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Mar 5 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Expect an even greater wave of demands for NATO intervention in Ukraine as all the propaganda about the brave sexy comedian kicking Putin's ass crumbles before the eyes of western shitlibs everywhere and reality comes crashing in.

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Mar 7
When you refuse to fully examine your western privilege, defence will look like an attack.
When you refuse to examine your western privilege, you can talk about your trauma all the damn day long while inflicting vast amounts of trauma on families in the name of "not giving in" to Putin.
When you refuse to examine your western privilege, you can claim a country on the other side of the world that you didn't know the name of last week is something you're willing to blow the world up for in order not to "give up", like it was ever "yours" in the first place.
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Mar 6
Putin is responsible for Putin's decisions, the western empire is responsible for the western empire's decisions. Putin is responsible for choosing to invade, the western empire is responsible for choosing the actions which led to that decision. Not complicated.
It's the Russian people's job to hold their leaders to account, and it's our job to hold our leaders to account. The western empire could end this anytime and pursue de-escalation and detente. It's choosing not to. That choice is costing lives and leading us toward nuclear war.
You have power. If you choose to impotently masturbate your emotions about Putin rather than choosing to exercise that power by calling on your own leaders to turn away from this destructive path, then the consequences of that decision are, to some extent, on you.
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Mar 4
Whenever I talk about the frightening escalation in censorship and propaganda we're seeing in the west I get people telling me that Russia is censoring and propagandizing even worse. Like "We're a bit better than Russia!" is a sane response to this assault on truth and freedom.
If you feel the need to restrict and manipulate people's speech, even if what they're saying is true, then your actions aren't based on truth. They're based on something else, like geostrategic conquest.
Everything the empire says it opposes Russia for is a lie. Everything the empire criticizes Russia for are things the empire itself does. Everything we're told is on the line in this standoff—freedom, democracy, truth, justice—are things the empire has been actively stomping out.
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Mar 4
"Relax, no one's starting a nuclear war" is a belief that depends on trusting the same forces which just destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen while pushing us toward climate collapse to carefully navigate cold war brinkmanship escalations without setting one off.
I don't think it's likely that anyone *intends* to start a nuclear war. But that's not the most likely way one starts:
It's so airheaded, and stifles opposition to these reckless escalations. We came within a hair's breadth of total annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Look up Vasili Arkhipov, the Soviet submariner who single-handedly saved the world.
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Mar 3
Russia gets control of Kyiv with this war, while the US gets international consensus for unprecedented economic warfare and support for NATO, plus giving Moscow another Afghanistan.
NATO powers 100% provoked this war. Looks like a classic sacrifice a pawn to get the queen move.
With checkmate being retaining the unipolar world order. China is a rising economic superpower while Russia is the #2 military power, so if you can take out Russia by starvation sanctions, fomenting unrest, overextension and eventual balkanization, you break China's right arm.
Leaving China essentially defenseless on the world stage for whatever long-term cold war strangulation you've got planned for it. People who think the rise of a multipolar world is a sure thing are counting their chickens before they're hatched, IMO.
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Mar 3
Again: it's never been about countering Russian propaganda or fighting Covid misinformation or any of the other excuses they've been churning out. It's because the democratization of information poses a direct threat to ruling power structures, and they need to get control of it.
The "liberal democracies" of the western empire found a loophole in their own freedom of expression laws (the same laws they claim make them superior to overtly authoritarian regimes) in that they can outsource their censorship to government-tied monopolistic megacorporations.
This allows the oligarchic empire to control the dominant narratives about what's going on, thereby controlling how people think, act, and vote. Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. The powerful understand this. The people, for the most part, do not.
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