Comments by "Catherine Birch" (@catherinebirch8263) on "Terrorist Threat in the United States Increasing Because of Ongoing War in Gaza" video.

And anyway money and power are kind of equivalent. The US must virtually own Ukraine now. It certainly seems to own Zelensky, given the places and occasions at which Biden trots him out. Basically, this war is about US consolidation of its world power. Wealth will follow, as it has from the US using its military power in the Middle East to get access to cheaper oil. At the cost of horrific damage to Middle Eastern peoples, but that's hardly an issue really, just as the lesser but still dreadful damage to the Ukrainians isn't an issue.
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@robertbritt6134 I respectfully disagree about Ukraine. Just as history in Israel/Gaza/West Bank did not begin on October 7 2024, despite Israeli propaganda, history in Ukraine did not begin when the Russians invaded in 2022, despite US propaganda. NATO expansion towards Russia had been US policy since the 1990s, and prior to that invasion Zelensky was talking about installing an American controlled (via NATO) military base on Russia's back doorstep (Ukraine). Ukraine is even closer to Russia that Cuba is to the US. Ukraine is really about continuing military expansion by the US. Describing Israel as a mistake is very blinkered. Netanyahou signalled Israel's intentions in advance and the US sent weapons, political and financial support, and military intelligence to Israel. Israel enacted its intentions, US collusion continued. If it was a mistake it was a very deliberate one. Netanyahou and Putin are only relevant in terms of the degree of ruthlessness they are injecting into what would be their country's policy no matter who their leaders were. Russia could never do nothing while an American controlled military base was buit on its back doorstep. Israel knew who and what they were getting when they elected and then re-elected Netanyahou - military backed expansion of Israel into the West Bank and Gaza.
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@Maja-Danmark In fact NATO arrived at the Russian border twenty years ago when it included Latvia (and maybe earlier, I'm not an expert). However Ukraine is of far higher strategic importance to Russia. The US doesn't need to overrun countries militarily - it uses its economic power to subvert them and installs NATO military bases later with government permission. I for one hope that Russia and China manage to stand free from US domination. It sickens me that the US is using Ukraine and Ukrainians in yet another proxy war. Zelensky pops up when and where he's told to. The US tried to use Navalny's wife the same way, but Navalny was a true patriot and so is his wife. She might still end up a martyr in the quest to oust Putin, as Navalny himself was, but she still hasn't acceded to being used against Russia even for possible personal revenge against Putin.
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@user36112 Not so sure about the dumb part. It's worked well for the US up until now.
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More to the point, just stop sending Israel money and weapons and running political interference for them. Consider reinstating it when the Palestinian death toll has fallen to below the 10 year average.
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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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@user36112 Well it's immoral, blood-chilling and soul-destroying, but as for dumb - the US has done pretty well out of it so far. Still it's the soul-destroying part that might be starting to come home to roost.
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