He's alienated the young people who could make up for his own lack of charisma with youthful energy, and he can't even campaign properly because he gets protested every time he shows his face. He's toast.
Good. It's outrageous that Europe and the US continue to hang on to their colonies and then feign moral outrage when Russia or China tries to exploit their neighbors.
You may have noticed that Haiti is a shambles these days. Well part of the reason is that after Haiti won it's independance, France demanded reparations. That's right, the colonizer demanded reparations from the nation of slaves who won their freedom. And for 122 years, until 1947, Haiti was saddled with this debt.
Late last year, the Defense Department also issued its long-awaited “Instruction on Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response,” which established the Pentagon’s “policies, responsibilities, and procedures for mitigating and responding to civilian harm.” The document, mandated under the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, and approved by Austin, directs the military to “acknowledge civilian harm resulting from U.S. military operations and respond to individuals and communities affected by U.S. military operations,” including “expressing condolences” and providing ex gratia payments to next of kin.
But despite $15 million allocated by Congress since 2020 to provide just such payments and despite members of Congress repeatedlycalling on the Pentagon to make amends for civilian harm, it has announced just one such payment in the years since.
In its bare reality, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs
and bloody knives. For the last can be the first only after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists.
This determination to have the last move up to the front, to have
them clamber up (too quickly, say some) the famous echelons
of an organized society, can only succeed by resorting to every
means, including, of course, violence.
It's so easy to forget that the colonial empires of France, UK, US, etc. live on to this day. In The Wretched of the Earth, psychiatrist Frantz Fanon recounts treating a French policeman in Algeria during the Algerian fight for independence from French colonial rule circa 1962:
"Sometimes," he went on to explain, "you feel like telling them that if they had any consideration for us, they'd cough up and not force us to spend hours on end squeezing the information out of them word by word. But you might as well talk to the wall. Every question gets the answer: 'I don't know.' Even when we ask for their names. If we ask them where they live, they answer, 'I don't know.' So of course we had to give them the works. But they scream too much. At first it made me laugh. But then it began to unnerve me. Today I can tell just which stage the interrogation has reached by the sound of the screams. The guy who has been punched twice and given a blow behind the ear has a certain way of talking, screaming, and saying that he is innocent. After he has been hanging by his wrists for two hours, his voice changes. After the bathtub, a different voice. And so on. But it's after the electricity that it becomes unbearable. You'd think he was going to die at any moment. Of course there are those who don't scream: those are the hardliners. But they imagine we are going to kill them immediately. But we're not interested in killing them. What we want is information. We first try and get them to scream, and sooner or later they give in. That's already a victory. Then we continue. Mind you, we'd prefer not to. But they don't make things easy for us. Now I can hear those screams even at home. Especially the screams of the ones who died at the police headquarters.
The riots have been sparked by anger among indigenous Kanak people over a new bill, adopted by MPs in Paris, that give French people who have lived in New Caledonia for at least 10 years the right to vote.
Fuck colonialism. Fuck France. Viva New Caledonia.
lol, ok. you're deluded if you think trump is significantly worse than someone who has fueled a genocide for 6 months with all-you-can-drop bombs. it's like noting that jim jones always held doors open for people before the jonestown massacre. once you do genocide, you're irredeemably evil. people who quibble over whether trump or biden are worse have lost all perspective.
He's alienated the young people who could make up for his own lack of charisma with youthful energy, and he can't even campaign properly because he gets protested every time he shows his face. He's toast.