A very interesting interview. Their guest essentially shuts down assertions about direct US Govt manipulation and instead goes over the history of Pakistani politics to illustrate how broken and colonized their government is. It seems to paint Khan as a blip in the status quo with the military and bourgeoise steering things back into the US’s good graces just through their own interests. It seems to make sense given how many decades the US entrenched itself in their government and policy. Due to material conditions the imperialism machine just runs itself.
I would give the whole thing a watch before making snap judgements. It’s really enlightening to have info from inside the country.
@supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml also makes some decent points on this. I think the main source of contention is not really whether the US was involved (it was, even if long before current events), but whether the little push the US gave just recently actually had an effect on an already colonized government.
My personal thought is that this might play into the whole “leftist conspiracy theory” part of the internet that’s a big topic right now, which I think is important because conspiracy theories encourage sections of the proletariat to not organize and remain hopeless or focus more on conspiracy-crafting than working together against their own state.
Then again, there was that recent assassination attempt that I totally forgot about. 😅
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