Project Gaza 2035, The War in Ukraine, and Taiwan: The West vs. The Rest

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🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In this new episode of Colonial Outcasts we to map out, and draw connections in a very basic way between two conflicts (Gaza/Ukraine) and a potential armed flashpoint (Taiwan), because, as people have begun to realize since October 7th, it’s all connected, man. Not in a conspiracy sort of way, but in a very run-of-the-mill Imperialist way - the most basic definition of which is the wikipedia one, which for our purposes is more than acceptable. Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power and soft power. Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintaining hegemony and a more or less formal empire. Think of Hard power as military force and proxy wars, and soft power as diplomatic and economic pressure like treaties, sanctions etc. So, the US/Europe is fighting a proxy war in Ukraine in order to weaken Russia, which has spectacularly backfired. We are funding a disastrous campaign of genocide in Gaza which is Isolating both Israel and by extension the United States from the international community, and now the US is stoking tensions with China over Taiwan, which could turn into a military flashpoint. We are seeing an Empire in decline. It seems like US politicians still believe that America has the same staying power and power projection that we had in the early 90’s. But the working class is being depleted, rising levels of non-living wages and poverty are pervasive. We can’t afford another conflict, but the question is - can the American People people be deceived into fighting another war? #warinukraine #warinukraine2024 #taiwannews #chinataiwan #chinataiwanconflict #israelpalestinenewsupdates #israelhamaswar #militaryindustrialcomplex #icj #antiimperialism #decolonize #ceasefire #uspolitics #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #breakingnews #internationalnews #warzoneclips #veteran #politicalnews #palestina #politics #political #internationalrelations #internationallaw #colonialoutcasts #counterterrorism #globalsecurity

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0:00.0	Welcome to yet another episode of Colonial Outcasts.
0:03.6	I'm your host, Greg Stoker, and we are joined yet again by returning political analyst and globalization specialist, Alina Zanifontos.
0:11.6	So thanks for coming on again.
0:14.0	Thanks for having me.
0:15.5	Yeah, and we're going to jump right into episode something.
0:20.1	I lost track of which episode it is numerically while
0:23.6	writing this intro monologue, but we're calling this one Gaza 2035, the war in Ukraine and the
0:29.9	flashpoint in Taiwan, the West versus the rest. So thanks for coming up with that Zinger. We're
0:36.8	totally using that. So you're welcome. with that, Zinger. We're totally using that.
0:38.9	You're welcome. Okay. And great to have you on as always. So we are going to map out,
0:44.1	draw connections in a very basic way between two conflicts, i.e. Ukraine in Palestine,
0:50.4	and a potential armed flashpoint in the Straits of Taiwan,
0:55.0	because as people have begun to realize since October 7th,
0:58.3	it's all connected, man, but not in a conspiracy way,
1:02.1	but in a very run-of-the-mill imperialist way.
1:05.5	The most basic definition of which is the Wikipedia one,
1:09.8	which for our purposes is more than acceptable.
1:12.2	So when we say imperialism, we mean the practice, theory, or attitude of maintaining or extending
1:19.6	power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power
1:26.4	and soft power.
1:34.9	Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintaining hegemony and a more or less formal empire. Think of hard powers like military force, proxy wars, and soft powers, diplomatic and economic pressure, like treaties etc so as we examine ukraine
1:46.2	palestine taiwan we're going to see this mixture of hard and soft power or the threat of
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