As the world slowly slides towards the war in Ukraine, a war which will inevitably, like in a Greek drama, become, in a year or two, a nuclear and possibly a World War, one has to ask himself or herself how and why this has all happened.…Global Inequality
Between the two chimeras and a world war
Branco Milanovic | Visiting Presidential Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and formerly lead economist in the World Bank's research department and senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Why it happened? Russians have low self esteem and are only happy if neighbors fear them. Putin couldn't offer modernization so he offered them some self-esteem exercise in derailing other nations. They love it so far, despite inflation.
$100 oil is a "self-esteem" builder....
now at $50: back to no toilet paper....
Obama at presser today iirc: "we cant have nations re-drawing national borders at the point of a gun...."
ROFLMAO
Also all the nonsense about Russian "aggression" after Iraq. And the hypocrisy over human rights in China after the official US torture program that still continues using proxies.
And all the handwringing over ISIS burning a pilot that was attacking them, especially after all all the "collateral damage" from the air in Islamic countries when the US a history of doing the same thing with Blacks and Native American genocide, flamethrowers against Japanese, napalm and Agent Orange against Vietnamese, phosphorus and depleted uranium munitions, and worst, the use of nuclear weapons against Japanese cities of no strategic value. At least this was not totally racist, considering the incendiary bombing of Dresden, also of no military or strategy value. And, of course, I could go on but the disgusting list is really long.
Do they actually believe their own BS, or is this just for the rubes.
In US culture a death by a bomb dropped from a plane isn't viewed as morally depraved in the same way as a death caused by beheading carried out by a young man on his Jihad mission. If the US media showed the charred bodies in the way that the Russian and Middle East media do, I think the perception would be different. For whatever reason, the US media decided it was not OK to display the dead and in the process they sterilized the concept of air strikes.
Ryan Harris said:
"For whatever reason, the US media decided it was not OK to display the dead and in the process they sterilized the concept of air strikes."
It's pretty easy to find the reason if you look around. It's called access journalism.
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