Nice, the top link is a good list, although it feels like there are a lot of interventions are missing.
I’ve also heard the estimates for total casualties of the US/NATO war on Iraq to be ~1M people, but that could be including other deaths related from the infrastructure collapse caused by the war.
Almost entirely overlapping, especially since many of NATO’s ops are in Africa, when it’s focus is supposed to be limited to Europe.
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As for why there’s a lot of politics on lemmy: The west’s leading country just threatened to annihalate an entire civilization yesterday. Kind of a lot going on right now.
“The western world” in politics doesn’t usually refer to geography, but to the high income euro-amerikkkan countries who benefitted from hundreds of years of theft (much from the countries you mentioned), who based themselves on individualism, private property, and capitalism, and prided themselves on their opposition to the collectivist policies of eastern countries.
This is why Cuba for example is not considered part of the western world, yet japan and south korea are.
Marxists also generally use the term “global south” or “the periphery” to refer to lower-income / exploited via unequal exchange, even though there are some “middle” / lower income countries in the global north also. It gets confusing I know.
These are all incredibly weak justifications wrapped in legalese, that’s really just a thin posturing as to their position, which is white/western supremacy, and refusing to hold themselves accountable for hundreds of years of ongoing theft. The EU also refuses to vote for the condemnation of nazism using the same type of legalistic justifications.
I don’t have time to go through each of their sentences, but someone easily could ala the style of Marx’s critique of the gotha programme, because there’s hidden meanings and psychology behind almost every sentence that requires a paragraph.
Capitalists control the political system of the US. Its not a democracy, it’s a capitalist dictatorship.
What health-care systems it used to have, were only to quell decades of worker struggles fighting for equivalent health care systems the USSR was putting in place in the 1920s.
CIA and the MIC for sacking Dulles, warming to Cuba, and indicating that he would slow down / put the brakes on interventions in Vietnam and SA.
JFK was still an anti-communist imperialist, but he increasingly thought the best strategy for winning the cold war, and getting the world to line up behind US wasn’t more war, but soft-power initiatives like the space race, and more equitable economic ties with global south countries. His disagreements with chancellor Dulles led to his killing, Dulles’ restoration, and Dulles heading the investigation of JFK’s murder.
Props, this is like an diplomatic BDS.
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The strangest person I’ve ever met was homeschooled, it was a really sad case. He was an only child home-schooled by fundamentalist christian parents, and didn’t have much interaction with peers his age until he was in college. Zebulon (yes that was his name) could not hold a simple conversation, and clearly had less education than most grade-schoolers. Talking to him was worse than talking to a child, he would babble or ignore everything you said and change the subject completely. I hope he’s overcome that and is doing better now.
It should be illegal or heavily restricted, as it is in many countries already.
They also bombed and killed several members of his family, including his daughter, granddaughter, and son in law.
That and the condescending arrogance of “bombs are not the best way for Iran to accept our form of democracy” stuck out too.
So much coded language in here.
| libspeak | converted |
|---|---|
| “Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies” | “The Iranians must accept our superior yanqui form of goverment where the rich control everything, and bombs aren’t the right way to accomplish that.” |
| “The american people”, “american casualties” | “The lives of US storm-troops are more important than the civilians of the Iran” |
| “violence begets violence” | “God forbid these Iranians defend themselves and start killing our imperial troops!” |
| “This war is unlawful”, “Uphold our constitution” | “The sacred slaveholder-written documents which founded the US empire must be preserved, and we should only make war if it passes through congress like Iraq” |
| “aimless war” | “I don’t understand the causes, history, or why the US benefits from exerting its power in the ME / persia, so it seems aimless to me” |
Rule 1… do they think it’s racist to be against NATO now lol. Probably including “anti-white” in their definition of bigotry.