There’s a way to get the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth from the mainstream news media. Just look at their propaganda and ask yourself, “Why do they want me to believe this particular lie?” If you can figure that you, you will have the truth.

Posted by: Donbass Lives Matter | Jul 17 2021 11:45 utc | 4

Soon, they will have problems convincing people that they are the one civilized, living in their dilapidated Sodom and Gomorrah full of childless, browns and blacks, sexual perverts and what not, while rest of the world keep building families, educated people, shinier metropolises and send ships to the Mars.

Posted by: Abe | Jul 17 2021 11:56 utc | 6

George Will “outs” the apex media whores because he has been so pampered for so long and doesn’t realize he continues to expose U.S. imperial game plans. Here’s a clip of him equating Jan 6 with 9/11. He purports to speak for the Republican bluebloods who have always despised the rednecks and now are using Biden to re-coalesce until they can find a more acceptable front man/woman/person.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/05/23/george_will_id_like_to_see_january_6_burned_into_the_american_mind_as_firmly_as_911.html#!

Posted by: migueljose | Jul 17 2021 11:58 utc | 8

I find it pretty bizzarre how western media obsessively try to portray the Defender incident as a some sort of “victory” for “civilized nations”.
What exactly is the victory here? The fact that Russia only resorted to warning fire and didn’t blow up the ship?
Posted by: Midville | Jul 17 2021 11:57 utc | 7
Yeah, I know, it’s embarassing, but you have to understand, they are not really defending the story anymore, they are defending themselves for coming up with it.

Posted by: Bemildred | Jul 17 2021 12:11 utc | 10

The Empire’s narrative is being exposed, destroyed even. Will’s whacko hyperventilating raving makes him look like a spoiled child: “Russia Russia! Civilized nations!”
Meanwhile, Latin Americans are connecting the dots: Venezuela’s Telesur is broadcasting large amounts of information and detail exposing the most recent actions and the role of various U.S. imperial groups which include the Moise assassination in Haiti out of Miami, the latest drone assassination attempt on Maduro along with a major bloody battle in Caracas with street gangs armed and directed by psychopath Leopoldo Lopez (from Madrid), Venezuela’s arrest of right winger Freddy Guevara, Peru’s fight against Fujimori, Lula’s rise and the evolving plan to stop him, and the recent #SOSCuba plot in which Twitter actively facilitated the bot storm immediately followed by Biden’s tweet in support of the attempt to destabilize Cuba. Bolivia’s economy is doing well thanks to public sector operations back on line. Everyone is watching them grow.
Bottom line, the Empire is gearing up in Latin America but the people are responding. Will is throwing a tantrum.

Posted by: migueljose | Jul 17 2021 12:23 utc | 12

Civilized nations is a select club of drug pusher nations, an old tradition of pushing opium in China, heroin from Afghanistan, and previously from IndoChina, fentanyl feast and synthetic opiods from big pharma and now their exclusive brand of vaccines, that’s civilization for you.

Posted by: Paco | Jul 17 2021 12:35 utc | 14

This is precisely the type of arrogance that has led to US leaving Afghanistan with their pants down – having spent untold Trillions of dollars and having nothing to show for it. And soon, leaving Iraq and Syria too. It reminds me of how the US left Vietnam and Cambodia.
The ‘White’ establishment in Washington and across the US military industrial complex, has an air of superiority and always seem to feel that they can subjugate via throwing money at people! This in effect turns everyone they deal with into Whores (yes, prostitutes). Its fundamentally humiliating, and sews the seeds of corruption – both economic and moral. Then, they are shocked that there’s a back clash!
The Taliban succeeded not with arms – but by projecting a completely different narrative of “Morality (i.e. non-corruption), honor, and even intermingled nationalism with their narrative”. They projected a story that suggested that new Afghan daughters would not turn into Britney Spears or porn stars.
And, believe it or not, the Chinese see themselves as having been fundamentally humiliated by the West and couch their efforts as a struggle for their civilization (its not ideological or even economic) – they are fighting for honor and respect.
Western Civilization (and western elite) on the left and right are fundamentally materialistic. They worship money, and simply don’t understand it when others don’t. When they talk about superiority, they are basically saying the worship of money rules supreme. You sort of become dignified in the west if you have a lot of wealth. They want to turn the whole world into prostitutes. Policy and laws are driven by material considerations.
Now, I am not saying that spirituality or religion is good; and in fact, the Chinese are not driven by religious zeal (they are, on the whole, non-religious). What I am saying is that – no matter how its expressed – be it through religion, through culture, through rhetoric, etc. – all this back clash is really a struggle for respect, ‘honor’ and thus a push back to Western Arrogance, and the humiliation it has caused. The West simply doesn’t understand that there are societies – especially in the east, that value honor over other things.
When Trump calls other people losers, he is basically saying he is richer, they are poorer. In his mind, winning, is all about money. When people write articles about the superiority of a civilization – they are implicitly putting other people down. That’s not just arrogant, its rude and disrespectful. Its basically like a teenager judging their parents. How dare a newly formed nation (the US), judge or differentiate or even pretend to be superior to the Chinese, Persians etc.?
Our foreign policy (and rhetoric) in the West has to completely change. We have to be really careful, because, (honestly), it won’t be very long before these other (inferior) civilizations actually take over global leadership. Then how will we want to be treated? Don’t for a second think these folks can’t build great gadgets that go to Mars! Oh, did China just do that? Does Iran have a space program? Did they just make their own vaccines? Once they start trading among themselves without using the USD greenback, we are finished.
We need them, they don’t need us.

Posted by: Ayatoilet | Jul 17 2021 12:50 utc | 16

Some notable recent achievements of ‘civilised’ nations include:
-Illegal invasion and bombing of multiple non-aggressor nations
-Overthrowing of democratically elected Governments
-Support of extremist and oppressive regimes
-Sponsoring of terrorism, including weapon sales to ISIS
-Corruption of once trusted institutions like the UN and OPCW
Oh, the civility…

Posted by: Et Tu | Jul 17 2021 13:07 utc | 18

Thanks for the good weekend laugh, b. Democracy vs Autocracy; civilized versus uncivilized; Law vs Rules etc.
My question is this: with Empire so obviously boning for War, why Russia, China, Iran and others don’t put together a defensive First Strike against an obvious irrational and dangerous enemy. Until resistance to Empire is met with actual resistance, one expects more of the same as far as the eye can see.
No one will shed tears over a mushroom cloud in Washington DC.

Posted by: gottlieb | Jul 17 2021 13:35 utc | 20

China was already a civilized nation when the height of European civilization was the wearing of powered wigs in an attempt to keep the head lice under some sort of manageable control.
Apparently the civilizational gap has only widened since then….

Posted by: Yeah, Right | Jul 17 2021 13:40 utc | 22

civilized since 1492

Samuel 2:3
“Boast no more so very proudly,
Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth;
For the Lord is a God of knowledge,
And with Him actions are weighed.

With Russia, China, Iran et al., too.
Why is Iran calling US “The Arrogance” since Islamic Revolution? For Muslims [and Chiites even more], arrogance is the main characteristic of the devil and of bad behavior. Satan’ s arrogance, on account of which he was dismissed from Allah’ s mercy and grace.
Arrogance, greed and lie. Denying the fact that humans are a whole lot more than hierarchy. Some kind of proto-Marxist analysis on humans collective efficiency.
Well summarized

Hubris, or less frequently, hybris[1] (/ˈhjuːbrɪs/ or /ˈhaɪbrɪs/, from ancient Greek ὕβρις), describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride[2] or dangerous overconfidence,[3] often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance.[4] The term “arrogance” comes from the Latin adrogare, meaning to feel that one has a right to demand certain attitudes and behaviors from other people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris

Rule based arrogance?

Posted by: الجزائر | Jul 17 2021 14:00 utc | 24

HOW DID RUSSIA BECOME THE ENEMY?
…when all she did was offer slight resistance to Western aggression? The key event was the August 2013 false-flag gas attack and massacre of hostages in Ghouta in Damascus.
What really angered the West was the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean that prevented the NATO attack on Syria. (You will not find a single word of this in Western media.) This is why Crimea needed to be captured by the West. As revenge and deterrence against the Russian agression.
I wrote about these events in 2016:
The standoff was first described by Israel Shamir in October 2013:

“The most dramatic event of September 2013 was the high-noon stand-off near the Levantine shore, with five US destroyers pointing their Tomahawks towards Damascus and facing them – the Russian flotilla of eleven ships led by the carrier-killer Missile Cruiser Moskva and supported by Chinese warships.
Apparently, two missiles were launched towards the Syrian coast, and both failed to reach their destination.”

A longer description was published by Australianvoice in 2015:

“So why didn’t the US and France attack Syria? It seems obvious that the Russians and Chinese simply explained that an attack on Syria by US and French forces would be met by a Russian/Chinese attack on US and French warships. Obama wisely decided not to start WW III in September 2013.” Can Russia Block Regime Change In Syria Again?

In my own comments from 2013 I tried to understand the mission of the Russian fleet. This is what I believed Putin’s orders to the fleet were:

1. To sink any NATO ship involved in illegal aggression against Syria.
2. You have the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons in self-defense.

I am sure NATO admirals understood the situation the same way. I am not sure of the American leadership in Washington.

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Jul 17 2021 14:05 utc | 26

Insulting language aside, the narrative they are trying to create is that there is an anti-Russia, anti-China trend developing and that those sitting on the fence would be wise to join the bandwagon.
This will be particularly effective on the majority of folks who barely scan headlines and skim articles. Falun Gong/CIA mouthpiece Epoch Times is on board with this, based on recent headlines.

Posted by: Billb | Jul 17 2021 14:15 utc | 28

I’ve noticed that hypocrisy is no longer a thing in our culture. It is openly embraced as the norm. And if you try to point it out you are accused of whataboutism. It is a sign of our intellectual and spiritual decline.

Posted by: Michael Weddington | Jul 17 2021 14:28 utc | 30

The civilized strike group is now in the Indian Ocean. The big question is what happens when they get near the Paracel Islands and the Taiwan Straits.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-carrier-strike-group-reaches-indian-ocean-region

Posted by: dh | Jul 17 2021 14:37 utc | 32

Life is the ultimate I.Q test.

Posted by: Larry Paul Johnson | Jul 17 2021 14:52 utc | 34

In Russian, to be uncivilized (nekulturny) is a bad thing.

Posted by: lysias | Jul 17 2021 15:10 utc | 36

George Will has been dead for decades, he just doesn’t know it yet…

Posted by: urblintz | Jul 17 2021 15:52 utc | 38

Said about GW by one in the know:
“He isn’t dead, he just smells foul”
Said the other:
“Fawls shold be well hing before enjoyed by the dogs and cats to swallow — same sauce goes down as well for both the ganders and for fools.”

Posted by: Tollef Ås/秋涛乐/טלפ וש | Jul 17 2021 15:57 utc | 40

Patrick Armstrong recently wrote this…
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/07/13/the-news-killed-satire/
He is right, it has become difficult to distinguish ‘news’ from satire.

Posted by: MarkU | Jul 17 2021 16:10 utc | 42

This article is fundamentally about propaganda and “soft power”.
Soft power in foreign policy is usually defined when other countries defer to your judgement without threat of punishment or promise of gain.
In other words, if other countries support your country without a “carrot or stick” approach, you have soft power.
For years, the US simply assumed other “civilized” of the western world would dutifully follow along in US footsteps due to unshakeable trust in America’s moral authority. The western media played a crucial role by suppressing news regarding any atrocities the western powers committed and amplifying any perceived threats or aggressions from “enemies”.
Now, with the age of the internet, western audiences can read news from all over the world and that has been a catastrophe for western powers. We can now see real-time debunking of propaganda.
In the past, the British would have easily passed off the recent destroyer provocation as pure Russian aggression and could expect outrage from all western aligned countries. The EU and US populations could have easily been whipped into a frenzy and DEMANDED reprisals against Russia if not outright war. Something similar to a “Gulf of Tonkin” moment.
But, that did not happen. People all over the world now know NOTHING from the US or British press is to be trusted. People also now know NATO routinely try to stir up trouble and provoke Russia.
So, Americans and even British citizens displayed no widespread outrage because they simply did not believe their own government’s and compliant media’s side of the story.
US and British “soft power” are long gone. No one trusts them. No one wants to follow them into anymore disastrous wars of aggression.
Western media still do not understand this and cannot figure out why so many refuse western vaccines or support the newest color revolutions.
We simply do not believe it.

Posted by: Mar man | Jul 17 2021 16:14 utc | 44

Petri Krohn | Jul 17 2021 14:05 utc | 26
If we are talking about the same incident.
You are missing the juicy bit;
The two missiles were fired by Israeli airplanes from behind the US and UK ships. (Nearer Gibraltar)
The planned scenario was that the Syrians would “reply” to the missiles and fire (by mistake) at the US and UK force. Thus the attack on Syria would be justified by “they fired first”, and seen as Syrian aggression.
Once the Russians openly signaled the real source of the two missiles, they were declared “practice” ones and diverted into the sea.
One other difference in the story is that I understood that the Russian radars that picked up the missiles were the long-range ones based in Crimea. Crimea was and still is the center of all the Russian Southern Defense system.

Posted by: Stonebird | Jul 17 2021 16:22 utc | 46

SITRAP ONE:
The Taliban has now changed the English-language “Spåkesman” to “Spokesperson”. This agrees well with the Dari(Persian) language , where the same word is gender-neutral.
SITRAP TWO:
US of North A landing vessels in the Táiwan straights now get armed with Norwegian-produced rockets that reach far and like cannons. Aus den stoltzen Berg in Brüssel, the Quisling Jens Stoltenberg must have exherted bmegaton tonnage of pressure on the government of Norway to allow this blatant abrogation of the treaty on trade and friensship mesween Red China and Norway signes four years ago, where Norway promised never to go agains China’s “core national interests. Shame on us Nordics for being almost as duoplicious as “Perfide Albion”itself!

Posted by: Tollef Ås/秋涛乐/טלפ וש | Jul 17 2021 16:43 utc | 48

Anyone good with Photoshop?
I would enjoy a long healthy laugh.
Picture this:
George Will with a bone through his nose.
Please.

Posted by: librul | Jul 17 2021 16:47 utc | 50

Will is a more than willing servant of Empire.
and always has been
He and some others at the WA Post along with Friedman over at the NYT and a number of his colleagues (and editors/publishers) as well should perhaps be put on trial for their complicity in the vast war crimes and crimes against humanity of the US-UK Empires over the past 3-4 decades, or more….. which they have all so gleefully supported and provided propaganda cover for…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 17 2021 16:55 utc | 52

@ librul | Jul 17 2021 16:47 utc | 50 who wrote
”
Picture this:
George Will with a bone through his nose.
”
Nice visualization of his nose bone with the ends holding up his glasses so they don’t slide down….how civilized….

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 17 2021 17:02 utc | 54

@Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 17 2021 17:02 utc | 54
Thx for the chuckle.

Posted by: librul | Jul 17 2021 17:07 utc | 56

“Henry Kissinger has said….” That lets me out right there. HK should have been hanged for war crimes not later than 1976. It will be a great day for humanity when that creature goes under the soil.

Posted by: Donnie | Jul 17 2021 17:15 utc | 58

Remember this one? Bet George certainly does.
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2012/08/savage-geller-bus-ad-hits-san-francisco.html
“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.”
The ad campaign was led and paid for by Pamela Geller’s organization.
She would later go to Texas and incite violence with the assistance of the FBI.
The FBI under Comey did not arrest Pamela Geller because, either they were her active partner, or they failed just like on 9/11.
Pamela Geller was inciting violence – intentionally, successfully and with clear purpose.
Her purpose has been repeated numerous times by Benjamin Netanyahu:
“9/11 was good for Israel”.
Incite more violence in the US and that is good for Izrael.
Pamela Geller’s org has made clear her loyality to Israel, to hate and to violence.
Her organization posted this billboard:
“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.”
“9/11 was good for Israel” – Benjamin Netanyahu.
Being loyal to hate and to violence and publicity, what did Pamela Geller do, with the full knowledge of the FBI?
She deliberately provoked hate in order to incite violence by Muslims by deeply insulting their religion. Her purpose was publicity that benefits a foreign country – Israel.
In Garland Texas, she sponsored an ****annual**** “insult Muhammad” contest (“First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest”).
Her baiting of violence caught a fish with the FBI in tow.
It was common knowledge that the Insult Muhammed contest could provoke violence, so the presence of FBI at the contest was a given
– a very strong given for a competent FBI.
Under Comey the given fact was the absence of FBI agents – a stand down.
The only FBI presence known to the public is the FBI plant, a provoker of violence himself,
who urged the gunmen to “Tear up Texas”.
That is right, the gunmen drove a very long distance to arrive in Texas,
the FBI provocateur arrived in his car immediately behind the gunmen.
This was Comey in action (“9/11 was good for Israel” – Benjamin Netanyahu), an FBI stand down, an FBI plant urging violence and arriving at Pamela Geller’s contest in the car behind the gunmen.
And to complete his task Comey did not arrest Pamela Geller for intentionally inciting violence.

Posted by: librul | Jul 17 2021 17:33 utc | 60

“If arrogance were a deadly disease”
Perhaps it is, isn’t arrogance the reason, the world is watch the death throes or the US and her controlled western powers.

Posted by: Kooshy | Jul 17 2021 17:41 utc | 62

The disdain for George (POS) Will by the riotous and good has no bounds.

Posted by: ed | Jul 17 2021 18:24 utc | 64

The acts of a ‘civilized’ nation:
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/torture/picture-torture-worth-thousand-reports
Although there are many thousands of examples available I think a single one is sufficient to settle the matter.

Posted by: the pessimist | Jul 17 2021 18:49 utc | 66

Arrogance is not a deadly disease or even a hindrance for mainstream presstitutes; it is a job qualification, making them all the more manipulable and manipulative. And so, as with Michael Gordon, Judith Miller, Brett Stephens and David Sanger (essentially all of them pulling double duty for the apartheid state), people will die from their propaganda, but they will advance.

Posted by: fx | Jul 17 2021 19:01 utc | 68

George Shill ; well paid liar, propagandist, hypocrite, war monger and chicken hawk.

Posted by: General Strike | Jul 17 2021 19:07 utc | 70

Name a democracy that isn’t a suzerainty.
Name a leader with moral courage and integrity among suzerainties (private plantations). Nations without integrity and filled with Orcs (individuals without conscience), can’t be civilized. They’re EVIL vassals of Saruman & Sauron, manipulated by Wormtongue.
“The true equation is ‘democracy’ = government by world financiers.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Henry Kissinger, in his interview with Chatham House stated, “the United States is in a CRISIS of confidence… America has committed great moral wrongs.” What are U$A’s core values?
According to a CFR member :
“How lucky I am that my mother studied with JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis and WH Auden and that she passed on to me a command of language that permits me to “tell the story” of the world economy in plain English. She would have been delighted that I managed to show that the evil Gollum from Tolkien’s tales lives above the doorway in the Oval Office, which he certainly does. I saw him there myself. He may have found a new perch over at The Federal Reserve Bank as well.”
– Excerpt From, Signals: The Breakdown of the Social Contract and the Rise of Geopolitics by Dr Philippa Malmgren
The Financial Empire has ran out of LUCK. “In God We Trust”
Why Mordor Failed… Sauron’s hegemonic collapse holds potent lessons
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims … but accomplices.”

Posted by: Max | Jul 17 2021 19:48 utc | 72

He used a lot of big words in the article so that upper middle-class families sitting around dinner tables won’t be so embarrassed to agree with these ideas out loud. Instead of embarrassed, they feel enlightened to consume these articles based on a bit of prose and not based on the substance of the article.
This is mental sustenance for the weak-minded who will say and do anything to be a part of a winning team. They will bend over backwards to justify anything printed in these papers because the alternative is have negative emotions once in a while.
If this were written with crass or crude language the ideas in the article wouldn’t have legs, at least not with most people, whereas anti-war voices and other ideas which have a natural veracity ring true no matter if it is spoken with vulgarity or eloquence.

Posted by: Rutherford82 | Jul 17 2021 20:00 utc | 74

We are the Wapo men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Posted by: Leuk | Jul 17 2021 20:43 utc | 76

I thought moral superiority was the official position of NATO. The explicit intent is to weaponize human rights and democracy . So it is not merely the mundane ‘our group is better’ or the somewhat nostalgic western form of moral superiority, it’s weaponized moral superiority.

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Jul 17 2021 21:08 utc | 78

The USA-centrism is on display here again. No one in Australia knows (or cares to know) who George Will is. Who even reads these rags anyway? Come on b, this is low hanging fruit isn’t it? An intelligent 12-yr old could critique this imperialist screed. Wouldn’t the challenge be to examine your own blindspots? Corona-Ausnahmezustandes vielleicht?

Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 17 2021 22:09 utc | 80

The fact they have to dig up this rancid corpse to spout propaganda is a sure sign the Empire has minutes left in it! When they look in the mirror what do they see? Anything? No, it is the American Empire that doesn’t like how the Cold War ended. Sure they did a victory dance through the nineties when they tried to rape Russia to death but it failed. And if that wasn’t bad enough they have lost their economic position to China. Every scheme from Ukraine to Syria has turned into dung….they dare not face Russia or China militarily so they engineer spiteful publicity stunts like the shoddy Brits did in the Black Sea. Then they brag about it! Pathetic. Look, the Writing is already on the Wall….do they need someone to interpret for them?

Posted by: nook | Jul 17 2021 22:37 utc | 82

The 256 nation states that house 8 billion people, are the tools of the manipulators. The manipulators can be found in the privately owned, monopoly powered corporations and their market traders. The criminal and oligarch elements that control the behaviors of the nation state system can be found in the banks, universities, think tanks and religious institutions.
The elements that control the nation state system all depend <=for their power <=on limiting the access of the governed to the valuable information hidden in the private information space and on the un-gated 24/7 misinformation pushed into, and distributed in the public information space. The Civilized nation state system differentiates the human born into it from its birth so that the manipulators can make targets of some and aggressors of others. MSM merely manipulates the when, where, how, and who. So information is like blood. Information oozes between and within the nation states to selectively deliver its messages which messages activate/deactivate the behaviors of the various nations exposed to it. What has surprised me is that Google has not made George Will President of its company.

Posted by: snake | Jul 17 2021 22:42 utc | 84

Another dictionary definition of civilized is “cultured and courteous; refined”
Another description of the West is “crass and aggressive; opportunist”
Just because the pussy grabber is not in office doesn’t mean the rules of barbarous empire have changed.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 18 2021 0:17 utc | 86

Oxford and the Ivy League. The training grounds for the Anglo American deep state and the cheerleaders of the empire. Expect nothing more of these deeply under educated sudo intellectuals.

Posted by: circumspect | Jul 18 2021 1:38 utc | 88

Sorry, I meant this meme of our pussy grabber psycho:

To be civilized in the West one must be refined in the arts of deception and good at the science of public manipulation.

How stupid can one be to not venture beyond the rhetoric of his Democratic Party criminal gang?

Posted by: Kiza | Jul 18 2021 1:58 utc | 90

@ Kiza | Jul 18 2021 1:58 utc | 90 with the mixed bag hat tip…I ain’t no pussy grabber and haven’t even been near one in years…..sigh….bit of an outlier, I am.
I will assume you meant it in jest…
With apologies to Voltaire
Civilization, like history, is a lie commonly agreed to.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 18 2021 2:38 utc | 92

FUKUS great game has been going on for centuries, one of the main theme of the latest iteration is…..Chinese as pariah of 21C
Chinese are being assaulted all across five liars lands.
Some times the bullies pick on the wrong guy/gal and get their comeuppance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge2I3J_87FI
I dun like to post/watch video, when I do better watch.

Posted by: denk | Jul 18 2021 4:13 utc | 94

In what ways is the USA like Darth Vader’s Galactic Empire in Star Wars?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 18 2021 5:03 utc | 96

Posted by: Mar man | Jul 17 2021 16:14 utc | 44
Unfortunately, it seems that truly large segments of the population in the developed western countries and especially in the Anglo-sphere believe the propaganda emanating from the imperial mouthpieces. The US citizenry is a case study in manipulating the public.
Indeed, the DNC liberals are effectively the vanguard of the pro-war movement, espouse racist Rusophobia and conitnue Trump’s hostility to China. The so-cslled conservatives follow their own tradition of imperial mobilization behind the Washington regime: Chin,Latin America, the very people who berated the ‘Deep State’ now paise its subversive activities against the targeted left-wing governments.
As for the moribund left – it would be better described as leftovers – it is often taken for a ride as long as the imperial messaging is promoted by the liberal media. The excuses for imperialism are a constant for many of them (even as they call themselves anti-imperialists) and the beleaguered voicesfor the truth are far and few. The latter often face silencing campaigns not just from the establishment hacks, but from their own supposed ideological comrades, who are, of course, in truth nothing of the sort.
All in all, despite the consistent record of manipulative propaganda and utter criminality the imperial regime never loses the support of the critical masss of the citizenry.

Posted by: Constantine | Jul 18 2021 7:33 utc | 98

Posted by: Bemildred | Jul 18 2021 7:26 utc | 97
The early warning Radar is near Armavir, in Kransnodar province!, That one pick up the missiles first!

Posted by: Grishka | Jul 18 2021 7:55 utc | 100