I guess it’s this time of the year when we forget that this sycophant is a right-wing sympathizer.

Trump’s rise to power was absolutely not by chance. However, your analysis isn’t satisfactory from a materialist perspective. Rather, it was the sum of neoliberal policies of the last few decades that radically transformed the material conditions of the United States (and other Western capitalist countries), culminating in several economic crises, most notably in 2008. The working class has suffered the most from deindustrialization and social services defunding, which Trump has perfectly weaponized in his campaigns by promising a fictitious return to an equally fictitious past. You have lower wages? Blame it on the immigrants! No jobs? Blame it on non-whites!! And so forth.

Hell, add in all of Europe. They and Trump deserve each other.

Trump’s actions are up to par with US legacy of imperialism and war crimes, from genociding native Americans, to staging coup d’etats around the globe on behalf of its oil companies, and aiding the displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Saying that he’s acting like a “Russian agent” dissimulates the systemic evilness which the US represents around the world, and blaming his despicable actions on other nations is just as abhorrent.

Okay but im saying that trump is specifically acting like a Russian agent

I think his actions are up to par with US legacy of imperialism and war crimes. Trump is as American as it can get, and saying that he’s acting like a “Russian agent” dissimulates the systemic evilness which the US represents, from genociding native Americans, to dtaging coup d’etats around the globe on behalf of its oil companies, and aiding the displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. This is as American as it can get, and blaming those despicable actions on other nations is just as abhorrent.

The United States is engaging in war and economic bullying across the globe, disenfranchising millions from the Global South. Whether it benefits Russia or not is impertinent to the crimes the US has commited since its inception.

As much as it sounds stupid, this is exactly how most Westerners have viewed West Asia (and still do) since 9/11.

I’ve just finished The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East by Laura Robson, which had for a main thesis the contribution of modern territorialialization (surveilling and controlling subjects in unprecedently thorough ways) to the forms of violence that were witnessed in West Asia, and specifically in the Levant or Mashriq rehion, beginning with the Ottoman project of statehood, the oppressive colonial occupation by Britain and France, and ending with the emergence of postcolonial states that inherited the same violent practices of their colonizers. Much attention was given to the Zionist settler colonialism, the Iraqi repression of Kurds, Shia Arabs and communists, and in general to to all the practices of sectarian and ethnic division and imperialist intervention (be it economic or military) across the region.

The only caveat is that the author is liberal minded. She doesn’t differentiate between the different sources of violence with much nuance, specifically when she equates Soviet intervention to the imperialist intervention of the US or Britain or France; or when addressing the repression done by the Syrian Baathist regime against the merchant and landowning classes. The only exception was in the context of Israeli occupation, where she indirectly implied that nonviolent protests like the Intifada were unproductive against the terror of the Zionist war machine.

Before digesting a piece of imperialist propaganda, we should always have in mind who and what does it serve. The “truth” plays only a marginal part in determining what we believe in.

Every single administration since the inception of the US participated in war crimes, massacres and imperialism.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-obama-bomb-map-drone-wars-strikes-20000-pakistan-middle-east-afghanistan-a7534851.html

Because the socialist government in Venezuela nationalized the oil industry in 2007, which provoked an exodus of foreign oil companies, including American corporations like Exxon. If you look at the past decade, it was clear that an invasion was imminent, given the threatening statements and harsh sanctions by every US administration in the past.

The invasion of Carcas especially has to do with oil. The socialist government in Venezuela nationalized the oil industry in 2007, which provoked an exodus of foreign oil companies. And before the operation took place, Trump consulted with Exxon executives on the attack.

Question, even if what you’re saying was true, what does it serve in the context of discussing the US military intervention in a sovereign country? Besides legitimating the US and its actions, that is.

What you’re saying is different from what they implied. They instead want to shift the narrative to other countries, because should I speak of a “good thing” of another country, they would instantly retort about it and thus lead the original discussion astray, that is, that the United States is an imperialist war machine that serves the interests of its upper class. You don’t need comparison to evaluate US war crimes and crimes against humanity, unless you want to delve into whataboutism.

What IS an example of something good?

The US not intervening militarily politically and economically in other countries.

I understand that you’re trying to push the goal posts, so I am disengaging.

Why should you bring up other countries when we’re discussing the US? Especially when the US is not like any other country but the center of global imperialism?

USAID had always been a soft power tool to further US imperialist interests.

As a global south citizen, we never received any “good things” from the USA. Only war and destruction, a century before Trump.

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This isn’t the checkmate you think it is.

“Fascists brush their teeth twice a day. You also brush your teeth. That means you are a fascist!!!”

Do not omit the context from the general notion. I am speaking of bourgeois industrialists who exploit the working class, and not native populations with the right to sovereignty.