U.S. AND RUSSIA AREN'T THAT DIFFERENT

[VikLevaPatel]

Putin says Biden's war criminal comment is 'unacceptable and unforgivable'


Yes, we now have confirmation that the CIA was behind Iran's 1953 coup. But the agency hardly stopped there.

New data shows US government routinely intervenes in foreign elections.

As the situation in Ukraine continues to fester, a handy history guide -- from A (Argentina) to Z (Zaire)

35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists

The U.S. tried to change other countries’ governments 72 times during the Cold War

RISKY BUSINESS: WHY AMERICA SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE REGIME CHANGE BUSINESS
You Can't Always Get What You Want - MIT Press Direct
The Three Types of US 'Regime Change' - scheerpost.com
Overthrow: 100 Years of U.S. Meddling & Regime Change, from Iran to Nicaragua to Hawaii to Cuba
US-Backed Regime Change Campaigns during the Cold War
The Failure of Regime-Change Operations | Cato Institute
Thrifty Authoritarians: US Regime Change 1945-Present
Covert United States foreign regime change actions
Database Tracks History Of US Meddling In Foreign Elections
Academics Say U.S. Interventions to Force Regime Change Often Fail
American Covert Regime Change Operations: From the Cold ...
Mapped: The 7 Governments the US Has Overthrown
Why the US has trouble winning wars - Vox
France Is Becoming More Like America. It's Terrible.
America's long history of meddling in other countries' elections

Carl von Clausewitz argued that war is the continuation of politics by other means. So war is not just about blowing things up — it’s about achieving political goals.

Since 1945, the United States has very rarely achieved meaningful victory. The United States has fought five major wars — Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan — and only the Gulf War in 1991 can really be classified as a clear success. There are reasons for that, primarily the shift in the nature of war to civil conflicts, where the United States has struggled.

https://archive.ph/36Bcw#selection-1397.0-1403.127

The United States, up until 1945, won virtually all the major wars that it fought. The reason is those wars were overwhelmingly wars between countries. The US has always been very good at that. But that kind of war has become the exception. If you look around the world today, about 90 percent of wars are civil wars. These are complex insurgencies, sometimes involving different rebel groups, where the government faces a crisis of legitimacy.

https://archive.ph/36Bcw#selection-1469.0-1475.250

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...=1#post7458545

[Anglo-Celtic]

The USA is Soviet Lite now (brainwashing, censorship, dishonest narratives, domestic enemies, hypocritical judiciary, Marxism, show trials, state media, surveillance, Xi fan boys). The bottom line is that the real world war is between the people and the politicians, and we need to increase this Great Awakening before all "tribes" go extinct.

[VikLevaPatel]

The bottom line is that the real world war is between the people and the politicians, and we need to increase this Great Awakening before all "tribes" go extinct.

No one can disagree there. It is interesting that politicians can "get away with things".

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research (1969): "The reason politicians get away with things is because the public is indifferent , but if the public and the groups aren't indifferent you will find politicians will take action because they want to get elected and the strongest thing you have got going for you is election day." Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on ... - Page 404

One set of rules seems to apply for politicians while another is used for regular citizens.

What is the Rule of Law? Central to the wheel and the rule of law is the concept that no one is above the law – it is applied equally and fairly to both the government and citizens.

Yeah, right. Dream on.

ONLY 51% OF CITIZENS TRUSTED THEIR GOVERNMENT IN 2020.
Trust In Fellow Americans Hits All-Time Low, Survey Shows
Federal government has squandered Americans' trust
Trust in politicians at lowest level on record | IPPR
Autocracies outdo democracies on public trust - survey | Reuters

"We really have a collapse of trust in democracies," said Richard Edelman, whose Edelman communications group published the survey of over 36,000 respondents in 28 countries interviewed between Nov. 1-24 of last year.

Why Socrates Hated Democracy - The School of Life
Why Plato Hated Democracy - Medium
What US democracy can learn from ancient Greek philosophy
Prominent Greek Thinkers Actually Hated Democracy

[Permafrost]

Absolutely.

Whatever ill may one speak of the 3rd Reich leadership (and there's a lot to be said about there), one must lend them credit as the German was the only one willing to kick both the Soviet and the American out of Europe, and that is a level of patriotism yet to be matched by any of the so-called members of the "European right", who serve mostly as expensive whores to foreign players.

[Anglo-Celtic]

No one can disagree there. It is interesting that politicians can "get away with things".

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research (1969): "The reason politicians get away with things is because the public is indifferent , but if the public and the groups aren't indifferent you will find politicians will take action because they want to get elected and the strongest thing you have got going for you is election day." Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on ... - Page 404

One set of rules seems to apply for politicians while another is used for regular citizens.

What is the Rule of Law? Central to the wheel and the rule of law is the concept that no one is above the law – it is applied equally and fairly to both the government and citizens.

Yeah, right. Dream on.

ONLY 51% OF CITIZENS TRUSTED THEIR GOVERNMENT IN 2020.
Trust In Fellow Americans Hits All-Time Low, Survey Shows
Federal government has squandered Americans' trust
Trust in politicians at lowest level on record | IPPR
Autocracies outdo democracies on public trust - survey | Reuters

"We really have a collapse of trust in democracies," said Richard Edelman, whose Edelman communications group published the survey of over 36,000 respondents in 28 countries interviewed between Nov. 1-24 of last year.

Why Socrates Hated Democracy - The School of Life
Why Plato Hated Democracy - Medium
What US democracy can learn from ancient Greek philosophy
Prominent Greek Thinkers Actually Hated Democracy

Here's the most irritating thing. They double down on the very things that lead to people's distrust of them.

[VikLevaPatel]

Here's the most irritating thing. They double down on the very things that lead to people's distrust of them.

Yet Another Record War Budget...

Biden told members of the 82nd US Airborne Division that “you’re going to see when you’re there” how strong the resistance in Ukraine is, suggesting that they would soon be deployed to the war zone. Then, on Saturday, he publicly announced what has long been an aim of US strategy — regime change in Moscow, and declared that the US had to be prepared for “decades” of war.

Biden, who had earlier denounced Putin as a “war criminal ,” deliberately bringing US-Russian relations to the brink of collapse, also called the Russian President a “butcher.”

While quickly walked back by his staff, either one of these public statements by the US President could have formed the basis of a major military escalation of the war. They were, unsurprisingly, interpreted by Russian foreign policy circles as a clear sign that Washington had no interest whatsoever in a peaceful resolution of the war.

On Monday, Biden made yet another extraordinary statement, claiming that the US was “helping train the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland”—something both the White House and the US military had earlier denied. Also on Monday, the White House submitted a request to Congress for yet another record war budget of $813 billion for 2023, including $682 million for Ukraine.

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A recent piece in Foreign Affairs indicates that, even if Washington were to accept some kind of settlement of the war for the time being, it would only be one that, in all but words, ensures the continued status of Ukraine as a proxy of imperialism. In the piece, A. Wess Mitchell, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia under Trump from 2017 to 2019, argued that “a deal doesn’t have to be a death sentence.”

https://archive.ph/gPWrC#selection-745.1-749.399

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...70#post7468070

[VikLevaPatel]

US and Russia's Imperialist Wars Are Waging Global Devastation

It is humbling to admit how much the U.S. and Russia share.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin declared that he wants Russia weakened. Of course he meant militarily weakened. Still, his words summoned an echo of Versailles in 1919, when the complete humiliation of Germany planted the seeds for the next world war. Unlike 1919, we inhabit a nuclear world, where humiliating other nuclear nations may be infinitely more dangerous.

The Return of Religious Wars

“Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our history, culture and spiritual space,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on February 21. Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church also emphasized the spiritual aspect of the war over Ukraine. In a March 6 sermon, he described the invasion as a war “against evil” and a “religious cleansing operation.” Putin, Kirill and many Russians want to halt the eastern advance of the irreligious West and reunite the two countries and their churches. Subjecting a people under a religious authority through military means is conversion by the sword, or a “holy” war.

Is a ceasefire realistic between Russia and Ukraine? - opinion

A war without winners

How to Build Putin a Gilded Bridge Out of Ukraine

Putin's Russia has crossed a threshold: It now looks like 1933 Germany

Francine Hirsch: I don’t use ‘totalitarianism’ lightly. But that’s what we’re witnessing.

Kitterman: The troika of change, openness and restructuring

Austrian ex-minister who danced with Putin quits Russian oil company Rosneft

Alexey Beliayev-Guintovt—a Putin supporter who is one of Russia's best-known artists—discusses why he is happy his country's art market is in ruins

Sergei Lavrov: Hitler Was Part Jewish

Alexander Dugin: The right-wing Russian mystic who influences Putin

Dugin's message: Russia is not at war with Ukraine, but with the West

Alexander Dugin sees the Ukraine war as part of a wider, spiritual battle between traditional order and progressive chaos.

Putin survived assassination attempt, Ukrainian official says

Putin's Regime Is Bad: What Comes After Could Be Worse – OpEd

Russia and Ukraine: clearly, Putin has not read The Art of War

Glory to the great Slavic people: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...80#post7509480

[VikLevaPatel]

Putin's Russia has crossed a threshold: It now looks like 1933 Germany

Francine Hirsch: I don’t use ‘totalitarianism’ lightly. But that’s what we’re witnessing.

Conversely, we could say the same thing about America.

A quick Google search on the topic gives 115,000,000 results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=amer...hrome&ie=UTF-8

And another search gives 1,190,000,000 results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=amer...client=gws-wiz

Yes, that's right, over one f**king billion search results or hits on the Google browser on the Internet.

Germany at the dawn of Nazism, the USA today. Similarities? Differences? Many today ask such questions, for valid reasons.

It happened in Nazi Germany, and it's happening in America.

1930s Germany and 2020 USA: Should we fear the parallels?

Al Franken says America feels like Nazi Germany in the '30s.

The Nazis did indeed try, and succeeded in, subverting democracy after that whole Reichstag Fire incident. (Though, it should be said, the Nazi party was duly-elected as the largest party in German parliament well before that development.)

https://archive.ph/ENcB4#selection-819.193-819.432

Franken is far from a faultless messenger – he resigned his senatorship in 2018 following allegations of sexual misconduct – but he has proven to have an astute barometer on American politics. “Well, at least I’m not Jewish,” Franken gibed about his perceived Nazification of America. “Oh wait, wait I am.”

https://archive.ph/ENcB4#selection-819.0-823.113

Putin has shut down independent media, banned Western social media, and criminalized all criticism of his policies.

https://archive.ph/IjA5s#selection-1663.129-1671.32

Based Putin.

It's certainly heartening to see Mother Russia pushing back against the searing tidal waves of degeneracy, degeneration, dissoluteness, and decadence.

Let's hope they ban that cursed and toxic waste site Twit Sh*tter outright.

It's all down the sh*tter for Twitsh*tter especially after that Punjabi Baniya had taken the helm.

Watch him lead them all up Shit Creek faster than you can say 'Hrundi V. Bakshi.'

To watch Blake Edwards's The Party is to finally dispel any remaining doubt you may have in this respect or you may have entertained on the subject.

The masterpiece movie describes them to a tee. No wonder they banned it in India.

(replay it at least a few times)


Francine Hirsch: "Russia is rapidly becoming a totalitarian state. The pieces are all there." https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/...s-1933-germany

Putin’s adviser on culture, Vladimir Tolstoy, has told Russia’s writers and artists that there is a “litmus test” and the only acceptable position is “open support” for the regime. The Russian Education Ministry is introducing a compulsory patriotic curriculum for elementary school students. There also have been moves to close sociology departments at universities and eliminate other disciplines that are seen as having been too heavily influenced by the West.

https://archive.ph/IjA5s#selection-1677.0-1689.125

Uranus in Taurus; Fascism Everywhere

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Astrologers have noted the link between Uranus in Taurus (April 1935 to April 1942) and Fascism, which coincided with Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin’s authoritarian regimes.

https://archive.ph/mlLdd#selection-373.0-373.172

A Totally Changed World (By The Year 2026): So Fasten Your Seat Belts And Hold Tight! https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...24#post7441924

[VikLevaPatel]

Germany prepares for World War III with the passage of 100 billion euro “Bundeswehr Special Fund”

The “Bundeswehr Special Fund” of more than 100 billion euros has now been agreed to by both chambers of parliament, providing a massive boost to Germany’s rearmament drive.

The political, historical and social implications are enormous.

“Germany’s destiny: to lead Europe in order to lead the world” was the title of a post on an official Foreign Ministry website back in 2014. Now these plans are being put into action, with all their consequences. Media warmongers and foreign policy strategists are already calling for German and European nuclear weapons to “contain” Russia and to be able to fight out future “conflicts of interest with the leading Western power,” the United States.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Kissinger needs to go | Like Germany in war | Complete nonsense

Mapping US imperialism - CounterPunch.org

One central mechanism of US imperialism is “dollar hegemony” which forces countries around the world to conduct international trade in US dollars. US dollars are backed by US bonds (instead of gold or industrial stocks) which means a country can only cash in one American IOU for another. When the US offers military aid to friendly nations, this aid is circulated back to US weapons corporations and returns to US banks. In addition, US dollars are also backed by US bombs: any nation that threatens to nationalize resources or go off the dollar (i.e. Iraq or Libya) is threatened with a military invasion and/or a US backed coup.

Opinion | 10 Negative Consequences of Boundless US Militarism and Imperialism

US and China - imperialism and the shifting balance of power

Scholar: Era of U.S. imperialism, domination is over

Western imperialism turns to pessimism in Ukraine

Ukrainian losses are mounting. Russia has maintained its income from oil and gas, despite the West’s sanctions, the knock-on effects of which threaten to push the world economy into a new and damaging recession.

Ukraine war product of imperialism of both Putin and the West – Solidarity Online

The fundamental cause of the war in Ukraine is a clash between two rival imperialisms. NATO and the US also share the blame for the conflict.

Biden's trip to Saudi Arabia exposes the hypocrisy of the imperialist war against Russia

The P&O Scandal Was Created By Imperialism

Opinion | The Imperial Fictions Behind the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Harvest of Empire: Juan González on His Landmark Book, Immigration & Consequences of U.S. Imperialism

Canadian imperialism's fascist friends—Part 5: Mobilize the working class against the US-NATO war with Russia and fascist reaction!

Vladimir Putin's dark journey from economic reformer to war criminal

Ireland backs Ukraine joining EU in face of 'imperialist' invasion

Ireland's New Drive to Join NATO - CounterPunch.org

Why we shouldn't worry about humiliating Russia

Understanding war: Lenin's 'Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism'

An Empire’s demise

A Tattoo, an Assassination Attempt, and a War: Tsar Nicholas II's Relationship with Japan

Pros and cons of British Empire: “Balance sheet” history asks students to legitimize imperialism.

PM says Poles prepared to defend their homeland

Social Democrats and ex-Stalinists lead Finland and Sweden into NATO

Finland and Sweden’s application for membership of the NATO military alliance was carried out in close collaboration with the major imperialist powers, who view the integration of the Scandinavian countries as crucial to the opening of a second front in their war to subjugate Russia.

There's absolutely nothing Pan-African and Anti-Imperialist about oppressing one's citizens and looting nation's resources

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara's mission in the Congo connec...

Linguistic imperialism: BJP pronouncements on promoting Hindi spark outrage

LankaWeb – Is Sri Lanka being digitally colonized?

Red lines, imperialism and the Solomon Islands

The Thin Red Line is a novel by James Jones set during the World War Two battle between the United States and Japan for control of the Solomon Islands. It is about the devastation war visits even on the “winners”; the title refers to the physical and mental fragility of human beings, which combat inevitably exposes with horrifying consequences. And it is about the hypocrisy and callousness of those who give the orders to fight without having to suffer those consequences.

'Our struggles are truly connected': an interview with the Mapping Project

“The right to self-determination is something the left has always defended”

Zionism, Policing and Empire: A dispatch from the Mapping Project

NATO, imperialism and the war

The NEW Normal Is NOT NORMAL

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[JamesBond007]

The USA is Soviet Lite now (brainwashing, censorship, dishonest narratives, domestic enemies, hypocritical judiciary, Marxism, show trials, state media, surveillance, Xi fan boys).

Get used to it -- the weapon of Marxism is the truth. Marxism is a critique of capitalism—the most searching, rigorous, comprehensive critique of its kind ever to be launched. It is also the only such critique that has transformed large sectors of the globe. It follows, then, that as long as capitalism is still in business, Marxism must be as well. Only by superannuating its opponent can it superannuate itself. And on the last sighting, capitalism appeared as feisty as ever.

The bottom line is that the real world war is between the people and the politicians, and we need to increase this Great Awakening before all "tribes" go extinct.

You can thank Capitalism for that :

Researchers from Princeton University and Northwestern University have concluded, after extensive analysis of 1,779 policy issues, that the U.S. is in fact an oligarchy and not a democracy. What this means is that, although 'Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance,' 'majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts.' Their study (PDF), to be published in Perspectives on Politics, found that 'When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.'

https://www.slashdot.org/story/200803

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journ...D4893B382B992B

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