Déjà vu. … Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel also bombed and destroyed the Iranian embassy in Damascus last April that killed, among others, senior Iranian generals; and then Israel brazenly warned Iran against retaliating, with some U.S./Canadian/British news headlines referencing it as though Iran's retaliation would be the first strike.
This reveals a great yet misplaced sense of entitlement by the Israeli state, not to mention that of the U.S. via its own corrupt foreign policy. It’s as though it feels it can claim it was being proactive in its militarily unprovoked killings in another country of Iranians [or other foreign nationals] it deems a threat, and its suspicions should suffice as justification. They really don't.
With a somewhat similar privilege-based mentality as Netanyahu's Israel, Vladimir Putin’s Russia hypocritically warns the West to not arm Ukraine with long-range weapons, yet China and Iran are doing just that for Russia in its continuing military attempt to annex the independent European nation.
Even more hypocrisy: Putin's Russia criticizes then punishes Ukraine when the latter's forces dare to strike back against Russia’s deliberate targeting and killing of civilians and destruction of infrastructure with barrages of missiles or drones.
According to his own words, Putin is astonished and angry, as though Ukraine really has no right to self-defence. It reveals a great yet misplaced sense of entitlement by Putin, indeed the classical high-school bully whose concept of his fair share was always three-quarters of the pie.
Putin has even absurdly justified Russia’s atrocious invasion of Ukraine as a necessity of ‘de-nazifying’ the latter nation’s democratically elected government. I say, first ‘de-nazify’ Russia's Kremlin and presidency, as they are in bed with far-right European political parties like the German AfD.
Thank you for saying it as it is, I despair at the level of banality among our so called western leaders, we once mocked American's for voting for the fools they called leaders, yet looking here at home I'm ashamed of the people we put forward to represent us on the world stage. I can say I didn't vote for any of them, but voted for someone I knew couldn't win but at least had integrity and cared for people.
I am a british born male & now become a bona fide target for terrorism because of the actions of a few politicians? You are in danger of making another war between Christianity/Judea & the Muslim world a reality because neither side can discriminate rationally. So-called western 'civilisation' is actively managed & controlled by so very few, but we MUST pay the price?
The world is on fire, literally and figuratively. I myself have been inexplicably angrier over the last few years and sometimes consider that I may someday leave this world that way.
Still, we as individuals can resist flawed yet normalized human/societal nature thus behavior; and if enough people do this and perform truly humane acts, positive change on a large(r) scale may result.
Perhaps somewhat relevant to this are the words of American sociologist Stanley Milgram, of Obedience Experiments fame/infamy: “It may be that we are puppets — puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.”
Nevertheless, the human race seems to desperately need a unifying fate-defining common cause. Perhaps a vicious extraterrestrial attack is what we collectively need to brutally endure in order to survive the long-term from ourselves.
Humanity could all unite for the first time ever to defend against, attack and defeat the humanicidal multi-tentacled ETs, the latter needing to be an even greater nemesis than our own formidably divisive politics and perceptions of differences, both real and perceived — especially those involving race and nationality.
During this much-needed human alliance, we’d be forced to work closely side-by-side together and experience thus witness just how humanly similar we are in the ways that really count.
[I've been informed, however, that one or more human parties might actually attempt to forge an alliance with the ETs to better their own chances for survival, thus indicating that our deficient human condition may be even worse than I had originally thought.]
Still, maybe some five or more decades later when all traces of the nightmarish ET invasion are gone, we'll inevitably revert to those same politics to which we humans seem so collectively hopelessly prone — including those of scale: the intercontinental, international, national, provincial or state, regional and municipal. And again we slide downwards.
I don’t believe Muslims generally wish to copy any of the ‘West’s’ cruel, sadistic, pointless violence. Israel is solely responsible for what they face and what they have generated. Buying into the ‘radical Islamist extremist’ trope is to buy into a secondhand trope. The terrorism is pretty much asymmetrical and has been for some time.
I’m not convinced anyone is getting what they deserve or what they imagine they deserve. Nobody wants to be anything like Israel. Nobody. We’ve all learnt that.
The Middle East and Muslim majority nations do fortunately this time have a way out. (BRICS). Raising the spectre or even the expectation of retaliation by radical
Islamist terrorists is to lump nearly 2 billion people into the category of ‘terrorist’ and is patently absurd but exactly what the Western media will attempt to try again. Already the usual offenders in Australia are declaring all Palestinians as potential terrorists because they assume that were they treated with such gross brutality that’s what they’d be, it’s projection or making a willingly ignorant preemptive confession couched in fear and racism.
It’s not a ‘secondhand trope’ - it’s one of the few historical certainties we have - that when you relentlessly oppress others and offer them no middle ground, no way out, you make them more extreme. You get the enemy you deserve.
Déjà vu. … Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel also bombed and destroyed the Iranian embassy in Damascus last April that killed, among others, senior Iranian generals; and then Israel brazenly warned Iran against retaliating, with some U.S./Canadian/British news headlines referencing it as though Iran's retaliation would be the first strike.
This reveals a great yet misplaced sense of entitlement by the Israeli state, not to mention that of the U.S. via its own corrupt foreign policy. It’s as though it feels it can claim it was being proactive in its militarily unprovoked killings in another country of Iranians [or other foreign nationals] it deems a threat, and its suspicions should suffice as justification. They really don't.
With a somewhat similar privilege-based mentality as Netanyahu's Israel, Vladimir Putin’s Russia hypocritically warns the West to not arm Ukraine with long-range weapons, yet China and Iran are doing just that for Russia in its continuing military attempt to annex the independent European nation.
Even more hypocrisy: Putin's Russia criticizes then punishes Ukraine when the latter's forces dare to strike back against Russia’s deliberate targeting and killing of civilians and destruction of infrastructure with barrages of missiles or drones.
According to his own words, Putin is astonished and angry, as though Ukraine really has no right to self-defence. It reveals a great yet misplaced sense of entitlement by Putin, indeed the classical high-school bully whose concept of his fair share was always three-quarters of the pie.
Putin has even absurdly justified Russia’s atrocious invasion of Ukraine as a necessity of ‘de-nazifying’ the latter nation’s democratically elected government. I say, first ‘de-nazify’ Russia's Kremlin and presidency, as they are in bed with far-right European political parties like the German AfD.
Thank you for saying it as it is, I despair at the level of banality among our so called western leaders, we once mocked American's for voting for the fools they called leaders, yet looking here at home I'm ashamed of the people we put forward to represent us on the world stage. I can say I didn't vote for any of them, but voted for someone I knew couldn't win but at least had integrity and cared for people.
I am a british born male & now become a bona fide target for terrorism because of the actions of a few politicians? You are in danger of making another war between Christianity/Judea & the Muslim world a reality because neither side can discriminate rationally. So-called western 'civilisation' is actively managed & controlled by so very few, but we MUST pay the price?
The world is on fire, literally and figuratively. I myself have been inexplicably angrier over the last few years and sometimes consider that I may someday leave this world that way.
Still, we as individuals can resist flawed yet normalized human/societal nature thus behavior; and if enough people do this and perform truly humane acts, positive change on a large(r) scale may result.
Perhaps somewhat relevant to this are the words of American sociologist Stanley Milgram, of Obedience Experiments fame/infamy: “It may be that we are puppets — puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.”
Nevertheless, the human race seems to desperately need a unifying fate-defining common cause. Perhaps a vicious extraterrestrial attack is what we collectively need to brutally endure in order to survive the long-term from ourselves.
Humanity could all unite for the first time ever to defend against, attack and defeat the humanicidal multi-tentacled ETs, the latter needing to be an even greater nemesis than our own formidably divisive politics and perceptions of differences, both real and perceived — especially those involving race and nationality.
During this much-needed human alliance, we’d be forced to work closely side-by-side together and experience thus witness just how humanly similar we are in the ways that really count.
[I've been informed, however, that one or more human parties might actually attempt to forge an alliance with the ETs to better their own chances for survival, thus indicating that our deficient human condition may be even worse than I had originally thought.]
Still, maybe some five or more decades later when all traces of the nightmarish ET invasion are gone, we'll inevitably revert to those same politics to which we humans seem so collectively hopelessly prone — including those of scale: the intercontinental, international, national, provincial or state, regional and municipal. And again we slide downwards.
Razor sharp as always.
So be it…so glad they killed the terrorist coward. Kill them all.
I don’t believe Muslims generally wish to copy any of the ‘West’s’ cruel, sadistic, pointless violence. Israel is solely responsible for what they face and what they have generated. Buying into the ‘radical Islamist extremist’ trope is to buy into a secondhand trope. The terrorism is pretty much asymmetrical and has been for some time.
I’m not convinced anyone is getting what they deserve or what they imagine they deserve. Nobody wants to be anything like Israel. Nobody. We’ve all learnt that.
That's not a response to my point. No one also wants to be endlessly oppressed.
(I am not btw lumping you in with ‘Western Media’ in its most offensive manifestation)
The Middle East and Muslim majority nations do fortunately this time have a way out. (BRICS). Raising the spectre or even the expectation of retaliation by radical
Islamist terrorists is to lump nearly 2 billion people into the category of ‘terrorist’ and is patently absurd but exactly what the Western media will attempt to try again. Already the usual offenders in Australia are declaring all Palestinians as potential terrorists because they assume that were they treated with such gross brutality that’s what they’d be, it’s projection or making a willingly ignorant preemptive confession couched in fear and racism.
It’s not a ‘secondhand trope’ - it’s one of the few historical certainties we have - that when you relentlessly oppress others and offer them no middle ground, no way out, you make them more extreme. You get the enemy you deserve.
On point, Jonathan!