| ▲ | mindslight 5 days ago | |
Way back at the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I remember there was a UN vote on whether to condemn it. The yeas and nays were how you'd generally expect from how nations are aligned, except Israel voted "nay". I remember thinking it was odd, as they should basically be an ally of the US and didn't seem involved in that specific situation. But in retrospect, it makes sense - they're both countries with imperialist genocidal ambitions over their neighbors. The grounds to condemn Russia attacking Ukraine is the same as the grounds to condemn Israel's long term subjugation of Gaza and the West Bank - they're both a rejection of might makes right in favor of valuing individual human life of the other. And of course one pillar of US neofascism is this exact same type of othering (eg how they can so readily write off the summary executions of Pretti, Good, Taylor, et al). Seeing how the fallout from the Epstein kompromat operation has been playing out, I suspect there are some deep ties between their intelligence operations - if not outright collaberation, at least respect that they're working the same "marks" (eg Trump and his circle being the most visible, but also all of the other enablers in the US power structure like the Senate and House). | ||