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War is bad.
Imperialism is bad.
People acting shocked shouldn’t be.
People “demanding” change won’t get it with signs and marching.
There’s nothing more to say, and bloviating about it is performative. We know this; there’s nothing that has changed about it. There is no need for takes.
We’re still financing a proxy war in Ukraine.
Israel and Palestine are not a two-and-a-half-year-old conflict; it started in 1917 with Britain’s Balfour Declaration, where it was literally just decided that Israel would be.
People need to stop operating on this conceptualization that these things are new and now. Here’s the PACD episode where we read and commented on Lenin’s Imperialism and the Split in Socialism, a kind of mini-version of Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.
It was written in 1916.
We should not allow Putin to seize Ukraine. He is an Imperialist in every sense of the word.