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Actually, the American state apparatus can’t even do that unless
(a) there’s an underlying geopolitical motivation for doing so, which the White House and Secret Service have outright admitted by saying they want Russia occupied with, and weakened by, a war of attrition
and (b) they can greatly enrich corporations in the process, evidenced by the fact that (I think it’s) Lockheed Martin who have taken 70% of the funds paid by the U.S to arm Ukraine. Naturally American politicians are near entirely bought by lobbying cash, so figures, but ofc UK are now like that, too.
My point: never project altruism onto nation states. The people that often run countries are not charitable individuals, despite their best pretence. They’re malevolent, cold-hearted, greedy, and will think nothing of exploiting ordinary people, both domestically and globally, to further their self-interests: whether African-American, Native American, or Ukrainian.
Floyd’s conducted a hit and run on the social structure of western society by rising up from the underclasses to make it big, but he still had to get punched in the face to make it (despite his best efforts), and increasing economic inequality will see even fewer people make it even to lower middle class, even while undertaking physically hazardous occupations.
(a) there’s an underlying geopolitical motivation for doing so, which the White House and Secret Service have outright admitted by saying they want Russia occupied with, and weakened by, a war of attrition
and (b) they can greatly enrich corporations in the process, evidenced by the fact that (I think it’s) Lockheed Martin who have taken 70% of the funds paid by the U.S to arm Ukraine. Naturally American politicians are near entirely bought by lobbying cash, so figures, but ofc UK are now like that, too.
My point: never project altruism onto nation states. The people that often run countries are not charitable individuals, despite their best pretence. They’re malevolent, cold-hearted, greedy, and will think nothing of exploiting ordinary people, both domestically and globally, to further their self-interests: whether African-American, Native American, or Ukrainian.
Floyd’s conducted a hit and run on the social structure of western society by rising up from the underclasses to make it big, but he still had to get punched in the face to make it (despite his best efforts), and increasing economic inequality will see even fewer people make it even to lower middle class, even while undertaking physically hazardous occupations.
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