Yanis Varoufakis said it years ago, “You know why in every NATO War most European countries send 2,000 or fewer soldiers and usually to the safest parts of the country? Because European leaders like to talk tough but once the people begin to see any significant numbers of their countrymen come back in a bodybag, then the protests will be massive.”
I think this is just a certain type of white European racist that dunks on white Americans because they’re “not refined” enough for their taste. They were very common on 4chan.
Despite the fact that Islam commands that “people of the book” are to be protected?! Despite that Palestine protected the Jewish people for centuries when Westerners were forcing them into ghettos, pogroming them or genociding them?
I could potentially see it in the West but we still need things to get a lot worse, we’re going to need to see a massive drop in the quality of life and under an explicitly fascist regime.
Bizarre my personal experience full of privilege, I spend most of my time between NYC and London, and in the circles I’m in, everything seems great to everyone involved. Even though the illusion is shattered the moment you actually have conversations with average people.
(I’m a corporate lawyer in New York and my girlfriend is British and is doing a project back in London so I’m basically living on both sides of the Pond.)
Sadly Western Eurasia as a whole has reached the final decades of the Ottoman Empire stage… without Daddy USA propping up their prosperity, Western Eurasia will slip into irrelevancy and as soon as they need to participate in any major war, are sure to shatter to pieces.
every white tourist across Latin America is going to be fair game
That’s the settler-colonial paranoia that what they did, which they won’t admit fully, will be done to them. When truth is most oppressed just want the carnage to end, not get revenge.
This. I remember watching Democracy Now! with an ex-girlfriend and her remarking how odd it is to hear actual news about Latin America and Africa outside of some random mention of chaotic violence.
There’s been some talk of the DPRK freeing the Yeonpyeong Island from the “South Korean” puppet regime, especially since Pyongyang has on many occasions declared that the island is legally in the “North” or the DPRK, as per the ceasefire agreement because the maritime border was snuck into the agreement AFTER Kim Il Sung signed the ceasefire hoping (correctly) that the DPRK was too focused on recovering from the brutality of the war to fight back.
In 1999 the DPRK formally declared that part of liberated territory and presented their case to the UN that the US and its puppet government must either return the island, or offer to pay the DPRK with either a basket of food, fuel, concrete, medicine and fertilizer and/or negotiate a removal of sanctions. Obviously the US has refused to address it and talks with the puppet despots of “South Korea” have been fruitless given that occupied Seoul has no power over its “own” territory and that is handled by Washington’s regime.
The Anglo originated settler colonial state of “The United States of America” which is an occupied nation itself is built on top of nearly 250 indigenous nations and the corpses the largest genocide of human history with the conservative estimate of 10 million people slaughtered, or up to 95% of the indigenous populations of those nations, expressed outrage when Pyongyang earlier this year shelled the island with 350 pieces of explosive ordnance carefully calculated to cause no civilian or military injuries or casualties but also refuse to address that the occupation of the island is in violation of the ceasefire agreement.
I love the implication that the DPRK could even pay Western propagandists. It’s not like the most sanctioned country on earth can just Venmo you money. At most you could travel to the southern tip of China and perhaps Pyongyang could put some gold bars on a raft and float it over the Yalu River.
Israelis like to say that Europe is a continent of “peaceniks” and the US has lost the “heart of the warrior” that the United States is no longer passionate about anything, that it’s “obsessed with equality because they don’t believe in anything anymore”. It’s wild that Israel has so much bloodlust that it makes the US seem tame in comparison.
Yanis Varoufakis said it years ago, “You know why in every NATO War most European countries send 2,000 or fewer soldiers and usually to the safest parts of the country? Because European leaders like to talk tough but once the people begin to see any significant numbers of their countrymen come back in a bodybag, then the protests will be massive.”