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| War | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 8, 2022, 12:24 am | |
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| https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-progressives-cautious-anti-war-105457061.html | |
| [quote]For most of my life, the anti-war movement � such as it | |
| is � has been a primarily left-of-center phenomenon. | |
| When you think of the Vietnam War, images of hippies, Jane Fonda | |
| and Eugene McCarthy probably come to mind. The "nuclear freeze" | |
| campaign of the 1980s was similarly a lefty occurrence. When | |
| President George W. Bush prepared to launch the invasion of Iraq | |
| in 2003, it was mostly liberals and leftists who took to the | |
| streets in protests � and when Americans got fed up with that | |
| misbegotten war, they elected Democrats to put an end to it. | |
| ... | |
| the hawks-versus-doves clash in this country has largely been a | |
| right-against-left conflict.[/quote] | |
| Yes, because Vietnam and Iraq are non-Western countries. True | |
| Leftists supported Clinton's wonderful Operation Deliberate | |
| Force against Serbia, a Western country. We would have supported | |
| war against Apartheid South Africa, a Western country, had it | |
| refused to surrender. We support war against Israel, a Western | |
| country. It is only False Leftist geopolitical idiots who are | |
| opposed to the US getting into wars without even considering | |
| whether the target is a Western country or a non-Western | |
| country. | |
| [quote]Now Russia appears to be on the cusp of invading Ukraine | |
| � Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, warned Sunday | |
| that war could come within days � and some of the loudest voices | |
| for U.S. restraint are coming from conservatives. It's kind of | |
| weird![/quote] | |
| No, it's not weird at all. Russia is a Western country, so of | |
| course rightists don't want war against Russia. Rightists are | |
| only opposed to the US warring against Western countries, while | |
| having no problem with the US warring against non-Western | |
| countries. They are our opposites. | |
| [quote]That's led some observers to wonder if there might be a | |
| natural alliance between those elements on the left and right | |
| urging U.S. restraint in Eastern Europe.[/quote] | |
| Only False Leftists will join rightists calling for restraint | |
| against Turandom. True Leftists will not rest until Turandom has | |
| ceased to exist. | |
| [quote]Maybe. But there are a few reasons antiwar progressives | |
| should be cautious, at the very least, about making common cause | |
| with the Trumpist right:[/quote] | |
| We are not progressives, and we are not anti-war. We are only | |
| opposed to fellow former victims of Western colonialism (among | |
| which we include America) fighting one another instead of | |
| uniting against the Western colonial powers. Nevertheless, at | |
| least even False Leftists seem to be catching on that rightists | |
| are against war with Russia for all the wrong reasons. | |
| [quote]Carlson's opposition to aiding Ukraine is rooted � | |
| rhetorically, at least � in his longstanding inability to tell | |
| the difference between immigration and an actual military | |
| invasion. It's a chance to knock "open borders" Democrats. Why | |
| would we protect Ukraine's borders and not our own? | |
| For Carlson, this is an explicitly racial question, cast in | |
| typically bad-faith terms.[/quote] | |
| To keep thing simple, in Carlson's mind, Russians are "white" | |
| and Ukrainians are "white", therefore Russia invading Ukraine is | |
| OK because it's OK to be "white". | |
| [quote]Carlson once rooted on the Iraq War by calling Iraqis | |
| "semi-literate primitive monkeys."[/quote] | |
| For Carlson, it's also OK for "whites" to invade "non-whites" | |
| because it's OK to be "white". | |
| [quote]Dreher believes American opposition to a Ukraine invasion | |
| stems from anger over Vladimir Putin's opposition to gay rights. | |
| "This cold war with Russia is an extension of the culture war | |
| within American society, waged by elites against the American | |
| people," Dreher wrote in his blog at The American Conservative. | |
| That reading might be the product of Dreher's particular | |
| passions, but maybe not. Much of the right, after all, sees | |
| Putin as one of the world's leading defenders of Christendom. | |
| [/quote] | |
| Jesus never taught homophobia, therefore homophobia is not | |
| Christian. The Orthodox Church that Putin defends is not | |
| Christian. It is Mosaic. More about Dreher (and Carlson) here: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/hungary-v4/msg7892/#msg7892 | |
| Continuing: | |
| [quote]Hawley isn't really being dovish when he argues against | |
| Ukraine's entry into NATO. He just doesn't want America to | |
| divert its attention away from a possible confrontation with | |
| China. That's where the real action is. "The United States can | |
| no longer carry the heavy burden it once did in other regions of | |
| the world � including Europe," he recently wrote to Secretary of | |
| State Antony Blinken. "To the contrary, we must do less in those | |
| secondary theaters in order to prioritize denying China's | |
| hegemonic ambitions in the Indo-Pacific." | |
| None of this is the humanist pacifism of, say, Martin Luther | |
| King Jr. or Daniel Berrigan. It's something darker, uglier, and | |
| angrier.[/quote] | |
| Indeed. Of course, we agree with Hawley that the US can no | |
| longer carry the burden it once did in other regions of the | |
| world. Where we disagree is where the US should prioritize. We | |
| believe the US should completely pull out of the Indo-Pacific in | |
| order to concentrate on countering the rise of Turandom. Put | |
| another way, America should succeed the role that National | |
| Socialist Germany created back in WWII, while encouraging China | |
| to succeed the role that Japan created back in WWII. | |
| [quote]That doesn't mean that the anti-war left shouldn't work | |
| with whatever allies they can find. The goal of those who | |
| advocate American restraint should be to avoid a war with | |
| Russia, not to signal their own virtue. But they should tread | |
| carefully. The world that Tucker, Hawley, and the rest hope to | |
| create is very different from the one progressives want.[/quote] | |
| The indiscriminately anti-war False Left is not our ally. We do | |
| not advocate American restraint. We advocate American heroism. | |
| The world that True Leftists want to create is different from | |
| either the one that rightists want to create or the one that | |
| False Leftists want to create. The world we envision is a world | |
| without Western civilization. Any war in service of this vision | |
| is a war which we support. Any war which might interfere with | |
| this vision is a war which we oppose. | |
| #Post#: 11907-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: War | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 10, 2022, 11:29 pm | |
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| Our enemies remind us why we should want the war in Ukraine to | |
| keep going for years: | |
| https://vdare.com/posts/will-a-giant-wave-of-migrants-from-africa-head-toward-e… | |
| [quote]Ukrainian farmers obviously have more pressing priorities | |
| right now than sowing their fields. And in any case, the Russian | |
| blockade and conquest of most of Ukraine�s Black Sea coast will | |
| prevent exports of wheat to the countries that rely on them | |
| most. | |
| Between them, Russia and Ukraine account for a third of the | |
| world�s supply of wheat, but in fragile countries across the | |
| Middle East and Africa, where wheat bread is the staple food, | |
| the dependency on Ukrainian grain is even higher. | |
| ... | |
| The potential consequences of hunger and social unrest, and | |
| perhaps accelerated state collapse and mass migration | |
| northwards, will be a major concern for European politicians in | |
| the coming year unless the war comes to a swift conclusion. | |
| ... | |
| So, one potential result of Mr. Putin�s War is violent unrest in | |
| the Global South, setting off another round of mass migration to | |
| the Global North.[/quote] | |
| #Post#: 11908-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: War | |
| By: guest55 Date: March 10, 2022, 11:42 pm | |
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| It is all coming together perfectly! Operation Gaddafi may be | |
| getting the much needed reserves it's been lacking sooner than | |
| we imagined! | |
| #Post#: 12098-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: War | |
| By: rp Date: March 16, 2022, 10:42 pm | |
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| Going back to this comment: | |
| http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/thank-you-for-remembering-us-duginists… | |
| Can we count on Operation Barbarossa to pay dividends in a | |
| potential conflict with Russia, thus handing us an easy victory | |
| over Turandom? | |
| #Post#: 12099-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: War | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 17, 2022, 12:06 am | |
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| I think the effects have dissipated by now. What we should be | |
| thinking about is how to get Barbarossa II going. Now would be a | |
| very good timing for it. Even those who do not care about | |
| colonial-era history should be able to understand the moral case | |
| for Russia losing territory as punishment for the recent | |
| invasion, as I was explaining here: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/re-duginism-1134/msg11997/#msg11997 | |
| [quote]Absent retaliatory invasion into Russian territory, even | |
| if Russia comes out on the other side of this war having totally | |
| failed to capture Ukraine, it will have lost nothing except | |
| troops and weapons. Who will foot the bill for all the | |
| infrastructure damaged by Russia, and for all other expenditures | |
| incurred as a result of the war? Some people out there literally | |
| believe that Russia's loss of troops and weapons can be counted | |
| as the payment. No! If I smash up my neighbour's house with a | |
| baseball bat, breaking the baseball bat in the process, I am not | |
| thereby (on account of the broken baseball bat) absolved of | |
| paying the damages to my neighbour's house! I should have to | |
| give my house to my neighbour! Similarly, the only sure way to | |
| in effect get Russia to pay is by acquiring Russian territory | |
| and resources.[/quote] | |
| But Russia is obviously not going to agree to this, so the only | |
| way to make it lose territory is to take it militarily. Now is | |
| the time to do it! Russia is sending in reinforcements into | |
| Ukraine, which weakens its defences elsewhere: | |
| [quote]Putin's manpower problem: Russia 'is drafting in troops | |
| from Siberia and the Pacific as well as Syrians and mercenaries' | |
| in desperate attempt to get stalled Ukrainian invasion going | |
| after punishing losses[/quote] | |
| The obvious move is to wait until all the reinforcements are | |
| inside Ukraine, and then open up multiple new fronts of war on | |
| Russian territory itself! No way can Russia hold Koenigsberg | |
| right now if NATO simply decided to take it back. | |
| https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03/16/12/55425173-10618647-image-a-76_1647435… | |
| China and Japan are fools to not take back Outer Manchuria and | |
| Karafuto ASAP! With the troops in Armenia going to Ukraine, | |
| Turkey can now also invade and take back Crimea: | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea | |
| [quote]Crimea (or the Tauric Peninsula, as it was called from | |
| antiquity until the early modern period) has historically been | |
| at the boundary between the classical world and the | |
| Pontic�Caspian steppe. Its southern fringe was colonised by the | |
| Greeks and then ruled by the Persians followed by the Roman | |
| Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and finally successor states | |
| including the Empire of Trebizond and Principality of Theodoro. | |
| During the entirety of this period the urban areas were | |
| Greek-speaking and eventually eastern Christian (Eastern | |
| Orthodox). During the collapse of the Byzantine state some | |
| cities fell to its creditor, the Republic of Genoa, until | |
| eventually all were absorbed by the rapidly rising Ottoman | |
| Empire.[/quote] | |
| #Post#: 12100-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: War | |
| By: guest55 Date: March 17, 2022, 12:32 am | |
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| The host of "Speak The Truth" made a good point in one of his | |
| videos as well: The troops arriving from the middle-east region | |
| to reinforce Putin's failing invasion are not used to the | |
| weather in Ukraine. It is much colder in Ukraine than in Syria. | |
| This will have an effect on their performance as well. Reminded | |
| me of what Hitler said about Muslims fighting in Europe | |
| actually. | |
| I still do not understand why reclaiming Crimea even for Ukraine | |
| is not being discussed at all by so many.... | |
| #Post#: 12102-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: War | |
| By: rp Date: March 17, 2022, 12:43 am | |
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| ". Even those who do not care about colonial-era history should | |
| be able to understand the moral case for Russia losing territory | |
| as punishment for the recent invasion, as I was explaining | |
| here:" | |
| But wait a minute, don't we support the invasion because it | |
| kills Ukrainians? Or do we only support it insofar as it | |
| achieves the aforementioned objective, but oppose it because it | |
| benefits Russia? If the latter case, why should we oppose it | |
| solely because it benefits Russia? Because it strengthens | |
| Turandom more broadly? | |
| #Post#: 12103-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: War | |
| By: guest55 Date: March 17, 2022, 12:56 am | |
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| Personally, I never supported the invasion to begin with, but | |
| I'm glad it happened. Look at all the positives that have come | |
| from it already too though, the EU uniting, Germany rearming | |
| itself, etc. I've always taken Patton and Hitler's words to | |
| heart on the subject, namely that sooner than later America | |
| would have to fight Russia. So, in that regard, Turanians taking | |
| each other out now makes things easier for America in the long | |
| run. | |
| #Post#: 12104-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: War | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 17, 2022, 1:28 am | |
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| "don't we support the invasion because it kills Ukrainians?" | |
| To support the invasion would imply that we want the invasion to | |
| succeed. We do not. Therefore we do not support the invasion. We | |
| are merely glad that the invasion attempt occurred. We still | |
| want the attempt to ultimately fail, and lead to Russia ending | |
| up in a worse position than it was before the attempt. | |
| "Or do we only support it insofar as it achieves the | |
| aforementioned objective, but oppose it because it benefits | |
| Russia?" | |
| Again, "support" is the wrong word. The worst scenario for us | |
| would have been if the invasion went as Putin (and genuine Putin | |
| supporters) wanted it to go: Ukraine surrenders without a single | |
| Ukrainian dying. Fortunately, this ship has already sailed. | |
| "If the latter case, why should we oppose it solely because it | |
| benefits Russia? Because it strengthens Turandom more broadly?" | |
| Yes. Recall: | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics | |
| [quote]Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a | |
| state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import | |
| or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic | |
| exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an | |
| enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the | |
| Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about | |
| continental politics".[/quote] | |
| We are anti-Duginists. | |
| #Post#: 12117-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: War | |
| By: rp Date: March 17, 2022, 8:56 pm | |
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| BTW, what is your stance on children being casualties of war, in | |
| particular, if there is no way to evacuate them (as in Ukraine)? | |
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