So incredibly glad to see ground-up organizing taking the lead on ICE protests and community actions in L.A, NYC, Minneapolis etc etc.

Cause Dem politicians are going to have to be dragged along. They aren't going to lead on this issue until they literally have no other choice

A world in which Russia is fighting a war with Ukraine over control of villages in the Donbas and the United States is viewed as a hostile power by Canadians and Mexicans is not one that has anything much in common with the world of the Cold War.

I'm sorry

One of the core foundations of US geopolitical dominance was the ability to convince allies that they could not cope in a scary world without the US.

US hegemony was as much a psychological construct as it was anchored in concrete military or economic power.

Kind of sad how many people still believe that if the American and Russian presidents agree they can totally dictate the terms of anything in the world. Like no one else has any agency what so ever.

a comedy skit where 15 years into the future the remaining US sendy envoys to Syria to learn how to build bureaucratic institutions from scratch.

There’s a kind of poetry in that the United States was born from the reaction to a Mad King and it will be killed by a Mad King.

So the "international community," which stood passively by as Assad and his supporters in Moscow & Teheran & Hezbollah murdered hundreds of thousands of Syrians for 13 years now claims to have the moral probity to stage manage the birth of a new Syria? Desvergonzado.

BREAKING!:

The Syrian Arab Army