If you don't oppose western imperialist agendas against China then none of your other anti-imperialism matters. All of the western empire's aggressions on the world stage are ultimately about smashing China; that's checkmate on the global chessboard in the eyes of the empire.
Preventing the rise of any other nation has been the foremost priority of the US empire since the fall of the Soviet Union. All the other little chess moves on the board have revolved around this ultimate goal. China is the only nation in a position to surpass the US.
This is stupid and wrong, and is the result of consuming right-wing imperialist propaganda. China was briefly cozied up with (A) to pull it away from the USSR and (B) to exploit a massive labor pool, but smashing it was always the ultimate plan.
The western empire has been acutely aware that China would need to be smashed since before the empire had its headquarters in Washington. Take it from Winston Churchill:
winstonchurchill.org/publications/f…

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11 Jun
The more I learn about this new UFO narrative and its origins the more of a freaky psyop it looks like. It's clearly been packaged for and marketed to mainstream Americans who don't understand global power dynamics or the depravity of the US military/intelligence machine.
I mean, this tweet is completely true, and this guy's saying it in a kind of "isn't that wild" sort of way, but also how suspicious is that? How easy would that be to manipulate? Really you'd just need to put some convenient ideas in Tom DeLonge's head.
And DeLonge absolutely does have some convenient ideas in his head. Look at these bat shit crazy beliefs he has about UFOs, how completely uncritical they are of the US war machine, how naive they are about imperialism, the reasons why wars are fought etc.
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9 Jun
Learn enough about what's happening in the world and you realize that most people in your society have worldviews that are completely and utterly wrong. This can seem bold, perhaps even arrogant, but if most people weren't deluded about the world, the world wouldn't be so fucked.
And it's not that people are dumb; intelligence has little to do with it. Some of the most intelligent people on earth promote the same deluded worldviews as everyone else. The problem isn't intellect, it's manipulation, and anyone can be manipulated no matter how smart they are.
This mass-scale manipulation is the result of wealthy people buying up narrative influence in the form of media, political influence, think tanks, lobbying, etc, in conjunction with the mass-scale manipulations of the powerful government agencies which are allied with them.
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8 Jun
Tom Cotton Explains Why Warmongers Love The Wuhan Lab Leak Theory

"Not everyone who supports an investigation into the lab leak theory is a warmonger, but warmongers will definitely be happy if they get that investigation."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/tom-cotton-e…
At a recent appearance on Sunday Night in America, Senator Tom Cotton took a break from masturbating to drone bombing footage to explain why he and his fellow psychopathic warmongers love the hypothesis that Covid-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory.
Here's a transcript of Cotton's comments.
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7 Jun
"I oppose cold war escalations, but if China's responsible for Covid we need to get the truth."

And who do you imagine will be "getting" this "truth"? In what possible scenario could such an inquiry lead to objective truth unmanipulated by the western cold warriors pushing this?
I'd really like specific answers to this question. How SPECIFICALLY do people imagine an inquiry into the lab leak theory taking place in a way that can lead to unmanipulated facts, or indeed anything other than more cold war escalations by US and its allied power structures?
I mean surely nobody is naive enough to believe that literal psychopaths like Cotton are interested in truth? Surely we all understand that the only people with real power who are pushing for a China investigation are trying to engineer aggressions, right?
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6 Jun
Media Converges On The Narrative That UFOs May Be Russian/Chinese Threat

"Whenever you see the imperial media converge to this extent upon a single narrative, that's the Official Narrative of the empire. We can expect to see more of this going forward."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/media-conver…
So in case you missed it, it's been pretty thoroughly confirmed that the UFO report won't contain any revelations or any confirmation of ET origin, but it will absolutely 100% contain fearmongering that UFOs could mean the US is falling behind Russia and China in the arms race. Image
This narrative was then picked up by cable news, with MSNBC inviting former CIA director and defense secretary Leon Panetta on to explain to their audience that the US government should assume UFOs are Russian or Chinese in origin until that possibility has been exhausted. Image
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5 Jun
The entire mass media is converging on the narrative that UFOs are evidence that the US may have fallen dangerously far behind Russia and China in military technology.
MSNBC has former CIA Director Leon Panetta on to explain to its audience that we should assume UFOs are Russian or Chinese aircraft until proven otherwise.
The only new MSM segment I've seen today which didn't promote this narrative was a new interview with Lue Elizondo, who seems to be going out of his way to say that it's NOT Russia or China on Tucker Carlson (who has been shrilly yelling that it could be).
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