@tsarlet2@EWittenberg414@RWApodcast I'm familiar with Argentine meat; it's something of a delicacy as I remember (though I don't value meat enough to know the different varieties). The main supplier of meat to Russia, however, is that same heroic little country of Belarus.
@EWittenberg414@RWApodcast I was surprised to learn from Google that we actually export meat from Brazil too. But imports are measured in thousands of tons, while domestic production is measured in millions of tons.
I was sure that we export meat as well as grain.
The most dangerous thing to any country is an elite that believes in its own propaganda.
Propaganda is a tool to explain complicated things in simple terms and implant a particular viewpoint in people who are incapable of understanding the subject matter, or who would be opposed to the particular viewpoint out of moral or self-interested considerations.
Propaganda doesn't have to be untrue, but it very often is, because lying is simpler than explaining a complicated truth.
The people who use propaganda upon either their own or an enemy population MUST be immune to it. When decision-makers start believing in false or simplistic narratives, they make really bad decisions.
Examples aren't hard to find. The Germans lost on the Eastern Front of WW2 because they believed their own propaganda about how fragile the USSR was, and how inferior Russians are. American state-building efforts failed because the people planning them truly believed that inside every Afghan tribesman there is a bisexual Seattle libtard longing to break free. The early phase of the SMO went the way it did because the Kremlin put its trust in what they were told by 'pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians', who, being Ukrainian politicians, just stole all the money they were given instead of engaging in pro-Russian subversion.
The previous US administration believed in their own propaganda about Russia being a Third World gas station that would crumble under sanctions, and whose army would be wiped out by superior NATO doctrine and technology. The current US administration seems more realistic about this...
The European Union is still caught in the trap of their own propaganda rhetoric. They made up a clownish, infantile narrative in which Putin is Schizo Hitler who just invaded a prosperous democracy for no reason, and is currently losing BADLY, with Russia being on the verge of collapse. They base everything they do on this narrative, because they are, frankly speaking, retarded.
Modern Western European 'elites' (upper middle class and upwards) are the most easily propagandized people in all of human history. A medieval peasant had more curiosity and skepticism about the world than they do. While they cling to their delusions, they must be kept away from any decision-making, and cannot be included in any serious diplomacy. They can self-destruct and destroy their economies and demographics even further, if they want to, but it's of crucial importance to just... not listen to them.
US empire in a nutshell:
Rules-based international order
No rules for us
War criminals are victims
Victims are war criminals
Genocide is self-defense
Self-defense is genocide
Propaganda is journalism
Journalism is propaganda
Lies are the truth
The truth is a lie
Truth-tellers are criminals
Evildoers are truth-tellers
What we do is classified
We know everything you do
Veterans are heroes
Victims are forgotten
Savior of far away lands
With humanitarian bombs
Corporations are people
People are corporate resources
No NATO expansion eastwards
NATO on Russias borders
One China policy
Arming Taiwan
Poor China makes stuff for us, good
Rich China makes stuff for us, bad
Chinese firewall is bad
All US tech is backdoored
Protector of natural resources
On lands of foreign nations
Protector of foreign assets
If you do what we say
Protector of the environment
US military pollution doesn’t count
Protector of health
Gain of function
Bad food is good for business
Good health is bad for business
Defender of the poor
Enabler of Wall Street plutocrats
War is peace
Endless wars for endless peace
Our Nazis are good
Their Nazis are bad
Our election interference is good
Their election interference is bad
Democracy is priceless
Politicians are not
Empire is righteous
We lie, we cheat, we steal
Empire promotes peace
20m dead in 37 victim nations
Empire loves you
17m killed with gain of function
The war on drugs
CIA #1 drug trafficker
The war on terror
CIA #1 terror organization
Torture is bad
CIA #1 torturer
Due process
Guantanamo Bay
United States of America
Open borders
Don’t trust crypto
It’s for criminals
We watch over you
Through your phones and PC’s
Spying on Americans is illegal
5 Eyes allies do it for us
Bio-weapons are illegal
Outsourced to China and Ukraine
Surplus is failure
Bankruptcy is success
Empire is rich
34 trillion national debt
97 trillion total debt
212 trillion unfunded liabilities
188 trillion total assets
Being broke is the new rich
Dictatorship is democracy
Mail-in voting
What’s wrong is right
What’s right is wrong
It’s time we say no to this bullshit ✊🏻
If Putin isn't stopped in Ukraine he will attack NATO countries.
But if Ukraine becomes a NATO member Putin won't attack Ukraine because he wouldn't dare to attack a NATO country.
Does this make sense to you?
Well, this is the argument many ''experts'' make.
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