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joe franks's avatar

I'm unaware of Stein ever equating Netanyahu and Putin. To equate is to claim that two things are equivalent, the same; pointing out that both have violated the laws of war, hence are war criminals by definition, is not "equating" any more than pointing out that the commanding officer in charge of Abu Ghraib and George W. Bush are both war criminals. Of course they are, but after a war crimes trial, only the latter might be hanging by a rope, while the former would be living the rest of his life in a cage. Both are war criminals, but their crimes are not equivalent.

Excellent broader point though! It's interesting how the US foreign policy Blob has enough shame to STFU about their claims of "genocide" in Xinjiang in the face of mountains of evidence of actual genocide (act and intent) in Gaza, and none in Xinjiang; but not enough shame to stop demonizing Putin, an evidently lesser demon than themselves and their Israeli client state.

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JewBeWrong/JewBeLost's avatar

This is so well stated and indisputable. Seriously, what is the mainstream excuse for this?

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BettBeat Media's avatar

Yes, I had to put this down.

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Indie's avatar

another solid piece, Karim. It's pure brainwashing and propaganda by corporate media in the Five Eyes countries that is most responsible, from my perspective.

Years of "Russia Bad, Ukraine a Victim -We MUST Help" has been prevalent here for a steady 8 years, specifically the past 3-ish with regard to Ukraine.

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BettBeat Media's avatar

We are all victims of the most efficient propaganda system in history.

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Gypsy Queen's avatar

You don’t see them as these atrocities are committed by Ukrainian troops against their own people. That would play well for the Beggarzinsky

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Gypsy Queen's avatar

Correction: would NOT play well

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dikran Tulaine's avatar

It appears, though the numbers vary, that since Feb of ‘22, 11 to 12 thousand Ukrainian civilians have been killed and 70 thousand troops with two to three times more wounded. I was in Kyiv last September, 2023 and there was no evidence of war apart from sandbags and cordoned off government buildings and a ten pm curfew. I went through Lviv on the way, it looked the same. Both cities are or were very beautiful and vibrant, happy people though the young men seemed dour and stressed. This may be natural always, not war related but one feels for them tremendously.

The ignorance of the potential and current CICs seem to have decided the Palestinians are the Russians and the Israelis the Ukrainians. The Islamo Russian has been a composite US bogeyman for long years. Perhaps the media on the ground is human enough to send the evidence which CNN then censors according to their propaganda needs.

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lance arrowood's avatar

A picture is worth a thousand words, it just says all that needs to be said except it was the Soviets that defeated the Nazi's.

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BettBeat Media's avatar

What do you mean by that last part? I did not discuss WW2. What am I missing?

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lance arrowood's avatar

Sorry, I was confusingly trying to point out the additional irony that if not for Soviet Union/ Russia, the Nazis would never been driven out of Ukraine and the genocide of Jews would have continued.

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BettBeat Media's avatar

Got ya.

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Little Nell's avatar

Hi Karim, as always a thoughtful and erudite piece. Putin isn’t intent on wiping out the Ukrainians unlike the Jews who are obsessed with racial hatred and want to kill all of the Palestinians. Because that is the object of the Jews genocide, they don’t care if they don’t leave one brick standing on top of another in Gaza. The idea is to kill everyone, there is no need for any shelter for the Palestinians.

Russia intends to absorb or annex Ukraine. That means Russia is going to have to win hearts and minds as well as repair everything it damaged. The idea is to win without wiping out everybody and everything.

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BettBeat Media's avatar

Thanks Nell. I wouldn't say 'the Jews' though. I know Jews who are anti-genocide. I would say Zionists and Israelis.

I would also call it out if people talk about 'the Arabs' when talking about an extremist death cult like ISIS.

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Ron Stockton's avatar

Both wars serve the American empire. Israel is a tool of the empire so the west supports it in it’s role as the front-line of the empire in the area. Ukraine was to be the empire’s front-line against Russia but Russia fought back. The west supports Ukraine because it wants that line. In neither case does the empire care about those who die, are maimed, left orphaned, or tortured.

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