arm crossing and squinting intensifies 😒

While we’re at it, Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine opened up akin to the shock and awe campaign in 2003 Iraq.

Of course it does not justify the invasion, but the world still remembers WMD’s that weren’t found. American leadership didint think those through too well.

Well those Jehovah witnesses weren’t going to ship themselves to Siberia.

Some call it divine intervention by the state.

Surround the thing with solar panels and then you’ve got yourself an environmentally friendly peice of space debris.

Yeah. To be honest most liberal and social democrat governments are playing right into the hands of the right wing too.

Too afraid to crack down on the far right, but still too conservative to commit to large public spending on housing and sustainable infrastructure. Or in Germany’s case, nuclear energy.

I have hope for those organzing outside of electoralism, those organzing within it in the West are in for another rude wake up call soon. They keep ignoring them.

Westerners are not more tolerant or intolerant then any other people on earth, we generally just have higher standards of living as a result of economic and military hegemony. As that continues to decline for more and more previously " wealthy " people the fascist radiclization will get worse in the West.

We need new ways of living and bold ideas. The far right nor neoliberals can offer that to people. Liberals will tolerate dissidents but they will never take meaningful action on the issiues of class, the military industrial complex or encomcis for the most part. It needs to change from the outside in.

If you read the wiki it details that police and soldiers took part in the abuse alike. Of course this doesn’t happen with every U.N. deployment, but the bad blood and amnesty towards peacekeepers will not be easily forgotten by the locals.

The courts are probably saving everyone some trouble here.

Depends on how you see it. Last time U.N. peacekeepers were in Haiti it was a complete disaster. They were caught running child sex trafficking rings.

It was in fact, so prolific there is an entire wiki dedicated to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_by_UN_peacekeepers

On the other hand, without some sort of outside intervention or help the status quo in Haiti will remain. I don’t really think any of it is " good " so to speak but I struggle to imagine another U.N. mission will bring about fruitful results for anyone involved.