bob sterman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:41 am
Herainestold wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 11:58 pm
Putin is right about the West.
Really? Which bit? The bit about how the Anglo Saxons sabotaged the Nord Stream pipes? Or how we are into Satanism?
Have you been on the vodka???
I agree with those who characterized the speech as unhinged. But there were elements of truth there. Why does most of the world hate the Imperialist, Colonialist, Capitalist West?
The West uses the power of finance and technology to enforce its will on other nations. To collect what he calls the "hegemon's tax". To this end the West destabilises countries, creates terrorist enclaves and most of all seeks to deprive other countries of sovereignty.
Western elites are "totalitarian, despotic and apartheidistic" - direct quote. They are racist against Russia and other countries and nations. "Russophobia is racism". They discriminate by calling themselves the "civilised world
They colonised, started the global slave trade, genocided native Americans, pillaged India and Africa, forced China to buy opium through war. We, on the other hand, are proud that we "led" the anti-colonial movement that helped countries develop to reduce poverty and inequality
Eventually, they managed to "get their hands on our riches" at the end of the 20th century. They called us friends and partners while pumping out trillions of dollars
We remember this. We didn't forget. The West claims to bring freedom and democracy to other countries but it's the exact opposite of the truth. The unipolar world is anti-democratic by its very nature. It is a lie. They used nuclear weapons, creating a precedent. They flattened German cities without "any military need to do so". There was no need for this except to scare us and the rest of the world. Korea, Vietnam. To this day they "occupy" Japan, South Korea and Germany and other countries while cynically calling them "allies"
The US rules the world by the power of the fist. Any country which seeks to challenge Western hegemony becomes an enemy. Their neocolonialism is cloaked in lies like "containment" of Russia, China and Iran. The concept of truth has been destroyed with fakes and extreme..propaganda You cannot feed your people with printed dollars and social media. You need food and energy. But Western elites have no desire to find a solution to the food and energy crises *they* created
Paraphrased by Konstantin Kisin.
Anyway.
It does not justify what Russia have done. People outside the West look at this situation and don't see it as cut and dried as western media would have you believe. Maybe there are some gray areas that we should consider. If the West cleaned up its own act, these crises might not arise, or they would be easier to defuse.
I shudder to think of what comes next. I think we are less than a month from all out nuclear war in Europe.
https://nitter.net/i/status/1575853684852150272