Comments by "Catherine Birch" (@catherinebirch8263) on "Pod Save the World" channel.

  1. So opposition to genocide is now classed as "far left" in the US? I worry.
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  2.  @rigelb9025  Who really knows? However their first goal was to prevent Vietnam getting independence from the French. That failed. Then their second was to set up an American power base in Vietnam. That failed. It wouldn't make sense that their objective was to cripple Vietnam far into the future and kill millions of their people - it's just a little country that never did anything to the US. So I think that wasn't an objective, just something the US couldn't care less about when pursuing its other objectives.
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  3. There wasn't really any analysis as such. Just an assumption that the results were awful because at a cursory look the "losers" are on the same political team as the guys.
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  4. Did the US government attack Israel or take Israeli hostages? If not, that would kinda explain why there weren't mass protests in the US about either of these things.
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  5. Back how far? What would be better within the US would be to go forward to implementing the principles of democracy to at least the same standard as most other Western countries. What would also be better would be to allow people in other countries to implement their own principles in their own way. Imposing your own principles on them by military or economic force can only ever have one result, which is their utter rejection.
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  6. Join the queue, Canada.
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  7. Virtue has less than nothing to do with it. The Saudis have a LOT of money and a LOT of oil. Israel is another strongly US oriented country established with US economic, political, and weapons assistance also located in the biggest oil region in the world.
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  8.  @danimalplanet18  Precisely. The "human rights" thing is just a bit of propaganda that gets thrown in when the US wants to justify one of its invasions or proxy wars to the gullible.
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  9.  @Bvi9169  I am probably being dense but I don't follow your meaning. In particular I don't understand what regime change in Iran has to do with Netanyahu, or by what mechanism you propose they should implement it. I think you might be suggesting that they have a quick civil war and install a regime that Netanyahu approves of? Or that the current regime resigns in favour of a group that Netanyahu approves? The chances of either of those things happening is infinitesimal. Or perhaps they install a US approved regime to prevent the US attacking them? That's a big ask - wouldn't a simpler way of preventing WW3 would be for the US to decide not to participate?
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  10.  @Bvi9169  Yes, I thought I must have missed your meaning. With respect I couldn't disagree more. Regardless of its shameful beginning and ongoing acts of terror, Israel is a sovereign country. Its government is its own business. All the world needs the US to do is to stop colluding with and enabling Israel's civilian massacres and land theft.
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  11. Africa's not the only place the USA is threatening to help. It's also threatening to help Australia. By using Australia a base from which to attack China.
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  12. There was a fear that the 2 million hostages would be killed by widespread indiscriminate bombing. It isn't clear that being killed by hunger, thirst, or lack of medical support is better. And the the initial fear remains. That the US would support this militarily is appalling beyond belief. The simultaneous self-righteous profession of fear of a "humanitarian crisis" is more of the stunning hypocrisy that has accompanied its every foray into Middle East brutality since it crushed Iran's first democratic government back in the 1950s in return for cheaper oil.
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  13. IMO Left is now a subverted and confusing term. It used to mean "towards communism or socialism" now it (might?) mean "towards humanism". What does it say about the Right that it labels anything that puts human beings first as opposite to it? Nothing good IMO. It doesn't help that humanists label THEMSELVES as Left. The term Right used to mean "towards fascism." Now it seems to include "towards conservatism". What does it say about humanists that they labels traditional values as opposite? Apart from anything else I think it means they're stupid.
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  14. The Domino Theory rides again. When was that last popular? Oh yeah, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
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  15. The cost was terrible, but Vietnam not only managed to win their War of Independence from France against the Americans and the French, but also win the subsequent war against the collaborators with the USA, having first kicked out the USA. Which had rained hellfire and tetragenic poison on the country from above. Even today Vietnamese children are paying a medical price. At lease they united the country and could move forward. Korea, which never managed to kick out the Americans and unite, is today a total basket case and a chronic world flashpoint.
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  16. 29:25 Tommy calls the US decision to use Ukraine to attack inside Russia with long-range missiles "Biden's decision". With all due respect to Biden, no-one believes he's making the decisions. Even when they trot him out at unavoidable public appearances his minders have him trained to mumble a few words and then walk away before his condition becomes so obvious that no-one can pretend any more.
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  17. On the contrary, I fully expect that when they bomb more of their 2 million hostages Israel will brag about it.
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  18. Yeah, Israel Is The Real Victim Here! Hamas is forcing them to massacre Palestinians.
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  19. Bernie Sanders "Netanyahu’s right wing government is blocking the borders and preventing the massive amount of aid that needs to get through from getting through and people are dying as a result. That is in violation of American law. We should stop funding Netanyahu’s war machine." That's as good as it gets in the US government. Words. And as far as ceasing to ARM the Israeli war machine there isn't even words. Furthermore Bernie Sanders in an interview on MSNBC says that Israel is breaking the law. But the law he goes on to reference is Section 201 of The Foreign Assistance Act, which "makes it clear that any country which interferes with the provision of US humanitarian aid will not get funding from the United States of America." In other words, it is an AMERICAN act which applies to the US government. It has no standing in Israel. It is the US government itself that is breaking its own law, not Israel.
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  20. So ... UNWRA perpetuates the conflict by keeping Palestinians alive long enough to breed. How dastardly.
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  21. Navalny was a Russian patriot. For his wife to site next to the wife of the American President at an official event would be a huge betrayal of him.
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  22. Yeah, Israel's the Real Victim Here ... 🤮
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  23. For some time I've been able to tell who the Israeli leaders are when they are being interviewed just by looking at them with the sound off. They have the most incredibly smug and disdainful facial expression. I nearly spilt my tea when watching a re-run of Foyle's War the other day - the N%z& sympathizer fomenting anti-Semite feeling in London had precisely the same expression. Of course, he was an actor in a TV series, so kudos to him for knowing what that a fascist looks like.
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  24. Netanyahu called very strongly for his predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, to be assassinated because Rabin supported a two-state solution. Rabin had been one of the terrorists who originally established Israel, so was hardly a leftist softy. After he WAS assassinated the Israelis voted in Netanyahu. They knew exactly who and what they were getting.
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  25. However the current iteration of the war against Russia ends, Russia will be significantly weakened and the US will OWN Ukraine. Without a single life lost! Lives that matter that is. Mostly just Russians and Ukrainians. Zelensky is either a US dupe or a traitor.
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  26. OTOH is is also rather funny in a very dark way watching Chris Murphy defend the USAID organization from Elon Musk. How DARE you accuse USAID of being a do-gooder organization? Here's a list of just some of the truly dreadful things we do. So there! Here I was thinking that assisting rebels in other countries overthrow their governments was the job of the CIA. LOL.
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  27. Just listening to a podcast by Jessica Denson. She's the former Trump campaigner who not only had her own illegal NDA from Trump quashed, freeing herself to reveal negative things about him, but just this year finally succeeded in getting ALL the 2016 Trump Campaign workers freed from his illegal NDAs. Anyway ... she says this "You think you're fighting people who are trying to set our country on fire ...but that's what justifies, that's what in my mind let me give a pass to these disgusting egregious things that I should've never given a pass to..." She's talking about when she was supporting Donald Trump. But people who still support Joe Biden after he essentially green-lighted Israeli state terrorism against the Palestinians need to do the hard thinking and make the hard decision and STOP excusing him.
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  28. Their plan is simple. A holocaust and extermination.
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  29. OK That's now two positive things about Trump. (In general a thoroughly repulsive character.) One is saying the quiet part out loud about how the US operates both internally and around the world. The other is that other countries are waking up to it.
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  30. It's quite scary how Ben Rhodes labels basic decency, or even common sense pragmatism without decency, as "progressive". As in Phil Gordon presenting the US history of forcing regime change in the Middle East as wrong (mistaken) rather than Wrong (in Right and Wrong). Since Ben doesn't give the impression of having an extreme personality I can only assume that this reflects the general American world view, and that is very scary.
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  31. I doubt that who the President is makes much difference in the grand scheme of things when it comes to American wars around the globe. The Military Industrial Complex wouldn't leave large decisions like that in the hands of a politician.
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  32. This is a hard one. It also feels like compounding the wrong to have militarily and financially supported American Zionist occupation of Palestine unconditionally, and then also support the exodus of Palestinians from Palestine to escape Zionist violence.
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  33. Basically The Pier makes no sense except as a propaganda exercise; even then the only Americans it will fool are those who want to be fooled. I suppose it might give the US a kind of veneer of respectability that US allies could pretend not to see through if it suits them.
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  34. You guys are genuine and smart. However you're working from a false premise so deeply ingrained that you're not even aware of it. Russia was never going to accept US controlled (NATO) bases in its backyard (Ukraine) without a fight any more than the US accepted Russian controlled bases in ITS backyard (CUBA). Putin is just the coldblooded killer who happened to be the leader of Russia when Zelensky decided to float the idea anyway. Hint: Russia does not buy the premise that US world domination is benevolent. To be honest, I personally don't buy the idea that ANY world domination is benevolent. The US scares the hell out of me. And come on. Kissinger? Kissinger didn't rain down fire and poison and death on Vietnam. Kissinger didn't gut Cambodia. The US did. Kissinger just didn't wrap it up in enough verbal pretense. I mourn Russia.
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  35. Of course Russia wants peace. This war is killing its young men and draining its resources. It doesn't want an Amercian-controlled country at its back doorstep. Ukraine has far, far, more in common culturally with Russia than with the West. Zelensky should never have brought this war to Ukraine. And the whole world is sick to death of funding US Supremacy gambits. Your wars push up prices all over the world.
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  36. Why doesn't the US just butt out? Haven't they done enough harm in the Middle East already? Why the heck did it ever think it had the right to intervene in this over the decades? Or in anything else in the Middle East. Might is NOT right. Perhaps just try Minding Your Own Business. If the US really wants to help, stop partnering with the Middle East country that is spreading Salafism throughout the world. Hint: it isn't Iran. And stop your Military Industrial Complex spreading death and destruction throughout the world.
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  37. Same old same old. Power. Money.
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  38. Of course they are. Why do you think the Democrats are doing everything they can to get those young voters onside again. They've said that killing tens of thousands of people was a bit much, they've talked about how frustrated they are - they've even deployed The Socialist. What more do you want them to do - stop arming and funding the massacres?
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  39. How exactly is Trump worse? The Biden administration backed ethnic cleansing all the way - the only difference is the rhetoric and arguably it's better out in the open.
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  40.  @TKUA11  That depends on whether the law is anithetical to free speech and on how it is being enforced.
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  41.  @Bertinator-nm9ld  Easy peasy. You do nothing. In particular, you don't send either side missiles and/or military intelligence.
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  42.  @Bertinator-nm9ld  IMHO it IS that simple. If you have to collude with genocide in order to project power, you are what you fear.
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  43. You mean there's actually someone in the world who's falling for the nonsense about Netanyahu being to blame rather than Israel? Seriously?
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  44. Doesn't EVERYBODY know this? After hard-boiling an egg, you give it a little bash to crack part of the shell. Then you can easily distinguish the hard boiled ones.
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  45. So is a large part of the rest of the world. Although our governments are of course still kow-towing to the US.
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  46. The reason Biden not only does not support, but is trying to hurt, the ICC for going after Israelis for war crimes is that his behavior is consistent with his rhetoric around American military, financial, and political support for Israel's actions. The reason Biden supports the ICC for going after Russian war crimes is that it is consistent with his rhetoric around American military, financial, and political support for the war against Russia. There is no inconsistency here unless of course you are working with the premise that Biden's statements have anything to do with basic Justice or even basic Humanity.
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  47. Wow! That's pretty strong censorship for a comment pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of the US government rhetoric urging Israel to kill fewer Palestinian civilians while funding and arming that killing.
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  48.  @PFWoody488  By definition of the word "fact". A thing that is known or proved to be true.
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  49.  @PFWoody488  The only fact I claimed was that "The cannibals ate my uncle" is not a fact. As to what claims you made, I made no claim. Fact.
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  50. I can't agree. Admittedly I am extrapolating from a sample of one. 🙂 However I once worked with a guy from Iceland and his attitude to women was quite unusual - he behaved as if we were actual human beings.
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