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Rest In Power, Michael Brooks.

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I've been slowly working through Season 3 of Blowback and every single episode leaves me thinking "what the fuck" (hexbear.net)

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You can repeat "US imperialism bad" as much as you want but learning the play by play is just absolutely mind blowing. Its always so much worse than you could initially imagine.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of the most effective American propaganda campaigns have been to convince Americans and Europeans that "war" is very specifically when you drive tanks across lines on a map.

Things that are definitely not war include:

Economic blockades
Airstrikes against life sustaining infrastructure
Airstrikes against civillians
Actual boots on the ground in the form of special forces
Actual full scale invasions of countries, as long as you sign the form that says "this is not a war"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Police action" is the 20th century's "Lethal aid"

You know it's funny that libs want to sue gun companies for firearms murders, but don't seem to have the same energy for acknowledging that we're responsible for arming and training the Ukrainian armed forces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

“Police action” was invented for Korea