caitlinjohnstone.com
You asked the question, Sys. She giving the answers.
“Why Don’t You Ever Criticize RUSSIA’S Warmongering??”
Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ “Why don’t you ever criticize RUSSIA’S warmongering?” is a question I am often asked with great indignation. People cannot comprehend …
Ms, Johnstone is not on tv and does not write a column for a newspaper. She is a left wing socialist-libertarian about as far removed from the type of opinion writer Mr, Corndog accused me of following as you can get.
Yes, that’s her point in a nutshell. The foreign policy of the American empire is worse, much worse, than Russia’s. And, yes, that represents my feeling on the subject.
We have somewhere between 700 and 800 military installations in countries around the world. Does that count as occupation?
No because if asked to leave we would.
I think you are being incredibly naive. In the first place in most of those places if we were asked to leave we’d overthrow the ones that wanted us to go and install someone who would do as we commanded. In the second place only an imperial power would feel the need to have military bases in foreign lands. The more lands in which they have bases the more imperial the country is. In many respects the US *has* taken over the world after WW2.
Don't hate the US. Love it. What I hate is the US government foreign policy/security apparatus that has engaged in the slaughter of countless fellow human beings, either by war or sanctions, with military installations across the globe and financial services designed to turn other countries into client states. All done in our name. Please feel free to correct her numbers with your own, but when you just say the numbers don't add up you lack credibility. Please identify another country that has been more tyrannical toward other countries. I can't think of any.
You think Russia has invaded, bombed, starved to death, sanctioned, forbidden medical supplies to innocent civilians etc. of more foreigners than America?
How many Russians were killed during WW2? Who killed them?
You think that'll shut his dumbass up? I doubt it, he'll be back with something even more moronic. 👍
Not at all. What you are resisting with all your strength is admitting what Russia is doing in Ukraine is what the US has done multiple times in other countries. That’s exactly Johnstone’s argument. You have been force fed the horror of Russia’s invasion by virtually every western media outlet from the beginning, which piggybacks on decades’ long anti-Russian propaganda the same media outlets have promulgated. But what you aren’t told, practically aren’t told at all, is the US has done the same things many times over the years. She doesn’t need to tell you about Russia’s sins, you get a nonstop diet of those reports. She’s trying to open your eyes to the fact your own government has been worse and you don’t know it, and you don’t want to believe it when you hear it. Hell, you get so traumatized you can’t bring yourself to read the whole thing!
Sysk needs some history. He's just living in the today and now. Like some of these clowns. 👍
For your perusal:
theintercept.com
That pales in comparison to what russia is doing in real time.For your perusal:
A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities
What’s unusual about the Kunduz hospital bombing is not that it happened but that it happened to a prominent European organization. In recent times, the U.S. military has bombed a number of civilian facilities.
What mainstream western journalism outlet is publishing propaganda?
Are you historically illiterate as well as naive? Any and every outlet that pushed Russian Collusion, any outlet taking George Soros money just to name them all.
Here’s a hint on when to be skeptical. When the person giving you information is a “retired” or former CIA or NSA or FBI operative, or if the “journalist” is relaying information from anonymous sources and the information is full of accusation but short on evidence, or has not been verified by two or three separate sources, or if more than one “reporter” gives details about an incident and they all use virtually the same language then you should understand you are being showered with propaganda. Hope that helps to snap you into reality.
As a rule I don't watch newscasts on tv. When I do I usually watch the Fox News Channel. The two most egregious examples on Fox would be Brian Killmeade and Stuart Varney. I don't think I've ever heard either of them utter a sentence about conditions in Ukraine that hadn't been handed directly to them by the US security state.
Here you go, Sys. It’s over an hour long expose of journalistic fraud. You may need to seek a safe space. I doubt you have the stones to listen to it all, and that’s why you are such a willing lackey of propaganda. But who knows, maybe you’ll come to your senses. Maybe you’ll surprise me and actually listen to the whole thing.
rumble.com
That is what happened in Pakistan the PM refused to give a base he was thrown within 6 months. Now the economy has collapsed and basically military with a civilian front is ruling. Journalist who are not towing the line are being arrested one was assasinated. US is not imperal like the eurpeans were but it likes to control key areas of the world.
