Nobody hands out independence. If you don’t fight for it, you won’t gain it. Even if the sentiment is genuine (Palestinians will end up suffering at the end), one has to realise that there’s no “enduring” ethnic cleansing. Palestinians have to act at every chance they are given, or they’ll cease existing as a people.
I try to do that as often as possible, but it’s draining.
The Reddit exodus brought a lot of heavily propagandized idiots. They are shocked to experience not being inside the Western approved echo chamber. Give time for their brains to normalize.
At some point recently I freed myself from ideological bloc discipline as it relates to media sources and just started sampling broadly and making up my own mind according to my values. It’s liberating.
Couldn’t have said THAT better!
This whole situation is crap. I have respect for all parties involved and I get informed from both platforms. Yes, I would probably agree far more with Ben Norton over Max Blumenthall ideologically.
But I tend to judge people based on their work, and Max (alongside Aaron Mate) are doing excellent work in covering US imperialist and capitalist attrocities. So does Ben. And that’s the only part of their relationship to me, as their audience, that matters. Everything else is borderline sectarianism.
Indeed, but I’m saying that currently a good chunk of Republicans are advocating for a shift towards China. So if they win the elections, we can expect that to be where the next provocation will occur. If they lose, then they can be expected to hinder the efforts in Ukraine or near the Russian border until they get their way. Previously, they were more willing to engage in the Ukraine adventure, even if Trump was president.
Very good and correct point!
This is just my own hypothesis as of now, based on the events and behaviours displayed:
Project Ukraine got started in the Obama years (likely as a response to Russian intervention in Syria), and the plan probably was to have Hillary carry it onwards. However, Hillary failed to get elected and the whole thing got frozen. This is probably one of the reasons why Democrats were so quick to shout that Trump was a Russian puppet. Because he wouldn’t go along with their plans for Ukraine. They even tried to impeach him when he tried to roll back their progress at rearming Ukraine for the upcoming war. These 2 actions show how the Democratic establishment viewed the world through the lens of fighting Russia. As such, they used Trump’s presidency to stir up the US public in an anti-Russian hysteria, so they could better present the Ukraine war when it came.
Once Biden got elected, the Project was going to get back on track, but first they had to deal with Covid as quickly as possible, because nobody would accept fighting/financing a war during a pandemic. As soon as the pandemic started retreating, then Ukraine intensified their Donbass shelling, and in February the war began.
As things stand currently, this multi-year, multi-term project has utterly failed. If Democrats lose their elections, then the whole thing will collapse. But even if Democrats win, then there’s not going to be much willingness to back the people who orchestrated this (like Victoria Nuland or Anthony Blinken) or repeat the whole thing again on a now-vigilant Russia. On the contrary, there’s momentum for focusing on China, so that shift will probably occur as soon as this mess is over. We see the same hallmarks before the elections:
anti-Chinese propaganda focused on how China is spying on the West (balloons, spy stories), how China is an expansionist force (poor Taiwan, artificial islands), and how China is interfering in American politics and the economy (hysteria over Chinese investments in third-world countries, microchips, Chinese companies bribing European politicians etc).
constant tears over poor defenseless Taiwan
the US is furious at the recent African coups and will likely soon start blaming China (and Russia) for them.
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All that is missing is a “China puppet”.
So, I don’t think that NATO will try steering shit near Russia in the near future again IF the Ukraine war is over. They still might try steering up shit with Russia right now in Ukraine. This would allow the next Democratic candidate to continue the Ukraine war, or force the next Republican candidate to continue it as well. It might also safe them face for the upcoming elections.
Recently:
US and Turkish ships have provoked Russian Black Sea Fleet ships on patrol, using unmanned boats and dangerous maneuvers on near-collision course.
Ukrainian irregular units have tried crossing the northern borders and stir shit up in Russian villages near Kursk.
For the first time, a Ukrainian regular unit tried to invade the Kursk area in Russia proper
Intensification of drone strikes and artillery attacks, which are increasingly brazen and increasingly more obvious that they are performed under NATO satellite intelligence.
UK (and I think Germany?) announcing that they will be sending instructors in Ukraine to train new Ukrainian units, essentially turning British (and German?) military personell into legitimate targets in a warring country.
The Romans also felt that Hannibal was a cheater when they were losing against his encirclement and cavalry tactics.
Dammit, not again! We told him to replace his swastikas with Ukrainian flags. We missed that one…
There’s the Severity Order, the Commisar Order, and Fuhrer Directive 46 to name but a few. Look them up.
Edit: Also, Stalin outlines other examples in this speech (section: “who are the National Socialists?”), though I can’t confirm all of them
The whole thread is still absolutely disgusting. “German soldiers didn’t know” or “Not everyone was a Nazi”.
Motherfuckers, Hitler regularly put out general orders read to every military unit, demanding they kill women, elderly, children etc. They didn’t know my ass.
The video I posted, and also this one are the only ones where he outright takes sides, and in the other video it’s clear he’s not a liberal. His Roman history series also takes time to talk about the people, and I’m betting his view on Julius Caesar has been influenced by Parenti to a degree. I’ve been following his channel for a long while, and aside from a video here and there, you wouldn’t know what his politics are, because he’s doing a good job stating the facts and his analysis usually focuses on sources.
In his channel’s early days, he did a series on NATO which was pretty critical of it. Here’s the first video in that series.
The only way I can make sense of it, is that he assumes that because of Molotov-Ribbentropp, the Soviets were allied to the Nazis and so did them a favour?
Turks and genocide denial… Something something iconic duo.
Meanwhile, I wonder what the same people who joined the 14th Waffen SS were doing 2 years earlier.
My grandma died in Katyn and later she also told me that before she got shot, the firing squad confirmed that Stalin ordered it…
This is your 9th of May you sickos!
And what are they talking about “Christmas”? Their Christmas is the day they started oppressing Palestinians more harshly?