Imperialists Run The Same Tired Old Script Day After Fucking Day
“ 'We support the protesters and condemn the brutal government crackdown against them,' said the government with no self awareness whatsoever."
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“ 'We support the protesters and condemn the brutal government crackdown against them,' said the government with no self awareness whatsoever."
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Imperialist pundit and Obama administration cold warrior Michael McFaul recently tweeted the following:
I am not highlighting this tweet because it is remarkable (except for the extremely dubious claim that anyone ever reaches out to Michael McFaul). I am highlighting it because it is completely unremarkable.
Two months ago @MoonofA published an article titled “Belarus — A U.S. Sponsored Color Revolution Is Underway” documenting all the telltale signs that the Moscow-aligned nation would soon be overrun with protests in opposition to its Soviet-style government. Here's an excerpt: 
All the usual imperial narrative management operations were in place in the lead-up to the nation’s election, and now we’re seeing CIA cutouts like Radio Free Europe and NED cheering on the protests and condemning the Belarusian government in sync with the US State Department.
“We support the protesters and condemn the brutal government crackdown against them,” said the government with no self awareness whatsoever.
So it’s all unfolding according to the same old patterns. A formula that is so tired and repetitive that those with an ear to the ground can predict them before they happen.
In fact, let's simplify things by translating McFaul's post into its original generic template format:
There. That’s a bit more honest.
I love my job. Really, I do. But in some ways writing commentary about the shenanigans of western imperialism is the most boring and repetitive task you can possibly imagine.
It isn’t new, and it isn’t different. It’s gotten to the point where it’s the exact same international political news story every single day, and that news story reads as follows:
And the billionaire news media always march right along with it, because they’ve all got systems in place to boost narratives which maintain the status quo that those billionaires have built their kingdoms upon.
If Saudi Arabia pivoted its loyalty from the US to China, we’d immediately begin seeing daily coverage of the atrocities in Yemen like we should have been seeing this entire time.
If Israel pivoted from Washington to Moscow we’d immediately be saturated in news stories about the plight of the Palestinians and the protests against Netanyahu’s corruption.
If Australia left the blob and began insisting on its own sovereignty the world would suddenly find itself urged on a daily basis to care a lot more about Aboriginal rights and the refugees in offshore detention centers.
If the government which exited the imperial blob didn’t have any particularly damning humanitarian abuses on its record, western intelligence agencies would make something up, and western media would uncritically report it as an absolute fact.
Mainstream pundits and reporters would make these shifts without skipping a beat. They’d pretend it had been their position the entire time. And when they went to bed at night, they’d sleep like babies.
How do I know this? By observing their current behavior.
How do I know this? By observing their current behavior.
And yet every time the establishment narrative managers begin babbling about the Evil Unabsorbed Government of the Week, I get people yelling at me that this time it’s completely different and Mike Pompeo is totally telling us the truth about this one.
They’re like a three year-old who insists on watching the same damn Disney movie thousands of times over, multiple times per day. Only difference is the three year-old is probably learning something.
