Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/kayandskittles/status/1762148381231554731?s=46&t=UyfxoSAUKW7QZlR_GhkuYA

Toplowtech posted:

"There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel." - some guy named Vladimir Ulyanov i believe.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Homeless Friend posted:

https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1770162511209214402

Ignore_Me posted:

Nah, I remember when he made the about face. He got up on the podium on the senate floor and gave a speech about how “I used to be into dope, but now I’m into racism. It’s way heavier man”. Something about the crime bill I think? it was weird.

Zodium posted:

i've met a bunch of people who think zionism basically just means "jewish people should get to have their own state"

Owlbear Camus posted:

genetically modified red cow to bring about the third temple and messiah in israel? 90s airport novel plot rear end geopolitical developments

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

People in the year 1024 did not have a "European concept of race", what the gently caress are you talking about?

Literally. It's the third act reveal in Yiddish Policeman's Union by Chabon.

Shageletic posted:

I dont know anymore than you but doing some poking around regarding misconceptions on Japanese imperialism here in the West and some reasons why

First this first page of this article I wish I had a JSTOR membership so I could read the whole thing



And then there's this really fascinating paper I'm halfway thru reading that does a great job so far laying out how Western scholarship focuses, in a very liberal way, on how Japan as a homogenous idea presented a threat to American history starting off with the late 19th C instead of focusing on the material and real politik nature of what was really happening, because it was too close to Marxist analysis.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...blkeaVxxqf7Pe25

Basically since we broke their isolation we used Japan as a bulwark against German expansion then Soviet expansion after WWI, then their own expansion thru shows of force while still happily working hand in hand with them to exploit China and SE Asia.

And instead of the homogenous culture Western academics supposed occurred in Japan, the country was a bubbling cauldron of volatile politics that was barely fending off, you guessed it , an indigenous proletarian socialist movement by its elites veering into militarism and copying the genocidal imperialism practiced by Western countries as a way to build on the glory of their defeat of Russia in the early part of the twentieth century and creating a police state primarily existing to kill Socialists and socialism.

Fascinating stuff and reminiscent as all hell. Atrocities repeat with the same causes and awful results.

Leandros posted:

why does he say in Sparta? Like is the entire region Sparta?

HallelujahLee posted:

gotta hand it to them

Regarde Aduck posted:

That would be a bit stupid to provoke like that if Iran really has chickened out this time

madmatt112 posted:

alright, I’ll take the risk of being yelled at on the internet, fine Ty

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

The big thing that’s not talked about but very apparent if you look at the GDP of post soviet countries is that with the exception of Russia they were hollowed out by neoliberalism, and Ukraine in particular had the fastest drop in life expectancy in living history as a result. The leadership were western puppets, until the puppet in Russia realized that they still had the leftover weapons, population and material capacity from the USSR to gently caress it let’s be legends and reject the only offer, which was let yourself get hollowed out- Putin unlike the rest of the western puppets in post soviet states is a true believer in Russian nationalism and had the acumen to pull something off, so this is the last gasp. The same hollowing is happening in the west too, it’s just decades instead of years slower because capital can’t just instantly strip out the copper wiring of the imperial core. But the violent spasms of the neocons in the US are driven by the same impulses of trying to do raw imperialism with the big rear end army we have to stave off the hollowing out by capital that has broke free of most mechanisms of national control. Russia just has far less time. It’s just an inevitable product of capitalism and imperial decline.

Lenin is actually to my knowledge the theorist that really distills the gist of it and is still mostly current in his theory on that area but I could be wrong I’m not a huge theory guy.

Also I think it’s cool people should post to figure out what the difference is over a viewpoint and it’s cool that even though this is the politics shitposting forum there’s imo by far the best actual discussion

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

The difference between the Soviet Union and Russian Federation is pretty clearly demonstrated with that, because goddamn somebody give them some SAMs and MiG-23s already.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

The Soviets were willing (to a point) to arm states that opposed the US and Israel, the Russian Federation has been very careful not to provide the Syrian Arab Army, and especially the Syrian Arab Air Force, anything that could be a threat to Israel.

You can liken this to the Russian-Turkish-Greek diplomatic crisis over selling SAMs to Cyprus that would have prevented Turkey from bombing at will.

hubris.height posted:

As a parent, I think about the story of the Palestinian girl that cried about school being dismissed back in October, the teacher assuring her it wouldn't be permanent, and her dying in a bombing the next day a lot

Dti dta

Kopmala posted:

what's syqposting? I missed the boat on this one.