US Empire: Crumbling or Globalizing? Part 3 — Views And Double Standards
Tribes. As far as the Eye Can See
In many ways and for several reasons, events in Ukraine are redefining power structures, forging new alliances, and shaping new politics for the way forward, sculpting new areas of control where money sees no borders and the unified activist chants of “one world” resonate while communities wrestle with their identities and recoil at the mention of a global flag, turning inwards, within the group that naturally and most easily accepts their membership from which a purpose can be derived as all else crumbles, and nationality and ethnicity are the broadest ‘clubs’ that satisfy all areas of one’s anger and a need to blame ‘others’.
Two crucial aspects rose to the fore since COVID, these are: just how interdependent and inter-meshed the world has become, the business world having embraced a fragmented form of globalization whose existence people understand but whose implications are just now sinking in. That all of the world’s needs are manufactured in China presents a clear issue that’s long been swept under the profit rug — all of the corporate world is structured in a way that obliges a disregard of resulting externalities that don’t leech back into the business logic and operational costs.
The second: Western superiority deflated and revealed the world’s pale, pasty, and balding wizard of Oz in a tattered cardigan that was just as clueless as all those that looked up to him. But, although no real wiz and despite mostly being a xenophobic bigot, he has a huge army, and so much depends on that these days… God bless that Lockheed Martin. He must have been a good man.
I suppose there’s a third, but denial still makes discussing it a near-waste of time; nonetheless: The lengths Western entities are going to in order to maintain the illusion mentioned in the second.
The reports that Moscow reached out to China for weapons and financial aid resulted in a quick dump of over USD$2.1 trillion in Chinese stocks. All of it points to this being 90% pure propaganda coming from the Pentagon, disseminated, no doubt, to turn public pressure on China and on corporations who don’t publicly denounce China’s non-aggressive attitude towards Russia — as talks of sanctions are in the air, obviously — and to raise tensions between China and Russia.
But it got repeated without question, and with headlines like “Russia BEGS China for military aid” and told to viewers and readers along with the assurance that it proves that Russia was weak, losing the war. And they piled on with reasons to see China as a foe.
So much hypocrisy and one-sided framings.
As I opined a few weeks ago: It seems clear to me that Ukraine has long been the linchpin in a confrontation that was just waiting to happen as long as any Establishment mindsets on any side still held on to the belief that US-led Free Market Capitalism was the god or devil their side has made it out to be. The West wants Ukraine, but only to cripple Russia and have it bend to Capitalism. I’m not convinced things are playing out that way — the US system is too fragile to not motivate alternatives and convince countries to finally make the jump away from the saving grace: the Petrodollar.
Sigh. It’s just a friggin’ system! And one that’s filled with flaws and creates nothing but hardships for too many that it keeps trapped in a loop at the individual and historical level, and Communism, its currently-associated approaches and fears, are just repackaged forms of Capitalism where hypocrisy and corruption are easily seen for the same evils that the West’s version glorifies, and the latter… that’s just as severely screwed-up, in my mind.
Is there coincidence in Saudi Arabia’s recent act of applied law, having executed 81 men last Saturday, the largest mass execution they’ve held to date, an action that the US refuses to condemn, the Biden administration following its established course — act brashly then deal with reality, then repair — and currently doing its best to get back on the good side of Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) since, somehow, petrol still manages to control the world and corporations still prefer making insane profits and blame governments?
Doing what even the Trump administration refused to do, Biden’s is at it again, having agreed to start selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, again, free of restrictions regarding their use in Yemen, and the US is finding itself a direct party in a murderous conflict, fighting to inflict a veritable genocide on an ethnic group alongside the forces of old pals, the United Arab Emirates and the Saudi’s, who are currently using starvation to wipe out the people of Yemen, as both media and viewers pay less attention to such things compared to noisy bombs and bullets, which can always be blamed on one’s unwillingness to give their bootstraps a tug, after all, mother nature provides all the abundance to sustain one’s basic needs and climate change is a lie, right? Didn’t you know? I guess you didn’t see that one hidden study by that one guy no one knows?
What we’re seeing is a war of Oligarchs; the clash is between those of countries, those of economies, those of hemispheres, of ideologies and those of the world, some of the key players at all levels being the same, the US and European Establishments and the new Russian ruling elites being such entities.
The imposed way of seeing the world as a dyad can no longer be maintained within clear-cut lines the way it once could be pre-Internet, and an awareness of too many shades of grey motivated by money — and not morals — that actually define the foreign policy positions of even the good or the bad has amplified the socio-political maelstrom the world has entered, brought here, inevitably, as a consequence of the hubris encouraged by an economic system that’s come to define humanity and what it means to be human; fully cognizant of it or not, there’s disgust to be had from a good, honest examination of the human potential and what we’ve allowed to be constructed despite of it. To benefit a few. Always.
Will Xi Jinping be tempted to try is luck, take Taiwan, expecting a lot of tut-tutting, bad press, and sanctions as the American-led Quad goes on a promotional tour, forcing countries to pick their side or face sanctions as China settles into its Taiwan offices, knowing full well that money rules, and the deals will still go down despite all the tough talk that direct the surface narratives?
Orange. From a Revolution to a President. Orange Jew Glad?
Do you recall the speech made by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 25-Feb-2022 in which he stated that “he sees no prospects of any agreements with the “gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis that settled in Kiev and took hostage the entire Ukrainian nation”?
An odd comment re-told in their intro instantly brought it to mind as I read a paper published in 2012 in the Review of International Studies titled, “The legitimacy of foreign intervention in elections: the Ukrainian response,” by Stephen Shulman and Stephen Bloom. The pair examine Ukraine’s still-nascent notion of a Ukrainian nationality by gauging the Ukrainians’ interpretation of Western and Russian meddling in their 2004 election, using questionnaires to provide sentiments that are categorized within a quantifying structure to reflect the lean and type of nationalism that is dominant within a delineated community. The authors’ framework provides a context that filters out the far-Right racist and ethnonationalist manifestations of a politicized national identity.
I actually want to discuss aspects of this article in the next post but it’s available in one the tabs at the bottom of the page; I did want to include this passage though:
Liudmyla Yanukovych claimed before a rally of her husband’s supporters that the demonstrators in Kyiv’s Independence Square were fuelled by narcotics-laced oranges and outfitted in American-made felt boots. One could easily question the veracity of Madame Yanukovych’s claims about the content and provenance of the oranges and boots, yet her diatribe about Western involvement expressed a popular concern about the putative Western financing of the Orange Revolution. (Shulman, 445)
Viktor Yanukovych is the Ukrainian ex-President that was ousted in the 2014 Euromaidan coup, and he was the candidate in the 2004 elections that Putin backed, financially and through public promotions, visiting Yanukovych twice in Ukraine to be seen with his bet and bolster his popularity. Liudmyla is his wife.
I’m aware of a huge rise in heroin addiction occurring in Ukraine over the last decade, since it’s become a hub for the heroin coming out of Afghanistan, the timeline matching the shift in the production pattern and US and NATO involvement in Afghanistan that I’d briefly mentioned in a post last year. I mention it as I noticed the potential link while looking into what, if anything, provided validity to Putin’s drug claim, as good propaganda may push lies, but it also exploits truths to do so.
Bella Ruse?
Belarus’ self-appointed President-in-Perpetuity since 1992, Alexander Lukashenko, seemed keen on play-acting along with Putin, the two dramatizing a casual discussion in which Lukashenko reveals that Ukraine fired shells into Belarus, leaving them no choice but to retaliate to protect Belarus and Russian sovereignty. Ukraine is the instigator.
Despite being a video, the whole thing came across like an amateur radio play with uncomfortable actors who look like they’re about to break out into giggles at any moment. So many justifications for the attack on Ukraine… Putin may have saved the world? (I kid, of course)
Due to the direction the world is taking and the natural course threatened by climate change, because assuring access to needed resources and the population to sustain a nation was put under threat and potentially lost to the West in the two-system world that’s been carved, Putin seems to think that finding a pretense to secure Russia’s future amounts to just a formality done to create an archive of “counter-argument” clips, and putting real effort into creating an air-tight narrative to justify the invasion of Ukraine and what may come next is wasted energy.
Tribes. And whether Putin is correct or not to harbour such fears that would motivate such steps, the West — the US and UK — did the best they could to keep a tension alive and do the two-step as they treated Putin as a caricature of an evil mastermind with some world-domination plot… The West’s a-holes last only a few years due to that thing we call “Democracy”, but that’s about it as far as real differences go, no?
Morality, Justice. Relativism. Indignation. The Order May Vary
That such an event took place results fully out of the deep tribality that dominated all of life in Mariupol in an intensified manner that is reflected across Ukraine, across Europe and Asia, and across continents.
The way the subject has been treated by media is the sleazy end of the same despicable one that generated the violent, gory end to which the world reacted: the attack on the Mariupol hospital and maternity ward.
Between blanket hate, expressing anger towards Russia’s action, and excusing Putin, there lies a world of differences. And spewing vicious hate towards anyone who isn’t automatically asking for the head of Putin for the action of his army, or towards anyone who entertains any doubt that Russia was specifically targeting pregnant women — could they have gotten the wrong intel ?— or of anyone who attempts to contextualize such an event so similar ones receive the same condemnation, and firmly closing off all conversation that doesn’t adhere to the Liberal narrative, calling these individuals all sorts of names and qualifying anyone on the Left as “fake Left” unless they buy into a precise narrative that suddenly sees no wrong in the Establishment that has, otherwise, always been a target of criticism… Wow. How old are these people? Worst is the fact that these people continually incite negative attitudes and behaviour towards such individuals from their viewers/fans… The irony and hypocrisy from some of the ‘Leftist’ outlets is dizzying.
Condemning hatred with hatred merely extends a new form that finds validation in the politics of the ‘now’ that will, eventually, simply result in a new surface form of the same cycle without offering true progress. The last depends on understanding, which depends on empathy, which… Hate moves one in the direction that’s opposite to the one that leads to understanding.
On 3-Oct-2015, a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship attacked the Kunduz Trauma Centre operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) in the city of Kunduz, in the province of the same name in northern Afghanistan.
The last official tally concluded that: “The total number of dead is known to be at least 42, including 24 patients, 14 staff and 4 caretakers.” Another 30 people were reportedly injured in the attack.
A report made available 5-Nov-2015 by Médecins Sans Frontières states in an accompanying public release (available in the tabs below):“[T]the MSF hospital in Kunduz came under relentless and brutal aerial attack by US forces. Patients burned in their beds, medical staff were decapitated and lost limbs, and others were shot by the circling AC-130 gunship while fleeing the burning building. At least 30 MSF staff and patients were killed.”
MSF’s record indicate that 105 patients were present in the hospital at the time of the airstrikes, which consisted of women, children, and wounded combatants from both sides of the conflict. MSF estimates that three or four of the patients were wounded government combatants and approximately 20 patients were wounded Taliban.
Red Cross officials state that all procedures to secure safe operations had been undertaken, including a red cross painted across the roof.
“The United States military initially said the airstrike was carried out to defend U.S. forces on the ground. Later, the United States commander in Afghanistan, General John F. Campbell, said the airstrike was requested by Afghan forces who had come under Taliban fire.”
MSF Afghanistan hospital airstrike death toll reaches 42 | Afghanistan | The Guardian
Tribal Vision and Partisan Memory
The list below was compiled with extracts taken from several sources, including Wikipedia, ProleWiki, LeftyWiki, and Encyclopaedia of War. These were cherry picked out of a shockingly-long list of events and incidents to choose from, as the goal isn’t to drown the relevance out of the significance of Russia’s devastation, but to properly contextualize such actions within the wider framing of war in order to shift perspectives away from heroes and foes, good versus bad, which is perpetually enforced by institutionalized media that’s trained us to accept deadly Western intervention in some areas of the world as a normal part of daily life, here and there.
Because the proper weight or attention isn’t accorded to the same set of actions if perpetrated from certain states, or if involving certain cultures, the cycle of violence and aggression is maintained in a manner that gradually shifts all power towards one sytem or ideology; the West has long been trained to see the East as foe, and vice versa.
Actions are what they are; though context always matters, moral relativism does not apply when money is what lies behind the reason.
- 20-May-2004, Wedding, Iraq: A US airstrike killed 42 civilians attending a wedding, in the Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre.
- 6-Jul-2008. Wedding, Afghanistan, the US bombed a wedding party and killed 47 Afghan civilians in the Haska Meyna Wedding party airstrike. The first bomb hit a group of children who were ahead of the main procession, killing them instantly. A few minutes later, the aircraft returned and dropped a second bomb in the center of the group, killing a large number of women. The bride and two girls survived the second bomb but were killed by a third bomb while trying to escape from the area.
- 20-Mar-2017, School, Syria: A US airstrike killed at least 30 Syrian civilians in an airstrike on a school in the Raqqa province. The week before, 49 people were killed when US warplanes fired on a target in in the 2017 al-Jinah airstrike, a village in western Aleppo province. US officials said the attack had hit a building where al-Qaeda operatives were meeting, but residents said the warplanes had struck a mosque where hundreds of people had gathered for a weekly religious meeting.
- 17- Mar-2017, ‘Mosul bombing’, Iraq: A US airstrike killed ≅112 civilians in Mosul, Iraq. In response, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said, “There is no military force in the world that is proven more sensitive to civilian casualties.”
- 16-Oct-2001 and 26-Oct-2001, Red Cross, Afghanistan: American warplanes bombed and largely destroyed the same Red Cross complex in Kabul that they struck 10 days ago, an error the Pentagon admitted tonight, saying it occurred because military planners had picked the wrong target. At that time, the Pentagon said it was unaware that the buildings were used by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- 13-Nov-2001, Al Jazeera office, Al Jazeera office, Kabul: Several weeks after the Red Cross attacks, the U.S. bombed the Kabul bureau of Al Jazeera, destroying it and damaging the nearby office of the BBC. Al Jazeera’s managing director said the channel had repeatedly informed the U.S. military of its office’s location.
- 9-Apr-2003, Al Jazeera office, Iraq: US forces did the same oopsie in Baghdad two years after destroying their Kabul office.
Tribal Tripe… But They’re Better Than You
The Young Turks may not be doing as much harm as Fox News but I’ve come to see them as a veritable obstacle to the necessary path that’s to lead to a genuine embrace of Progressive goals through the desired change that the Dems have always promised yet have always managed to package in a manner that’s made it easy for the Republicans to demonize those bills without even knowing what’s in them.
It’s not unreasonable to expect that the change they’re requesting should occur within their lifetime, especially now, but jumping those hurdles and facing inane battles to forward US-beneficial policies from anyone but the 1% certainly is (unreasonable).
But the breaking point is reached, the pretense of promises dissolved, and the White House’s solution is to stretch it all further rather than embrace any change that may disrupt the revenue streams of those who never have to worry about money for the rest of their days; these folks are increasingly becoming a real threat to humanity, accelerating our course towards a certain doomsday with each day that offers only push back against the global reality and a refusal to acknowledge the pressing social needs. The young Progressives — the non-famous, non-wealthy ones who live ‘the struggle’ everyday — are keenly aware of and understand — it’s their future — which is the path that should have been concretized into a through-way to Washington at least two years ago, and they should already be travelling that road, not with a vague agenda, but with a well-defined and proven combat plan, for far too many are filled with an angst that can still be productively channeled, united, and within today’s tech landscape that they’ve already caught up with.
The present’s turbulence implies that an ideal opportunity to launch a new party in an impactful and awaited manner has come and gone already, though it’s never too late to adopt a course that prioritizes people before profits. Given their strength and numbers, and the amount of overlap that actually makes it worthwhile to speak of a “common goal,” this facet offers an easy avenue towards a mutually-beneficial and equally self-serving-for-all alliance that breaks through the tribal idiocy and focuses efforts. The weight and momentum of a determined coalition is what’s required to break the Establishment’s bonds and to delegitimatize its present form, diminishing the moneyed power it’s unjustly wielded for far too long… well, within any self-respecting Democracy, anyway.
TYT merely feeds the division as it fills a hatred in viewers in order to build an empire it sells as activism; it’s a boutique Progressive outlet that flaunts what’s required to rally together a new political party by becoming the hub of a wide, multi-faceted, goal-oriented network with a grassroots soul, but that’s not TYT. ‘Progressiveness’ is a product, not the business; underneath its skirts and skin is a conservative business model, and its surface form is virtually the same as Rightwing media, offering the same belligerence but by focusing on opposites.
The 15-Mar-2022 episode of TYT was a painful one to watch, and it cemented my long-held, intuited doubts about the network and the underlying politics that drive it, and it serves the best indicator of just how badly perceptions have been warped by means of social control being applied through tribalities, and just how tough a battle is to be had to surmount all that serves as moat and fortress that protects the interests and structures of the elite class.
They echo the American Big-Bully attitude perfectly, controlling info and the interpretation of events through oppressive attitudes and aggressive put downs of entire groups.
Here’s the type of rant typical of TYT on any subject, though this was in reaction to some of the narratives being spun in relation to those biolabs that exist across the Ukraine, and which has fueled all sorts of bio-weapons conspiracy theories; they seem to have an odd obsession over some of the Syrian narratives, occassionally finding weird ways to link it into their current topic to defend their views, but mostly to attack certain people:
[T]his is the same trick that they use in Syria, where they say, “Oh well, we didn’t want to do it, it’s just the Syrians dropped a chemical weapon on themselves from a plane they don’t have,” and then propagandists here on the right, and the fake left, in America uh perpetuated that and they created enough, manufactured enough doubt for the world to say, “Oh, keep on murdering civilians in Syria, no one cares. Just destroy the country and hand it back to the dictator Assad, as long as he’s willing to do deals with you guys.” So, understand that it worked before; it also worked in Chechnya, so that’s why they’re going to this well, and they’re going to blame the Ukrainians for their own, for their country being invaded.
Holy crap, these people can be real dense and rely far too much on reductio ad absurdum logic to avoid providing any real content. And all the insults are removed from that excerpt, by the way, as I grabbed it from the YouTube script. All they do is denigrate and pump hate into “progressives”. Grifters in their own way, methinks. The best anyone can claim about the Assad chemical gas affair is “I don’t know.” If looking at all the evidence and not letting one’s desire to see Assad and Putin as being guilty of all evils no matter what, than: It seems that the US manufactured the evidence.
Stop being such bigoted hatemongers that do little for real change except build a brand, and stop acting like such stupid, condescending pricks before calling everyone just that, are my recommendations to the two main TYT hosts. Got my fingers crossed but I don’t expect much.
From what I’ve deduced out of all I’ve researched: Progressive politicians associating themselves too tightly with TYT are hurting their chances with the common-person progressive living each day in the real world.
Hearing them attack Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire — which I love to do myself, when warranted — on the basis of its initial source of funding and ties to it, i.e. the fracking industry, is something I’m guilty of as well, which I’ll continue to point out when it matters as it taints the Daily Wire’s perspective. But hearing the two hosts twist matters in an exclusionary model that relies on hate and coerced biases to present a justified attack on DW to inflict one indirectly on Ben Shapiro in a manner that also excuses TYT’s own situation should they be called out on it, all while consistently spending a bulk of their time thrashing anyone not in agreement with them… They’re continually proving themselves to be just a different package of something like the Daily Wire that’s merely focused on a different product to tap into a different market. TYT also got “seed funding” to start playing at their level, $20 or 25 million or so, which convinced Uygur he’d never look back on his Republican days ever again, except to apply that mentality to TYT’s business model.
I’m not questioning whether his political beliefs are genuine, I’m pointing out how deeply they are undermined and invalidated by clear acts of hypocrisy, hatemongering, and a constant application of double standards.
So, regarding TYT’s assertion that NATO is irrelevant because Zelenskyy already said he was willing to give it up… Holy crap, these people can be real dense! Did I say that already? NATO is clearly a factor, it’s been a factor for at least two decades, and every honest analyst not taking a cheque for their opinion has been saying “Don’t irriate Russia through NATO!” You have zero notion about anything relating to the Cold War if you think ottherwise and interpreting Zelenskyy’s comments as him having already conceded to Putin and it not having made a change… I think you may have slept through more than what you absorbed.
That tearsheet (image, above right): really?! That’s TYT’s proof?! No, that’s lame-arse manipulation and a clear example of ego-driven partisan hackery. Nothing to clap for.
Piecing together disjointed bits from a third party yet always managing to boast that TYT offers up the only real journalism, isn’t that a tad like being a race car driver because one has a Nintendo and “GT Racer”?
Are they reporting on Politico’s piece, titled, “Scholz, Zelenskiy play down talk of NATO membership for Ukraine,” or are they putting their phony progressiveness and disingenuous selves on display, for none of that is the “proof” I’d expect from a serious professional, as it’s the integrity and spirit of a journalist that I’m singling out, not the cameras or platforms?
Listen to the easily accessible press conference and to those quotes in the proper context. Interpreting any of what was said as Zelenskyy saying he’s willing to forgo NATO, at that point, on 14-Feb-2022, means one has an agenda, a comprehension issue, or is the very thing that Cenk Uygur accuses too many of being whilst promoting the wrong or arguable facts: disgusting and stupid people?
Scholz saying that NATO wasn’t on the agenda refers to their meeting’s agenda and the immediate future, and “to tamp down” refers to the uneasiness Putin expressed about the Scholz-Zelenskyy meeting, not that Ukraine was ceding on that point, which Zelenskyy stated, repeating many times that he’s unwilling to bend on until just recently, as he, and Biden, too, have reaffirmed that Ukraine’s right to be in NATO, if so able and they so choose, should be theirs alone.
Scholz’ remarks came before the meeting, and repeated afterwards. After the meeting Zelenskyy specifically clarified matters, stating that, ‘[joining NATO] remains a part of their ambitions, in case there was any confusion following any of the weekend’s comments,’ as, feeling ‘down’, Zelenskyy had voiced criticism of NATO.
When Zelenskyy states that ‘membership isn’t a possibility now,’ he’s referring to the rules concerning membership and conflict zones, by which a war means that the charter bars Ukraine from becoming a confirmed member until issues are resolved and stability is demonstrable.
Plus, Germany, France, and Italy are among those who aren’t too keen on seeing Ukraine join, having done much to hamper its acceptance. Based on the remarks that Zelenskyy makes around those manipulated and out-of-context bits TYT pathetically offered, Scholz appears to have made discouraging Kyiv out of expecting a rapid salvation from NATO — let alone a membership card — his meeting priority.
Hence, Zelenskyy was expressing a form of defeat in the face of NATO members, not advancing a shift towards a partial capitulation that he was offering as such to Putin, agreeing that Ukraine would never again consider a NATO membership. Don’t these hosts think that that would have made the news, or could it be that they are even more stupid than all those they love to endlessly put down as such? Insecure much?
And that “dream” bit: When Martin Luther King Jr., said he had a dream, was he saying: “Yo, whitey, I give up. Ending racism is a dream so here, have at it. I swear I won’t renew my membership to.the Southern Poverty Law Center!”?
Tribes. Destructive, counter-progressive. Things aren’t one thing OR the other, and those who may not think like the two TYT hosts aren’t necessarily scum who “lie all the time. Everything they say is nothing but lies. It’s all they do.” That kind of reductive hatemongering? Now that’s what I call “stupid”.
All of that parallels events in Ukraine, and why we can expect more repeats.
CNN gets it right: Zelensky: Yes, we would like to join NATO | CNN
France 24 does, too: Ukraine will persist with NATO goal, Zelenskiy says as receives Scholz | FRANCE 24
US & USSR/Russia’s Involvement in Regime Changes
Perspectives: Donbas and Dumbass Can Be Confusing
Below is a page from an Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights report that’s available in one of the tabs below but that I’ll discuss in the next post, which is to focus on tribes and Nationalism.
Events in the Donbas region are violent and filled with death, and if one sees a clear foe, then one doesn’t have all the facts. The conflict that’s been underway for over eight years in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics are about a severe clash of ideologies and their desired direction for the future, and what happens when conditions encourage a radicalization and both groups are able to tap into funders and fighters. The separatists and the Ukrainian government forces and the criminally-funded neo-Nazi or enthonationalist Ukrainian militias are all acting in equally inhumane ways that translate into citizens being killed. In terms of good versus bad, think of it in terms of Florida and Texas wanting to become independent states, so Washington decides to go attack and kill those in Texas and Florida that do; they are armed thanks to a previous conflict and their neighbour, and for over eight years citizens of Texas and Florida who just want to watch the “Price is Right” are taking bullets, shells, and land mines… Those that side with Washington mostly leave. For those that remain, how worthwhile is a war to force a people to be a part of one’s nation when all they want to do is separate?
DPR and LPR may be seen as the region’s evil since they don’t represent the “Western” side, but what I’m seeing is the sad, all-too common devastation that’s the product of the human nature we continue to feed, always finding a foe as it always takes at least two for these things to be real, always seeking to blame. Never understanding.
