#humanitarian interventionism

[progressivemillennial]

So weird!

[progressivemillennial]

By Caitlin Johnstone

Person A: Wow, things are looking really bad in Venezuela right now.

Person B: Yeah.

Person A: All that poverty and unrest!

Person B: I know, it’s terrible.

Person A: You know what we should do?

Person B: Please don’t say send in Godzilla.

Person A: What? Why not??

Person B: Because he always makes things worse! You know that! Every time we send in Godzilla to try and solve problems in the world, he just ends up trampling all over the city, knocking down buildings and killing thousands of people with his atomic heat beam.Person A: Maybe this time would be different though!

What follows is a Socratic interaction that, because Godzilla takes the place of the American military and intelligence apparatus, is enjoyable more than heavy handed. It also runs down the straw man and bad faith arguments that get trotted out over and over again each time an American military intervention occurs.

U.S. military intervention will not make life better for Venezuelans.

[progressivemillennial]

US Aid Ploy to Venezuela Explained

The most obvious question we need to ask ourselves is why Washington wants to send humanitarian aid to Venezuela? After all, if they cared so much about Vene...

"Washington’s claim that Venezuela’s government has refused humanitarian aid is a gigantic lie. Kei Pritsker explains how the US deployed a mere $20 million in aid as a Trojan Horse for regime change."

If you're more interested in articles than videos, you can read Kei Pritsker's writing here:

https://thegrayzone.com/…/watch-the-us-humanitarian-aid-pl…/

[laughingmagician]

The hell are you talking about, Rushdie doesn't support imperialism!

Look up his support for the Afghanistan war. Look up his commentary on and around the Iraq war. Ignore his complaints about being misrepresented, and instead look at the case he makes for humanitarian interventionism* in the guise of a critique of the Iraq war; a critique that quite obviously faults the stated reason for the war, while supporting the war itself entirely.*The mother of all oxymorons, and a far, far more dangerous ideology than neoconservatism. Humanitarian interventionism are pretty much just squeamish neocons at any rate, but it’s much easier to convince people that humanitarian interventionism is a good and noble pursuit, as opposed to the naked self-interest of neoconservatism. As such, it’s much easier to get the people to support military endeavours with that rationale.