Zizek calls himself a leftist and of course then says a bunch of horrific liberal bullshit. What a joke of a man.
This neoliberal prankster is thus the epitome of a radical recuperator. He cultivates and markets the appearance of radicality in order to recuperate potentially radical elements in society, particularly young people and students, within the pro-imperialist anti-communist fold. This is precisely why he is the most famous ‘Marxist’ in the capitalist world, festooned by the likes of a journal linked to the engine of U.S. imperialism. His mantra is nothing but an opportunistic perversion of the closing lines of The Communist Manifesto: “Cultural consumers of the pro-Western world unite—and buy my next book, or movie, or crossover product, or whatever, and so on, and so on!”
The thing that is most telling about Chomsky is that while his criticisms of US foreign policy in particular are spot on, he never actually advocates for any alternative except some vague notion of "anarchism", which I don't think he has ever explained how it would come to fruition. All the while being fervently anti-communist.
Parenti was right about that clown
And note that when he peeked out of his controlled opposition even for a two seconds with not even very hot takes, liberals immediatelly cancelled him.
His entire 70 year career as a good acceptable adult responsible palatable leftist still ended with him lumped together with tankies by libs.
imo Noam Chomsky doesn't really fit into it anymore bcs ever since he said that Ukraine is a proxy war and that it would be better to actually have a peaceful resolution to the conflict the libs have completely despised him
Dudes just casually advocating for the end of all life on earth.
So glad the attitude has turned against Zizek here. Man was always a hack
So if Plan A was to throw as much of Ukraine into the meat grinder as possible while eventually delivering defeat by economic and/or industrial exhaustion to Russia so that the ruins of both countries could be sold off for parts, what's Plan B now that it's not working? Is The West TM stuck grinding this out until Ukraine is forced to sue for peace, and Halliburton et al. will have to console themselves with all the defense contracts awarded along the way, or are we going to hear increasingly escalating rhetoric until a really big bomb gets dropped somewhere where it does a whole lot of damage and things go extra pear-shaped?
It looks like they’re trying to turn Ukraine into a weapons hub after the war is over in whatever territory is left after the Russian offensive is done. The next big fight will be for Odessa since it is Ukraines last shot at a port. It’s every sign that Russias going to take it. That being said now that the US is pulling funding out of Ukraine it really looks like Europe is going forward outside of the leadership of the US. This is why I’m kinda concerned that Macron and the Germans are not joking about boots on the ground. If that happens it may or may not be with natos help. Defense contractors as always are still winning.
So if Plan A was to throw as much of Ukraine into the meat grinder as possible while eventually delivering defeat by economic and/or industrial exhaustion to Russia so that the ruins of both countries could be sold off for parts, what’s Plan B now that it’s not working?
Do the same to as much of Europe as they can
it's kind of impressive he managed to mangle the causes of two separate conflicts in one shot like that.
You have to study for a very long time to become such a talented jagoff
Now I understand why that witch would turn a raccoon into a man
No big surprise from someone who's been denounced as a non-marxist way back when he was still in university
Damn. They're going to try to give Ukraine nuclear weapons, aren't they?
they won't even give Ukraine modern fighter planes because of the risk of blowback, I think there's no risk that they'll actually hand nukes over to their pet nazis
Won't give them long range missiles either for the same reasons
because of the risk of blowback
When has that ever stopped the imperialists before?
Well right now it's stopping them from providing longer range missiles/ballistics, EW aircraft, stealth fighters, non-export Abrams tanks, naval vessels, de-mining vehicles, etc
Lmao the US empire is getting cold feet these days if a little blowback is putting them off. Is this what their excuse of "escalation" is really covering for? I feel like there's more to it that just blowback, because arming and supporting fascists is something they love doing.
If they spend all their wunderwaffen at the Ukraine store, Ukraine will still lose and then they won't get to spend their wunderwaffen in the Yemen store, or the Palestine store, or the China store, and I think the top levels of the military and intelligence apparatus aren't so far gone that they believe Russia's nuclear missiles don't work
It's not because of the risk of blowback but it's inevitability. The west knows Ukraine will have to capitulate eventually to Russia. At the very least give over the Donbas region. Maybe more. They aren't in a winning position and everyone knows it except libs on the internet. If they were hopeful it would have been done.
What we'll do is arm other NATO nations more heavily.
Unfortunately true. I used to really like him, sad to see his true face these days.
Piers Morgan has clearly been practising his Tucker Carlson/Johnny Harris Serious Face(tm)
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This shit on the left be going wild on Zizek