This boils down to the fact that they think they're better than everyone. In their view, they have the right to do this, and this is a poisonous mindset inherited broadly from the West. Even the Europeans whose history is rife with colonialism and genocide pretend they can lecture China or India on geopolitical matters. Westerners do not have humility because they are not truly civilized. Pockets in the West, subcultures of civilization exist here and there like so many islands in a desert of stupidity, arrogance, consumption, and greed. The landscape is unfavorable for civilization.
I don't think military intervention is ever the way to solve anything. All that does is to enrich a few who are already rich. We need to try to start really communicating with each other. Slow down climate change. End poverty. It is none of the US's or anyone elses business how people decide their own countries shall be run. The US and the present people running it are murderous, cruel, unempathetic people. They will not help anyone anywhere.
I believe it was John Quincy Adams who admonished us against going abroad looking for monsters to slay, especially when the home front is in turmoil like it is now.
The turmoil in the US is a direct result of this same government directed against those who call America home. Every thing they do is to increase their control while destroying our freedoms and liberty Admiral Forestal stated before he was killed by the government" If it was just poor decisions or accidental then there would be instances when the people win. There are none"
The Trump regime has been hellbent on lying, cheating, stealing and killing US right from the beginning. The constitution explicitly says we should overthrow such a terrible government. Even Patrick Henry declared “liberty or death!” ICE, the not so Supreme Court, Congress and more are all taking US apart while protecting pedophiles and billionaires who refuse to pay taxes. At what point do we stand up for ourselves?!
The Trump regime is only using the tools the war criminals prior gave it and the prior regimes did much the same but smiled while doing it. Trump is the epitome and perfect representation of USA dc government and its still and always loathsome
I’ve noticed a pattern here and it’s that throughout history most, not all I’m sure, of the evils have come out of the so called civilized (Western) world: the Belgian-Congo genocide, the genocide perpetuated on the indigenous people of Western Africa by the German government as well as the genocide perpetrated by that same entity during WW2, the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the colonial abuses and atrocities by Great Britain in the 19th and early 20th century especially where India and Africa are concerned and now this horrific live streamed genocide in Gaza perpetrated by the U.S. and Israel with the complicity of most of the other Western governments. For societies who claim to be civilized they sure have a horrible way of showing it.
The Western countries who voiced disapproval over Israel's genocide in Gaza never did anything to stop it.
The Freedom Flotillas that set out to bring humanitarian aid and attention to Gaza were not protected by any country. Italy made a show of protection with one or two of its destroyers sent to escort...but the ships went away before the flotilla got close to its destination.
The Western countries are appallingly silent when humanitarian aid workers and journalists are murdered by Israel. Doctors Without Borders was prohibited from entering Gaza~there was no action taken against Israel.
"To remain silent in the face of evil is itself evil.”.....Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We, in Australia, were led to believe PM Albanese was a friend to Palestine, or so he claimed until very recently. Now his government has i voted Herzog for a state visit, much to the fury of the Australian public. He has also passed so many years laws supposedly against antisemitism (about a people who are definitely not semitic). What brought out this total change, or who?
Armenians, and Smyrna massacre, and Pontic Greek genocide, various smaller ones, and more recently Kurds, and also invasion, ethnic cleansing, and occupation of Cyprus.
There's even some evidence that a German diplomat was taking some notes during the various WWI events, which is interesting.
There's a bit of a tendency, among those of us who care about Gaza, to give Turkey a pass on their crimes because they've been less awful than most countries about Palestine.
But two things can be true at the same time. They're much less criminal than most about Palestine, and have also committed some horrific crimes. They're both true.
You should know about Cyprus, because it's ongoing. They're still illegally occupying more than half the island. The others, maybe not so important now. My grandfather was a victim of one of the smaller early ethnic cleansings, before WWI, so I wanted to learn about it, but maybe in the scheme it's not the most important.
In my humble opinion, deciding whether or not genocidal crimes have been committed in Congo, or wherever, is something that should be left to honest judges in fair trials, not to writers like Adam Hochschild and the like - let alone to journalists.
Thank you for the link. I did read the article and it was a bit of an eye opener. I didn’t know about this book by this journalist. Guess you learn something new every day.
It's human nature to genocide and exterminate rivals, it's not unique to the Western world and the colonist projects of the 18th-21st centuries. Plenty of examples of it in pre-contact Americas, Africa and Southeast Asia, even before empires came to bear on those areas. A few places, though, like Australia and Tasmania, had limited tribal warfare and no evidence of ethnic cleansing. But it's pretty much normal human behavior to kill all the out-groups, and protect the in-groups. It's whats happening now, all across the world, as climate collapse settles in for the long haul.
I did say in my comment above, “not all I’m sure” were committed by western countries. Genocide is wrong no matter who is doing it. The western complicity in genocide stands out for me, however. When I see a father holding his dead child with the head missing like in Gaza or hear and read about the genocide perpetrated on different indigenous peoples in African countries such as the hands of Congolese children being cut off because they or their parents couldn’t meet the quotas for the rubber tree plantations under King Leopold or the way black slaves in the southern U.S. were shackled and put on the auction blocks to be sold as property and yes these black people were traded by some of their own people in Africa before being put on slave ships, but that doesn’t change the fact that they were slaves. And yes ISIS and AlQueda are horrific and they do head chopping and all, but these terrorist groups have been supported in Syria and other places by western countries such as the U.S. and its proxy, Israel, so they too are proxies of the West in the atrocities/genocides perpetrated on black and brown people in West Asia.
Oh yes, I agree, the European countries perfected it, and exported it, as much as possible, and it had a lot to do with greed, not just suspicion of the "other" and conflicts for contested resources like the earlier ones.
Point taken, and I'm sorry for not reading your comment more closely. Apologies.
I was born in 1949 (76 yo) and can tell you this is nothing new. I remember being indoctrinated with the belief that the US is uniquely virtuous at a young age, and that other countries, other peoples are simply inferior. And it followed that since the US was just better, then it fell upon us to manage the world. American exceptionalism is nothing new, we got it from the British, who believed that it was their duty as an exceptional race to go around the world spreading their values to the unenlightened, at the end of a gun if need be.
The cognitive dissonance here is off the charts. How many Americans are morally outraged over Russia's military operation in Ukraine, truly offended they are, yet the horrible actions of their own government simply don't exist in their minds. The most immoral country in the world never misses a chance to invoke its own presumed morality as a justification for wrecking another country. It's the behavior of a narcissist, which is why we have one in the whitehouse now.
My father served with the British Army in WWII and he said there was a joke going around among the troops back then: 'When the RAF flew over the Germans yelled duck. When the Luftwaffe flew over, Allied troops yelled duck.
It's certainly not just the US, but the West more broadly. Carney's speech got a lot of play among the liberals all around the world, but when Israel attacks Iran, unprovoked, then it's the same old song about rights and privileges that a certain apartheid ethno-state has over international law and norms. Just blatant fucking hypocrisy. Fuck Carney, and fuck Canada.
In some ways it is productive that Trump is openly proclaiming the evil of the American empire, and not hiding behind their false morality like Canada, Australia, Britain and the EU.
Excellent analysis with clear points of truth. Thank you, Mike.
After reading your comment, I can say that MAGA means Make America Great by continuing to support the imposition of its colonial, suppressive will on other countries.
The USA has no moral authority, and no one ever elected it to be the global police.
It, and other western nations, are materially supporting an ongoing genocide and the Epstein files show that western power elite do absolutely heinous things, and shouldn't be allowed to make decisions on behalf of its citizens, let alone decisions that can destroy other countries.
And with money affecting all aspects of western politics, how can we consider our countries democracies still? The rich get their way, and we get to vote every few years.
I've never voted for austerity, homelessness and an ever growing gaping hole between the rich and poor, and I don't know anyone who has. But this and the constant attacks on other countries are what we've got.
It's never been a "democracy", it's always been a managed oligarchy. This has been proven through countless studies, but we still persist with the myth. Both parties are basically alike, and there to deflect any real movement from below. The left had a chance around WW1, but nationalism won out, and the countries fought and interacted based on ethnicity and nationality, not class, and that was the end of any Marxist dreams. The complete and total failure of capitalism during the Great Depression sparked a slight accommodation towards the working classes, and coupled with the collapse of all the old empires after WW2, there was the post-war settlement, which created the worlds' largest middle class. Unfortunately, all that got clawed back, starting with Reagan and Thatcher, and now inequality is again at record levels.
If you carry on voting blue maga you’re a huge part of the problem. In Oregon Saturday I just watched the no kings but blue kings started by 2 wealthy Zionists meet to have a little tea at noon and head home by 2
Wow you claim to be leftist yet you support the lite Reich wing. Hey Liz guess what “social democrats” such as you did in the 3rd Reich? They allied with the Nazis instead of with socialists or communists.. history is real maam now hush 🤫
I took this the wrong way going in, but as I do actually read more than the headline, sure. But the U.S. government has no other avenue of changing itself than the horrible one. It’s 100% overtly totalitarian now.
No, I can`t agree to that, there are other ways , it could be fear of not being in control, limited or lack foresight, but there are always other means
Considering the intro of AI to an already sick society, dysfunctions are inevitable. I think the bottom of the barrel is well within reach.
When children are slaughtered with impunity, when tyrants rise faster than the lies they endlessly regurgitate, it’s possible the last voices of Homo Sapiens may forever be silenced, if not most life on the planet.
Oh, we're racing toward that bottom. And I really believe AI will be the scapegoat when fossil-fueled climate collapse finally takes the species down. We'll all be able to feel better believing we were "tricked" into taking no steps to avert the apocalypse.
The eternal optimist in me tells me there is still hope that a Charles Darwin or King Solomon will come out and show that humanity belongs, but the pragmatic side agrees with you… it’s pretty late in the game for the survival of our species. I’m betting nuclear war will win over climate apocalypse, simply because the power barons managed to fool everybody by putting Trump as the leader of the war machines.
Climbing out of the propaganda matrix rabbit hole requires a lot of shedding of old beliefs and the platitudes used to cement those old beliefs into our minds. Since "critical" thinking is seldom offered as a subject or course in school, most of us tend to wander around inside of the propaganda matrix rabbit hole. If we happen to see the light at the end of the tunnel, we are told to get out of the way because that light is coming from a runaway locomotive.
The manufacturing of our consent starts on the day we are born as they inoculate us with poisons as we exit the birth canal. Then we enter the training ground of the educational system where we become useful idiots for the system. It's so counterintuitive that we actually believe that killing people who kill people because killing people is wrong, makes sense. In fact, something as counterintuitive as going on the green light and stopping on the red light is embedded in our psyche from an early age.
“Therefore the US should forcibly overthrow Government X” DOES naturally follows from “Government X does bad things.” Cognitive dissonance can be so disruptive to our acquired and embedded "core values and beliefs" that most of us would rather go along with the current narrative. Those of us who do "see" how hypocritical the propaganda is, risk life and limb in a society that does not encourage, allow or support critical thinking.
Manufacturing Consent is an ancient tool used by the Empire managers. It's so effective that it doesn't even have to be creative.
"So too in the late twentieth and early twenty‑first centuries. The Gulf of Tonkin; France’s Indo-China “enemies”; Britain’s Southeast Asia drug profits; Afghanistan’s, India’s and Pakistan’s CIA desires; Iraq’s phantom weapons; Libya’s “imminent massacre”; Iran’s oil; Venezuela’s oil; and the shifting narratives of Ukraine or Gaza or… each new war arises from old mechanisms. The documents were public before the bombs fell; yet majorities approved, parliaments voted funds, journalists echoed justifications. Ignorance persisted because it was chosen. It offered the luxury of innocence without the burden of knowledge."
This boils down to the fact that they think they're better than everyone. In their view, they have the right to do this, and this is a poisonous mindset inherited broadly from the West. Even the Europeans whose history is rife with colonialism and genocide pretend they can lecture China or India on geopolitical matters. Westerners do not have humility because they are not truly civilized. Pockets in the West, subcultures of civilization exist here and there like so many islands in a desert of stupidity, arrogance, consumption, and greed. The landscape is unfavorable for civilization.
Reminds me of the quote from Gandhi when asked what he thought about western civilisation he replied "I think it would be a good idea".
I don't think military intervention is ever the way to solve anything. All that does is to enrich a few who are already rich. We need to try to start really communicating with each other. Slow down climate change. End poverty. It is none of the US's or anyone elses business how people decide their own countries shall be run. The US and the present people running it are murderous, cruel, unempathetic people. They will not help anyone anywhere.
Military action is not meant to help others. It's meant to grab resources, just like colonialism has always done.
...as well as to make $$$$$$$$$$$$ for the private owners of the privately-owned, for-profit military-industrial complex.
Same as it ever was.
I believe it was John Quincy Adams who admonished us against going abroad looking for monsters to slay, especially when the home front is in turmoil like it is now.
The turmoil in the US is a direct result of this same government directed against those who call America home. Every thing they do is to increase their control while destroying our freedoms and liberty Admiral Forestal stated before he was killed by the government" If it was just poor decisions or accidental then there would be instances when the people win. There are none"
The Trump regime has been hellbent on lying, cheating, stealing and killing US right from the beginning. The constitution explicitly says we should overthrow such a terrible government. Even Patrick Henry declared “liberty or death!” ICE, the not so Supreme Court, Congress and more are all taking US apart while protecting pedophiles and billionaires who refuse to pay taxes. At what point do we stand up for ourselves?!
The Trump regime is only using the tools the war criminals prior gave it and the prior regimes did much the same but smiled while doing it. Trump is the epitome and perfect representation of USA dc government and its still and always loathsome
If you think it started and will end with Trump, well I’ve got bad news for ya. Iraq? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Israel worship?
I’ve noticed a pattern here and it’s that throughout history most, not all I’m sure, of the evils have come out of the so called civilized (Western) world: the Belgian-Congo genocide, the genocide perpetuated on the indigenous people of Western Africa by the German government as well as the genocide perpetrated by that same entity during WW2, the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the colonial abuses and atrocities by Great Britain in the 19th and early 20th century especially where India and Africa are concerned and now this horrific live streamed genocide in Gaza perpetrated by the U.S. and Israel with the complicity of most of the other Western governments. For societies who claim to be civilized they sure have a horrible way of showing it.
The Western countries who voiced disapproval over Israel's genocide in Gaza never did anything to stop it.
The Freedom Flotillas that set out to bring humanitarian aid and attention to Gaza were not protected by any country. Italy made a show of protection with one or two of its destroyers sent to escort...but the ships went away before the flotilla got close to its destination.
The Western countries are appallingly silent when humanitarian aid workers and journalists are murdered by Israel. Doctors Without Borders was prohibited from entering Gaza~there was no action taken against Israel.
"To remain silent in the face of evil is itself evil.”.....Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Yes it is evil. Bonhoeffer would have been on the side of the Palestinians imho.
We, in Australia, were led to believe PM Albanese was a friend to Palestine, or so he claimed until very recently. Now his government has i voted Herzog for a state visit, much to the fury of the Australian public. He has also passed so many years laws supposedly against antisemitism (about a people who are definitely not semitic). What brought out this total change, or who?
Turkey has committed a few genocides, mass atrocities, and ethnic cleansing.
But point taken. Not all, but most.
Yes Türkiye did commit a genocide against the Arminians during WW1. This is well documented.
Armenians, and Smyrna massacre, and Pontic Greek genocide, various smaller ones, and more recently Kurds, and also invasion, ethnic cleansing, and occupation of Cyprus.
There's even some evidence that a German diplomat was taking some notes during the various WWI events, which is interesting.
There's a bit of a tendency, among those of us who care about Gaza, to give Turkey a pass on their crimes because they've been less awful than most countries about Palestine.
But two things can be true at the same time. They're much less criminal than most about Palestine, and have also committed some horrific crimes. They're both true.
Thanks for this info. I will research these you mentioned b/c I was not aware of these other atrocities/genocides.
You should know about Cyprus, because it's ongoing. They're still illegally occupying more than half the island. The others, maybe not so important now. My grandfather was a victim of one of the smaller early ethnic cleansings, before WWI, so I wanted to learn about it, but maybe in the scheme it's not the most important.
"The Belgian-Congo genocide"...
Well, I'm from Belgium :) and I'm not so sure about that story. For a different view, please, read: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/king-hochschilds-hoax/
In my humble opinion, deciding whether or not genocidal crimes have been committed in Congo, or wherever, is something that should be left to honest judges in fair trials, not to writers like Adam Hochschild and the like - let alone to journalists.
Thank you for the link. I did read the article and it was a bit of an eye opener. I didn’t know about this book by this journalist. Guess you learn something new every day.
It's human nature to genocide and exterminate rivals, it's not unique to the Western world and the colonist projects of the 18th-21st centuries. Plenty of examples of it in pre-contact Americas, Africa and Southeast Asia, even before empires came to bear on those areas. A few places, though, like Australia and Tasmania, had limited tribal warfare and no evidence of ethnic cleansing. But it's pretty much normal human behavior to kill all the out-groups, and protect the in-groups. It's whats happening now, all across the world, as climate collapse settles in for the long haul.
I did say in my comment above, “not all I’m sure” were committed by western countries. Genocide is wrong no matter who is doing it. The western complicity in genocide stands out for me, however. When I see a father holding his dead child with the head missing like in Gaza or hear and read about the genocide perpetrated on different indigenous peoples in African countries such as the hands of Congolese children being cut off because they or their parents couldn’t meet the quotas for the rubber tree plantations under King Leopold or the way black slaves in the southern U.S. were shackled and put on the auction blocks to be sold as property and yes these black people were traded by some of their own people in Africa before being put on slave ships, but that doesn’t change the fact that they were slaves. And yes ISIS and AlQueda are horrific and they do head chopping and all, but these terrorist groups have been supported in Syria and other places by western countries such as the U.S. and its proxy, Israel, so they too are proxies of the West in the atrocities/genocides perpetrated on black and brown people in West Asia.
Oh yes, I agree, the European countries perfected it, and exported it, as much as possible, and it had a lot to do with greed, not just suspicion of the "other" and conflicts for contested resources like the earlier ones.
Point taken, and I'm sorry for not reading your comment more closely. Apologies.
No problem. Thank you.😊
Tasmania: Ethnic cleansing.
The glorious British used the aborigines like foxes, horns and red jackets like in jolly old.
I was born in 1949 (76 yo) and can tell you this is nothing new. I remember being indoctrinated with the belief that the US is uniquely virtuous at a young age, and that other countries, other peoples are simply inferior. And it followed that since the US was just better, then it fell upon us to manage the world. American exceptionalism is nothing new, we got it from the British, who believed that it was their duty as an exceptional race to go around the world spreading their values to the unenlightened, at the end of a gun if need be.
The cognitive dissonance here is off the charts. How many Americans are morally outraged over Russia's military operation in Ukraine, truly offended they are, yet the horrible actions of their own government simply don't exist in their minds. The most immoral country in the world never misses a chance to invoke its own presumed morality as a justification for wrecking another country. It's the behavior of a narcissist, which is why we have one in the whitehouse now.
My father served with the British Army in WWII and he said there was a joke going around among the troops back then: 'When the RAF flew over the Germans yelled duck. When the Luftwaffe flew over, Allied troops yelled duck.
When Americans flew over, everyone yelled duck'.
IF anyone thinks these wars from the west are only about minerals etc. Its about White/black and brown people. Racism.
We all know the white races are SUPPOSED to have superior brains!
It's certainly not just the US, but the West more broadly. Carney's speech got a lot of play among the liberals all around the world, but when Israel attacks Iran, unprovoked, then it's the same old song about rights and privileges that a certain apartheid ethno-state has over international law and norms. Just blatant fucking hypocrisy. Fuck Carney, and fuck Canada.
In some ways it is productive that Trump is openly proclaiming the evil of the American empire, and not hiding behind their false morality like Canada, Australia, Britain and the EU.
Excellent analysis with clear points of truth. Thank you, Mike.
After reading your comment, I can say that MAGA means Make America Great by continuing to support the imposition of its colonial, suppressive will on other countries.
The USA has no moral authority, and no one ever elected it to be the global police.
It, and other western nations, are materially supporting an ongoing genocide and the Epstein files show that western power elite do absolutely heinous things, and shouldn't be allowed to make decisions on behalf of its citizens, let alone decisions that can destroy other countries.
And with money affecting all aspects of western politics, how can we consider our countries democracies still? The rich get their way, and we get to vote every few years.
I've never voted for austerity, homelessness and an ever growing gaping hole between the rich and poor, and I don't know anyone who has. But this and the constant attacks on other countries are what we've got.
It's never been a "democracy", it's always been a managed oligarchy. This has been proven through countless studies, but we still persist with the myth. Both parties are basically alike, and there to deflect any real movement from below. The left had a chance around WW1, but nationalism won out, and the countries fought and interacted based on ethnicity and nationality, not class, and that was the end of any Marxist dreams. The complete and total failure of capitalism during the Great Depression sparked a slight accommodation towards the working classes, and coupled with the collapse of all the old empires after WW2, there was the post-war settlement, which created the worlds' largest middle class. Unfortunately, all that got clawed back, starting with Reagan and Thatcher, and now inequality is again at record levels.
"Right" has nothing to do with it.
This is a question of power. Nothing more.
NO. It's racism.
Actually the US SHOULD overthrow the most tyrannical government of all and we're getting started on it in Minnesota, Maine and Oregon. Wish us luck.
If you carry on voting blue maga you’re a huge part of the problem. In Oregon Saturday I just watched the no kings but blue kings started by 2 wealthy Zionists meet to have a little tea at noon and head home by 2
Waving the USA flag of terror the whole time.
Merkley's ok. Not all Dems are created equal.
Wow you claim to be leftist yet you support the lite Reich wing. Hey Liz guess what “social democrats” such as you did in the 3rd Reich? They allied with the Nazis instead of with socialists or communists.. history is real maam now hush 🤫
😂😂😂😂😂😂blue maga the more effective evil.. 99.9999% the same as red maga.
Gtfo with that nonsense slamming the Overton window.. 💩🤡 nonsense Liz pure 💩
Incoherent and personally abusive both. Well done. What people do when their arguments are garbage.
Makes me wonder why there are so many refugees and migrants… suppose there is a correlation?
Civilized societies don’t let sociopaths rule.
Random thoughts of a mad man.
.-)
I took this the wrong way going in, but as I do actually read more than the headline, sure. But the U.S. government has no other avenue of changing itself than the horrible one. It’s 100% overtly totalitarian now.
No, I can`t agree to that, there are other ways , it could be fear of not being in control, limited or lack foresight, but there are always other means
My sentiments precisely. Seem to argue about it every day.
Considering the intro of AI to an already sick society, dysfunctions are inevitable. I think the bottom of the barrel is well within reach.
When children are slaughtered with impunity, when tyrants rise faster than the lies they endlessly regurgitate, it’s possible the last voices of Homo Sapiens may forever be silenced, if not most life on the planet.
Oh, we're racing toward that bottom. And I really believe AI will be the scapegoat when fossil-fueled climate collapse finally takes the species down. We'll all be able to feel better believing we were "tricked" into taking no steps to avert the apocalypse.
The eternal optimist in me tells me there is still hope that a Charles Darwin or King Solomon will come out and show that humanity belongs, but the pragmatic side agrees with you… it’s pretty late in the game for the survival of our species. I’m betting nuclear war will win over climate apocalypse, simply because the power barons managed to fool everybody by putting Trump as the leader of the war machines.
We are doing it to ourselves.
Climbing out of the propaganda matrix rabbit hole requires a lot of shedding of old beliefs and the platitudes used to cement those old beliefs into our minds. Since "critical" thinking is seldom offered as a subject or course in school, most of us tend to wander around inside of the propaganda matrix rabbit hole. If we happen to see the light at the end of the tunnel, we are told to get out of the way because that light is coming from a runaway locomotive.
The manufacturing of our consent starts on the day we are born as they inoculate us with poisons as we exit the birth canal. Then we enter the training ground of the educational system where we become useful idiots for the system. It's so counterintuitive that we actually believe that killing people who kill people because killing people is wrong, makes sense. In fact, something as counterintuitive as going on the green light and stopping on the red light is embedded in our psyche from an early age.
“Therefore the US should forcibly overthrow Government X” DOES naturally follows from “Government X does bad things.” Cognitive dissonance can be so disruptive to our acquired and embedded "core values and beliefs" that most of us would rather go along with the current narrative. Those of us who do "see" how hypocritical the propaganda is, risk life and limb in a society that does not encourage, allow or support critical thinking.
Manufacturing Consent is an ancient tool used by the Empire managers. It's so effective that it doesn't even have to be creative.
Hegelian Dialectic, thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
The ICONIC PODCAST | Monologue 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUADdBXqLkI
"So too in the late twentieth and early twenty‑first centuries. The Gulf of Tonkin; France’s Indo-China “enemies”; Britain’s Southeast Asia drug profits; Afghanistan’s, India’s and Pakistan’s CIA desires; Iraq’s phantom weapons; Libya’s “imminent massacre”; Iran’s oil; Venezuela’s oil; and the shifting narratives of Ukraine or Gaza or… each new war arises from old mechanisms. The documents were public before the bombs fell; yet majorities approved, parliaments voted funds, journalists echoed justifications. Ignorance persisted because it was chosen. It offered the luxury of innocence without the burden of knowledge."
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/the-unbearable-weight-of-knowing
Thank You Caitlin