Please understand that Trump is not the exception nor is he unique to American history; he is a byproduct of it. He is the unfettered, morally bankrupt rotten core of American white supremacism/ imperialism staring back at us. It's always been there, its just more unmasked now.
Deep down I think the liberal corporate media/ establishment doesn't actually have a problem with Trump's policies per say (look at Pelosi, Schumer and other Dems comments on ravaging Iran), but rather that he's exposed the facade of America. That's what they find so difficult to stomach and contend with. He doesn't care to mask the true face of America's horrific violence or disregard for human life.
American imperialist hegemony built itself upon a veneer of moral supremacy that legitimized it's violence as necessary and good. America was a brand, a business, with a very specific image that needed to be sustained.
Marketed through its media, corporations and propaganda expeditiously— it depended upon upholding an illusion (myth) of moral and civilizational superiority, that covered over its true evils. That always gave it the upper hand because it was inherently benevolent.
This justified it's global dominance, even though it was always maintained through such unforgiving brutality. Yet Trump routinely exposes this with both his incompetence and variable honesty, even though he's not actually trying to be honest.
Hence they purposefully make Trump seem like an outlier to the presidency. Recall the years long obsession with the Russian collusion narrative, because of the optics.
His victory over the neoliberal feel-good, female empowerment candidate (Clinton), made America, the self-anointed bastion of democracy and progressivism in the world, look bad. That it couldn't actually elect a borderline fascist or overt racist when racism had just ended with the first Black President previously. That it must have been that some foreign entity that helped him win.
People today laud war criminals like Bush and Obama because they perceive the US presidency through the expectation of a performance. Trump lacks the relative decorum of his predecessors to mask the fallout of policies which are just as destructive as theirs, if not more.
Trump is only an exception to American history in that he doesn't outwardly behave *presidentially* because he wasn't coming off of the traditional, cookie-cutter DC establishment politician conveyor belt.
He doesn't possess the charm, wit or likeablity of his predecessors to paint over America's horrors. He has laid it all bare; gloves off, mask off.
He's given them permission to show their true essence and not be ashamed of it. There is no need to hide it any longer— the violent white supremacy— unleashed to maximum capability. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality; as Hegseth put it.
He's told them to take pride in it; to do it boldy. No fanciful language or need to spin the reality of what they're actually doing or believe in; unrelenting and unabashed; not restricted by or accountable to, any entity or semblance of morality. Just raw power.
He is America's true face.
İnanılmaz bir film. 1936'da İngiltere'ye direnen Filistin. Görünmeyen kahramanlar. Görsel de bir şölen aynı zamanda.Hipnotik buldum filmi, transa girmiş gibi izledim açıkçası. Çok beğendim.Üzerine düşünecek pek çok şey veriyor,keşke düşünsek. Annemarie Jacir harika bir iş yapmış.
Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen seems to have slept through her classes on the Nuremberg tribunals, which dealt with the Nazi legacy.
Nuremberg defined a war of aggression – of the kind committed by the US and Israel in attacking Iran – as the “supreme international crime” because "it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole".
In other words, parties like the US and Israel that commit the crime of aggression are responsible for everything that flows from their crime – and that includes Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz.
It is not Iran’s actions "putting global economic stability at risk". It is the criminal endeavours of the US and Israel.
The Nuremberg judges understood that this cause and effect had to be understood correctly, otherwise the logic of the Nazis would take hold again.
It is deeply disturbing that the lessons of Nuremberg are so utterly lost on von der Leyen and Starmer.
Trump has launched an unnecessary, idiotic, and illegal war against Iran that puts America’s servicemembers and embassy personnel at risk. I’m calling on Congress to immediately return to vote on my War Powers Resolution that blocks war with Iran without congressional approval.
I wrote to the Prime Minister more than two weeks ago to demand parliamentary approval for British military involvement in the war on Iran.
He did not reply. Instead, he dragged this country even further into an illegal war of aggression.
When the US and Israel bombed Iran, I tabled legislation to require Parliamentary approval for any British involvement.
The Prime Minister could have supported my Bill. Instead, he dragged us even further into an illegal war.
No debate. No discussion. No vote. What a disgrace.
The British government has learned absolutely nothing from the catastrophe of the Iraq War.
My piece for @AJEnglish on Britain's shameful complicity in the illegal war on Iran.
https://t.co/gutHdlwSZP
The government has dragged Britain into an illegal war on Iran.
That's why I have tabled legislation to require Parliamentary approval for any British military involvement.
Urge your MP to support this legislation to end British complicity, now.
https://t.co/svFxSgIwYV
“Bir yabancıyı, gariban birini, bizim çıkar ve ilgilerimize hitap edecek bir şey sunamayan birini dinleme, tahammül göstererek onunla yüz yüze gelme imkânını kaybediyoruz. Birinin sahiden yanında olmanın zorluklarını anlamaktan ya da bir diyaloğun sadece aradaki bağlar veya arkadaşlık sayesinde değil başkalarının bilinmezliklerinden de başlayabileceğini kabul etmekten de âciziz. Şirketlerce tasarlanan sosyal medya formları başkalıkla ve ızdırapla etik bir ilişki kurma imkânını ortadan kaldırdı. Sayısız yoldan dijital çalışma ve eğlencenin rutinlerini takip etmeye ve kendimizi onların vasatlık ve zihinsizlikleriyle aynı safa yerleştirmeye teşvik, hatta mecbur ediliyoruz. Kafka’nın Kadastrocu’su misali, hiç de hayırlı olmadığını bildiğimiz bir sistemin kural ve düzenlemelerine vazifeşinas ve sersemleşmiş bir halde uyum gösterirsek amaç ve özlemlerimize ulaşabileceğimize inandırıyoruz kendimizi. Pasifliğimizden veya rahatımızı bozmak istemeyişimiz yüzünden sesimizi çıkarmıyoruz, ama zamanla bir bakıyoruz ki artık kendimize ait olmayan düşüncelerle jestlere sahip oluvermişiz.”
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@bogulmadi bu bana mantıklı gelmiyor ya isimden egitim gecmisinden vs zaten anlasılıyor nereli oldugun. hmm almanMIŞ gibi yapabileceğimiz akça pakça birisi mi diyolar beyaz tipliysen?
His crime: torture, rape, killing civilians.
My crime: reporting & exposing atrocities.
Germany rolls out the red carpet for former ISIS Ahmed al-Sharaa — while sanctioning me, a journalist, so I can’t feed my children.
Tell me again about European values.
Libya negotiated.
Let's be precise about what happened to Libya.
In 2003, Muammar Gaddafi made a strategic decision to abandon his weapons programs, open his country to international inspectors, and normalize relations with the West.
He paid reparations for Lockerbie.
He dismantled his nuclear program.
He cooperated with Western intelligence against Al-Qaeda.
He did everything that was asked of him.
He negotiated. He complied. He normalized.
In 2011, NATO bombed Libya for seven months.
His own military turned against him with Western backing.
He was captured in a drainage pipe.
A mob sodomized him with a bayonet while Western officials watched via satellite feed.
Hillary Clinton laughed about it on camera.
"We came, we saw, he died."
The man who gave up his deterrent in exchange for promises of security and normalization died in a drainage pipe while the people who made him those promises laughed at the footage of him being sodomized with a bayonet.
And Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita in Africa, free healthcare, free education, housing subsidies, and a functioning welfare state, became a failed state with open slave markets within three years.
This is what negotiated security guarantees look like.
This is the documented outcome.
Not a fringe case. Not a misunderstanding.
The most complete, unambiguous illustration possible of what your weapons are worth the moment you give them up.
The lesson is not complicated.
The only deterrent is a deterrent you still possess.
The moment you negotiate it away, you have nothing left to negotiate with.
@YasarAltundag buna gelene kadar neleri vermeleri lazım ya. müzenin anlattığına göre (detaylı araştırmadım) gönüllü bi şekilde verilmiş. yine de en azından süreç başlatılması lazım. son yıllarda daha bi gündemde bu konular o açıdan avantajımız olabilir