#TheColdWar

In Search of a Better WorldCrypticMirror@mstdn.social
2024-10-09

@StarTrekHour @JoeSondow

You always spy on your allies more than your enemies. Your enemies just want your destruction, but your allies get in your way.

#StarTrekHour #TheColdWar #ColdWar #Realpolitik

2023-06-27

.> I don’t mean to equate a Vietnamese villager to Vaclav Havel. For one thing, I doubt that the former would have had the supreme hypocrisy and audacity to clothe his praise for the defenders of freedom with gushing about responsibility for the human race. It’s also unnecessary to point out to the half a dozen or so sane people who remain that in comparison to the conditions imposed by US tyranny and violence, East Europe under Russian rule was practically a paradise. Furthermore, one can easily understand why an oppressed Third World victim would have little access to any information (or would care little about anything) beyond the narrow struggle for survival against a terrorist superpower and its clients. And the Pravda hack, unlike his US clones, would have faced a harsh response if he told the obvious truths. So by every conceivable standard, the performance of Havel, Congress, the media, and (we may safely predict, without what will soon appear) the Western intellectual community at large are on a moral and intellectual level that is vastly below that of Third World peasants and Stalinist hacks — not an unusual discovery.
- https://chomsky.info/19900301/

#NoamChomsky in a letter to #AlexanderCockburn writes about #VaclavHavel and #ElSalvador, how #TheColdWar #TheInvasionOfVietnam and #JesuitPriests like #IgnacioEllacuria expose the level of #WesternIntellectuals to be that of #StalinistHacks...

SPIEGEL Online (inoffiziell)spon@friendica.produnis.de
2022-02-22
Former U.S. diplomat Winston Lord participated in the momentous 1972 meeting between President Richard Nixon and Chinese leader Mao Zedong. In an interview, he examines the current state of the relationship between the superpowers and discusses what should be done about Taiwan.
A Half Century after Nixon's Visit to China: "Xi Is, Along with Putin, the Most Dangerous Man in the World"
#China #HumanRightsinChina #ChineseEconomy #UnitedStates #UnitedNations #TheColdWar #Russia #World

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