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This reminds me how there’s a world of difference between learning history and living it. In my mind’s eye, I can still see Walter Cronkite saying every evening that it’s the XXXth day of the Iran hostage crisis. And still I remember Ollie North’s trial. There’s no way I’d mix them up.

Those who do US crimes get airtime; those who expose them get canceled.

The rich don’t even spend that much of their money. The poor must spend virtually all of it to survive, while the rich make their excess money make even more money.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-privately-approved-attack-plans-for-iran-but-has-withheld-final-order-4563c526

Despite Western governments and Western media claims to the contrary, Dugin’s plans haven’t seen the light of day, Brzezinski’s have: his neocon plans to expand NATO eastward and leverage Ukrainian Banderites, to weaken & isolate Russia, and ideally to balkanize it. Ukraine is a pawn on Brzezinski’s chessboard. This is the war the United States has wanted for decades, as explained in the book he wrote around when he was Carter’s National Security Advisor. Meanwhile Dugin’s job title may as well be social media influencer. Even Wikipedia doubts his state influence.

We were lied to about the Iraq war, we were lied to about the Ukraine war, and they’re already lying to us about the Iran war.

Previously. Previously.

I’m not confused. Dugin is an utter clown whom Putin wouldn’t even give the time of day. He’s not leading shit, except other Western crypto-fascist grifters like Caleb Maupin.

Dugin is talking out his ass. Why are you taking this fascist grifter at his word?

Don’t they know that the G7 is the international community?

Of course they are. They’re working to manufacture our consent to regime change in Iran, which they’ve wanted since 1978 when their puppet regime was overthrown. It’s 2003 all over again.

The Foundations of Geopolitics was written by a fascist who is more popular with European & American fascists than with his own government or people.

Maybe you should read The Grand Chessboard—written by someone who had actual influence in US government geostrategy—specifically the sections on Ukraine and the eastern expansion of NATO.

Yes, but ironically.

We’ll see. Fascist states aren’t known for adhering to international norms or laws

My visa application got rejected for posting a watermelon emoji on Myspace in nineteen dickety two.

Yes, it’s fine. The issue isn’t with that post. It’s with this one, specifically with the external link preview, which isn’t Lemmy’s most reliable feature. It may not be an issue that OP can mitigate, and they may not need to, unless they intend to post links to their blog posts often.

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I don’t think this is a crossposting issue; I think it’s an external link preview issue.

Some eat up pro-AI drivel, some others anti-AI drivel. Tech bubbles are a wild ride. At least it’s not a bullshit bubble like crypto or web3/nft/metaverse.

Reddit-ass geopolitical experts.