The lack of buildup in the press has been strange. Normally an administration would prep the public for military action with a few months of war/atrocity propaganda, but the PR has been so lazy that we just ended up bombing Iran on the weekend and half the country wasn't even aware we were trying.

I'm not talking about the military buildup. Obviously a lot of people knew that Trump was staging the Navy in striking distance of Iran, but I feel like that was underreported in the mainstream, considering the scope of the attack.

The closest we got was the color revolution protests around the New Years, but even that was a lazy effort. We heard reporting about thousands dead, but there were no media symbols to rally around like dead Kuwaiti babies. Some kid posted a video about killing himself. Mike Pompeo just bragged about Mossad starting the protests as if he forgot they were supposed to be legitimate.

It's like they don't really care, or perhaps that they've resigned themselves to losing the 5th gen battlefield with the younger generations, so they don't even bother making the case to them. The boomers, on the other hand, are in the tank no matter what - every boomer I've talked to thinks the strikes are exactly what we should be doing - so maybe they figure that's all they need for now.