A lot of the commenters seem like they would have denounced the french resistance as being terrorists.
I don’t think people really understand why “terrorism” and guerilla tactics happen - they come about when there’s massive power imbalances.
No government is perfect, leadership and political factionalism gets particularly bad during war, as do the various inhumanities and war crimes. Usually in the hands of the greater power dehumanization is involved in the desire to exterminate, in the lesser power a seething revenge and fearless demand for the right to life to the point of wanting to exterminate the enemy totally.
It is very much true that “one man’s freedom fighter is another’s terrorist”…
…but in the end we have humans killing humans, and that’s the real problem. A problem which is currently serving the US military industrial complex which Israel is contractualy obliged to preference, and much of the US funding for Israel is spent back into that industry.
The war pigs get fat on human blood, and they don’t really care whose it is, as long as there’s a lot of it. Meanwhile Israel can be seen as aligning with US geopolitical interests, seeking the destabilization of Russias allies and perhaps even annexing oil resources. This is modern rationale for mass killings and war.
The French Revolution? The system where everyone even slightly suspected of not being loyal to the resistance was executed summarily for spectacle, up to and including its own leader? That’s the thing you’re going to put your name on and say “if people really cared about freedom, they’d support this”?
Can somebody please remind me why I still use Lemmy?
As someone who has a very walled off opinion on this stuff, I’d say we name the whole Gaza-Israel thing WARioland and wall it off. Maybe put a glass globe over it and podcast it. We could then name it "Hunger-Games“, because food will be scarce. And, with enough advertising, it would make a profit. Just imagine the podcast stopping and a commentator saying “This handgranade was brought to you by Northrop Grumman” when a grenade is thrown lol
I like how the UK’s barrel goes right up the US’s butt. In some circles that might indicate power, but I think the flow of fluids goes a different direction in this instance.
I just love Americans suddenly moralizing to everyone about war lol
Americans will murder half a country, move on to the next one without so much as an apology, then have the gal to tell the rest of the world what’s unjust and what war we should be outraged about
I love how non-Americans trash our MIC until some big bad shows up like Russia or China. When it’s their countrymen, fathers, brothers, sons and daughters who will be fighting bleeding and dying suddenly we become pretty popular…
No problem, been doing it since we introduced the world to indoor plumbing, penicillin, electricity and space travel.