We need a president who's boring in a good way, like Obama. His worst scandal was wearing a tan suit hehe
Kieselguhr
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Do y'all stop and think sometimes that... man, that Robespierre did kinda break royal protocol, didn't he?
steps 7-8 are optional, and can be skipped by employing enough anti-communist propaganda
so it's just neoliberalism-austerity-depression-right wing populism-corrupt oligarchy, back to western backed neoliberals and so on
not even a succdem in sight
Neoliberal US hegemony is the boot on the neck of the global working class, including the working class of the EU. When it comes to geopolitics, the EU ruling class behaves like a vassal of the US.
The US got away with bombing German infrastructure in 2022! This is absolutely humiliating to the EU. The only explanation is that they are satraps, and do not represent the interests local populace. See Starmer's tweet above. The absolute hypocrisy in not prosecuting Tony Blair, but crying about Russian oil... is truly shameless.
Western failure in the Ukraine proxy war could very well mean a change in the status quo in the West, which could possibly mean the end of the neoliberal/neconservative US hegemony, which could open up avenues of progressive change in Europe and elsewhere.
I don't want Putin to succeed, I want the West to fail: and the Western brinkmanship gotten so bad, that even a ceasefire with the current frontlines frozen would be a Western failure at this point. (Remember they were visioning the complete collapse of Russia by the end of 2022...)
I want the killing to stop: no more poor Ukrainians sent to the meat grinder - and crazily enough this would be failure in the eyes of the Western power elite.
she's been a sleeper cell all along
What's weird about Bucha that it seems like an isolated atrocity. When the Contras were doing shit like this, it wasn't just one village, but dozens.
cf.
The CIA officer in charge of the covert war, Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, admitted to the House Intelligence Committee staff in a secret briefing in 1984 that the Contras were routinely murdering "civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges". But he claimed that this did not violate President Reagan's executive order prohibiting assassinations because the agency defined it as just 'killing'. "After all, this is war—a paramilitary operation", Clarridge said in conclusion.[ Edgar Chamorro explained the rationale behind this to a U.S. reporter. "Sometimes terror is very productive. This is the policy, to keep putting pressure until the people cry 'uncle'". The CIA manual for the Contras, Tayacan, states that the Contras should gather the local population for a public tribunal to "shame, ridicule and humiliate" Sandinista officials to "reduce their influence". It also recommends gathering the local population to witness and take part in public executions. These types of activities continued throughout the war.
Not that the Russians never commit war crimes, but we have actual fascists like the Contras or the IOF as comparison.
The other weird thing is, before the SMO, Amnesty said both sides were committing war crimes, but since then it was only Russia? strange
2014:
“There is no doubt that summary killings and atrocities are being committed by both pro-Russian separatists and pro-Kyiv forces in Eastern Ukraine, but is difficult to get an accurate sense of the scale of these abuses. It is likely that many have not yet been exposed and that others have been deliberately misrecorded. It is also clear that some of the more shocking cases that have been reported, particularly by Russian media, have been hugely exaggerated,” said John Dalhuisen, Europe and Central Asia Director at Amnesty International.
On 23 September [2014] Russian media reported the discoveries of “mass graves” in Komunar and Nyzhnya Krynka, two adjacent villages in the Donetsk Region, which until two days previously, had been held by Kyiv-controlled forces. They described the discovery of women’s bodies with signs of torture and the body of a pregnant woman. Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, was reported later as saying that more than 400 bodies had been discovered in the graves in this area and calling for international investigations.
An Amnesty International delegation visited the area on 26 September. The delegation found strong evidence implicating Kyiv-controlled forces in the extrajudicial executions of four men buried in two graves near the village of Komunar. Five further bodies buried in a single grave nearby were revealed to belong to separatist fighters. Amnesty International spoke to members of their unit who said they had been killed in the course of hostilities.
wow things seemed to go alright till the early 90s, what happened?
My favorite similar interaction, [we were talking about the corrupt government privatizing public beaches to friendly oligarchs]:
They are just as bad as the commies! They sell everything to their friends on the cheap!
My brother in Brezhnev, who the fuck do you think built the public beach infrastructure?!
World leaders responded with shock, widely condemning political violence and wishing Adolf Hitler a speedy recovery. The Führer may be a divisive figure, but the leaders in the Allied command — who would prefer him not to take over Europe — were unequivocal in expressing their dismay on what it means and where it could lead. Allied leaders called the attack “despicable,” and described it as “a tragedy for democracies.” "We stand in solidarity with the Führer," they continued "The attack is madness that none of us should condone"
Even from "the Art of the Deal let's reach a compromise" point of view it's fucking stupid.
When you negotiate you demand more than reasonable, so the middle ground is somewhat acceptable.
Demand full on socialism, so you might get social democracy.
(Obviously that's not how it works, and you can't really negotiate with the capitalist ruling class, it's just a mind experiment of stepping into the shoes of the "moderates")
Couple of weeks ago Kamala polled 42 to 41 winning against Trump, well within the margin of error.