Thanks so much for this great analysis. How can people of the left deny that US foreign policy can be separated from domestic. In fact, it seems that domestic politics vis-a-vis Republicans vs. Democrats is simply a distraction from Washington's brutal foreign policies. A system designed to give legitimacy to a rapidly deteriorating facade. A system that tortures journalists and pushes a genocide while flirting with WW3. A system out of control. As though Biden is going to save this country from fascism, which is the argument from liberals.
Very incisive, David, and I hope that your woolly minded Democrat has a mind open enough to accept it. The fake counter-argument is *realpolitik* (pragmatism, whatever you call it).
The oxymoron that is called 'political science' that informs the false consciousness that you describe.
I once began a semester of political science back in the days, but when 'charisma' was factored in to this so called 'science' (Political Science Faculties being the ultimate refuge of intellectual reactionaries) it lost me as a student. Media affects by (rather than of) charisma was not part of the course. That's when I dropped out of it :-) to see our political thinking invaded by the woolly-minded and the Australian Labour Party turning into Lite Lib (Liberal in Australian politics = conservative).
On Ukraine, keep in mind the 2014 coup (thank you, Russophobe Obama) and that war has been going on, unreported here, ever since. When anyone talks about a “Russian invasion,” they are missing the context. Putin specifically launched a “special military operation” to “deNazify” Azov-filled Ukraine. The provocations (including NATO expansion and the Maidan massacre) were many. After regional wars for ten years, Putin —who is nothing like how Hillaryhawk describes him—did not violate international law in the way the US routinely does.
Who lives on another planet? Is there a bigger “election denier” than Hillaryhawk Clinton? Cheated, lost anyway, tried to change the electors (the Democraps, lately all DLC, are not earth creatures, either). Is still saying the 2016 election was stolen from her, and an absurd number of “liberals” still believe in RussiaGate, despite its total debunking by people like Ray McGovern.
One of my favorite jokes, spoken by members of the uniparty (& in the beginning of David’s “The Village Where Nothing Happened”): “We are a nation of laws.”
Thanks so much for this great analysis. How can people of the left deny that US foreign policy can be separated from domestic. In fact, it seems that domestic politics vis-a-vis Republicans vs. Democrats is simply a distraction from Washington's brutal foreign policies. A system designed to give legitimacy to a rapidly deteriorating facade. A system that tortures journalists and pushes a genocide while flirting with WW3. A system out of control. As though Biden is going to save this country from fascism, which is the argument from liberals.
So astute and to the point as usual David. Thank you for being so clear thinking and brave/
Very incisive, David, and I hope that your woolly minded Democrat has a mind open enough to accept it. The fake counter-argument is *realpolitik* (pragmatism, whatever you call it).
The oxymoron that is called 'political science' that informs the false consciousness that you describe.
I once began a semester of political science back in the days, but when 'charisma' was factored in to this so called 'science' (Political Science Faculties being the ultimate refuge of intellectual reactionaries) it lost me as a student. Media affects by (rather than of) charisma was not part of the course. That's when I dropped out of it :-) to see our political thinking invaded by the woolly-minded and the Australian Labour Party turning into Lite Lib (Liberal in Australian politics = conservative).
On Ukraine, keep in mind the 2014 coup (thank you, Russophobe Obama) and that war has been going on, unreported here, ever since. When anyone talks about a “Russian invasion,” they are missing the context. Putin specifically launched a “special military operation” to “deNazify” Azov-filled Ukraine. The provocations (including NATO expansion and the Maidan massacre) were many. After regional wars for ten years, Putin —who is nothing like how Hillaryhawk describes him—did not violate international law in the way the US routinely does.
Who lives on another planet? Is there a bigger “election denier” than Hillaryhawk Clinton? Cheated, lost anyway, tried to change the electors (the Democraps, lately all DLC, are not earth creatures, either). Is still saying the 2016 election was stolen from her, and an absurd number of “liberals” still believe in RussiaGate, despite its total debunking by people like Ray McGovern.
One of my favorite jokes, spoken by members of the uniparty (& in the beginning of David’s “The Village Where Nothing Happened”): “We are a nation of laws.”