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Michael Tracey Profile picture
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Jun 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Once again: the US media/activist class has been primed to kick off instant hysteria at the slightest whiff of anything they can claim is even tangentially associated with "Nazis"... with the one minor exception of the foreign client military the US is aggressively sponsoring Image
There's an entire media/activist infrastructure ready to spring into action any time a rapper or basketball player posts something allegedly "Nazi" adjacent on social media. But they've oddly never been able to summon the same energy for this fighting force funded by US taxpayers Image
Last year when I inquired about the fact that rallies were being held on the streets of the US in open support of Nazi insignia-adorning foreign military units, the usually hair-trigger ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center fell strangely silent
Surprisingly candid top comment on the NYT article... Image

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Jun 7
May 15-17 in Washington, DC the Justice Department hosted members of the "specialized Environmental Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine" for a training on "investigating and prosecuting environmental crimes." Another option "to hold the Russian regime accountable," per Merrick Garland Image
Possible that's where they got the freshly coined term "ecocide" from, given the days of training with the DOJ's Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) Environmental Crimes Section. Establishing a new crime of "ecocide" is apparently all the rage in these legal circles Image
This group has been working with the Ukraine Prosecutor General's office to prepare first-of-their-kind prosecutions of "environmental war crimes" against Russia Image
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Jun 5
Polish state-backed Twitter proclaims Polish soldiers have launched a "ground war" in Russia. When this unit was established in February, Polish media said it would include Poland's "most experienced soliders," and would "report directly to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine" twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImage
These units called "Polish Volunteer Corps" and "Russian Volunteer Corps" are Ukraine military units referred to by different names for PR purposes
In December a cross party coalition submitted a bill to the Polish parliament formally legalizing the ability of Poles to fight in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The bill seems to have not been technically enacted yet, but only after it was determined to have not been necessary Image
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Jun 4
Correct. It has already been gamed by organized mobs, smuggling in their political vendettas under the guise of “context.” The journalistic pretension of “fact-checking” also tends to be bogus, but this is much worse, because it’s a direct, forcible intrusion onto people’s speech
"Censorship" is not merely direct suppression of speech, but also forced alteration of speech. Say someone prints a leaflet, and then "the community" decides to stick a "note" on the leaflet, over the writer's objections -- completely altering the message conveyed by the leaflet
I made the exact same point back when Twitter would append its censorial disclaimers, warnings, and refutations to Trump's tweets. Because this was Twitter forcibly imposing alterations to the message conveyed by the tweets, even if you could still read the original text Image
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Jun 4
See, when you ask why US warships are conducting exercises in the Taiwan Strait in the first place, you get answers that are the equivalent of pro wrestling taunts. “I got two words for ya: international waters! And that’s bottom line, cuz Stone Cold said so”
It's like asking a 12-year-old why he's doing something bratty, and he defiantly responds...

"Cuz I want to!"

"Cuz I feel like it!"
You'd get a more realistic response if you tried to ask Dennis the Menace why he was pestering the townsfolk with his slingshot Image
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Jun 4
China's new Minister of National Defense, Li Shangfu, just gave what's thought to be his first public speech before an international audience. As such, the speech is largely a denunciation of the US, using language that could've been lifted verbatim from recent Putin speeches
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm here
Noticeable difference in official rhetoric: US increasingly alleges a fundamental incompatibility between China's system of governance and the US, while China makes no similar allegation against the US, instead emphasizing that the two systems are fundamentally compatible
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Jun 3
New USAID report identifies a strong interest among US investors in Ukraine's agricultural sector. By coincidence, USAID also says one of its key "reform" priorities in Ukraine is getting rid of the moratorium on foreign ownership of agricultural land ImageImage
Which gets to a larger theme: while USAID seeks to "accelerate the privatization process" in Ukraine, there are also some "challenges" associated with this -- such as the abolition of audit requirements for privatizing state assets under Ukraine's current Martial Law decree Image
Another new report commissioned by USAID says that "USAID should expect its in-country personnel to wield a significant degree of agency" in Ukraine, given the "millions of projects" and "unparalleled investment" they hope will soon flow into the country Image
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