My personal conspiracy theory (here is a dumpster full of salt to take with it, take it as you will) is that a major PR operation was underway to rationalize committing genocide against arabs “in defense of the jews”, drive up wealth inequality in the empire by hollowing out the social safety net and when it reached a breaking point in the empire turn around and say “We have been betrayed! The jews said they needed to be saved in Israel and we had NO idea they were committing genocide!!! Look what they did to our economy too they stole it and gave it to billionaires!!!” and hopefully trigger a world wide conflict where a violent line could be drawn between reasonable people.

The thing is, it didn’t work, the U.S. public was, before the start of the palestinian genocide, perhaps arguably in a place where the structural ability to shape the narrative in the media coupled with ownership of ALL major social media companies by rightwing conservative billionaires who are ideologically onboard with this plan whether they know about the plan or not could have sealed the deal… but now? Now the truth has gotten to too many people with hearts.

Given those conditions imagine you are a middle level player in a plan like that and suddenly it has become apparent that your side has existentially lost? What would the behavior of someone look like in that headspace? I think it looks a lot like what is happening right now, very very very scary plans being enacted in a rushed haphazard way almost like they didn’t have all the pieces in place to make it work and were starting to realize they were only going to have less pieces in the future, not more.