect a strawman as you are likely to come across.

AIPAC controls Washington. It boasts that its candidates have won in nine of the 10 Democratic primaries. It pours money into American elections to defeat anyone who does not back Israel completely.

Kisin is aware of this. And his concern is?

“one side wants to wipe the other one from the map the other side wants not to have people who want to do that in charge of that country”.

A lie based on a deliberate mistranslation of what Ahmedenejad said: “This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”

The regime must vanish. Not Israel, not Jews.

Now let’s ask who is wiping who of the map?

Who is wiping whom off the map?

America has just bombed three sites in Iran, and Trump is tweeting that “now is the time for peace”.

This attack has ensured that Iran will now pursue a nuclear weapon. Turkey will want their own nuclear weapons.

North Korea is a nuclear power – America will not bomb North Korea.

Iran has learned an important lesson. And craven Western leaders like Keir Starmer will ensure that Iran learns that lesson well.

Starmer is calling for Iran to return to the negotiating table.

Orwellian.

Iran was about to sit at the negotiating table on June 15 in Oman, when Israel bombed Iran on 13 June, thus scuppering those talks. Did Starmer condemn Israel for thwarting those talks?

Iran now knows that the nuclear option is critically important for the country. Even with regime change, Iranians will pursue the nuclear option – it’s the only way to ensure that the country will not be invaded. North Korea proves this.

None of this matters to Konstantin Kisin. He isn’t unaware of all of this.

Kisin is simply contemptuous of his subscribers – he believes that his subscribers are simply too stupid to follow events for themselves.