Steel Manning Non-Interventionism: Should Non-Interventionism Be Abandoned? Playing Devil's Advocate For Interventionism and Pro-Interventionists.
Long title: Steelmanning Non-Interventionism: A message to the Anti War and Anti Imperialist Movements. Should Non-Interventionism Be Abandoned? A message to the Anti War and Anti Imperialist Movements. A Message To Libertarians On Foreign Policy. Should libertarians abandon non-interventionism? And Tunnel Vision in the Alternate Media.
Part 1. Beginning.
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“My highest aim is the truth, something which is simultaneously beautiful & ugly.”
“Even if you disagree with me, & I mean I'm imperfect & constantly wrong like everyone else, I'd like you to take in good faith that i'm looking for the truth. If you dislike me politically & thus try to twist my words here to make me say something I really wasn't trying to say, to take me out of context, or unfairly tear me down, then you're merely proving the inferiority of your morals & arguments through your own actions.”
“We have to be nimble thinkers. Try not to make everyone in the world be exactly like you. You have flaws & having people who aren’t you exist lets you balance out your own flaws”.
- Rudyard Lynch/WhatIfAlthist, Twelve Lies about Reality, 10 Taboo Questions About History and Society.
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In the back of my mind, I’ve always questioned non-interventionism, or at least strict non-interventionism. Here, I’ll link to a video & articles explaining why I am no longer a non-interventionist (at least not a strict non-interventionist, that is), if I even was one, along with the cultural & psychological reasons why some people support non-interventionism, & flaws & corruption within the anti-war movement.
In this, I want to lay out everything on the table.
Time for me to eat crow and humble pie.
(Crow Idioms – Eat Crow and As the Crow Flies)
Part 2. Explaining the problems with non-interventionism.
For context, you must watch
Why do kremlintarians exist? (with Roman Skaskiw)
The above video is MANDATORY to understand this article.
In a nutshell, while western mainstream media & social media smear & censor dissidents & a lack of transparency from elites, Russian Intelligence’s psychological operations engages with dissidents, & infiltrates & hijacks legitimate dissident groups that do have legitimate grievances, with the intent to destabilize its opponents almost like a virus hijacking a healthy cell. Alternately, dissidents & the alternate media are like an abuse victim being psychologically exploited by another predator (Russian Intelligence).
“The public generally never hears about foreign policy, a trend which I noticed back in high school and has only recently gotten vastly worse. Accurate information on things going on around the world is nigh impossible to find today. The managerial class treats foreign policy as their own private fief which the public should be kept away from ever thinking about so our viziers can govern us wisely.”
- WhatIfAltHist, India-Pakistan: Asia's WW1?.
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Articles for context:
The Enemy Of Ukraine’s Protesters Is Not Necessarily The American Right’s Friend - VDARE.com
Nine Lessons of Russian Propaganda
A Look at Russian Civilization: Power, Truth, Trust, and War
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When your Former libertarian Hero Calls You a Nazi
The latest Libertarian Shillery for Russia
Libertarians are not Kremlintarians - Kremlintarianism - Liberapedia
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Libertarianism for Grownups — 10 things we must realize, by Roman Skaskiw - The Daily Anarchist
Murray N. Rothbard - Liberpedia
Murray N. Rothbard/Rothbard’s Cold War Revisionism, continued - Liberapedia
Non-interventionism by Tim Starr - Liberapedia
Anti-War Libertarians: Wrong On Principle - Knowing Humans
“anti-imperialism” of idiots - Liberapedia
Why I’m ashamed to be a libertarian - Liberapedia
Kremlinism/Threats against the USA - Liberapedia
Cleanhandsitarianism - Liberapedia
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M2 Bradley and F-35 Lightining II problems and arguments
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Examples of Libertarian countries / Libertarianism has been tried, and it works. 🇪🇪🇱🇮🇨🇭🇨🇿🇬🇪🇵🇱🇲🇨🇦🇩🇺🇸
Overlooked Secular/Atheist Right-Wing countries
(These are for liberatarians & right-wingers who ask ‘why should we intervene?‘)
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Game Theory:
This game theory problem will change the way you see the world
Simulating the Evolution of Aggression
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“5. and 6. American libertarians have a bias, taking for granted the absence of organized external enemies. Historically, survival has been a collective effort, not an individual one.
How can living under the bubble of the most powerful military to have ever existed not create a bias? The bias of American libertarians takes for granted the absence of well organized outside enemies. Most American analysis considers only disorganized bandits and the state itself.
The world looks much different, say, on the edge of the steppe where powerful, organized actors, from the Mongol hordes, to the Bolshevik ones, to the persistent, corrupting pressure and violence of Russian intelligence, have been a far greater threat than the state or lone bandits.
Though many optimistic libertarian prose have lauded asymmetric war and voluntary security, the jury is still out. The people not making the argument about the military superiority of voluntary coalitions are the ones who do the actual fighting.
Besides, if voluntary coalitions were militarily superior, wouldn’t states have ceased to exist long ago? Wouldn’t the German principalities have defeated Napoleon, wouldn’t the Qin dynasty’s unification and bureaucratization of China have failed against the aristocratic, more voluntary coalitions they displaced?” - Libertarianism for Grownups — 10 things we must realize, by Roman Skaskiw - The Daily Anarchist.
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‘The West did something genuinely great in changing itself for the better in becoming humanitarian, but other eras of history would have immediately told us, kindness doesn't get you much love in international politics. Countries don't praise the West for this since there’re our rivals and they won't love us no matter what we do. That's not how international relations work. Iran and China will always call us The Great Satan no matter how nice we are. The descendants of the people who freed the slaves and peacefully liberated the colonies shit on them for not going far enough well they did some of those generous acts in history.
Kindness turned to weakness in the west. The language of politics is and will always be power and force, no matter how much we don't want to believe that. We have forgotten that strength is the language of politics.’
‘By the standards of individuals, nations act like sociopaths.‘
- Was Colonialism Good or Bad? - WhatIfAltHist
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The best videos criticizing American interventionism;
All Wars Are Banker's Wars! (Video)
Debunking A Century of War Lies (Transcript)
QallOut Debate "America's foreign policy makes the world a better place"
MIC and Mass Media (maps and voice by Ryan Dawson)
YouTube censorship - altCensored.
Censorship about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Odysee.
Censorship about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - altCensored
Additional comments.
“The public generally never hears about foreign policy, a trend which I noticed back in high school and has only recently gotten vastly worse. Accurate information on things going on around the world is nigh impossible to find today. The managerial class treats foreign policy as their own private fief which the public should be kept away from ever thinking about so our viziers can govern us wisely.”
“I want to make clear that the internet is not an accurate representation of human knowledge. Most of the very most important information is not on the internet, either since it's been scrubbed by the authorities or it never left a book in the first place. The internet is more controlled and manipulated than you probably think. The real world we live in is probably a lot more chaotic than we believe. The media and the denial of the public consciousness puts up this comfortable facade that things are okay now, focusing on menial things Trump said or some celebrity gossip while insane things are happening across the whole world.
I only look at cable TV when I'm at the gym and I have to look up at the screens they have there and I'm always shocked at how petty and gossipy the mainstream media is. It's disgusting. You know, people didn't know about Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or the Khmer Rouge in the general western public when they were going on. The internet hasn't really connected the world and all the propaganda that they said would happen within living memory.”
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“These reports are gold. If mainstream reporting is poor and inaccurate when it comes to one the size, scale and importance of Ukraine, it’s no surprise reporting for the conflict it’s non-existent.” - YouTube user @The_ZeroLine/At the Tipping Point? The Situation in Southeast Myanmar.
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“The internet” “let us break free from the mainstream media gatekeepers but they have the inverse problem; no gatekeepers at all. Fake news and horrible ideas are regularly co-mingled with legitimately good speech and good ideas there, too. There's no substitute for critical thinking.
Why can't we just ban all the bad stuff though? Bad stuff like lab leak and all those other theories that turned out to be true? The world is complex. Even stuff we think we know for sure sometimes turns out to be wrong.
We have to improve our ability to discern truth from untruth. We're now free to communicate our ideas to the masses, free from mainstream media tyranny. We'll make some mistakes, sure, but I would rather mess up myself than let some fact checker decide which mistakes to make for me.”
- Legacy media lies. But what about new media?
Done?
Continue.
. Part 3. The Contrarian Take is Not Always Right.
Let me just say that supporting Russia or especially China because the Israeli lobby & American Military-Industrial Complex are corrupt is almost like saying that McDonald’s food is healthy because the documentary Super Size Me was very inaccurate.
It’s absolutely true that the Israeli lobby & American Military-Industrial Complex are corrupt.
It’s also absolutely true that Russia & China are expansionist totalitarian empires. Both can be true at the same time.
This is like saying that that documentary Super Size Me was very exaggerated & inaccurate, & thus the inaccuracy implies that McDonald’s food is healthy.
For context, Morgan Spurlock had undisclosed alcoholism that was harming his liver, & ate approximately 5,000 calories a day, twice the amount what most adults should be consuming. Similar experiments done by other people have not replicated the weight gain, liver damage or other negative health effects nearly to the same extent as Spurlock’s experiment.
This does not mean that eating McDonald’s food is healthy.
According to ChatGPT-4o;
“Your reasoning contains a non sequitur logical fallacy, specifically a hasty generalization or false conclusion. Here's why:
While you point out potential flaws in Morgan Spurlock’s experiment (undisclosed alcoholism, excessive calorie intake, and lack of replication), this does not logically lead to the conclusion that eating McDonald’s food is healthy.
The flaws in Spurlock's experiment only discredit the specific claims made in his documentary, but they do not automatically prove the opposite claim (that eating McDonald's is healthy). There is no evidence in your argument to support this conclusion.
This fallacy is also called "fallacy of the excluded middle"—you’ve assumed that if Spurlock’s claims are flawed, the opposite must be true, ignoring the possibility of a more nuanced reality (e.g., McDonald’s food might still be unhealthy, even if Spurlock’s documentary was exaggerated).”
The Greatest Documentary...Was A Scam
McDonald's Secret Ingredients You Never Knew About
“As I'm fond of saying - 1st "Multiple things can be true at the same time" and 2nd "The whole world's a whore house and there ain't a virgin in sight!"“
- YouTube user @hughjass1044/ABC DEF.
Part 4. The Alternate Media Can Make Mistakes too.
While I do support Ryan Dawson, James Corbett, & Mike Rivero, you also need to listen to Rudyard Lynch/WhatIfAltHist for balance.
Dawson, Corbett & Rivero having backgrounds in journalism while Lynch has a background in history is almost like Arson Investigators vs Fire Investigators.
In a nutshell, the field of Arson Investigations is more law-enforcement influenced & concentrates on looking for a criminal, while Fire Investigations is more chemistry & science influenced, & concentrates on looking for the cause of fires.
Alternate Media Journalists & Activists are like Arson Investigators who looks for a bad guy, while Historians are like Fire Investigators who look at the big picture to find out what started a fire.
Examples of this are
Forensic Files - Season 6, Episode 6 - Fire Dot Com, Forensic Files - Season 10, Episode 1 - Trial by Fire, & Forensic Files - Season 7, Episode 41 - Plastic Fire.
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Arson vs. Fire Investigator: Important Distinction
If you’re a Law Enforcement Officer who spent most of your life fighting crime & trying to keep bad guys off the streets, if you investigate a fire, it’s reasonable for you to go looking for a bad guy because your experiences condition you to look for a bad guy.
No matter how smart you are, you can be biased, & you can make mistakes.
We tend to view problems & solutions through whatever our background is. For example, a professor may believe that society’s problems & solutions boil down to education, while an economist may believe that a society’s problems & solutions boil down to economic policies.
Both may be wrong, even though they are very smart people.
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Why is this relevant? A lot of arguments against war I’ve heard are criticisms of corruption, such as the Military-Industrial Complex & the Israeli lobby, along with the theory that wars are caused by pressure for big banks (ALL WARS ARE BANKERS' WARS!).
People like Ryan Dawson have been in the anti-corruption fight for so long that they get tunnel vision, in which they myopically assume almost every policy that’s mainstream is corrupt & thus wrong.
Not only war, but with military research & development. See my playlist
M2 Bradley and F-35 Lightining II problems and arguments.
When Dawson criticized the M2/M3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle & F-35 stealth fighter, I think he genuinely wanted to fight corruption, but ended up buying into Russian propaganda without realizing it, along with not understanding realistic armor protection for infantry fighting vehicles.
To a lesser degree, James Corbett is also guilty of almost every policy that’s mainstream is corrupt & thus wrong, being unintentionally soft on Russia (What’s Happening in Ukraine? – Questions For Corbett #084, Interview 1321 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato) & trusting Christopher Black on the Rwanda Genocide (Black is a tankie).
Proof that Corbett is NOT a Vatnik or Tankie is NATO and Anti-NATO: Two Sides of the Same Coin?, The Enemy of My Enemy, Interview 1703 – Riley Waggaman on Russian Myths vs. Russian Reality, & Interview 1751 – Riley Waggaman Provides Updates from Russia.
I disagree with Christopher Jon Bjerknes’ belief that Rothbard was a KGB agent in a global Jewish conspiracy (Murray Rothbard: Cryptocommunist and Anti-American KGB Agent), I still do, at the end of the day, disagree with Rothbard on foreign policy.
If you asked me what I thought was the best Russian Intelligence psyop is/was, it’s probably Antiwar.com. Antiwar.com does look like a legitimate alternate media site that does cover U.S. Government corruption & other stories that the mainstream media doesn’t cover without being obviously pro-Putin at first glance. Antiwar.com isn’t meant to propagandize dumbass couch potatoes who just watch mainstream media TV, Antiwar.com captures people who are intelligent enough to see corruption in the mainstream media & western elites while simultaneously ignorant on Russian corruption, expansionism & psyops.
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Think of the Smart Faction of the Anti-War Movement as being an Anti-Corruption Movement with said corruption being war.
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This is not because these men are dumb, but because they’re human. Along with both corruption & incompetence from both the mainstream media & alternate media.
Being a good journalist is tough. You can not get funding or other support from wealthy Special Interest Groups. You may face deplatforming & even debanking. And unless you either suck up to a rich Special Interest or make rage-bait, you will not be promoted by algorithms.
And I almost forgot to mention that being a good journalist is hard work.
There’s also the boy who cried wolf effect, in which the mainstream media kills its credibility via its corruption, & when a real threat emerges, lots of people then distrust the mainstream media even though its now telling the truth.
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If you change your mind, do not be ashamed of it.
It’s normal to hold goofy ideas in your younger years. I mean, I once believed in a Nano domestic quell, a conspiracy theory in which the United States Federal Government had nanobots manufactured & put into the water supply, as refuted in the playlist Nanobots. In my defense, I was 12 to 13 years old at the time of believing that.
Part 5. The psychology of libertarians and non-interventionists.
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If you look at my content, I do reference a lot of libertarians, even though this is not a libertarian blog (except anti-totalitarian) but a geopolitics blog.
As a libertarian who was medically diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, libertarians tend to be autistic or at least have autistic traits, so it’s possible to be extremely book-smart but NOT street-smart. I know libertarians who are extremely book-smart, but are un-pragmatic neckbeards who do not understand human nature.
A lot of libertarians I know or listen to like philosophy that’s logical, but fails to account for human nature. I see this in foreign policy when you have to be more dynamic than strict non-interventionism. I think this largely comes from distrust of human politicians, who are easily corrupt &/or incompetent, which libertarians would like to solve with structures such as philosophy & constitutional laws to minimize the amount of damage that politicians & bureaucrats can do (I completely sympathize with this sentiment).
I also think that even Greek philosophy contributed to the idealism of Anarcho-Capitalists. “The Greeks believed logic to be superior to the outside world. This has resulted in lots of logical rabbit holes that have been disproved by modern science & just testing the goddamn thing. The problem with western philosophy is been that it puts logical argument above experience, but no one checks to see if the assumptions that go into the creation of that argument are even correct.“
10 Taboo Questions About History and Society - Is Western Philosophy a Dead End?
I talk about this in Libertarianism is not anarchy.
I’ll just say that you can afford to be conservative (un-changing) when it comes to domestic policy, but when it comes to foreign policy, you have to be more dynamic.
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Additional reasons why libertarians support non-interventionism are;
. The stories of prophets in Abrahamic faiths can to be boiled down to, in a nutshell, standing against society’s corruption. This is especially strong in Christianity, in which unlike other religions that tell you to find salvation through religion, Christianity actively tries to change societies it’s part of & to stop unnecessary cruelty (How Christianity Changed History by Whatifalthist). I think this instinct got carried over into the anti-war movement.
. Anti-Darwinist sentiment coming from how cruel the Nazis were & the trauma of the World Wars. I think that we know deep down inside of us that game theory is real, but we don’t want to admit it because it would strengthen the theory of Darwinism.
. Libertarians tend to be creative or at least out-of-the-box thinkers, the type of people to consider unconventional &/or unpopular ideas. This is not a judgement as to rather or not unconventional &/or unpopular ideas are good or bad.
. Libertarians have been gate-kept & marginalized out of mainstream discourse & academia, which gives them the impression that the reason why the establishment rejects them is because the establishment is corrupt.
. Libertarians are often principled to a fault. There’s libertarians who believe that voting, even tactical voting (voting as damage control) is immoral because it legitimizes aggression. This results in being overly reluctant to go to war. I think is partially came from Christianity.
"Christianity's pacifist slave mentality, when not combined with a warrior culture, made the society weak. It's not a coincidence that every Christian area that wasn't part of an Indo-European culture was conquered by the Muslims, a more aggressive religion, in a matter of decades, where every Indo-European cultural area which has a more Warrior Society was able to resist the Muslims." "Christianity's high social trust gave the West the edge it did, but it also opens it up to delusionality. The social engineering that was so successful in the Middle Ages has since been ramped up to the point of insanity. Christian societies have trouble distinguishing what they want to be true from what is. This creates delusion."
How Christianity Changed History by Whatifalthist
. Contrarian personalities tend to be attracted to unpopular ideas. See Libertarianism The Contrarian Trap: The Source of the Liberty Movement’s Dark Side by Kevin Vallier - Bleeding Heart Libertarians.
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Speaking of Darwinism, I think that the west had anti-Darwinist seeds planted from Christianity’s Pacifism & the Church’s Banning of Cousin Marriage breaking up clans, creating nuclear families, voluntary associations & individualism & high-trust societies,. Then, as mentioned before, anti-Darwinist sentiment exploded after World War II as a reaction to how cruel Nazis were.
I think part of the Anti-Interventionist’s naivety regarding geopolitics comes from westerners growing up & living in societies that are so high-trust that they forget how to deal with low-trust societies. We see this with allowing mass migrations into Europe, with high-trust western European societies clashing with the low-trust societies of Arabs, Kurds, Pakistanis, & Africans (I’m not a racist, I’m talking about culture, not race).
People from 2nd & 3rd world countries have less of a problem with Darwinism, as for them life is a struggle, & Darwinism is obvious when it comes to low-trust societies necessitating tribal clan families to provide strength in numbers, as individuals cut off from their families will just be weak & destitute.
As I said before with Game Theory, I think it’s something we all know deep down to be true, but don’t want to acknowledge. To most Anti-War people, honor is irrational, & things like Turkey shooting down a Russian attack plane in 2015 is irrationally aggressive at first glance, but in reality, if Turkey didn’t retaliate, Russia would be more comfortable with doing harassment operations, or even a potential military kinetic strike. Similarly with Operation Praying Mantis, while I do not support the west supporting Saddam Hussein’s regime, nonetheless, if the Americans did not retaliate for the Iranians to hit American ships, it would embolden the Iranians to hit American ships again, rather by negligence or intent.
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This made me think of the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode Bitter Work. Within the Bending Arts, airbending concentrates “on speed and evasion, forgoing a strong offense for a greater defense”, while in earthbending you stand your ground, absorbing or intercepting attacks.
Aang: ‘Maybe there's another way ... what if I came at the boulder from another angle?’
Toph: ‘No. That's the problem. You've got to stop thinking like an airbender. There's no different angle, no clever solution, no trickety-trick that's going to move that rock. You've got to face it head on.’
And I do feel like Aang in Bitter Work.
(Toph Teaches Aang To Earthbend | Full Scene | Avatar: The Last Airbender)
“Pew Research Center found overwhelmingly in 2011, with new and updated data in 2014, that libertarians in the United States are about as close to evenly split as normal Americans on foreign policy. In 2014, they found through polling that 54% of libertarians oppose American involvement overseas and that 43% are in favor of it. The finding unique to the 2014 polling is that libertarian opinion on whether American involvement overseas does more harm than good is almost evenly split as 47% say no while 46% say yes. Regarding foreign policy views since 2011, libertarians side more with multilateralism over unilateralism, more with realism over idealism, more with opposing the end of Gaddafi over supporting it, more with supporting quick end to the Afghan War over opposing quick end, more with friendliness to China over hostility, are evenly split over trade deals, side more with opposing the United Nations over supporting them and more with seeing Islam as Earth's most tyrannical organized religion over seeing some other religion as such.
It has also been found in both years' reports that nearly all libertarians oppose privacy compromises like the Patriot Act. Distinguishing military policy from foreign policy, one will find that libertarian views on foreign policy are almost evenly divided between those who are more often diplomatic and those who are more often militant. A nearly half minority (48%) believe that the best way for American military to ensure peace on earth is to stay the strongest military of Earth, and an identically sized minority also think that the best way to defeat a terroristic ideology is to overwhelmingly and militarily crush that ideology on its soil.”
- Libertarian perspectives on foreign intervention - Wikipedia
Considering the information from that Wikipedia article, I just get a stronger sense that strict non-interventionism has been amplified by Russian Intelligence psyops.
Part 6. The End of History Was a Mistaken Belief.
The factors I previously mentioned contribute to the naivete when it comes to foreign policy. Then again, with exceptions such as the historian Rudyard Lynch, most people in the post-World War II west are naive about human nature & foreign cultures, along with a lot of the more mainstream anti-war sentiment coming as a trauma reaction to the World Wars & the fundamental anti-Darwinist sentiment coming from how cruel the Nazis were.
I’d also like to mention with the above that I get the sense that many libertarians have put a lot of stock into the idea that free trade will bring world peace. I really think that ship has sailed (no pun intended), & it’s foolish to get rid of the metaphorical stick just rely on the carrot.
Implementing democracy in Africa & the Islamic worlds either empowered the largest ethnic group plurality to extract from smaller ethnic groups or empowered fanatical Islamic fundamentalists. Likewise, trading with China did not change its culture of viewing authoritarianism & conformity as virtuous, neither did trading with Russia change its paranoid expansionism, love for totalitarianism & disrespect for international rules & agreements (not to say that we should never have traded).
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“Not that I am for or against embargo on Cuba, I don't really know what's better. But the idea that trade with them will need to democracy is false and proven so many times. It somewhat happened in the USSR but led to its collapse, Communist ruling class would not make the same mistake again.
Both China and Vietnam went "socialism with Chinese Characteristics" they are just as undemocratic, perhaps they won't do massacre all the time, since sanctions will come, but nothing better than that.
The government will then claim sole responsibly for the increase in standards of living, and most people will believe it. It may lead to friendly relationship with the US, like with Vietnam, but it's more because of "my enemy's enemy" logic, since China threatens Vietnam and claims near all of their water outside 20 nauts of their shore”
- YouTube user @Nathan-jh1ho/Nathan 556 (edited for brevity).
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The 7 Emotions that Push Civilization
Is China Naturally Authoritarian?
A Brutally Honest Peek Into "Russian" Mindset
Russian Threats Belligerence (1 hour compilation!)
Part 7. How Bad Can Totalitarianism Possibly Be?
Why a huge missing population in China/hundreds of millions of cameras can't solve systemic problems
2.7 Billion Cameras for Surveillance, Millions of People Go Missing Every Year | SkyNet Project |AI
The tragedy of missing children in China continues, why? Ongoing civilian efforts
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After watching those videos, tell me with a straight face that you still support the CCP or that you would raise a child in China.
I’m at a loss for words for an organisation that can conduct the very best domestic surveillance network on the planet, creating an Orwellian police state, but does not rescue children from being trafficked, rather it be for organ harvesting, sex trafficking, or being burnt & having limbs amputated to be turned into a beggar. Many upper & middle class first-worlders just don’t comprehend that such evil exists in this world.
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Fake Rich of China, It Spends Money This Way| Where China's Money Is Really Going? |
13:17-16:56
“Not only are there many officials, but the hidden income & benefits of CCP officials at all levels are even more alarming. According to overseas media reports, in 2007, leaders at all levels squandered 11.8 billion USD on overseas study trips, cars, & food & drinks alone, which is 5 times the amount spent on health affairs that same year. That’s also 8 times the amount spent on education. According to statistics, the salaries & benefits of officials at all levels account for 30% of state revenue, while Germany’s only accounts for 2.7% of its revenue, & Canada & Russia account for 7%.
In a 2006 report, released by the Research Office of the State Council & CCDI, it was stated that the annual income of the Communist Party Bureaucrats was 8-25 times higher than the per capita income in the local cities, & 25-85 times higher than the income of local farmers. This, of course, does not count the money from the corruption & bribery of the officials. A senior official of the CCDI revealed that, since 2012, when Xi Jinping came to power, more than 4 million people had been investigated & punished for corruption by the nation’s discipline inspection & monitoring agencies. For example, Zhou Yongkang, secretary of the political & legal committee, was stripped of power in 2015 because of corruption. Although the CCP announced a verdict of 20.87 million in corruption, Chinese media revealed that Zhou’s family was involved in corruption amounting to 14 billion USD.
In addition, there are a large number of 'naked officials' in China, which are officials whose spouses and children have emigrated overseas and they are the only ones left working in China. The wealth they’ve obtained from corruption and bribery is also transferred overseas. So, they are ready to jump ship if the party faces any danger, or, if they find out an investigation is coming their way.
In 2012, the Hong Kong media cited statistics from an authoritative organisation within the CCP, & found that 90% of the relatives of the Central Committee members have emigrated overseas, & more than 85% of the top Communist Party officials were ready to abandon their posts & flee any time.
According to the Hong Kong media, before the 19th National Congress in 2017, the number of naked officials investigated was nearly 3 times more than the original estimate of 300,000. So in other words, more than 1,000,000 people. Among them, more than 485,000 party cadres were naked officials.
According to a 2018 report by China Economic Weekly, more than 100,000 corrupt officials fled China from the year 2000 to 2011, along with a total of more than 2,000,000,000,000 USD.
Then how much money is left to spend on public services that the people need?”
“According to expert statistics, Chinese people receive 8% of their total tax revenue in welfare, compared to 42% in the United States, 49% in the United Kingdom, & 52% in Canada.
In 2009, the average rate of out-of-pocket medical & health spending .of Chinese residents was 38%, the highest in the world, compared to 14.3% of U.S. residents.“
Can the Third Distribution Achieve Common Prosperity? | Jack Ma | Tencent
Even China’s own Premier admits the Chinese government’s financial troubles:
China's Premier Bangs on Desk in Anger/“Pay back the bonuses”, officials & teachers are required
I could go on, and on.
Should Muslims & Anti-Imperialists support China or Russia? An open message to George Galloway, Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Hasan Piker, CounterPunch, & The Grayzone. And how to deal with Americans.
Long title: An open message to Caleb Mauphin, George Galloway, Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Hasan Piker, CounterPunch, & The Grayzone; Should Muslims, Palestine Supporters & Anti-Imperialists support China or Russia? Do Tankies belong in the anti-war movement? Should Marxists, Communists, and Socialists support China and Russia? NeoCons Crying Wolf. And …
Part 7. Final Thoughts.
Being truly anti-war is a hard place to be. You’re going against the special interests of Israel, Saudi Arabia, & the Military-Industrial Complex, & at the same time, going against the special interests of China and Russia.
If you criticize Israel, Saudi Arabia, & the American Military-Industrial Complex, you’ll be opposed by the Zionists, Wahabis, & Military-Industrial Complex.
YouTube censorship - altCensored.
Censorship about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Odysee.
Censorship about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - altCensored.
If you criticize the Chinese Communist Party, you’ll be opposed by the Chinese Communist Party.
If you criticize the Russian State, you’ll be opposed by the Russian State.
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I guess that being sincerely anti-war is kind’ve like being a secularized Jew in pre-World War II Europe. If you’re a secularized Jew, leaving Judaism meant that you were rejected by religious Jews, but you’re still also rejected by the majority white-Christian society because you’re a Jew (Why Communism is a Failed Religion).
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Also, as pointed out in The Secret History of the 20th Century, a weakness of classical liberalism/libertarianism is that it’s not a religion. It doesn’t promise glory like the right or utopia like the left. All it says is “You know, freedom’s nice“, which is weak at motivating most people who also want meaning in their lives.
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With how infected the libertarian & anti-war movements are, it’s a good thing that I’m not emotionally invested into anyone.
Listening to Why do kremlintarians exist? really changed my views on the anti-war movement. It’s almost like finding out that an absolutely beautiful tree has been eaten from the inside-out by bugs.
With the Alternate Media divided & corrupted as much as it is, I’m starting to feel a little bit like Winston Smith from Nineteen Eighty-Four.
(The Rise of the Fourth Political Theory: The Fourth Political Theory vol. II)
Thank god that in the alternate media there are skeptics to Putin, such as James Corbett of the Corbett Report, Edward Slavsquat, Anti-Empire, Adam Greene of Know More News, and Tarl Warwick of Styxhexenhammer666.
There’s also Brandon Martinez/The Martinez Perspective, another alternate media figure whose critical of Russia, but I can not say that I endorse him or his content.
A glimmer I hope that I have is to hope that corrupt institutions will eventually collapse.
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As a bonus, I just wanna say that Russian Intelligence tricking good people makes me think of the movie Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith (& better fleshed out in The Clone Wars tv show), Sheev Palpatine, the Sith Lord hiding in plain sight, manipulated Anakin, now Darth Vader, to betray & destroy the Jedi Order.
Ryan Dawson (& many other activists & journalists) would be Anakin, & Vladimir Putin would be Chancellor, later Emperor Sheev Palpatine.
(Star Wars The Clone Wars, Poster, Season 7, Characters, 4k, HD Phone Wallpaper)
Contrarily to the title, I did not really play devil’s advocate in this article. This is more like my resignation paper and essay to the anti-war movement.
Well that was pessimistic. Here’s a playlist for dealing with doomerism and pessimism.
Doomerism, Pessimism, Non Conformists, Unpopular people
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