they pretend like "colonialism" and "imperialism" are just fancy words for military action of any kind
reminds me of how the US provoked the DPRK for years, broke agreements, and murdered hundreds of thousands of Koreans and when they finally try to reclaim their homeland the US is occupying, the US spends the next 70 years screaming about how NORTH KOREA INVADED ANOTHER COUNTRY and shit
I’ve noticed this attitude, I guess it ties into the notions of American exceptionalism and the US as world cop, that the US gets to declare what’s what in terms of international/foreign relations. If they draw a line through a country and say it’s now two different countries, then that country isn’t allowed to see it differently. There’s a similar thing going on with this ridiculous refusal by the US government to recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan. Like, yeah they’re assholes and you don’t have to like them, but it’s pretty obvious they’re running the country now. No one else has a legitimate claim on it.
during US intervention in Vietnam they tried to pretend it was a war between two "independent" nations rather than a civil war
In The Green Berets, Western star John Wayne convinces sceptical news reporters that the Vietnam War is necessary and leads a team of Green Berets (US Special Forces) and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers on a successful mission to capture a top North Vietnamese field commander.
During production of Green Berets, the DOD requested that the scriptwriter delete any mention of the soldiers entering Laos because it ‘raises sensitive questions.’ Presumably, these questions revolved around the fact that in the real world the US had been secretly bombing a neutral country for the past three years.
In a scene that explains the purpose of the war at the start of the film, Francis Tully, Speech Review Staff for the Department of State, also suggested that the scriptwriters insert the following language:
We do not see this as a civil war, and it is not. South Vietnam is an independent country, seeking to maintain its independence in the face of aggression by a neighbouring country. Our goal is to help the South Vietnamese retain their freedom, and to develop in the way they want to, without interference from outside the country.
These lines do not appear in the final film, but Tully’s suggestion indicates that he hoped to simplify the war in Vietnam in a way that Americans could support, and this simplification occurs though in the final version of the scene, as military leaders explain to reporters that the war boils down to stopping 'Communist domination of the world.'
from National Security Cinema by Alford & Secker
AKSHULLY the continuation of the colonial-era government is the real anti-imperialism
they pretend like "colonialism" and "imperialism" are just fancy words for military action of any kind
Don't forget "genocide". Russians are killing Ukrainians so obviously that means Ukrainians are being genocided.
And we - the only country to use nuclear weapons in war - are constantly clutching our pearls about how Korea's gonna nuke everyone
Nobody in the crackerverse gets to lecture Latin America on colonialism and imperialism
No one said you couldn't sing, so pull out the ukelele and get to it
ok but you have to make oink noises every time you say a word that begins with the letter z
like taking budgeting advice from someone that insists they don't have a gambling problem
euros and north americans should just take a knee on ever telling the victims of colonialism and imperialism how to fight colonialism and imperialism
the EU tried to get zelensky into the CELAC-EU summit only for the CELAC to all
to remove him from the summit. its funny how they want to stick him in in everything they canwhy the fuck should the Brazilian president do what some random person who as far as I can tell has never even been to Brazil has to say
it's a whole sovereign country they don't have a fucking suggestion box
I guess the people in Brussels are just used to telling sovereign nations what to do
Taking a stand against colonialism and imperialism is when you do what the global hegemon tells you to do.
Why do lobs insist on using words they don't know the meaning of?
I saw a picture that isn't cropped so close, and that black flag behind her is the OUN flag. So, I think we can safely disregard her opinions.
"When China comes, we get a hospital. When
Britainthe EU comes, we get a lecture"It's like seeing a guy in a suit with an undercut, badly gelled hair and a smarmy expression, a fascist almost 100% of the time.
I'm going to leave it like that
