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Caitlin Johnstone
Published: 2022-09-06
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-FoD98OiU
the Ukraine proxy war has been a propaganda win for interventionists neocon erotica publication the Atlantic has a new article out titled the rise of the liberal hawks which is infuriating as much for its sick a frantic empire apology as it is for the fact that it is entirely correct progressives typically see war as inherently murderous and dehumanizing sapping progress curtailing free expression and channeling resources into
the military industrial complex sneers the article's author Dominic Tierney the left led the opposition to the Vietnam War and the Iraq war and condemned American war crimes from the mi Lai massacre to upgrade historically progressive critics have charged the military with a litany of sins including discrimination against LGBTQ soldiers and a reliance on recruiting in poor communities then came Russia's invasion of Ukraine rights Tierney no
foreign conflicts since the Spanish Civil War has so captured the imagination of the left Russian president Vladimir Putin is the antithesis of everything the left stands for Tierney adds not only did he launch an unprovoked attack on a sovereign democratic nation but he has also disparaged LGBTQ rights multiculturalism and immigration and claims that the liberal idea has outlived its purpose Zelinsky in contrast has built bridges
with the global left he addressed the Glastonbury music festival in the UK where the revelers chanted his name to the tune of the white stripes seven nation army in Germany the Green Party led the charge to supply weapons to Kiev overturning decades of German what wariness and about intervening in foreign wars LGBTQ protesters in Berlin also demanded that Germany stepped up arms shipments to Ukraine so
that a pride parade can one day be held in the Russian occupied city of Margate Paul your cranium liberals artists translators teachers filmmakers have joined the struggle as one writer put it all are hipsters in Ukraine flight Tierney concedes that there is a leftist friends in the United States that still considers America the world's evil empire and remains deeply hostile to its military power but says
the bulk of the left has shown remarkable solidarity with the Ukrainian because liberals who once protested the Iraq war now urge Washington to dispatch more rocket launchers to defeat Russian imperialism Tierney says representative Jamal Bowman of New York a member of the progressive caucus tweeted we unequivocally stand with the global Ukrainian community in the wake of Putin's attack again what makes Tierney's triumphant militarists month so
annoying isn't how he's wrong it's how he's right you can take issue all you like with his use of the word left to describe a liberal supporters of capitalism and empire who just want the empire to be a little less embarrassing and maybe forgive their student loans that's the fault of generations of psyops they've gone into sabotaging the left and destroying its memory not Tierney's what
he is saying about liberals who once protested the Iraq invasion now supporting U. S. proxy warfare in Ukraine is broadly true including throughout the Bernie Sanders AOC progressive wing of the Democratic Party it's just a fact that in twenty twenty two liberals are Gaga for U. S. interventionism because this war can be falsely marketed as an unprovoked invasion by evil bad guys fighting against the virtuous
good guys of the U. S. NATO Ukraine partnership and because it's not our sons and daughters getting thrown into the gears of war people who would normally be more skeptical of militarism and interventionism have indeed jumped aboard the proxy war train this war has in that sense become the Gulf war of the twenty twenties a good war that rehabilitates the image of U. S. interventionism for
a war weary public just as the nineteen ninety Gulf War was used to get Americans over what warmongers called Vietnam syndrome which is a healthy aversion to interventionism following the horrific disaster of the Vietnam War the war in Ukraine is being used to wear down the public's collective immune response to interventionism built up after the two thousand three Iraq invasion it's a proud day for America
and by god we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all the elder President Bush said after winning his war slash propaganda operation in the Middle East of course we all remember what happened after that don't we a decade later came nine eleven and day public now re warms to the idea of an efficent military interventionism overwhelmingly consented to two full scale ground invasions of two
separate nations on the promise of swift victory where the troops will be greeted as liberators what followed was some six million deaths roughly two thousand times the number killed on nine eleven while trillions of dollars were siphoned from the American public to the war industry I made an unprecedented new era of military expansionism the public has again been one back over to the idea of military
interventionism using an unprecedented narrative management push which saw coverage of the foreign war in Ukraine eclipse even wars the U. S. has directly participated in they use different tactics and different narratives as they always do but the end result in the twenty twenties is the same as it was in the nineteen nineties and now the public is enthused about foreign interventionism once again and we get
