Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago
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Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "War in Ukraine? NATO expansion drives conflict with Russia" video.
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Well, yes. You hit the nail on the head.
Whether it's due to allegiance to Wall Street and corporate imperialism, or their own crazed obsessions, the Pentagon wants permanent war, served up hot or cold, including coups. Obviously, this is unsustainable, not to mention immoral and criminal. Putin is no doubt a stone cold thug, and other heads of state could be ultra-corrupt, but thay doesn't make the Pentagon's overall agenda morally acceptable..
1T every year now goes to the Pentagon. That's 53% of the US's (my country's) total national budget.
I'm not against having a military, and some BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY FUCKNG NUTS.
This is ongoing madness. Up to 80% of the population here as some level of unmet needs. THAT IS ALSO APPALLING and REALLY pisses me off.
Until we get a Congress and/or president that wants to oppose the Pentagon and what they represent, and isn't afraid to boldly come out publicly doing so; if one wants to pursue an even slightly less predatory agenda towards the rest of the world and will take action towards such ends, then I don't know how this will change. It seems clear now that JFK was wanting to do this- not to totally disarm and mothball every gunboat and plane- but to seek the beginnings of a better and mutually beneficial agenda based on non-violent cooperation with Russia, Vietnam, and throughout the world, including deescalating tensions with Cuba. Well that was enough to get him marked for death from powerful interests within the Pentagon and possibly some collaborators in the public (elements of some mafia have been implicated over the years. The allegations are interesting but I'm not sure if they are true or not).
I don't know if Jimmy Carter has any personal desires to try to push for more diplomacy and a turn away from militarism. Nixon was ultra-corrupt and murdereous and only too happy to prolong and escalate the Vietnam War.
Every admin since, including every Congress, have been the absolute lapdogs of the Pentagon, willingly or unwillingly; I think overall, with few exceptions from a few principled congresspersons, VERY willingly.
So that brings us to now.
Who will make the first move to oppose the Pentagon? To demand a return to diplomacy and a beginning of dismantling many of the 800 US bases that exist throughout the world??? The answer is we don't know. The last major opposer was JFK, and we all know how they responded to that.
I believe most Americans who follow world issues want to pivot to peace, but the Pentagon wants death, war, destruction and coups. Let me clear, I'm not totally against any or all militant aggression or defense, but it should be limited and only as a last resort. Also the CIA should be smashed to 1000 pieces (just as JFK claimed he wanted) and scattered abroad. All they do is evil, and leads to more violence and harm and extreme poverty abroad.
I honestly don't know when this will end. Congress could defund the Pentagon any time they want, by any amount they choose, but they don't want to. They are all bought by the bribers and lobbyists to keep upping the ante on the budget every single year.
People could stop paying their federal taxes if they owe any, and I wish they would, I will be; but not enough people will do so in order to make any kind of real difference in the yearly national treasury. Most people are wary of breaking the so-called law and risking being put in the crosshairs of Big Brother, especially if they have a family or a small business. It's understandable.
At this point in time, I am honestly unsure what it's going to take to force Congress to reduce funding to the Pentagon, to take some of their power away from them, to end the CIA, and to prioritize diplomacy and a scaling back of the entire war machine. All educated voters here who can get past nationalist propaganda want this, but Congress and the POTUS, no matter what corporate-owned party is in power, of course, so far has refused.
I don't know what it's going to take to break this logjam. I hope not another world war.
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@ZIGZAG12345 agree. The hypocrisy is something else. It's almost funny. Well they play verbal games for each other on the congressional floor. They don't think anyone from the public is watching, and for the most part, they're right. Few people have the time or desire to follow Congress closely- I still don't as much as I'd like. I choked on my tongue when whoever that was had the gall to say Russia didn't want to provide healthcare and other goods to it's people. I couldn't believe he had the nerve to say that out loud. I think that was Adam Schiff??? Yeah Adam, are you on drugs??? THIS IS AMERICA. THE LAND OF A TOTAL LACK OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE (only for veterans and only those with above a certain level of rated disability). THE MOST POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. MOST STUDENT DEBT. RENTS OUT OF CONTROL FOR MANY PEOPLE. FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION EVERYWHERE. In other words, an ongoing capitalist hellscape. Unbelievable.
The nads on these guys.
Hypocrisy is not a word these people acknowledge, for clear reason.
But most uninformed people will fall for it who may be watching, (and ofc they (Congress and state reps) know this), bec they just don't know any better, or they have been consuming the kool-aid from the dominant media.
These reps are so owned, and they have their playbook well rehearsed and always at the ready. Criticizing other nations for human rights violations, imperialism, political prisoners, political targeting of dissidents, and not providing for the material needs of the non-rich????? Huh. You DON'T say.
Well god none of that dirty business transpires on these utopic shores!
God I can't
The amazing hypocrisy-
Let's take a tour of the US govs more colorful history of domestic crimes shall we? Start with the MOVE bombing and carry on with Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Leonard Peltier, and Mumia Abu Jamal. That's just the beginning.
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