Wouldn’t the world be rapidly conquered by some Thrud the Barbarian type leader then?

Is the RTE as compromised as badly as the BBC? You have to read 3/4 of the article to find out that obviously it was Israel that attacked the UN peacekeeper base. Even then the article doesn’t mention Israel’s attack until it managed to wedge in a largely irrelevant condemnation of Hezbollah’s assault on Israeli forces illegally in Lebanon (Hezbollah of course being a legal organic resistance force to illegal Israeli occupation and not a proxy of Iran). Which it misleadingly describes as attacks on Israel, adding (for the purpose of further misleading) that the attacks ‘menaced’ (note that they didn’t strike) civilian communities in northern Israel.

The article also provides cover for this particular round of aggression towards UN peacekeepers by insinuating that the strikes came ‘admist heavy firing’ as if that excuses the deliberate targeting inside the base. It could have mentioned that the UN peacekeeper bases are there to specifically discourage Israel from annexing further land from Lebanon, to further their imperialistic plans in the region, which is why Israel is constantly trying to get the UN to withdraw those forces. Following that it could also question if Israel thought attacking the UN base with Ghanian soldiers would achieve the withdrawal of UN troops without drawing too much condemnation in Europe. And if this is part of the overarching pattern of racist activity by the fascistic ethnostate.

Inconceivable!

I’d go with Necrophobic so that people get the impression I stayed at the party for twice as long as I was able to manage.

It’s a sepia post so don’t be expecting anything other than propaganda in service of bloodthirsty western hegemonic imperialism.

It is material support for US and Israeli illegal warmongering.

It’s the Guardian. It’s been a mouthpiece of the UK intelligence services since they capitulated over the establishment push back it got over publishing the Snowden leaks. So nothing it prints with regard to Western hegemonic machinations can be trusted. Especially anything to do with supporting the US and Israel. Which is what they are clearly doing.

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That’s the kinda folk that want Iranians to go through the Iraq/Libya/Syria experience.

Operation Gladio.

Probably the same thing they thought when they were training and arming fascist terrorist groups throughout Europe…

“…We’re the good guys. He he he he.”

Radio Free Asia up to its usual tricks I see.

US funded propaganda outfit seeds further outlandish attack pieces.

I worked in a private library that still had it’s card catalogue up until 2005. People were always ripping out the cards (there was something like a metal knitting needle that passed through a punched hole in each card to stop idiots from destroying the catalogue, so the gobshites ripped them out instead).

The early digital catalogues weren’t great so the old card system persisted.

Hit the ‘maybe later’ button to get past the request.

That’s a perspective issue though.

If you’re not a white middle-class American and have had a much tougher experience over this time period and say that was largely down to the parasitic hubris of many white middle-class Americans. Then you might be entitled to a much dimmer view at an attempt at brevity that ignores your viscerally darker cultural history.

The way that most propaganda works is by repeating it’s message whenever/whereever it can and silencing alternative messages. At a certain stage the message is self sustaining (becomes cultural) and the duped populace will police it themselves.

Yes the meme is a wry look at a truism that will resonate with plenty of us on here, and that is fine. But it is also OK for other people to stand up and give their cultural perspective. Otherwise it just comes off as you’re just replicating that toxic behaviour of policing your cultural propaganda.

All of that is true, especially for white middle-class Americans. But, and I think this is what the previous poster is getting at, he further you get from the imperial core the greater the chance of an alternate experience.

Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

At what cost!!?

I get your point but this type of action has always been part and parcel of settler colonialism. They cynically write their own history/propaganda. The same shits that deny these things haven’t happened over and over again are terrified of immigrants because of their own internalised behaviours.

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