It’s actually impressive to me how the West and its satellites are able to so impressively compartmentalize their propagandistic narratives in the service of war and imperialism, even digging up shit like this when “hindsight” is supposed to be a thing. It’s not like this ended in any case. They will support Chechen freedom fighters against RuZZian orcs one day while also emphasizing Israel as a bulwark against radical Islamic hordes the next.
Their family history was most likely heavily sanitized after 1989. Everyone up to three generations back are supposedly genetic patriots who fought against ebil Soviet menace. Of course nobody like to mention about his uncle who was MBP soldier fighting against fascist forest bandits after WW2, but he's been sanitized too, just as his two other uncles being officers of Polish People's Army, or his parents who were allegedly chummy with socialist security service and mysteriously got rich in 1989.
Just typical story of 3RP professional politician.
They are literally calling him based for using the N word, and they say that the Saur Revolution was Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Every day the line between neolibs and fascists becomes blurier.
I don’t think the line was ever clear. It was always the same dirty smudge
Neoliberals and fascists fundamentally have the same political beliefs but have a disagreement over their application. The neoliberals believing in a softer hand so as not to provoke a left reaction, the fascists however have no such qualms about provoking a reaction and instead want to pursue their goals with full and complete force. Fascists are more likely to destroy themselves rapidly by going too far whereas neoliberals at least understand something about how tightening the contradictions too much will hurt them.
Did he actually fight against the Russians, or was he just an intelligence “advisor”
According to the Polish government site he was just a war correspondent.
"The Sunday Telegraph", british conservative rag, sister paper to "The Daily Telegraph"
Interestingly enough, he openly wrote that USA are arming mujahideens while it was still not open knowledge, just as it was he who publicly thanked USA for bombing Nordstream just few hours after.
The reason why the US government does this shit is because absent conflict the rest of the world would rapidly catch up to the usa in productive capacity. Like building factories isn't complicated once you have the labor available. So the US basically just smashes as much shit around the world as it can because so long as something gets broke it doesn't ultimately matter. This is why empire is so schizophrenic, the random destruction is the point.
The reason why the US government does this shit is because absent conflict the rest of the world would rapidly catch up to the usa in productive capacity. Like building factories isn't complicated once you have the labor available.
See: China.
Like building factories isn't complicated once you have the labor available
I agree with your general point but I think this is not true at all. If it were, India would be just as developed as China, and Africa would not lag so far behind. You need people, resources, knowledge, and most importantly the good governence to tie it all together. India and Africa lack for neither people nor resources, but governence is where they sadly fall short.
Africa falls behind because the capital and the resources that would develop their industries and productive forces is being stolen through violence, and because they got repeatedly sabotaged and politically debilitaded.
Your way of putting the situation obscures the exploitative and violent nature of imperialism and places the blame on the country getting pillaged, as if they just can't figure out how to use their own resources or govern themselves.
Speaking of, my first exposure to Hasan is when he got that TYT show, and debated Cenk about capitalism, and then it immediately got canned, because he said 'America deserved 9/11’.
They trotted him out to apologize and basically publicly humiliate him in the process.
But now that Hasan has gotten so big, on his own, I think you can tell Cenk is super fucking insecure about it, and it's so fucking funny
I'd say Poland and Baltic/Balkan EU members are relatively privileged comprador states rather than the West Proper.
