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Jun 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The NY Times, which has been thundering against Putin, sagely advises its readers that Biden's planned trip to Saudi Arabia "represents the triumph of realpolitik over moral outrage, according to foreign policy experts." No doubt. 1/ #UkraineRussianWar
But there may be a deeply moral purpose behind the trip. Biden will, if time allows, take the opportunity to ask Sultan Mohammed bin Salman where his killers disposed of the dismembered corpse of poor Washington Post columnist #JamalKhashoggi. 2/
Biden's trip to Saudi Arabia exposes the hypocrisy of the imperialist war against Russia. On March 12, the blood-drenched Saudi regime executed 81 civilian dissidents. 3/
Since 2015, the regime, with US backing, has waged a war against #Yemen that has killed 400,000 civilians and placed 16 million in danger of starvation. According to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft: 4/
"American involvement in supporting Saudi-led military action against the Houthis in Yemen, rather than helping to resolve the conflict as the Biden administration claims, is prolonging and escalating the violence." 5/
The US sponsorship and instigation of this and countless other human rights atrocities does not stop the miserable petty-bourgeois moralists of the press and academia from giving their full-throated endorsement of the imperialist crusade against Russia. 6/6

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In years to come, serious historians will examine the tragic consequences of the US drive for global hegemony in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. 1/ #UkraineWar
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In a NY Times article titled, "After the fall of Mariupol, the fates of hundreds of fighters hangs in the balance," the following amazing sentence appears: 1/
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The #AzovBattalion does not merely have a "connection with far-right movements"; it is a large and powerful fascist force that has become a dominant element in Ukraine's military. 3/
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