I’m not sure what your point here is. Whether or not the occupation allows American military bases, or whether or not they can get away with sinking the USS liberty is moot. Because the occupation literally is an American (and partly european) operation. Claiming that the occupied zone controls America is like claiming that south Africa controlled Britain.
why would the US care about gaza
Petrodollars, settler colonialism and imperial control. Israel and the Gulf monarchies are the linchpin of the petrodollar, aka the American government’s ability to run a massive trade deficit over decades with minimal inflation, something no other country can do. This gives the American government unlimited spending power (for its military).
There is also the geopolitical aspect of dividing the middle east, figuratively and literally, as well as having a forward base there to put pressure on Europe, Russia and China.
Finally, a huge number of “israelis” are really just American settlers. From the standpoint of the American bourgeoise, having a settler colony with a racialised underclass is very profitable, as this underclass (the Palestinians) are easily exploited workers. Furthermore, the American firms can test weapons on Gaza and their partnership with companies in the occupation yield them economic benefits.
Its not euros being salty about the defeat of nazism.
This is precisely the case. I’m sick of the casual racism and love for imperialism that even the most “left-wing” europeans will just say to my face because they think I am one of them. It is so fundamentally baked into every dominant ideology in europe that it feels like there is no possible escape.
This is the consequence of having an entire continent dedicate itself to colonialism and capitalism for 400 years. Both of these things become the total norm. People in europe don’t even understand what empire is, or what empires do, even the extent of their own existing empire.
I mean, look at Macron’s comments. He literally runs an old school colonial empire (that is thankfully collapsing under his reign). And yet he lectures other countries about “imposing capitals”. I don’t think he even realises he is being hypocritical here, because European ideology has redefined European imperialism as not counting as imperialism.
Unsurprising to see the euros be salty about the defeat of nazism/fascism.
“Many compare Moscow and Brussels, I’ve heard that … But Moscow is a capital that has been imposed whereas Brussels is a capital that has been freely chosen through our treaties,” said Macron.
Oh fuck off Macron, you little colonist man who still runs an empire.
Reduce gas imports?
Please reduce gas imports more. Cripple any semblance of industry and power you have left. You will only use industrial power for killing children in Gaza and maintaining policing infrastructure either way. Better to let the gas be used by Chinese and Indian consumers (unironically).
I would have defended against agreeing to specifically target civilians, yes.
This is only something that you have assumed that other people want. Dismantling a settler colonial state is not genocide, on the contrary, it prevents future genocides. And obviously, a settler state can only be dismantled through violent forceful actions, especially against those who seek to uphold it. Any pretenses otherwise are just as delusional as the belief that Nazi Germany could have been destroyed without killing the millions of soldiers of the Wehrmacht who fanatically defended the regime to the very end.
Or in other terms, there are no wars against the leaders, the very concept is nonsensical. Leaders don’t fight wars, soldiers do.
Wouldn’t it have been better to fatwa specific Israeli leaders instead of the entire country that is full of civilians who didn’t cause this?
I hate this excuse liberals keep making, either to whitewash the actions of nations that have lost their minds, or to do cringe “I hate the government not the people” sthicks.
The government doesn’t fall from the heavens. The Israeli leaders, just like the Americans or Nazis did not come out of nowhere and cause mass hypnosis amongst the innocent populations whose only crime was to be too weak to resist hypnosis. These leaders emerged from the population. They were supported by the population before they acquired legislative/executive power (that’s how you aquire the power in the first place). Their commands mean nothing if the population doesn’t go along with it. These leaders are leaders of nations only so long as they represent the wills of their nations, and the will of their nations is to kill, to loot and to worship their capitalist masters.
No man, and I mean none at all rules alone. One comes to realise this truth when one converses directly with the supposed innocents in America, or Germany or Israel. These people by and large know that their governments are involved in genocide (at this point, who isn’t aware?), and if they aren’t actively cheering it on, at the minimum they are going along with it.
Please no exploitation of gnc folk 🥺
How the fuck was this even something Europeans actually even found themselves believing?
Democracy is when you live in the country with the highest suicide rate in the world and a corporate dystopia where union or communist organising is illegal.
The approval rating for the government, like all liberal “democracies” (none of them are democracies) is 36%. I could guess that it was lower than 50% before goggling it because it’s almost like a law of liberal democracy. The people don’t actually have any control over policy (which is always controlled by oligarchs in countries with parliaments). Once the election hype dies down, being betrayed becomes inevitable.
It is explicitly the policy of the chinese government to not try to take Taiwan by force unless some red line is crossed and the one china 2 systems policy is irreversibly violated.
Since the policy hasn’t been irreversibly violated, the mainland hasn’t invaded. This has been the system for the past 70 years and has been maintained by every Chinese administration, including the current one which has run for 10 years already and has still maintained the same 1 china 2 systems policy.
Of course, due to many factors, such as the fact that an invasion is still possible, the military build up along the first island chain by the west in an attempt to encircle china, and the ability of western powers to cut off oil imports to China by blocking off the straits of malacca, the mainland builds up naval power as quickly as it can.
However! As other commentesr have pointed out, these barges are actually useless as military equipment, as can even be seen in the photo that is presented. Why would a country with aircraft carriers and a virtually unlimited supply of drones/missiles rely on such comically sinkable bridges to roll in tanks into Taiwan?
So far this isn’t anything like that period in German history.
Seeing the rise of AfD and Germany’s agressive collaboration on the Israeli genocide, I have to respectfully say, liberals like you are willfully burying your heads in the sand.
Poland has been doing more than its share for Europe defense
Europe’s defense against who? Europe faces no actual military threats from anybody. And no, civilians in the imperial periphery or immigrants don’t count as military threats. For the last 3-4 centuries, the only nations who have been killing Europeans are other Europeans.
Americans are more likely to invade Europe than help them in a conflict.
Even Trump, who is trying to shake down Europe has actually continued/resumed aid to Ukraine. I can’t believe that Europeans are falling for a con from the world’s greasiest clown. He only postures so that you guys are scared into spending more money on NATO and American weapons.
Wakes up to do what? Kill more kids in the Middle East?
They kind of are, since the US military, finance oligarchy, industry and us aligned media completely dominate Canada. For the most part, trump doesn’t even need to annex them to make them into the 51rst state of America.
It’s very likely that many parts of those vehicles are sold to these companies by CCP owned or partly-owned businesses, from the steel to the leather to the plastics, these cars are cheap for a reason.
Tell me you have 0 understanding of the socialist market economy without telling me you have 0 understanding.
I was told 6 months ago that capturing territory in Kursk would force Russia to the negotiating table and down voted when I predicted this would not happen.
Would be against Ukrainian constitution to have elections under martial law, not to mention impossible to arrange or supervise.
The term dictator is used today to almost always mean that someone wasn’t elected to the highest office of their country. Since Zelensky’s term expired a while ago, he is a dictator in that literal sense. Arguing that his dictatorship is legal doesn’t really matter.
What does matter is that for quite some time now, the average Ukrainian citizen has had no choice about the direction that the country should be going in, especially in regards to whether they should sue for peace right now or how to end the war.
Of course, that’s discounting the obvious that bourgeois republics are not really democratic to begin with, but even from the standards of bourgeois democracy, Ukraine fails.
To have open borders requires a majority of people the be free to pass from them.
What’s so special about 50%? Why not set the bar at 60% or 40%? Or 99% or 1%?
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And so do Americans. Like your argument that the colony controls America is that the colony does bad shit to America. But what part of America doesn’t fuck over America on the regular?