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The MoA Week In Review – (NOT Ukraine) OT 2022-101
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
> Look at the current list of sanctions. I suggest that you conduct this interesting analysis. Compare restrictions that European countries are imposing on Russia and Belarus with the relevant US restrictions. The United States is sparing itself and is trying not to encroach on various spheres that could seriously damage its own economy. Yes, the United States is also experiencing negative effects from this activity, but Europe is suffering much more. I believe that, apart from “punishing” our countries, the United States wants to weaken the European Union as its rival. <
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Other issues:
Brics:
Science:
Covid – It ain't over until it is over:
Source – <bigger
Boeing:
Use as open thread for issues not related to the war in Ukraine …
My @ 147 re creative use of UN Security Council seat for Americas — this suggestion was inspired by actual events. Who remembers this??
1989 UN Security Council Election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_United_Nations_Security_Council_election
And then there was the invasion of Panama. And one thing led to another (too much to detail).
Fidel Castro speaks to the invasion of Panama.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/castro/db/1989/19891222.html
“We have been warning about this for over 1 year, ever since we had the ceremony with the militiamen in the Plaza de la Revolucion, and during many other occasions. Even a few days ago, during the funeral of the comrades who died in internationalist missions, we said what we thought about the imperialist interpretation of peace. We said what we thought about the dangers of the current situation, about the evolution from a bipolar to a unipolar
world under the hegemony of the United States with the (?multiple) role of gendarme who no longer stops anywhere. It intervenes in Asia as easily as it intervenes in Africa, Latin America–the right to be a gendarme, the right to say what kind of government a country should have, and if it does not have one, the right to overthrow it. We said that the only guarantee and safety that our people could have was the one that we were capable of conquering with our heroism.
40. How little confidence can one have today in international law when we see these things! How little confidence can one have in international institutions when we see these and other things. How little confidence can one have in the United Nations when we see these things! How little confidence can we have in the UN Security Council, which cannot even deliver a mediocre resolution passing judgment on these actions–its members are debating who the Panamanian representative is, whether it is the representative of the puppet government installed there or the representative of the attacked government, which has been recognized by dozens of countries around the world. They are discussing that. Up until now it has not been able to state that the representative accepted is that of the Panamanian Government, the pro-Torrijos government of Panama, the anti-imperialistic Government of Panama. Not even this has the new UN Security Council been able to decide.
Here we have to draw the lessons which, despite being well known, should continue to be a subject of permanent reflection. I am not pessimistic because I believe in peoples. I particularly believe in these Latin American peoples, who have been so humiliated, so plundered, so exploited, so attacked; because I believe in the mixture of Indians, of blacks, and of Spaniards, and even in some who are not Spaniards, and in those having Asian blood who make up our peoples, especially our people, and to a larger or to a lesser degree in the Latin American mixture. I believe in these peoples; not as a matter of faith, but because I have seen them fighting, I have seen them in the battle. I admire the way Latin Americans today despise [rephrases] I am referring to the peoples because there are still governments that are not brave enough to face events, but the peoples are defiant of the imperialist might. Any country, no matter how small, has put up a fight. The Grenadians fought; the Nicaraguans fought against Somoza’s genocidal army, which was created by the United States. The Nicaraguans also fought against the invading mercenaries, the war imposed by the United States. The Salvadorans have fought with unsurpassable heroism. The Panamanian patriots have also fought with extraordinary heroism.
42. Without a single exception, these peoples are losing their fear of the soldiers of the empire. We do not have to talk about the people of Cuba. We know quite well what would be waiting for them here if one day they dared invade our fatherland. I believe they are aware of that and if they are not, they should be; because we have not wasted time; because we have challenged this empire for 30 years; because the more aggressive the empire, the more we prepared to face it with our own forces, which are enough to defend our fatherland, which would be defended not only with unprecedented heroism but also with the best technological means within our reach, with the best military and political ideas, with the best of strategies, with the best tactic.”
Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Jul 5 2022 22:12 utc | 172
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