Great oped:Feels like a good follow up to the earlier post:
It is evident that Western political elites are far better at apologizing for the ‘bad old days’ than inspiring the public about their nation’s past – or even present.
One meaningless apology after another. As the elites continue to do as they've always done. See from earlier today: Of Course, The US Will Exempt Their Zone of Kurdish Occupiers and Occupation from Sanctions
"However, while the anti-racist and anti-Imperialist sentiment behind such actions is surely one that must be applauded, it also begs the question of why a similar ire isn’t reserved for the modern day oppressors and Imperialists; in this case, it being the military industrial complex and war lobbies of both the United States and Britain.
With both nations being the world’s leading exporters of arms, it has been this exact military industrial complex which has played an integral role in the world’s current foremost humanitarian crisis; Western-allied Saudi Arabia’s now five year long war on Yemen, one in which upwards of 85,000 Yemeni children have now lost their lives as a result of the US and British-made bombs.
Military advisors from both countries are also on hand to help direct Riyadh on where to direct its air strikes, with the agricultural sector of the impoverished Arab nation being a favoured target in particular of the Royal Saudi Air Force, resulting in widespread famine in what is already the poorest country in the Arab Peninsula.
Elsewhere in the Middle East, US and British occupation forces still remain in northern Syria and Iraq; with the air forces of both countries on hand to help carve out a Kurdish ethnostate in line with the 1982 Tel Aviv-authored Oded Yinon plan, intended to balkanise Arab states hostile to Israel."
Been talking about that for years and years now.. While others obfuscated or lied by omission.A teeny tiny sampling below, but, so many more reports. So very many more.
- 2014: The Kurds: Israel's not so improbable ally
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2015: Kurdistan aka “Second Israel”- Ethnic Cleansing the Indigenous of the Middle East
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2016: After declaring autonomy, Syrian Kurds (behind the scenes) ‘open to ties with Israel’
Oped continued:
Closer to home, the neo-Nazi junta of Ukraine has also received political and military support from the US and Britain since the 2014 coup seen the government of Victor Yanukovich ousted over his rejection of an EU-trade deal in favour of closer ties with Russia; similar to the situation in Yemen, military advisors from both countries have also been on hand to assist Kiev forces in their war on the breakaway pro-Russian republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, and the Trump administration has approved the sale of heavy arms to Ukraine since 2018.
However, despite the litany of war crimes this modern-day imperialist foreign policy has resulted in, from the Donbass to the Middle East, the Pentagon, the Ministry of Defence and the factories of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and BAE Systems have so far remained untouched by the current protesters - their anger seemingly reserved for imperialists and oppressors who passed away generations ago instead.
Gee and who does that benefit... no protests against the planet's modern day imperialist oppressors and their oppression? Not a sound. You'd think the Seattle protestors would be so very concerned about these massive injustices... and they're so handily located to actually protest some of the worse offenders of this modern day imperialist agenda.And yet...........