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from the makers of "Jefferson's slave and lover" comes... WELL MEANING SANCTIONS
the thing is for all the claims the left is anti-empirical, rigid ideologues and centrists are high-minded evidence followers the core basis of center-left foreign policy is that the US is “well meaning”, a squishy non-concept that’s entirely unverifiable and solipsistic
Just to put a super fine point on this: saying sanctions/bombings/wars have “good intentions”, “meant well”, or had “good faith” doesn’t mean anything. These are clearly unfalsifiable, jingoistic post-hoc rationalizations everyone uses. Literally since the beginning of war.
Ken Burns did an 18-hour commercial for America’s “good faith” genocide of Indochina. They killed a lot of people but boy they meant well!

It’s our civic religion and its very dangerous and core to liberal imperialist dogma and it’s just entirely made up soundcloud.com/citationsneede…
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