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kneedeepincynade · 6 months

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Genocide Joe and his cronies lie in the face of the world by saying they don't want to provoke China,but their actions tell a different story

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🇺🇸 L'avventurismo anti-Cinese degli imperialisti statunitensi nel Mar Cinese Meridionale costituisce la causa principale dei rischi per la sicurezza aerea e marittima nella zona, ha dichiarato la Compagna Mao Ning - Portavoce del Ministero degli Affari Esteri della Repubblica Popolare Cinese 🇨🇳

🤹‍♂️ L'ipocrisia delle tigri di carta statunitensi, che inviano aerei nel Mar Cinese Meridionale e, quando vengono intercettati dai caccia dell'Esercito Popolare di Liberazione si lamentano, definendo la Cina "aggressiva", non ha fine

🇺🇸 Gli USA inviano Gruppi d'Attacco di Portaerei nel Mar Cinese Meridionale, spiano la Cina con aerei da ricognizione che si avvicinano pericolosamente a Shantou? Se la Cina risponde, allora è aggressiva, irosa ed irresponsabile. Questa è la logica dei reazionari americani🤦‍♀️

🌐 Il Mondo sa bene chi è il vero Paese irresponsabile, chi getta sempre benzina sul fuoco dei conflitti e chi promuove costantemente l'avventurismo contro Paesi sovrani e indipendenti 👍

🇨🇳 Wang Wenbin: «Gli USA sono i guerrafondai n°1 al Mondo, sono il principale violatore della sovranità e la prima fonte di antagonismo e scontro tra blocchi» 🇺🇸

一 24/02: il Comando Orientale dell'EPL intercetta un P-8A nel Mar Cinese Meridionale, e invia un Caccia di Superiorità Aerea J-11, armato con Missili Aria-Aria, per scortare l'Aereo USA al di fuori della Zona Cinese 🔥

🇺🇸 Aereo USA nel Mar Cinese Meridionale, la Cina risponde, ed è la Cina ad essere aggressiva per le tigri di carta, come si può leggere qui, su CNN: "US says Chinese jet conducted ‘unnecessarily aggressive maneuver’ intercepting US spy plane over South China Sea" 🤡

四 26/05: Il Comando dell'EPL intercetta un RC-135V nel Mar Cinese Meridionale, pericolosamente vicino alla Città di Shantou, e invia un Caccia Multiruolo J-16 per scortarlo fuori dalla Zona Cinese 🔥

🤔 Di nuovo la stessa retorica, questa volta su ABC News: "Chinese jet carries out 'aggressive' maneuver in front of US military plane, officials say" 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 Gli imperialisti USA inviano cacciatorpedinieri e portaerei nel Mar Cinese Meridionale, così come P-8A, RC-135V e altri, e poi si lamentano delle conseguenze? ❔

🇺🇸 Gli USA affermano che la Cina sia una minaccia e che stia militarizzando il Mar Cinese Meridionale e l'Asia, ma la realtà mostra come, su 750 basi militari USA nel Mondo, quasi la metà siano intorno alla Cina 😡

📊 Il 42,7% delle basi USA all'estero puntano le armi direttamente al collo della Cina, dalla Base Navale di Yokosuka alla Base di Seoul, sono 313 le Basi USA con gli occhi puntati sulla Cina 😡

🇺🇸 Mappa con le Basi Militari USA nel Mar Cinese Meridionale 🗺️

🇨🇳 丢掉幻想，准备斗争 🌟

🇨🇳 南海有一些岛屿属于中国。这些岛屿的主权属于中国，而不是日本军国主义者、菲律宾人或美帝国主义的其他傀儡。南海诸岛问题应由有关国家自行解决，不受美国反动派的干涉 🇺🇸

📄 南海各方行为准则 - Codice di Condotta nel Mar Cinese Meridionale 🤝

🏝 南海诸岛主权自古以来就属于中国领土 🐲

🌊 Mar Cinese Meridionale, teatro di scontro militare tra Cina e USA? - Parte I, Parte II ⚔️

🌟 严正以待 - L'Esercito Popolare di Liberazione è vigile e pronto per la battaglia

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🇺🇸 The anti-Chinese adventurism of US imperialists in the South China Sea constitutes the main cause of risks to air and maritime security in the area, said Comrade Mao Ning - Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳

🤹‍♂️ The hypocrisy of the US paper tigers, who send planes into the South China Sea and, when intercepted by People's Liberation Army fighters, complain, calling China "aggressive", has no end

🇺🇸 Does the USA send Aircraft Carrier Strike Groups to the South China Sea, spy on China with reconnaissance planes that come dangerously close to Shantou? If China responds, then it is aggressive, angry and irresponsible. This is the logic of American reactionaries🤦‍♀️

🌐 The world knows well who the truly irresponsible country is, who always throws fuel on the fire of conflicts and who constantly promotes adventurism against sovereign and independent countries 👍

🇨🇳 Wang Wenbin: «The USA is the No. 1 warmonger in the world, it is the main violator of sovereignty and the first source of antagonism and clash between blocs» 🇺🇸

一 24/02: PLA Eastern Command intercepts a P-8A in the South China Sea, and sends a J-11 Air Superiority Fighter, armed with Air-to-Air Missiles, to escort the US aircraft out of the Zone Chinese 🔥

🇺🇸 US plane in the South China Sea, China responds, and it is China that is aggressive for the paper tigers, as you can read here, on CNN: "US says Chinese jet conducted 'unnecessarily aggressive maneuver' intercepting US spy plane over South China Sea" 🤡

四 26/05: PLA Command intercepts an RC-135V in the South China Sea, dangerously close to Shantou City, and sends a J-16 Multirole Fighter to escort it out of the China Zone 🔥

🤔 The same rhetoric again, this time on ABC News: "Chinese jet carries out 'aggressive' maneuver in front of US military plane, officials say" 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 Do the US imperialists send destroyers and aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, as well as P-8A, RC-135V and others, and then complain about the consequences?

🇺🇸 The USA claims that China is a threat and that it is militarizing the South China Sea and Asia, but reality shows that, out of 750 US military bases in the world, almost half are around China 😡

📊 42.7% of US bases abroad point their weapons directly at China's neck, from the Yokosuka Naval Base to the Seoul Base, there are 313 US bases with their eyes on China 😡

🇺🇸 Map with US Military Bases in the South China Sea 🗺️

🇨🇳 丢掉幻想，准备斗争 🌟

📄 南海各方行为准则 - Code of Conduct in the South China Sea 🤝

🏝 南海诸岛主权自古以来就属于中国领土 🐲

🌊 South China Sea, theater of military clash between China and the USA? - Part I, Part II ⚔️

🌟 严正以待 - The People's Liberation Army is alert and ready for battle

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carbone14 · 1 year

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Soldats du 4e Régiment de Marines équipés de casques M1917, d'un pistolet-mitrailleur Thompson, d'un fusil-mitrailleur Browning BAR M1918 et d'une mitrailleuse Browning M1917 avant la bataille de Shanghai – Shanghai – Chine – mi 1937

#WWII #Guerre Sino-japonaise #Second Sino-Japanese War #Bataille de Shanghai #Battle of Shanghai #Armée américaine #American Army #United States Marine Corps #USMC #4e Régiment de Marines #4th Marine Regiment #Shanghai #Chine #China #1937

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maotherich · 1 year

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After having to hear the nonsense from these morons all over a balloon, I hope President Jinping is kicking back and enjoying the show lol

#politics #democrats #republicans #dumb shit #american #us air force #us army #communism #socialism #china #anti imperialism #tumblr memes #lol memes

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yourtongzhihazel · 2 months

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You don't vote in fascism and you can't vote out fascism. hitler was appointed by Hindenburg, the SDP president. mussolini was appointed by a high council in service of the king. franco won a civil war with the support of other fascists. tojo was selected by the incumbent military dictatorship under supervision of the emperor. How many of these actions involved a ballot box?

Did the 4 million strong Red Army that entered berlin vote hitler out in 1945? Was it the ballot box that ended franco's government or his death? Did the carnation revolution end Portugal's fascist government and colonial policy or was it the carnation ballot box? Did the american and soviet offensives in the pacific and china end japan's military dictatorship or did they vote on it?

During the short days of the weimar republic, there was the nazi party, the social democrats, and the communists. Time and time again, the social democrats sided with the nazis to persecute and destroy the communists. Time and time again they would cry to "vote for the moderate candidate or the nazis would get in power" and "we can push the country left just not now because of the nazis" until they voted in Hindenburg and he put fascism in charge. This is what I mean when I say you are already voting in fascism. One day, sooner or later, you will cast the ballot that puts 21st century blue american Hindenburg in the white house. And suddenly, the lack of organizing and agitating will hit you all at once and the most vulnerable and/or left-wing people who warned you about this get shipped off to camps and all you can do is slowly wait your turn on the trains. Only this time, there will be no Red Army to end the fascism which you have abetted.

#death to the usa #i fucking hate liberals #mmp

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lewbornmann · 1 year

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Our Failing Infrastructure

It seems to me…. “Infrastructure development is economic development.” ~ Kay Ivey[1]. When infrastructure works, most people never think about it. The problem in the U.S. today is exactly that – it has been much too long since most people have thought about it. The U.S. is the wealthiest nation in the world, yet it ranks 13th when it comes to the overall quality of its infrastructure[2]. …

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politicoscope · 1 year

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US Lawmakers Seek to Flood Taiwan With American Weaponry

US lawmakers are seeking to flood Taiwan with as much American weaponry and military training as possible, the Washington Post reported on the eve of President Joe Biden’s planned face-to-face meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping If successful, the bipartisan effort would enable the Pentagon to tap its own weapons stocks, including Javelin and Stinger missile systems, to accelerate a…

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#American Weaponry #China-Taiwan Conflict #China-Taiwan Conflicts #China-Taiwan War #People Liberation Army #People’s Liberation Army #Taiwan #Taiwanese #War and Conflicts

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sayruq · 6 months

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Today was a big for the resistance. It seems people were right, they were waiting for Biden to leave so they can respond to the Ah Ahli Hospital massacre (the tweets below are arranged from the earliest reports I saw to the latest in order to show the coordination between different groups in different countries and the escalation)

Like I said, a big day for the resistance

And I see no signs of things slowing down

The Palestinian resistance has a list of objectives for this operation including damaging Israel's economy, forcing Israel citizens to flee the country, and slowing down immigration to Israel in the long term (because that leads to new settlements)

In other news, Biden's bloodlust was enough to disgust an arms dealer.

Several of his staff have also expressed discomfort with the administration's choices the past few weeks

Nonetheless, American troops have been told to prepare for deployment

The past few days I've been pointing out how Russia has gone from pro Israel to carefully neutral to increasingly critical of Israel and now we have this.

I'm so glad that Israel has continued to shoot itself on its foot by isolating itself from Russia and China

Russia is actively intervening to ensure that America and its allies can't use the Black Sea to counter the resistance in West Asia which is a big deal

So far, all signs are pointing to a regional conflict

This has to be a huge blow to Israel seeing so many countries, even a NATO nation, coming together to ensure that it can't annihilate Palestine.

More importantly, it shows that Palestine does not stand alone.

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza #colonialism #decolonisation

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zvaigzdelasas · 4 months

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Houthi militants who continue to attack merchant ships in the Red Sea are doing China "a big favor" by challenging American supremacy, a professor at Beijing's top military academy said this week.[...]

"It means the Houthis have turned their original blockade of Israel into a blockade against the West," Xiao Yunhua, a professor at the People's Liberation Army National Defense University said on Monday in comments posted to Douyin, TikTok's Chinese cousin.

From Beijing's perspective, the Houthi's threat to the security of international shipping lanes represents an opportunity to double down on China's rail links from Asia to Europe, according to Xiao.

"It is precisely our international strategy to sever U.S. hegemony, undermine American sea power and promote global multipolarity," he told his 500,000 followers. "In a way, the Houthis have done us, China, a big favor," Xiao said.

>do nothing

>win

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kneedeepincynade · 1 year

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The imperialists always have money for war and propaganda,but never for their own people.

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⚠️ TAN KEFEI: "LA CHINA SI OPPONE FERMAMENTE ALL'AUMENTO DEL BUDGET MILITARE DI USA E UK CON IL PRETESTO DELLA "MINACCIA MILITARE DELLA CINA" ⚠️

🇨🇳 Il Colonnello Tan Kefei - Portavoce del Ministero della Difesa Nazionale della RPC - ha affermato che il Partito Comunista Cinese è contrario all'aumento del Budget Militare di USA e Regno Unito in funzione anti-Cinese:

💬 "Pechino si oppone fermamente all'aumento dei Budget Militari dei rispettivi Paesi con il pretesto della "minaccia militare della Cina", per i Paesi del Mondo, la Cina rappresenta un'opportunità fondamentale, non una sfida" ❌

💬 "[...] Washington conduce guerre e crea disordini ovunque. Gli USA rappresentano la più grande minaccia per la Pace, la Sicurezza e la Stabilità nel Mondo. Allo stesso tempo, chiediamo al Regno Unito di adeguare la propria mentalità, e mantenere una corretta comprensione della posizione di Pechino" ⭐️

🇨🇳 Il Colonnello si è anche focalizzato sul Progetto AUKUS, guidato da USA, UK e Australia, un chiaro inizio di costruzione di una vera e propria alleanza anti-Cinese in stile NATO:

💬 "La Cina è contraria alla creazione di AUKUS tra USA, UK e Australia. un tale circolo, dominato dalla mentalità della Guerra Fredda, non ha alcuna utilità, è estremamente dannoso" 🔥

📈 Nel mentre gli USA approvano un Budget per la "Difesa" pari a 842 Miliardi di Dollari, e chiedono ai loro vassalli di aumentare a dismisura le spese militari, sforando persino il 2% del PIL, il Governo Cinese preferisce focalizzarsi sullo Sviluppo Economico, e non sulla Corsa alle Armi 📊

🤦‍♀️ Non pensavo fosse necessaria tale spiegazione, ma - vedendo certi articoli - lo è: se, in Cina, il Budget per la Difesa viene aumentato del 7,2%, non significa che viene aumentato al 7,2% del PIL 📊

📊 Il Budget per la Difesa della Cina per il 2023 è di 1.5537 Trilioni di Yuan, pari a 224,79 Miliardi di Dollari, un aumento pari al 7,2% rispetto al 2022, ma +7,2% al Budget per la Difesa ≠ 2% del PIL del Paese 📈

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⚠️ TAN KEFEI: "CHINA FIRMLY OPPOSES US AND UK MILITARY BUDGET INCREASE UNDER THE PRETEXT OF "CHINA'S MILITARY THREAT" ⚠️

🇨🇳 Colonel Tan Kefei - Spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense of the PRC - stated that the Communist Party of China is against the increase of the Military Budget of the US and the UK in an anti-Chinese function:

💬 "Beijing strongly opposes the increase of the military budgets of their respective countries under the pretext of "China's military threat", for the countries of the world, China represents a fundamental opportunity, not a challenge" ❌

💬 "[...] Washington wages wars and creates turmoil everywhere. The USA poses the greatest threat to Peace, Security and Stability in the World. At the same time, we ask the UK to adjust its mentality, and maintain a correct understanding of Beijing's position" ⭐️

🇨🇳 The Colonel also focused on the AUKUS Project, led by the USA, UK and Australia, a clear beginning of building a real NATO-style anti-Chinese alliance:

💬 "China is against the creation of AUKUS between US, UK and Australia. such a circle, dominated by the mentality of the Cold War, is useless, it is extremely harmful" 🔥

📈 While the US approves a "Defense" Budget of 842 Billion Dollars, and asks their vassals to dramatically increase military spending, even exceeding 2% of GDP, the Chinese Government prefers to focus on Economic Development, and not on the Arms Race 📊

I didn't think such an explanation was necessary, but - seeing certain articles - it is: if, in China, the Defense Budget is increased by 7.2%, it does not mean that it is increased to 7.2% of GDP 📊

📊 China's Defense Budget for 2023 is 1.5537 Trillion Yuan, equal to 224.79 Billion Dollars, a 7.2% increase from 2022, but +7.2% to the Defense Budget ≠ 2% of the country's GDP 📈

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thahxa · 2 months

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there is something profoundly depressing about the russo-ukraine war. here are two dying countries (demographic pyramids for both look awful, both have TFR <= 1.5) just grinding their last together and. for what?

average age in both armies is over 30. (ukraine's is over 40). ukraine is not even thinking about conscripting people under the age of 25. the median age of the people russia did conscript was 35 (for reference: in ww2 the average age of the american solider was 22-24). this is an old man's war - neither can afford to send their young, they're too precious, and even then, there aren't many of them left.

ukraine has a gdp per capita of around 5k. russia of 12k. it's likely neither of their countries will see their economies grow substantially after this, if at all. both remain highly corrupt. ukraines infrastructure has been shattered.

we've had 2 years of war now. 2 years. 100000 people have died. in the last year the front has barely moved. the war is expected to last at least another year. russia sells wheat to north korea for artillery shells while we try to scrape together political support for the latest equipment of the 1990s to send to ukraine.

even if ukraine wins, so what? its best and brightest will leave as soon as they can, presumably the rest will be stuck doing reconstruction work and defending the now heavily militarized border in case of another invasion as the country slowly dies due to emmigration and fertility collapse.

even if russia wins, so what? its best and brightest will leave as soon as they can, presumably the rest will be stuck building occupation governments and selling natural resources to china while its country slowly dies due to economic sanction and alcoholism.

if the war ended tomorrow, maybe we'd all come to our senses about how senseless it was - two dying nations throwing the remnants of the former soviet army into battle with each other, an orgy of senseless violence, the final hurrah before slowly fading into an endless stream of pension payments and economic dependency, neither side given enough ability to do anything.

just old men dying, dying, dying, until the guns go silent.

#armchair geopolitics #no matter what happens this war will only have two losers #none of which can really do anything

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 7 years

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1) Elsie Lee Soong on a truck loaded with supplies, Shanghai, to escort medical supplies to the front, July 1937. Belden Apartments behind her. Typed and handwritten captions and photographers stamp on back of photograph. Photograph taken outside the Canidrome. In the background is the Belden Apartments (also known as the Shannan Building), 213 South Shanxi Road.

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ro-s099.

2) Elise Lee Soong with bundles of medical supplies, Shanghai. Photograph taken outside the Canidrome. Elsie Lee Soong was born in Oregon, USA. See article in 'The Argus' (17 February 1938): http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11149506.

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ro-n1044.

3) Elsie Lee Soong with bundles of medical supplies, Shanghai. Photograph taken outside the Canidrome. Elsie Lee Soong was born in Oregon, USA. This photograph was published in an unidentified newspaper (probably a Shanghai daily) with the caption: “Here is a bit of feminine charm thrown in with medical supplies and bundles of bandages for the wounded. Mrs. Elsie Lee Soong, in riding togs, is shown shortly before she left with two truck loads of supplies for Soochow late Friday afternoon. Mme. H.H. Kung’s organization contributed three fourths of the consignment and the Shanghai Emergency Relief Society and the Chinese Women’s Club contributed the balance.” Source: the newspaper clipping is in a scrap book about the Battle of Shanghai in 1937, in the Randall Gould Papers at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The scrap book is in Box 9 of this collection.

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ro-n1043.

4) Elsie Lee Soong and vehicle in Shanghai.

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ro-n0045.

#shanghai #oregon #sino-japanese war #medical supplies #canidrome #national revolutionary army #republic of china #nationalist china #japanese aggression in china #sino japanese #chinese americans #chinese immigration to the united states #overseas chinese

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mariacallous · 9 months

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For Sander van der Linden, misinformation is personal.

As a child in the Netherlands, the University of Cambridge social psychologist discovered that almost all of his mother’s family had been executed by the Nazis during the Second World War. He became absorbed by the question of how so many people came to support the ideas of someone like Adolf Hitler, and how they might be taught to resist such influence.

While studying psychology at graduate school in the mid-2010s, van der Linden came across the work of American researcher William McGuire. In the 1960s, stories of brainwashed prisoners-of-war during the Korean War had captured the zeitgeist, and McGuire developed a theory of how such indoctrination might be prevented. He wondered whether exposing soldiers to a weaker form of propaganda might have equipped them to fight off a full attack once they’d been captured. In the same way that army drills prepared them for combat, a pre-exposure to an attack on their beliefs could have prepared them against mind control. It would work, McGuire argued, as a cognitive immunizing agent against propaganda—a vaccine against brainwashing.

Traditional vaccines protect us by feeding us a weaker dose of pathogen, enabling our bodies’ immune defenses to take note of its appearance so we’re better equipped to fight the real thing when we encounter it. A psychological vaccine works much the same way: Give the brain a weakened hit of a misinformation-shaped virus, and the next time it encounters it in fully-fledged form, its “mental antibodies” remember it and can launch a defense.

Van der Linden wanted to build on McGuire’s theories and test the idea of psychological inoculation in the real world. His first study looked at how to combat climate change misinformation. At the time, a bogus petition was circulating on Facebook claiming there wasn’t enough scientific evidence to conclude that global warming was human-made, and boasting the signatures of 30,000 American scientists (on closer inspection, fake signatories included Geri Halliwell and the cast of M*A*S*H). Van der Linden and his team took a group of participants and warned them that there were politically motivated actors trying to deceive them—the phony petition in this case. Then they gave them a detailed takedown of the claims of the petition; they pointed out, for example, Geri Halliwell’s appearance on the list. When the participants were later exposed to the petition, van der Linden and his group found that people knew not to believe it.

The approach hinges on the idea that by the time we’ve been exposed to misinformation, it’s too late for debunking and fact-checking to have any meaningful effect, so you have to prepare people in advance—what van der Linden calls “prebunking.” An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

When he published the findings in 2016, van der Linden hadn’t anticipated that his work would be landing in the era of Donald Trump’s election, fake news, and post-truth; attention on his research from the media and governments exploded. Everyone wanted to know, how do you scale this up?

Van der Linden worked with game developers to create an online choose-your-own-adventure game called Bad News, where players can try their hand at writing and spreading misinformation. Much like a broadly protective vaccine, if you show people the tactics used to spread fake news, it fortifies their inbuilt bullshit detectors.

But social media companies were still hesitant to get on board; correcting misinformation and being the arbiters of truth is not part of their core business model. Then people in China started getting sick with a mysterious flulike illness.

The coronavirus pandemic propelled the threat of misinformation to dizzying new heights. Van der Linden began working with the British government and bodies like the World Health Organization and the United Nations to create a more streamlined version of the game specifically revolving around Covid, which they called GoViral! They created more versions, including one for the 2020 US presidential election, and another to prevent extremist recruitment in the Middle East. Slowly, Silicon Valley came around.

A collaboration with Google has resulted in a campaign on YouTube in which the platform plays clips in the ad section before the video starts, warning viewers about misinformation tropes like scapegoating and false dichotomies and drawing examples from Family Guy and Star Wars. A study with 20,000 participants found that people who viewed the ads were better able to spot manipulation tactics; the feature is now being rolled out to hundreds of millions of people in Europe.

Van der Linden understands that working with social media companies, who have historically been reluctant to censor disinformation, is a double-edged sword. But, at the same time, they’re the de facto guardians of the online flow of information, he says, “and so if we’re going to scale the solution, we need their cooperation.” (A downside is that they often work in unpredictable ways. Elon Musk fired the entire team who was working on pre-bunking at Twitter when he became CEO, for instance.)

This year, van der Linden wrote a book on his research, titled Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity. Ultimately, he hopes this isn’t a tool that stays under the thumb of third-party companies; his dream is for people to inoculate one another. It could go like this: You see a false narrative gaining traction on social media, you then warn your parents or your neighbor about it, and they’ll be pre-bunked when they encounter it. “This should be a tool that’s for the people, by the people,” van der Linden says.

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dailyhistoryposts · 5 months

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A Rundown of Henry Kissinger's Life

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević. While Henry continues to nibble nori rolls and remaki at A-list parties, Cambodia, the neutral nation he secretly and illegally bombed, invaded, undermined, and then threw to the dogs, is still trying to raise itself up on its one remaining leg.”

--Anthony Bourdain (2018)

It's difficult to be precise, but all told Henry Kissinger killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in pursuit of American business interests.

EARLY LIFE

Henry Kissinger was born in 1923 as Heinz Kissinger in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany, to a German-Jewish family. Throughout his youth, he was relentlessly and violently harassed and discriminated against by members of the Hitler Youth and authorities. At the age of 15, Kissinger and his family fled Nazi Germany, settling in New York City. He finished high school at George Washington High School in NYC and began studying accounting at the City College of New York, but his undergraduate studies were interrupted in 1943 when he was drafted into the US army.

In the army, fluent German speakers were in short supply, so Kissinger was quickly assigned to military intelligence. During the American invasion of Germany, he worked to set up civilian administration of conquered cities and tracked down Gestapo officers as a Special Agent of the Counter Intelligence Corps. He received the Bronze Star Medal

After his time in the army, Kissinger returned to his studies. He graduated summa cum laude in political science from Harvard College, as well as his Masters and PhD. He taught at Harvard, and his studies focused on international 'legitimacy', when an international order is widely accepted by international leaders, without regard to public opinion or morality.

POLITICS

Beginning in the 1950s, Kissinger began to be more active on the political stage. He was a consultant for the National Security Council and a study director for the Council of Foreign Relations. He notably was against Eisenhower's massive retaliation nuclear doctrine, where the United States would respond to a nuclear attack with a much, much greater nuclear attack. Instead, Kissinger advocated the use of tactical nuclear weapons on a regular basis in more wars.

In the 1960s, Kissinger began working with Republicans running for office as an advisor in foreign affairs. He contributed to the Nixon campaign, and when Nixon took office in 1969, Kissinger was appointed as National Security Advisor, and later Secretary of State. As a diplomat, Kissinger heavily used Realpolitik, the in-fashion Cold War approach focusing on pragmatism and realistic outcomes rather than ideological or moral purity. In international politics, it largely has to do with obtaining and maintaining power on the world stage.

Kissinger focused on relaxing US tensions with the USSR and China, leading an American foreign policy that supported Taiwan on the face but in the shadows removed all support for Taiwan and essentially waited for it to fall apart.

In 1974, he directed the National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (NSSM200), sometimes called the "Kissinger Report" the official United States policy for many years, though it remained classified until the 1990s. The Kissinger Report advocated for population control in undeveloped nations to ensure easy resource extraction and protect American business interests abroad. Projects were designed to reduce fertility while keeping up the appearance of improving quality of life--the plan specifically attempted to avoid an appearance of "economic or racial imperialism". Birth rate was particularly noted due to concerns about an adequate global food supply and because young people more readily fight back against corruption and imperialism. The Report also brought up increasing abortion rates as a method of obtaining this goal.

In 1975, policies based on the Report went into affect. The National Security Council would recommend withholding food and using military force to prevent population growth, prioritizing aid for small families, and even paying people to get sterilized. Thirteen countries were named as particularly problematic to US interests. Of note, Nigeria lost development and the United States took control of Nigerian resources, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was responsible for some of the 300,000 forced sterilizations in Peru--largely impoverished or indigenous women--during the Fujimori administration. The Fujimori government has been accused of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court for these abuses, and today the Peruvian economy suffers due to the low population resulting from these sterilizations.

ACTIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

The Vietnam War had started back in 1955. Kissinger had originally supported it, but as time dragged on began to view it as harming American prestige. Kissinger leaked information about peace talks to get into power at Nixon's side, and then failed to end the war in 1972, leading to the Christmas bombings. A very similar agreement was signed the next month, leading to a ceasefire (that would collapse) and the withdrawal of American troops--bitterly seen as a betrayal by South Vietnam. When Kissinger and Vietnamese diplomat Lê Đức Thọ were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this, Thọ declined to accept it and two members of the Nobel Committee left it in protest.

It was in the middle of the Vietnam War, and during the Cambodian Civil War, that Operation Menu and Operational Freedom Deal went into play. From March 1969 to May 1970, the United States Strategic Air Command carried out a series of first tactical and then carpet bombings in eastern Cambodia. Then, from May 1970 to August 1973, the United States provided close air support and widespread bombing. Part of a 'secret' war to support the Kingdom of Cambodia/Khmer Republic against communist rebels, it ultimately failed and the communists would take power in 1975.

In the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Nixon and Kissinger supported the Pakistani president Yahya Khan. It was in this that the strongest dissent in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service, the Blood Telegram (named after sender Archer Blood), was sent. It reports the US was about to lose, describes systemic abuses, and uses the word 'genocide' to describe the actions by US-supported Pakistan. It said the US government was morally bankrupt. Blood was recalled early from Bangladesh, and US interests were lost when Bangladeshi Independence was secured within the year.

MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY

Kissinger was originally excluded from any policy-making on Israel, as part of Nixon's orders to exclude all Jewish-Americans from such work. Still, in 1973, when Kissinger became Secretary of State, he was included in all US Middle Eastern policy. This means he was largely responsible for the handling of the Yom Kippur War--this handling included not noticing precipitating factors leading up to it (he was so engrossed in Paris peace talks he didn't notice the Egyptian President Sadat ready to move on Sinai), delaying telling Nixon about and stalled negotiating a ceasefire, hoping Israel would push across and fully obtain the Suez Canal.

Kissinger's diplomacy included giving equipment to Israel, but not as much as he'd promised, and selling weapons to Saudi Arabia at the same time, in exchange for access to Saudi Arabian oil. By largely handling to event and not involving France or the United Kingdom, and by minimizing the power of the Soviet Union, Kissinger took large steps in giving US power over much of the Middle East.

It should be noted that this was done purely to protect US interests rather than any form of Jewish security. When questioned about the persecution of Soviet Jews at the same time, Kissinger said

"The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy, and if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."

-Henry Kissinger (1973)

Also in the region., Kissinger supported Iran against Iraq.

TURKISH INVASION OF CYPRUS

In 1974, the Greek military regime and Turkiye invaded the island of Cyprus. The military regime had been supported by Kissinger, and anti-Kissinger sentiment was strong among young people. Cyprus is now an independent island country, though its northeast portion is de facto separate, making up the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Kissinger considers his own handling of the Cyprus Issue unfavorably.

LATIN AMERICA

With Kissinger's influence, the United States maintained relations with non-left-wing governments regardless of commitment to democracy. It was with Kissinger's input that the CIA encouraged a military coup against Chilean president-elect Salvador Allende due to his socialist ideals.

Operation Condor, a US-backed program of political repression by right-wing dictatorships of southern South America, was also Kissinger's work. It included assassinations, the Dirty War in Argentina, and supporting Brazil's nuclear weapons program because it would benefit the U.S. private nuclear industry.

SOME OTHER STUFF

Kissinger's policy on post-WWII decolonization was mixed, based on what would benefit the U.S. He helped transition Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) away from White minority rule, expressed moderate support for the Portuguese Colonial Empire, and helped Indonesia occupy East Timor.

After Watergate forced Nixon to resign, Kissinger stayed on under President Ford but left office when Democrat Jimmy Carter came into power. He was offered an endowed chair at Columbia University, which was canceled due to student opposition, but was appointed to Georgetown University instead. He ran a consulting firm, supported the Chinese government in the Tiananmen Square massacre, and served on the 2000 Commission of the International Olympic Committee. He was supposed to help President Bush respond to the 9/11 attacks but stepped down because he refused to reveal if he had a business conflict of interest.

In 2010, he took a strong stance urging world governments to destroy all nuclear weapons. In the 2014 Ukrainian crisis, he said that Crimea should remain under Ukrainian sovereignty, but in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine said that Crimea and Donbas should be given to Russia.

Kissinger was a board member of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes' biotech scam.

In response to the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, and seeing pro-Palestinian protestors in Germany, Kissinger called Muslim immigration into Germany "a grave mistake".

DEATH

Kissinger died peacefully in his home in Connecticut on November 29th, 2023,

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