Every aggressive act that has ever occurred, even Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, has been justified as a defensive action. So it’s important to look at the means by which NATO has expanded which is by arming far right stay behind groups, electoral subterfuge and massively destabilizing coup d’états. Look into operation Gladio, in no way is this an authentically defensive organization.
I know in my heart of hearts that if Xi Jinping tried to use a technicality like this to build a Chinese military base in Mexico or smth that you would be calling him a racial slur so offensive that the last person to utter it was a British imperial explorer who wore a pith helmet and died in 1921.
It was commonplace among leftists to oppose US military hegemony, NATO, and Raytheon pre-2022, even for relatively lib leaning spaces. This position became basically unacceptable if not bannable in so many left leaning spaces within a matter of months, which should scare you a lot more than the existence of one community where the sentiment has remained the same.
Holy shit is this a bit? Do people on here really still believe in a neutral or unbiased press? Shouldn’t virtually every event from the Iraq war onward have already disillusioned you of that?
China is ruled by a military dictatorship, and under that form of government the people have 0 rights and 0 say in any government policy
Not even the most devoted ideologue for the US state department would claim something this ludicrous. How do “leftists” arrive at this conclusion?
Reddit is a disinfo network staffed and mediated by intelligence and defense consultants. The accusation that anyone who disagrees with the narrow set of acceptable ideology allowed on reddit is a paid shill is an intended side effect of routine exposure to it.
That’s fine but why are they banning socialist parties, integrating fascist paramilitaries into the army, and privatizing land? That all seems a little familiar.
You’re missing the point (even though you’re also wrong about that because half of America’s political class is advocating an invasion of Mexico right now), the line you’re spewing is deliberately obtuse sophistry designed to dismiss NATO’s obviously duplicitous behavior as acceptable.
It’s a hollow state-created line designed to erode critical thinking, like calling the Iraq War a “US-Led Intervention” or calling the Ukraine War a “Special Military Operation for Denazification”.