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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Worthless House Progressives Retract Mild Peace Advocacy Under Pressure From Warmongers
Published: 2022-10-26
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKCCQ1LG8rQ
Title: Worthless House Progressives Retract Mild Peace Advocacy Under Pressure From Warmongers
Published: 2022-10-26
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKCCQ1LG8rQ
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worthless house progressives retract mild peace advocacy under pressure from war mongers the Congressional Progressive caucus has retracted an extremely mild toothless letter its members had written to President Biden politely asking him to consider adding a little diplomacy into the mix to help end the conflict in Ukraine the retraction followed a deluge of public outrage against their slight deviation from the official Imperial narrative if you actually2/13
read the letter signed by house progressives including Alexandria ocasio-cortez ilhan Omar Ayanna Presley Rashida tlaib Jamal Bowman and rokana you will quickly see that it's as innocuous and Anodyne as any statement could possibly be while still containing words it opens with effusive praise for Biden's interventionism in Ukraine and condemns the Russian government unequivocally throughout offering only the humble suggestion that he quote pair the military and3/13
economic support the United States has provided to Ukraine with a proactive diplomatic push redoubling efforts to seek a realistic framework for a ceasefire end quote its authors make it abundantly clear that they support making sure such Diplomat diplomacy is agreeable to Ukraine at every step of the way this impotent nothing salad was bizarrely spun by The Washington Post as a call on Biden to quote dramatically4/13
shift his strategy on the Ukraine war end quote despite nothing that could be remotely construed as dramatic existing anywhere in the body of the text the letter received backlash from war mongers in both parties including from house Speaker Nancy Pelosi it was personally slammed by Bernie Sanders the pope of American progressivism trolls and warmongers swarmed the social media notifications of every account which posted the letter5/13
in an official capacity mindlessly bleeding the words appeasement and Chamberlain in unison in a statement on the retraction of the letter CPC chair pramila jayapal says she accepts responsibility for the publication of the offending Act of peacemongering while in the same breath blaming its publication on her staff the letter was drafted several months ago but unfortunately was released by staff without vetting as chair of the6/13
caucus I accept responsibility for this jayapal said every war ends with diplomacy and this one too will after the Ukrainian Victory these statement reads ignoring mainstream reports that U.S officials quietly believe Ukraine stands no chance of outright victory in this war the letter sent yesterday although restating that basic principle has been conflated with GOP opposition to support for the ukrainians just defense of their National sovereignty7/13
as such it is a distraction at this time and we withdraw the letter Empire critics were quick to highlight the obsequious nature of this retraction for progressives I didn't think it could get more pathetic than voting for a disastrous proxy war that the U.S provoked and prolonged handing billions to Arms makers in the process in retracting their tepid calls for diplomacy and blaming staffers for it8/13
they somehow surpassed it tweeted Aaron mate certainly speaks to the insanely hawkish atmosphere in Washington that pressured the progressive caucus to withdraw a totally reasonable responsible and necessary call for diplomacy in a conflict that risks escalating to nuclear Armageddon tweeted Rania colic imagine being elected to congress based on Promises of challenging The Establishment or whatever then being so petrified of Anger from bipartisan DC establishment mavens9/13
that you can't even wait 24 hours before meekly retracting the only mild dissent you've expressed tweeted Glenn Greenwald foreign I don't know what pressures were the ultimate deciding factor in the cpc's decision to retract its feeble advocacy for a bit more diplomacy or how much of that pressure was brought to bear behind the scenes by bigger political monsters in the Beltway swamp But ultimately it doesn't10/13
matter the important take home from this lesson once again is that Progressive Democrats are worse than worthless at opposing the mechanisms of oligarchy and Empire in fact if you look at their actions it's not even really accurate to describe them as Progressive Democrats as though they are a faction that has meaningful differences with the rest of that party aside from the occasional empty sound bite about11/13
health care or debt forgiveness they're not doing anything to advance Progressive agendas which make American lives better and they're certainly doing nothing to impede the expansion of the U.S war machine the progressive Democrat is a myth like the good billionaire or the righteous American War the squad is nothing more than the social media Savvy branch of the democratic establishment the United States has two war-mongering oligarchic12/13
parties and a tremendous amount of narrative management goes into manipulating cajoling and coercing Americans into staying psychologically plugged into that fraudulent political paradigm this comes at the same time the defense minister of Romania was forced to resign for saying peace talks were necessary to achieve peace in Ukraine it just reveals so much about where we're at and where we're headed that the most incendiary and outrageous13/13
thing you can say in our society is that we should probably attempt to diplomatically de-escalate hostilities between nuclear superpowers the fact that the Overton window of acceptable political discourse has already been dragged that far in the direction of warmongering insanity prevents peace from ever having any space to get a word in edgewise
