That’s not necessarily my impression. Sure, Europe pushed out stories about how Russia is on its last legs, but there was also continuous hysteria around the notion that if Ukraine doesn’t win the war, Putin would go on to invade Europe. They frame this war as existential and that we ought to be very afraid.
Of course, this hysteria serves as propaganda for the profits of weapon manufacturers, so there’s a capitalist component to this as well.
Europeans don’t even want negotiations with Putin, because they’ve already decided Putin doesn’t want an end to the war.
In reality, they don’t want an end to the war themselves, because then they’d give Putin what he wants. Their analysis begins and ends with Putin.
It’s not a matter of intelligence. It’s arguing from first principle that capitalism is the solution to its own internal contradictions.
That said, there are libertarians who aren’t as concerned with the economics side of it. They want a small government because they don’t want the government to interfere with gay rights, gun rights and that sort of thing.
I’d say Jesse Ventura falls into the latter category. Not sure if he still identifies as a libertarian by the way. He seems more like a progressive liberal these days, which I guess he always kind of was.
Ah yes, politics as spectacle except the spectacle is whatever the fuck this was.
It’s not “infighting” if the criticism is directed at the imperialist uniparty.
The Democrats putting their own spin on the same agenda doesn’t somehow mean they have a different one.
So much for Commiefornia, amirite? Temporarily embarrassed billionaire fucking state. Liberal hellhole.
Israel intentionally targets Palestinians to this very day and everybody knows it, especially guys like Blinken who is a war criminal and belongs in the Hague.
Because as much as I would love for Yemen to have a revolution, it wouldn’t send the shockwaves that a revolution in France would.
Sometimes the swamp drains itself and sometimes that swamp consists of the very people Trump personally hired.
Trump never leaves, though.
The Paris Commune lasted a few months, then the Soviet Union lasted some 70 years and China is still ongoing as well as smaller countries like Cuba and Vietnam.
I’d say the next great revolution will happen in France, which would be a full circle event that is going to lead Europe by example.
Just a shame that there’s no communist party channeling the recent protest waves into sustained, organized anger.
In a lot of ways, France is the country closest to revolution without being close at all. I guess we’ll have to wait another decade or so before the conditions are truly ripe.
You showed interest in joining a communist party the other comment and now you’re being smug again when people are offering answers. Pick a lane, you contrarian prick.
Well, technically US officials are saying it, but then again why does AP adopt their framing without question?
Russiagate has nothing on Israel and is bipartisan as well.
Well eventually, but not before they banned a whole lot of users for criticizing the coup including me. Maybe a couple of days after, the infiltrator got his mod privileges revoked and got kicked out along with his minions by another mod who wasn’t as active anymore, but saved the day.
ACP chuds literally infiltrated and took over the TankieTheDeprogram subreddit the other year. Fuck them.
Make no mistake; these people viewed themselves as proud American patriots.
Something to think about in today’s political climate and landscape.
I also have a great ass. Does its job in excess every day.
I honestly don’t remember the euphoria when the war began. Maybe because I’ve heard nothing but hysteria for so many years.