Can't say, didn't bother watching either. Don't need to see it to know it's a bunch of lies and delusions, interspersed among an hours long effort to jack off his own ego.
Russia steals the surplus value for within it's borders, the US steals surplus value from beyond it's borders. Like I said, Russia does everything the US does just not as extensively.
but it’s a good starting point to ask ‘is this war for profit or some other reason?’.
Always an important question to ask but if Cowbee does mean that, then they should use the modifier to signify that they are talking about economic imperialism and not about Imperialism Imperialism.
Imperialism is characterized by one political entity conquering or annexing thru coercion other political entities to bring new land, population, wealth, and natural resources under their control. No need to muck up or stretch out the definition.
That's a laugh. Putin and his political machine have expressed a desire to return to the days of the Russian Empire and has engaged in acts of conquest to that effect.
Russia is a mirror image of the US. While Anglo-Saxons were pushing west across North America, conquering indigenous peoples, Russians were pushing east out of Europe into Asia conquering indigenous peoples. They're both dysfunctional countries with dysfunctional world views.
That's like an onion, just layers of naive. Russia has had imperial ambitions on Ukraine for a while and thinking that they care at all about the "liberation" of Donetsk and Luhansk is crazy talk.
Pre-WW2, the answer was WASPs convinced of their own greatness. After WW2 it was because the US did a good thing and let it get to their heads. To this day, I'll see Americans online see the US get criticized and pull out the old "if it wasn't for us, you'd all be talking German" line. Like dude, you're taking credit for something you didn't do, probably wouldn't do, and it doesn't justify the shitty things that ARE happening.
And the rules based global order was a good idea that some Americans had but too many other Americans decided that the US got to have constant exceptions to the rules which makes the whole thing ultimately not work.
My exact words were "Helped cause this". At no point did I hold them solely responsible.
I can’t blame them for believing that personal co2 foot print nonsense.
You say that like Boomers don't own and hold management positions in companies that pollute. Also, corporations being the main polluters doesn't absolve individuals of guilt when they make bad decisions.
Especially Jefferson. Not Franklin though. Benjamin Franklin in a letter to a young man listed 8 reasons why an older mistress was preferable to a younger one.
Can't say, didn't bother watching either. Don't need to see it to know it's a bunch of lies and delusions, interspersed among an hours long effort to jack off his own ego.