Late Stage Capitalism

lol no you don't get it! You're just trying to distract from the atrocities of your country that I consider you to be complicit in! I'm not complicit in the atrocities of MY chosen state! lmfao

Edit: death to the IDF, death to nazis. I wasn't referencing Hamas, they didn't even cross my mind in this context.

Thats not at all how I interpret the message. I interpreted as "when the US is invading somewhere under the guise of bringing freedom and peace," rather than, someone saying something bad about russia and it being refuted by the US being worse. In the first case the post can be true and still condemn multiple parties, because the US does infact try to excuse itself that way.

The main difference is that the USA is a developing theocracy whereas Iran is an established one.

I'd say the main difference is thay the USA has nuclear weapons and has killed dozens of millions of innocents, while Iran has only tried both and so far failed.

Power structures and, well... people.

Agreed, but are you suggesting we sit back and enjoy? The only way to get over this stage is to call it out. Understand what is happening, create mechanisms that dissuade murderous psychopaths from positions of power.

For example, take money out of politics. As a politician you are not entitled to personal wealth. You have to give everything you have away and you live on minimum wage. End political donations etc etc.

Yeah basically came to say this

I don't believe for a second anyone else would be better. They are currently just smaller.

If I had to guess on allies I would point to the coalition of Western European countries who routinely join US imperialist wars like the "war on terror" in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Id say the military industrial complex is a murderous power structure. If you want specifics look at the Pentagon, CIA, and various "defense" contractors such as Raytheon, Palantir, and so on.

IMO the path to stop it is something like anarcho- communism which you can start doing in your own neighborhood by forming collectives.

This.

However, it doesn't excuse the US from their military crimes.

In Russia, we also gladly use "what about": yeah, we might not be perfect, but just look at the USA... Bad rhetoric. (RU might take the cake for being the largest evil on earth, but even so it doesn't excuse others' crimes).

Those are active murders, and are ignoring passive ones. Every death due to sanctions, every starvation in the US itself, every preventable death due to being blocked by the healthcare system. Add every death in Palestine, the Vietnam war, the internal struggles of China before the nationalists were defeated, every time they sold weapons to any group...

I'm not doubting your comparative analysis of these wars, but instead I would like to place another claim on the table: wars are no longer the primary vehicle of violence in our global society, just the most naked and public-facing violence.

Some examples of these other acts (and these are indeed heavily interrelated):

• IMF loans and enforced austerity/liberalization
• NED-related influence operations
• coups
• sanctions
• embargoes
• military presence itself (via bases)
• funding of militant proxy groups

(Note that the primary vehicle of harm here is slowly economically depriving and strangling average people up to the last dollar, worldwide). Then you add this suffering to when the violence becomes protracted and sharpened via war.

Russia simply can't do this. Idk if it wants to; it probably does considering Ukraine (also Russia isn't like a person lol and I don't think it's all just Putin bc putting shit on one guy is naive imo; you can always replace the one guy). But Russia does not have the military and economic influence the US does.

This is just my understanding of the world like philosophically as I've spent 20-something beautiful years on this blue-green marble and another 375 on the red one (and also I'm like... incredibly lazy as a person!) so no sources 😔 but I am amenable to receiving new evidence!

There is no material difference between when a democrat votes to bomb Iran to liberate them vs when a republican votes to bomb ~~Libya~~-Ira~~q~~n because they want to murder more Muslims.