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Kinda surprised to see Germany at 4
He even said Khamas
Just to be clear: You can reject both, but compared to the invasion of Iraq the justification for the invasion of Ukraine is sound.
If @xkyfal18 justifies the invasion of Ukraine but does not justify the invasion of Iraq that is a consistent position, your trying to isolate the regime change aspect amongst all justifications is a fallacy typical for the metaphysical thinking of a liberal. By adding that constraint you’re ridiculing your own question
Also nearly everybody would support regime-changing hitler, does that mean everybody supported the invasion of Iraq bc they support regime change in one instance? Ofc not. I hope even you can see the idiocy of that argument.
Now back to the premise: Even if you ignore the worst US lies, both invasions are ultimately justified with “national security” (the purpose of a military after all)
Well one (the invasion of Ukraine) is the response to a hostile superpower inciting a nazi-powered coup + civil war on your border with the aim of eventually regime changing you.
And the other one (the invasion of Iraq) is you being the hegemonic superpower devastating a country on the other side of the planet without any threat at all, on a whim (well imperialism actually)
Ofc both amounted to one country imposing their interests over another, but whose were more justified? What threatens “national security” more? A civil war on the border or peace in some far-away country?
Like I said: Oppose both: ok. But it needs pointing out, that people who justify the invasion of Iraq are categorically monstrous
Ofc I realize you didn’t justify the invasion of Iraq. But you also alluded to the US as a protective power while calling out Russia as belligerent, implying Russia would be more warlike than the West, the most murderous power structure humanity was ever doomed with.
The metaphysical need to atomize and isolate things (like the aspect of regime-change in Ukraine/Iraq) isn’t practical in discussions about geopolitics.
It only leads to ridiculously irrelevant comparisons, as evidenced…
You will probably not take it as honest advice atp, but I mean it: Liberalism implicitly teaches us Metaphysics and it sucks hard. It does not give us the tools for a proper analysis, it gives only an approximation of reality that is practical when its error is tolerable, but it is often not. looking into dialectics is imperative.
Albert Einstein is one of the few idols who stood up to the test of time. As a child I looked up to him bc he was a genius and his tongue-(e)pic made him seem like a funny fuy.
Whenever I adopted a new understanding into any new field after wrestling with myself I was blown away to eventually find Einstein followed the same path. It felt like a pat on the back, like him encouraging me “I’m right there with you”
Maybe I am romantizising, but IMO his biggest genius was to not avert his eyes in the presence of contradiction as so many subconsciously are compelled to.
This made him a natural dialectitian, his relativity theory is the most fulminant dialectical thought in physics revolving around the contradiction between space and time only rivaled by the quantum mechanical contradiction between particle and wave and the contradiction between both is still the central one to be resolved.
With Einstein it is intellect, heart and fearlessness that really make him shine. He is the only person I can think of that is both held in the highest regard all over the planet and who is still massively underrated
Thank you for your assessment, yogthos. For what its worth, I think you are spot on.
In Germany huge discussions have erupted on how to cut back on social spending at every corner. How to exert more pressure on the unemployed and force workers to accept less.
As Luxemburg said we’ll see the capitalist class rolling back concessions, with all the consequences you laid out. And not only is Germany decoupling from Russia, but also “de-risking” from China
And the left is vastly unprepared/nonexistent, while the right is getting more and more organized.
One more concern to add: while economic opportunities are closed left and right currently I see only one being actively opened which is weapons production.
Should Germany become dependent on wartime-like production than wartime will be certain be it near or far and with US imperialists being as desperate as they are I see little resistance from them. And liberals who have gotten used to justifying wars might be tempted twice bc weapons production might keep the worst economic consequences and hence the AfD at bay
If the Left cannot find answers, there are more ways than one that lead to barbarism
They host a podcast at buzzsprout as well:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890340
This is the file my podcast app pulls: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890340/13989881-episode-105-free-palestine-ft-decolonize-palestine.mp3
Its so unfortunate that so many people, like yourself, have not been paying attention to Ukraine in the last decades.
With Russia finally having reacted violently, our war propagandists are having a field day with your brains.
Chances are you already are immune to historic fact and prefer some Neocon giving you their speculation on a foreign leaders psyche instead.
It was in fact the US-centered, imperial power structure which tried its hardest to make peace impossible.
On the off chance that you can still tell information from garbage read some influential imperial strategists from 2019 for an introduction: