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Mar 10 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
respect to cori bush and ilhan omar for having the courage to be the only democrats to vote against sanctions, a euphemism for economic terror, against russian civilians and in particular the most vulnerable and marginalized among them. shame on all the others who are enabling it
and remember, not only has the US not imposed any sanctions on israel, but it is providing it with immense funds, arms and diplomatic cover while it illegally annexes territory and flouts human rights, as detailed in this thread:

for more on why sanctions/economic terror campaigns don't work but only make things worse, and what alternatives should be pursued instead to put an end to the conflict, see this thread:

here is ilhan omar saying the same about the ineffectiveness and damage caused by these economic terror campaigns that so many bloodthirsty, comfortable americans treat like it's a fucking toy gun bc they've never been on the other side of it

here is renowned international relations scholar john mearsheimer on why sanctions/economic terror on russia will only strengthen putin by fanning the flames of nationalism

here's the continuation of mearsheimer's analysis on the effects of sanctions. and see this thread for more on why he believes the western response is only making the situation worse:

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renowned international relations scholar John Mearsheimer, whose analysis of the Ukraine-Russia conflict in 2015 turned out to be very prescient, gave his view on the current war on March 2nd. He argued that the West is only going to make the situation worse. THREAD WITH CLIPS
Mearsheimer goes on to note that bc Ukraine is perceived to be an existential concern by Russia but not the US, and how Great Powers behave when they perceive an existential threat as the US has done throughout its history, what the West is doing only leads to greater devastation
Mearsheimer predicts that the Russians will end up prevailing bc they do perceive it to be an existential threat whereas the US and the West don't really care. The real losers in the war are the Ukrainian people, who, Mearsheimer says, were led down the primrose path by the US
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Mar 6
wrote a piece on the use of "agency" in justifying imperialism. it's a form of cheap moralism hiding behind a thin veil of profundity and clarity, and leads to absurd claims as it prevents any kind of serious and systemic analysis of power and its effects

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ten people of about equal ability are able to do more than one person. even more so for a hundred. so they have more "agency". add factors to it like wealth, and the discrepancy in "agency", in power, becomes even more obvious. yet it is exactly this basic truism that's denied
instead you're supposed to adopt this comically absurd view that institutions with vast wealth and resources, advanced military technology, access to and control of mass media and propaganda tools, are all just totally irrelevant in the face of some ambiguous notion of "agency"
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Mar 3
strange how the likes of elon musk, michael bloomberg, jack dorsey, bill gates and jeff bezos are never called oligarchs, but are instead idolized in the mainstream press as self-made geniuses and noble philanthropists
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great study on how "oligarch" is just a propaganda term

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Mar 2
have sanctions ever actually worked in alleviating a conflict situation? the answer is no, and in fact makes things worse, and yet the entire western media and political class supports it and wants more and more of it. incidentally, "sanctions" is a euphemism for economic terror
the way "sanctions" are treated in the west is morally depraved. it's like a fucking plaything, "we're going to sanction you, and you, and you, and you as well!" millions of people's lives are destroyed by these terror campaigns, but the US is never on the other side of it
renowned economist jeffrey sachs did a study in 2019 on the effects of "sanctions" on venezuela, showing it had killed at least 40.000 people (see independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…). here he talks about how the US waged this economic terror campaign on venezuela:

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Feb 23
Chomsky is asked about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and points out the obvious which is entirely absent in Western media: "The question we ought to be asking ourselves is why did NATO even exist after 1990? If NATO was to stop Communism, why is it now expanding to Russia?"
Chomsky also points out that while Russian interference is in violation of international law, "it doesn't compare with what the US does with British support", then discusses just one of many cases, the take-over and continued occupation of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
in the first clip Chomsky refers to John Mearsheimer's work, which he completely agrees with. You can see his detailed analysis of the background to the current Russia-Ukraine crisis in this thread:

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Feb 22
if the US believes a full-scale invasion of ukraine is imminent why is it not revoking the offer to join NATO which russia claims is the primary reason for the conflict? if it's revoked and works to put an end to the conflict, that's a win. if it doesn't they can just re-offer it
that would be another major win for the US, as it proves beyond any doubt russia was lying about NATO integration being the source of the conflict. the only logical answer is that the US is just full of shit and doesn't care if ukraine gets wrecked, as mearsheimer said years ago:
don't get your information from deranged breadtubers who repeat whatever the state department says. prospective NATO membership and the US' refusal to withdraw it from ukraine is in fact the key point of contention between the two sides (theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…)
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