• الأرض ستبقى عربية@lemmygrad.ml
        15·
        6 months ago

        Politicians lie, but the odd thing about politicians in the US is that they believe their own lies.

        National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s infamous line uttered shortly before the start of the war about how the region was quieter than it had been in decades reflected how much the administration had come to believe its own press releases.

        They could have asked any Arab or read what we were saying, if they cared to know. Instead they go to extreme lengths to silence us and drown our voices with propaganda. “Inventing reality” is what it is.

  • loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    I am lately getting more and more skeptical of narratives like this because they imply that Biden has a lot of agency. I don’t know enough about Biden as a person except that he is a huge piece of shit so at least both domestic and foreign policies are in line with that. But seeing how he is teetering on the edge of senility to such an extent that his public appearances are seldom allowed by his handlers and when they are allowed they turn out to be an embarrassment, I feel more and more that he is a figurehead. The foreign policy is bust but is it Biden’s? Maybe in essence.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      191·
      6 months ago

      I always take these articles to mean the policy of the admin as a whole. The relevant part there is the acknowledgement that the aggressive and confrontational foreign policy US has been pursuing is now backfiring. It’s basically saying that US coercive policies are no longer working, and US needs to start rediscovering how to conduct actual diplomacy.

      • 陆船。@lemmygrad.ml
        14·
        6 months ago

        The core of these bureaucratic machines have intellectually disintegrated. All the incumbents climbed the ranks during “the end of history”, the apex of Amerikkkan power. When it could say whatever and bomb whomever without repercussion. Now these cretins have to deal with the opposite. A world with opposition.

        There’s such vitriol in media, which trails White House opinion, for the realist perspective. As foul as those people are, acknowledging the security interest and rationality of other nations is anathema to this generation of leaders.

        The Republican party, the more overtly reactionary of the duopoly, after feeding and nurturing a base of football hooligans has become infested with those same people and now openly litigates whether antebellum slavery was a good for the slaves or not.