Oh yes we sure do disagree. Our perspectives hardly overlap. I don't expect to shift your view, nor you mine, but here are my thoughts.
I certainly do not see any “great candidates” in the Democratic Party, and the few individuals I thought were consequential are now indistinguishable from the establishment, who, other than on some social issues are a stone's throw from Republicans — both parties corporate owned. Welcome to USA2023.
A reality-show.
I am anti-war as a basis to build from - and find any justifications (watch out for the abuse of the word “freedom”) for war to be “poor reasoning”.
War does seem to satisfy some bizarre human emotional bonding behavior— a drive to military solutions that metastasizes on top of nationalism/patriotism.
Especially when our “Defense Department” is always waging wars on the other side of the planet.
east to wave flags for the team you picked.
In the current situation the US could have, and can, be working towards peace but our military-industrial complex won’t allow that.
BlackRock already has plan$ to “rebuild Ukraine” after we help make $ure it is more demoli$hed.
Thank you for repeating the official US narrative which the media uses to manufacture consent for this war to Americans, who are ever ready to just go along, especially if they get to slap on some blue/yellow virtue-signaling stickers.
It is a lie.
As usual, coming from the very same people who sell us these wars. The NYTimes is always ready to help out.
The same media that will not investigate who blew up Nordstream. And don’t defend Assange.
Those who are the privileged Comfortables are of course okay with this version of the "news".
Americans will not dissent or rebel or protest even when they are force fed a choice of The Clown and The Somnambulist. It seems in other places around teh world they'd take to the street to express their disgust.
This is the sad state of the union, of what I feel is a dying empire.
Television and smartphones (Brave New World’s “Soma”) keep them satisfied and shopping away even as their government takes billions of their taxes for a proxy war on the other side of the planet.
Yes — it IS indeed a proxy war - completely aside from what Ukraine wants or doesn’t want.
Where does the US get moral high ground to be helping countries fight for democracy?!
9/11(1973, Chile)?
We will use the Ukrainians to the last one for our goals.
( Here’s Lindsay spelling it out exactly in case you missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feg2xwUrQHM )
Without the US wanting perpetual war (you want nuances — Google: Pyatt/Nuland phone call) and pulling everyone they can control into it (European economies, and the risk of nuclear war, be damned) this war would be over, and thousands of young men on both sides would return to their families.
But no - this is The War Racket.
Which Major General Smedly Butler exposed to the core in 1935. Herein lives my anti-war stance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzr5pW21a7U
I end with this paragraph by indi.ca, whose perspective aligns with mine (I faced the Vietnam Death Lottery and have watched USA behavior every decade since then) — an amazing writer here on Medium and elsewhere.
"But I do know this. America is not starting these wars to help anybody else. They’re helping themselves to blood money as they always do. Why should you promote these wars for free? The best thing America can do for the world is to stop warring over it. And all of you idiots with the flags of the latest human sacrifice in your bios, at long last, have you no decency? America has gone from flags on graves in World War II to flags on bios in World War III. It’s a farce. I understand if you can’t stop your war machine, but for fucks sake, stop cheering it on. Whatever war America’s involved in, you can guarantee that it’s a bad one. The US is not helping Ukraine or Taiwan any more than they helped Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq. After so many skulls buried in the ground, can’t you get this through your skull?" - Indi.ca
