ISSUE #95: Empire apologists are acting as if provocation is not a thing.
ISSUE #95: Empire apologists are acting as if provocation is not a thing.
Ask the US empire apologists about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s warnings to the US when Pelosi visited Taiwan, they would say that both countries are evil and have vicious ambitions of ruling the world.
“Russia wants to revive the USSR by invading and conquering the neighboring European countries.”
“China wants to colonize the world.”
These are the ultimate arguments you hear from the media channels and the empire’s useful idiots.
It’s now a well-documented fact that the West provoked Russia to invade Ukraine by constantly ignoring Moscow’s red lines and now it’s playing the same game with China on the issue of Taiwan.
According to the empire officials and its apologists, the concept of provocation that we have all spent our lives knowing about is something radical invented by Moscow and Beijing. They say that it’s something that Russia and China use to justify their evil acts while ignoring that it’s a kindergarten-level concept that can’t be ignored especially at the geopolitical level.
Every country wants to ensure its safety and all of them have their respective security concerns which, when breached, can be disastrous for everyone. But for the empire’s useful idiots, the security countries exist only for the US empire, not the countries that challenge the US empire.
You can never expect to keep provoking someone without receiving any backlash from the person being provoked. This is not a complex mathematics topic that it’s so difficult for us to understand, but a simple, very simple, explanation of human behavior.
If I provoke a person into doing something that may hurt others, then that person alone should not be blamed for hurting others, I [who provoked him] should also be criticized for provoking that person. It’s as basic of an idea as you can think of.
I can’t believe that it needs to be said in 2022, but that’s how you know it’s 2022 when you need to explain these basic ideas.
“Why people don’t understand this?” you asked.
That’s because the empire’s propaganda machine is so efficient that it can portray the guilty as innocent; the innocent as guilty, and make the public believe that. The propaganda machine allows the US empire to not only commit a crime but also justify it and blame it on others. That’s why it’s so important to keep throwing sand in the gears of the empire’s propaganda machine.
When asked about how the US would react if Russia builds its military base in Mexico or if China sends its delegation to Hawaii or Puerto Rico, they always come up with arguments to defend the US, and rightly so. But they also come up with arguments to defend the US empire even when it’s provoking other countries.
Why the double standards?
Why the hypocrisy?
Because you can never defend the murderous US empire without either being a hypocrite or being a propagandized person. If you are consciously defending a genocidal empire, you are a hypocrite; and if you are unconsciously defending a genocidal empire, you are propagandized.
Majority of the population belong to the latter.
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