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🗓️ 26 January 2024
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0:00.0 | Now I did want to say before I get into this actually I did want to bring up a certain point |
0:06.1 | Which I posted on our Instagram and if you if you don't follow an Instagram go check it out |
0:10.0 | It's at rev left radio official you know when I'm not posting when I don't have time to come to the recording studio |
0:16.3 | I'm pumping out my thoughts in real time often on the stories of Rev Left, but sometimes also on the main page |
0:23.4 | But what I posted a day and this is sort of relevant is, you know, just imagine if Russia, China, |
0:30.0 | Iran, or the DPRK, or, you know, fill in the blank Venezuela cube any country that America thinks is bad that America doesn't like that America dehumanizes and tries to de legitimize etc |
0:42.0 | Imagine that they were doing what Israel is doing to the |
0:44.5 | Palestinians right now. What would American corporate media coverage be like? |
0:49.7 | How would Joe Biden be talking about it? How quickly and easily would the US ruling class admit that it was genocide and |
0:58.4 | demand the regime doing it be dismantled? It wouldn't even take a second. They have already called |
1:04.8 | Russia's and Ukraine's war a Russian genocide of Ukrainians, right? They've already |
1:09.1 | called the Chinese treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide, right? |
1:14.6 | They throw around the term willy-nilly when it suits them. |
1:19.0 | And I made a point that, okay, let's just take one of those examples, Russia versus Ukraine. That's a genocide according to the U.S. ruling class. |
1:25.2 | Well if that's the genocide, then literally every war in history is a genocide. |
1:29.2 | The Brits, what the Brits did to the Germans, what the Germans did to the Brits is a genocide during World War II, right? |
1:34.6 | Because it's just a war between two countries. |
1:37.6 | It's not anything like what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. |
1:42.0 | Ukraine has a government. they have a military, they have a separate |
1:46.2 | independent economy, they have the backing of the largest, richest, most powerful countries |
1:51.2 | in the mother-fucking world and Russia is a global |
1:54.0 | superpower. Them going to war with one another is not by any stretch of the |
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