I’m sorry. I failed to understand how deeply the Western propaganda machine is embedded within all that we consider “news” and uncritically believed the AP article because it “seemed true” i.e. confirmed my biases.
Then I got pressed and malded in the comments, when called out.
Thank you for education me. I have some serious learning to do.
Special thanks (and apology) to @Awoo @kristina @American_Communist22 and everyone else who engaged with me over multiple comments. Sorry for being so thick-headed. I’ll do better in the future.
Right you're starting to see just why the west hated these people so much now. They weren't perfect socialists, not from our perspective, but they had a sort of leftism that is actually worth understanding under the material conditions that they were under. With this perspective it then brings about a completely new lens through which to view actions that were depicted as "barbaric" and actions that you may have previously just been led to believe were because these were bad evil people hell bent on power for no reason whatsoever other than being bad evil people.
Now, are some of the things they've done criticisable? Almost certainly. But a different lens is required with a much fairer, more educated and analytical perspective. The western media has deliberately miseducated as to who these people were and what they sought to do.
I will never forget for example this post Parenti made when Libya fell. What did nato bring to Libya with the US backed regime change? Literal slave markets re-opened and the country has been a disaster ever since.
Hmm. Seeing a pattern in which countries the US/NATO decides to fuck with ...