Since Caitlin’s post is about the subtlety of propaganda, allow me to push back against your generalization, especially your inclusion of “Jewish racial hatred” in your list, since religious and race propaganda are perhaps the most pernicious and powerful forms of propaganda, and have, by far, resulted in the most human suffering.
But first, just as an aside, while the “Warbucks corporate” profiteers may be part of the “perfect storm” of pro-war forces, that particular comic character is now nearly lost to the mists of time, and I suggest billionaire Iron Man Tony Stark is a more relevant and accurate modern model.
Second, I’ll grant you there may be a case for the “boomer roosky haters”—Joe Biden most prominently. However, that quickly fading demographic alone hardly explains the almost universal western cultural hatred of all things Russian (and, increasingly, Chinese). Biden may be the de facto Emperor/Don of the NATO empire/crime syndicate, but in fact most NATO leaders are of younger generations, not boomers. It turns out that propagandized Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Zers are every bit as good at warmongering, possibly even better than boomers (though, admittedly, the boomers set a high bar).
But the one that just sticks out like a sore thumb is your mention of “Jewish racial hatred.” Is it in your list because you identify Palestinians or Iranians as haters of the Jewish “race”? If so, I suggest that a very useful view of the “Arab-Israeli conflict” has a lot less to do with the Jewish religion(s) of Israelis and a lot more to do with the brazen amoral secular political hegemony and military aggression against (and hatred of) non-Jewish neighbors by the Israeli nation state. I think your list would be much more accurate in light of the last 70 years of history if you had excluded “Jewish racial hatred” and instead included “Arab racial hatred” or even “Persian racial hatred.”
BTW, I am not a fan of the term “race”, because it has been such a destructive idea in human history, but Arabs and Iranians have a far more credible claim to a racial identity than Jews, many of whom have more recent descent from various ethnic backgrounds and not from some ancient Israelite tribal patriarch.
My own take is that Zionists (who are mostly Christian and have a religious obsession with all things Jewish) are far more responsible for modern warmongering than haters of the Jewish “race”.
Since Caitlin’s post is about the subtlety of propaganda, allow me to push back against your generalization, especially your inclusion of “Jewish racial hatred” in your list, since religious and race propaganda are perhaps the most pernicious and powerful forms of propaganda, and have, by far, resulted in the most human suffering.
But first, just as an aside, while the “Warbucks corporate” profiteers may be part of the “perfect storm” of pro-war forces, that particular comic character is now nearly lost to the mists of time, and I suggest billionaire Iron Man Tony Stark is a more relevant and accurate modern model.
Second, I’ll grant you there may be a case for the “boomer roosky haters”—Joe Biden most prominently. However, that quickly fading demographic alone hardly explains the almost universal western cultural hatred of all things Russian (and, increasingly, Chinese). Biden may be the de facto Emperor/Don of the NATO empire/crime syndicate, but in fact most NATO leaders are of younger generations, not boomers. It turns out that propagandized Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Zers are every bit as good at warmongering, possibly even better than boomers (though, admittedly, the boomers set a high bar).
But the one that just sticks out like a sore thumb is your mention of “Jewish racial hatred.” Is it in your list because you identify Palestinians or Iranians as haters of the Jewish “race”? If so, I suggest that a very useful view of the “Arab-Israeli conflict” has a lot less to do with the Jewish religion(s) of Israelis and a lot more to do with the brazen amoral secular political hegemony and military aggression against (and hatred of) non-Jewish neighbors by the Israeli nation state. I think your list would be much more accurate in light of the last 70 years of history if you had excluded “Jewish racial hatred” and instead included “Arab racial hatred” or even “Persian racial hatred.”
BTW, I am not a fan of the term “race”, because it has been such a destructive idea in human history, but Arabs and Iranians have a far more credible claim to a racial identity than Jews, many of whom have more recent descent from various ethnic backgrounds and not from some ancient Israelite tribal patriarch.
My own take is that Zionists (who are mostly Christian and have a religious obsession with all things Jewish) are far more responsible for modern warmongering than haters of the Jewish “race”.