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Feb 11 12 tweets 7 min read
How the U.S. weaponises narratives. A 🧵

“We are spreading freedom, democracy and human rights in Iraq”
“Because Saddam Hussein had nuclear and biological weapons (WMD)”
“There are no Nazis in Ukraine”
“China cannot innovate. It only copies and steals IP from the U.S.”
“Global warming”
“This is a girl and she won a Miss Teen contest”
“This is art. And it won prestigious awards”
“This is healthy”
“This is normal childhood”
“America is a rich country”
“China is a poor country”
“COVID prevention”

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Feb 12
Zelensky Hollywood theatrics is from the age-old American imperialist playbook.

Any puppet willing to fight the American Empire’s wars will be glorified.

Here’s Ronald Reagan in the White House with Afghan warlords, who would later morph into Taliban and Al Qaeda. Image
Reagan called them as “morally equivalent to America’s founding fathers”!

But it’s the same whether it’s a Republican or a Democrat. Two wings of the same imperialist eagle.
And here is Chiang Kai-Shek with (Democratic) Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill. Chiang was supposed to defeat Mao.

The West’s ultimate dream for centuries: A subservient China. Image
Read 5 tweets
Feb 12
How American elites hijacked liberalism in the US.🧵

After the shocking financial crisis of 2008, progressives in USA started the Occupy Wall Street movement. It was a truly organic, grassroots movement. And it was massive.

It scared the sh*t out of the financial overlords. ImageImageImageImage
It really woke up Americans. The message of Occupy Wall Street was right on the money:

🔹”Wall Street is War Street” (all wars are caused by bankers)

🔹Class war (the hidden truth in plain sight)

🔹99% versus 1% (inconvenient truth about oligarchy in USA) ImageImage
American media cries about the Tiananmen Square protests every year, but ignores the Occupy Wall Street movement!

Why? Because it truly scares the sh*t out of the puppet masters who rule America. ImageImage
Read 7 tweets
Feb 12
One of the persistent and misleading claims is that “600 million Chinese live on $140 a month.”

It was said by Premier Li Keqiang. And it’s used a lot by the anti-China crowd.

Here’s a quick clarification and debunking. 🧵 Image
First, this quote is used to claim that it’s the wage of Chinese rural workers. Wrong!

There are two terms missing in this quote:

🔹”per-capita” and
🔹Disposable income

Say, a farmer makes $500 a month and he brings home $420 after tax.

And he has a wife and a child. Image
Now, the disposable per-capita income would be:

$420/3 = $140

That’s what Li Keqiang was referring to.

But there’s more! Image
Read 9 tweets
Feb 9
“Destruction of Nord Stream pipeline” — by legendary journalist Seymour Hersh. 🧵

“Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized NATO exercise (BALTOPS 22), planted the remotely-triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines”
“Biden and his foreign policy team—Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland — had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the Baltic Sea from two different ports in Russia”
“Nord Stream, which bypassed any need to transit Ukraine, had been a boon for the German economy, which enjoyed an abundance of cheap Russian natural gas.”
Read 22 tweets
Feb 8
Quick facts about Tibet and why China has boarding schools for Tibetan children:

🔹Tibet is huuuuge — FOUR times the size of Germany!

🔹But only 3 million Tibetans live there!

🔹This means a lot of kids in remote villages where there are no schools or terrible schools Image
It’s not feasible to build proper schools in each of these remote places and send good teachers.

Thus, China has free boarding schools, where Tibetan children get the same education as Chinese children in cities.

Everything is paid for — tuition, food, boarding etc.
Any parent will be happy for this arrangement. This is the only way to escape from poverty.

The kids learn Tibetan language; and their culture is not ruined in any way. ImageImage
Read 5 tweets
Feb 7
After dropping numerous atomic and even hydrogen bombs on the beautiful Marshall Islands… and then ignoring them for decades… the US has rediscovered its de facto colony. Why?

China!
After WW2, the US developed hydrogen bombs which were 1000x more powerful than the atom bombs dropped on Japan.

Of course, you can’t test them in the “garden.” Thus, they were tested in the “jungle” far far from America — 5000 miles from Los Angeles in Marshall Islands.
~100 such atomic bombs were exploded in the Marshall Islands. The inhabitants were forcibly removed to neighbouring islands and were told that they would be fine.

Of course, they all suffered from radiation and all kinds of diseases.

Human rights with American characteristics
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