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Why is IK and his troll core sticking to the conspiracy narrative?
First, a clarification.
Pay attention to those that are leading the conspiracy narrative and notice which PTI leaders are NOT front & centre.
You see? The non trolls aren’t.
That’s why, “troll core”.
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First, a clarification.
Pay attention to those that are leading the conspiracy narrative and notice which PTI leaders are NOT front & centre.
You see? The non trolls aren’t.
That’s why, “troll core”.
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Now:
there is no “conspiracy”
the Americans don’t like IK & don’t like to have to negotiate hard.
There is a difference.
But it isn’t a difference that helps IK and the troll core. The only thing that helps is that there is a grand, international, US led “conspiracy”.
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there is no “conspiracy”
the Americans don’t like IK & don’t like to have to negotiate hard.
There is a difference.
But it isn’t a difference that helps IK and the troll core. The only thing that helps is that there is a grand, international, US led “conspiracy”.
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So, why stick to “conspiracy”?
The “conspiracy” allows IK an easy access exit ramp off the “attack-the-Army-leadership-highway” he has taken.
If it was
, then everyone else just a pawn. 
bad guy.
It’s a signal that IK wants to continue to work w the Army.
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The “conspiracy” allows IK an easy access exit ramp off the “attack-the-Army-leadership-highway” he has taken.
If it was
, then everyone else just a pawn. bad guy.It’s a signal that IK wants to continue to work w the Army.
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But it’s more than a signal! It’s a trigger. Why?
is the ally that:
*humiliates
every chance it gets
*abandons for 
*ignores advice on 
*punishes for 
w 
So for
media +
middle class +
serving & retired military…
“conspiracy” is CREDIBLE.
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is the ally that:*humiliates
every chance it gets*abandons
for *ignores
advice on *punishes
for w So for
media +
middle class +
serving & retired military…
“conspiracy” is CREDIBLE.
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“Conspiracy” is also the ultimate non-provable / non-disprovable.
So the weight of likely behaviors (sometimes necessary behaviors) by the military leadership & the new coalition govt will all offer loads of raw material for IK & trolls to point and say: “told ya so”!
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So the weight of likely behaviors (sometimes necessary behaviors) by the military leadership & the new coalition govt will all offer loads of raw material for IK & trolls to point and say: “told ya so”!
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Conveniently, the kind of audiences IK can draw internationally based on an anti West and anti US narrative of victimhood is vast & loud.
George Galloway & other spent forces in the US, UK & Europe.
Ignorant socialists and lefties in the West.
And most potently…
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George Galloway & other spent forces in the US, UK & Europe.
Ignorant socialists and lefties in the West.
And most potently…
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The existentially torn Pakistani expat in the West.
One economically assimilated foot in the adopted homeland.
One dislocated romantic foot stuck in the native land.
Dissonance writ large across their
sets, as 
“news” is intravenously fed into their 
.
Constantly.
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One economically assimilated foot in the adopted homeland.
One dislocated romantic foot stuck in the native land.
Dissonance writ large across their
sets, as “news” is intravenously fed into their .Constantly.
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The only thing that explains the “failure” of the perfect non political creature of virtue that is IK is a vast conspiracy.
It has to be international because to the IK cultist, Pakistanis are simply not capable of doing anything.
Finally, the “conspiracy” also caters to…
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It has to be international because to the IK cultist, Pakistanis are simply not capable of doing anything.
Finally, the “conspiracy” also caters to…
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The two front Pakistani right wing that IK has sought to cultivate & tame for years.
1. he was against the 2001 invasion of , enabling a kind of Taliban+ angle.
2. he is visibly fighting Islamophobia, enabling TLP+ angle.
“Conspiracy” is a credible pitch to both.
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1. he was against the 2001
invasion of , enabling a kind of Taliban+ angle. 2. he is visibly fighting Islamophobia, enabling TLP+ angle.
“Conspiracy” is a credible pitch to both.
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Put it all together and the sustainability & endurance of “conspiracy” is too valuable for IK to abandon as a strategy merely because it is fictional to begin with.
This fiction will shape the reality of Pakistani economic, foreign & strategic affairs for the near future.
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This fiction will shape the reality of Pakistani economic, foreign & strategic affairs for the near future.
10/10
