Reading this article from Roger Cohen in the New York Times, you might think you were reading the Daily Stormer.

New York Times:

President Trump has been all over the place on Iran, which is what happens when you take a serious subject, treat it with farcical superficiality, believe braggadocio will sway a proud and ancient civilization, approach foreign policy like a real estate deal, defer to advisers with Iran Derangement Syndrome, refuse to read any briefing papers and confuse the American national interest with the Saudi or Israeli.

This American slouching toward another Middle East war has been a disgrace, shot through with the twisting of truth or outright lies. Now Trump has approved, only to reverse, a retaliatory strike for the Iranian downing of an American drone, an aptly chaotic culmination to the drift the president has allowed.

The 11th-hour calling-off of military action was the one wise decision Trump has taken on Iran since he took office. Dazzled by Saudi blandishments, Israeli veneration, the opportunity to trash Barack Obama’s diplomacy and the lure of evangelicals’ votes, Trump determined from Day 1 that the Islamic Republic was the enemy from Central Casting. His view was unburdened by any serious assessment of how to balance toughness and engagement in the long-traumatized American-Iranian relationship.

The United States does not need the war with Iran that John Bolton, the national security adviser, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seem determined to deliver. It would be a war of choice, illusion and irresponsibility. It would place Americans at risk across the Middle East, with no benefit to the United States or its allies.
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The Trump administration has been lucky. Now, in a real crisis, and one of the administration’s own making, the cavalier ineptitude and absence of anything resembling process is on full public view. Threats and bombast get you just so far. Iran has called Trump’s bluff.

BOOM.

Mic drop.

Later on, he says that the Obama Iran deal was a way to manipulate Iran into opening up to the West and being conquered by Jews that way.

The Islamic Republic is a repressive regime with a hideous human rights record that underwrites Hezbollah and pursues interests opposed to America’s across the Middle East. Since 1979, it has been an enemy of the United States. It is also a sophisticated society and substantial economy whose highly educated population seeks greater contacts with the West. Its political system is not monolithic.

The strategic thinking behind the imperfect but effective nuclear deal, the fruit of painstaking diplomacy, was that it might over time bolster the more moderate forces in Iran. Trump’s ripping-up of the deal was a gift to the hard-liners. This month, Iran said it would stop honoring the limit on how much low-enriched uranium it is allowed under the deal to stockpile. How is that good for the United States, or indeed for Israel?

Does this one Jew believe that is the best strategy for Jews?

Who knows.

Probably not, because he was definitely a staunch supporter of the Iraq war.

But even if he does believe what he’s writing, he’s an extreme outlier.

Virtually all Israelis and the overwhelming majority of the diaspora want to send the big orange man to fight a war or otherwise use military pressure to collapse the Iranian regime. Certainly, that is going to be the view of the entire editorial board at the New York Times, and their reporting is going to help Trump with his push for war, just as their reporting helped George W. Bush in his push for war.

Publishing op-eds like this is Jews hedging their bets.

They always make sure to be on every side of everything.

No one reads NYT op-eds. No one really reads op-eds in general, other than other journalists.

Everyone with any sense at all knows that this war is going to be an utter disaster of proportions we can’t really even imagine at present, and the Jewish media will turn around and blame the whole thing on Trump just like they turned around and blamed Iraq on Bush and his team.

In fact, it’s obvious that they have handpicked Mike Pompeo and John Bolton to run this specifically because they are not Jewish. Bush was so surrounded by Jews that it created some pretty bad optics. This time they will be able to pin all of it on three goyim.

Then they’ll be able to send New York Times columnist Roger Cohen on CNN to say “I wrote a column back in June of 2019 saying exactly this would happen. Don’t blame this on the Jews, goyim. We’re not monolithic, you know.”

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault

In the most prominent instance yet of the Anglin Theory on the Turkish coup being employed, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has hinted that it might have been staged.

The Independent:

France’s foreign minister has said Turkey may no longer be a viable partner in the fight against Isis in Syria, while Syrian state media has claimed the failed coup in the country was fabricated by President Erdogan to tarnish the military’s reputation.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault raised concerns over Turkey’s ability to fight Isis amid growing political instability in the country following the attempted coup against Mr Erdogan’s regime.

He said: “There are questions that are being asked and we will ask them. [Turkey] is partly viable but there are suspicions as well. Let’s be honest about this.”

He said he would raise the issue at a meeting in Washington next week convened to discuss action against Isis.

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A Syrian government newspaper has said the coup was fabricated by President Erdogan in an attempt to “avenge the military and strip it of its remaining support.”

In a high-profile article by (((Roger Cohen))), The New York Times felt it necessary to reassure us that just because the entire thing only benefits Erdogan, that doesn’t mean it’s a hoax:

As coups go, the Turkish effort was a study in ineptitude: No serious attempt to capture or muzzle the political leadership, no leader ready to step in, no communication strategy (or even awareness of social media), no ability to mobilize a critical mass within either the armed forces or society. In their place a platoon of hapless soldiers on a bridge in Istanbul and the apparently uncoordinated targeting of a few government buildings in Ankara.

It was enough for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking on his cellphone’s FaceTime app, to call supporters into the streets for the insurrection to fold. That Erdogan will no doubt be the chief beneficiary of this turmoil, using it to further his push for an autocratic Islamist Turkey, does not mean that he staged it. The Turkish Army remains isolated from society. It is entirely plausible that a coterie of officers believed a polarized and disgruntled society would rise up once given a cue. If so, they were wrong — and the error has cost more than 260 lives.

Even Cohen doesn’t appear to be that certain it wasn’t a hoax. “It is entirely possible,” he says. He seems to be trying to assure himself as much as the reader.

The biggest problem for those pushing the official narrative is that there is no official narrative. Erdogan is just throwing out his own conspiracy theory – which is much less likely than my own conspiracy theory – presenting no evidence to support it, and rounding-up thousands of people in a purge the likes of which the world hasn’t seen since the Bolshevik Revolution.

Cohen even admits that no evidence exists for Erdogan’s claims:

His attempt to blame, without any evidence, the attempted coup on Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric and erstwhile ally living in Pennsylvania, forms part of a pattern of murkiness and intrigue.

Many outlets are claiming that the Anglin Theory is widespread in Turkey, though with media outlets being shut down left and right over the past four days, it isn’t being published in the country.

NPR:

Erdogan was democratically elected, but he’s been cracking down on journalists and political opponents. There are many Turks who feel he’s grown too powerful.

The coup attempt has generated a rampant conspiracy theory that the military takeover was “staged” so that Erdogan could respond by purging Turkish institutions.

One man, who believes in the conspiracy and declines to give his name, offers this cynical take on the country’s leadership: “They’re celebrating democracy? They know democracy? They know anything about the democracy? We are ruling with democracy now? They are talking about democracy? Ha. Just I’m smiling,” he says.

“I don’t want to be arrested,” he adds, showing me pictures of people beating and whipping soldiers who had surrendered. “This is shameful. They were only following orders.”

I also recommend reading Tolga Temuge’s article “Turkey’s military coup: A gift from God?” He basically makes the same points I have made, though fleshes them out in a different. He also does not directly say that Erdogan must have done it himself, but leaves the reader to conclude this based on the fact it is the only remaining option after you go through and consider the other possibilities.

Anyway.

The good news is, Erdogan will make a great enemy once the Crusade starts.

He’s really got that super-villain aura.