“The bombings do work! The bombings are working! They know what they are doing. Just because you don’t know what they’re doing doesn’t mean they don’t know what they’re doing. Of course they know what they are doing… The bombings are achieving what they are supposed to - which is to destroy Yugoslavia, to turn it into a de-industrialized, beggar-poor nation of cheap labor, completely defenseless to the interests of capital investors. This is a batterist policy! The batterer is not irrational, the batterer uses violence against his helpless spouse. He uses just a certain amount or level to get a certain response - and batters that person down and batters that person down. And that’s what it is - it’s a battering policy, to destroy and smash 'em down, but smash 'em and splinter them so badly that they will never rise again and never come back again even as a viable bourgeois nation, let alone socialist.”
– Michael Parenti
I’d love to see the next Ukrainian government (assuming the world doesn’t end first) just re-seize all those sold-off assets for the state. NATO would probably just implode.
This all goes back to the fall of USSR, and ongoing tragedy that’s still killing people today.
“The bombings do work! The bombings are working! They know what they are doing. Just because you don’t know what they’re doing doesn’t mean they don’t know what they’re doing. Of course they know what they are doing… The bombings are achieving what they are supposed to - which is to destroy Yugoslavia, to turn it into a de-industrialized, beggar-poor nation of cheap labor, completely defenseless to the interests of capital investors. This is a batterist policy! The batterer is not irrational, the batterer uses violence against his helpless spouse. He uses just a certain amount or level to get a certain response - and batters that person down and batters that person down. And that’s what it is - it’s a battering policy, to destroy and smash 'em down, but smash 'em and splinter them so badly that they will never rise again and never come back again even as a viable bourgeois nation, let alone socialist.” – Michael Parenti
Liberal: “Russia is colonizing Ukraine!”
Meanwhile the majority of the country is now owned by Blackrock.
I’d love to see the next Ukrainian government (assuming the world doesn’t end first) just re-seize all those sold-off assets for the state. NATO would probably just implode.