Thread by @summonlions

Here's the perfect metaphor for why America usually wages war "half a world away" in the Middle-East and why #TheyAreWrongTo @abcnews #auspol #ukraine 1/ abc.net.au/news/2016-10-0…

"It happened in a desert where people assumed there were very few people [and] there was not much life and not much to be lost," Wallworth said.

"Every one of those assumptions was wrong."

They were wrong to. #TheyAreWrongTo 2/

Biden says Putin committing "genocide half a world away" #TheyAreWrongTo @kathrynw5 @CBSPolitics 3/ cbsnews.com/news/genocide-…

It is imperative to demonize the enemy. It's hard to kill one's neighbour's children. 'Demonization is a means of differentiating oneself from a perceived enemy, thereby creating an oppositional axis of “good” vs. “evil” symbolically titled in one’s favor.' #TheyAreWrongTo 4/

That's why #Ukraine has people confused. Americans, Europeans, Russians and Ukrainians alike. They are too alike. But then, so were the English and the Germans, and they tried to decimate one another twice last century. They were wrong too. Zelenskyy didn't think it through. 5/

War is like real estate, very lucrative, and three things matter. Location, location, location. While it's half a world away, it's almost celebratory. Fine and dandy, and Joe Biden can sugar-coat it like candy. Helping an ailing ally. US cavalry rides to the… #TheyAreWrongTo 6/

If it's your children dying, and the enemy are people you can relate to, it's never going to work long term. In WWII the #BritishBlitzSpirit and fortitude remained intact because not one jackboot stepped onto domestic soil. Not one baby was bayoneted in Britain by a Nazi. 7/

If you can convince a country that you will #bayonettheirbabies as casually as if you were toasting marshmallows you've won half the battle, but you'll be on the wrong side of history forever. #RapeofNanjing 8/

After the pandemic we have #CasualtyFatigue

Do you know how many people died in the UK yesterday of Covid? Shouldn't you go and find out? Wars against viruses, nations, and nations against their own people are won/lost with propaganda. 9/
@Ukrinform_News ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/344…

A million die, you almost can't comprehend. If they're "half a world away" and they've been demonised, does it register. Closer to home, if those above are blamed #routinelyguillotined they're a "basket of deplorables" and tricoteuses don't look up from their knitting. 10/

BUT if it's your baby. If that tiny bundle of joy in your arms represents your future, and they are your entire family. If that one, who is your entire world, is killed. Not half a world away, not in the next room, BUT right here are home. Then it becomes every sort of wrong. 11/

That's why Obama and Biden prefer war by remote controlled drones, or remotely half a world away. Because if one boot was on American soil, war wouldn't feel noble, or pleasurable even. It would become visceral and terrible, and only then would America be as one with Ukraine. 12/

US-led NATO, a #virtuallyobsolete construct, provoked Russia through #UkrainianInvitation. They become 'European' rather than Russian neighbours, even though they are one-third Russian by blood. NATO wasn't protecting Ukraine, it was defending its own future #TheyWereWrongTo 13/

Part of that self-defense exercise involved refusing Putin membership. Had Russia joined, NATO was null and void. @UKandEU #TheyWereWrongTo 14/ ukandeu.ac.uk/has-nato-and-e…

Ukraine and the Ukrainian people mean nothing to the USA Administration. It's a #negligibleinterimmarket for the Military-Industrial Complex. But Russia could be an ally to China. Confronting this threat is the FBI’s top counterintelligence priority.
fbi.gov/investigate/co… 15/

USA's dominance is threatened not by Russia but China. #UnbridledAmericanGreed AKA Capitalism fed China to a far greater extent, than Europe's reliance on Russian Gas has funded the Old Superpower. The #USumbilical HAD TO be severed shockingly suddenly 16/ foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/14/us-…

Ultimately this is why the USA won't fight on Ukrainian soil. This is why the USA is reestablishing a reliance on fossil fuels when they threaten the world. This is why when China builds a coal-fuelled power station it's evil incarnate but when The West do, it's of necessity 17/

If you're ever in doubt about a situation, think of which nation was unable to resist the temptation to deploy nukes. Which nation made counterfeiting legal to disguise their global banking fraud? Where is moral turpitude rampant? QED whatever the US Admin do #TheyAreWrongTo 18/