🧵 This is a really smart @newlinesmag essay by @matthew_petti on how Latin American battlefields served as laboratories for developing tactics the U.S. later exported to West Asia, with catastrophic results—and how Colombia is reckoning with this legacy.

newlinesmag.com/argument/from-… @newlinesmag @matthew_petti It weaves together @PhilKlay's novel Missionaries, @GregGrandin's book Empire’s Workshop and @dbessner's concept of “imperialist realism” (“can’t quite justify American actions abroad, but can’t imagine a world outside of a militarily-dominant US empire”)

newlinesmag.com/argument/from-…

The other night @BillFletcherJr & Noam Chomsky had a critical dialogue on Ukraine in which Chomsky managed to pack multiple distortions into a set of passing comments on Syria. In this essay @Yassinhs details how Chomsky gets the Syrian story badly wrong.

newlinesmag.com/review/chomsky… Chomsky's take on Ukraine was equally problematic. The US is to blame. Russia's assault, while criminal, is understandable. No mention of Ukraine's resistance to imperial aggression. Ukrainians barely appear in Chomsky's equation, which centers exclusively on Great Power politics