"Millions tend to die"? How about billions from capitalism! Nuclear Armageddon anyone? I think these millions you refer to were killed by capitalism or the insanity of a dictator. I'm not for communism by any means but I don't remember hearing about millions of people getting killed from it in history lessons.
The period under Stalin had its very serious moments of political control. But some of the legislation in play at the moment in the US is becoming frightening as well. De Santis and the like, feeble-minded Biden and his grovelling antisemitism plans (yes, an election on its way; the motivations of media owners; big spending sponsors; the big three investment houses, and on). The total acceptance across both parties and well publicised support for the disgraceful apartheid in Palestine, a further indication of the real control of the US political climate is now being seen clearly as similar to the conditions that existed during the Stalin and Hitler eras and which could be on their way. That's the way it all started before WWII.
Personal freedoms are the first casualty and no one seems to be concerned as so many police operations become almost an arm of the military, weapon based crime now a daily occurrence and state wide legislators are able to pass restrictive laws on their people like never before. Covid laws, the most recent example.
Internationally, one more large country has joined BRICS. Saudi Arabla, once a close associate of the US in the dirty and cruel war against Yemen. A very big trader.
The US dollar as the international trading currency is losing its supporters, a factor that will change life in the US like nothing else can. Never see it mentioned, anywhere.
So, for the often sanctioned and bullied countries, it is clearly the start of "payback"
Projecting military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets and sanctions to force global economic integration on its own terms, is the theme of Chalmers Johnson's book, "Blowback".
It is on its way and with the US political climate and the so very obvious Israeli controlled US government, it will now be at a much faster pace.
Billions dying from nuclear Armageddon is of course a hypothetical.
As to ascribing it all to "the insanity of a dictator," you might ask what kind of system enables a dictator to kill millions of people over the course of many, many years?
You mean, for example, the US privatized health care system we have now, that is the #1 reason why Americans go bankrupt in the country? Whereas, every other advanced country in the world has a form of universal health care for their citizens, unlike the US - where the obscenely wealthy want to privatize everything in sight for corporate profits? And extort as much money from ordinary Americans as they can with pharmaceutical price gouging?
Yeah, Capitalism is just great ... for the 1% obscenely rich, who can pay to see a doctor in the US and not go bankrupt.
Yes, capitalism has killed more people with its lack of caring for them being housed, fed, and taken care of when they were sick. Capitalism has enslaved human beings because of the color of their skin, stolen the land of indigenous people everywhere and enslaved or killed them as well. Capitalism is okay with children working (such as the 10 year-olds working in a McDonald's in Iowa that they found out about recently) and about the elderly working until they're in their 90s because they can't afford to "retire" (whatever that means). I'll bet you that communism or any other "ism" hasn't killed nearly as many human beings as the great Capitalists and their corrupt system of making profits before the welfare of the people and the planet.
As an avowed capitalist (shocker) I'm not onboard with the communist train. Millions tend to die when we walk that path, and I'd prefer to avoid it.
Nonetheless I think I have a great way to convince people that the West is morally bankrupt, just read Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
It's nearly impossible to read this book and not lose all faith that we're the good guys.
https://theunhedgedcapitalist.substack.com/p/book-review-confessions-of-an-economic
"Millions tend to die"? How about billions from capitalism! Nuclear Armageddon anyone? I think these millions you refer to were killed by capitalism or the insanity of a dictator. I'm not for communism by any means but I don't remember hearing about millions of people getting killed from it in history lessons.
The period under Stalin had its very serious moments of political control. But some of the legislation in play at the moment in the US is becoming frightening as well. De Santis and the like, feeble-minded Biden and his grovelling antisemitism plans (yes, an election on its way; the motivations of media owners; big spending sponsors; the big three investment houses, and on). The total acceptance across both parties and well publicised support for the disgraceful apartheid in Palestine, a further indication of the real control of the US political climate is now being seen clearly as similar to the conditions that existed during the Stalin and Hitler eras and which could be on their way. That's the way it all started before WWII.
Personal freedoms are the first casualty and no one seems to be concerned as so many police operations become almost an arm of the military, weapon based crime now a daily occurrence and state wide legislators are able to pass restrictive laws on their people like never before. Covid laws, the most recent example.
Internationally, one more large country has joined BRICS. Saudi Arabla, once a close associate of the US in the dirty and cruel war against Yemen. A very big trader.
The US dollar as the international trading currency is losing its supporters, a factor that will change life in the US like nothing else can. Never see it mentioned, anywhere.
So, for the often sanctioned and bullied countries, it is clearly the start of "payback"
Projecting military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets and sanctions to force global economic integration on its own terms, is the theme of Chalmers Johnson's book, "Blowback".
It is on its way and with the US political climate and the so very obvious Israeli controlled US government, it will now be at a much faster pace.
https://news.stanford.edu/2010/09/23/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310/
Billions dying from nuclear Armageddon is of course a hypothetical.
As to ascribing it all to "the insanity of a dictator," you might ask what kind of system enables a dictator to kill millions of people over the course of many, many years?
You mean, for example, the US privatized health care system we have now, that is the #1 reason why Americans go bankrupt in the country? Whereas, every other advanced country in the world has a form of universal health care for their citizens, unlike the US - where the obscenely wealthy want to privatize everything in sight for corporate profits? And extort as much money from ordinary Americans as they can with pharmaceutical price gouging?
Yeah, Capitalism is just great ... for the 1% obscenely rich, who can pay to see a doctor in the US and not go bankrupt.
Yes, capitalism has killed more people with its lack of caring for them being housed, fed, and taken care of when they were sick. Capitalism has enslaved human beings because of the color of their skin, stolen the land of indigenous people everywhere and enslaved or killed them as well. Capitalism is okay with children working (such as the 10 year-olds working in a McDonald's in Iowa that they found out about recently) and about the elderly working until they're in their 90s because they can't afford to "retire" (whatever that means). I'll bet you that communism or any other "ism" hasn't killed nearly as many human beings as the great Capitalists and their corrupt system of making profits before the welfare of the people and the planet.