Why does anyone listen to Hollywood celebrities? From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
Empire loyalists often talk about nuclear brinkmanship like it’s something courageous that they personally are doing, as though gambling every terrestrial life on strategic grand chessboard maneuverings is a brave risk that could only hurt them.
During a Sunday appearance on Face the Nation to plug his new Zelensky movie, actor Sean Penn decried the “cowardice” of the US government in its caution around provoking a nuclear exchange with its proxy warfare in Ukraine.
“It is my absolute feeling that the caution with which the United States has pledged support, which seemed, in my reading of February 2022 was a, like a lean on in the fear of nuclear conflict, something I think all of us should look very carefully at and understand that, of course, is possible,” Penn said. “And that’s to be concerning. The likelihood is extremely low. And as one of our witnesses in the film says, you know, are we going to let a gangster with nuclear weapons dictate the way we live?”
Penn emotionally lamented the fact that the Biden administration did not pour F-16 warplanes into Ukraine from the very beginning of the conflict, initially fearing the move to be too escalatory. Describing this hesitation, Penn said that “at some point, caution becomes cowardice.”
As you might expect, the interviewer refrained from challenging Penn on his claim that the likelihood of nuclear war is “extremely low” in spite of his acknowledgement that it’s a real possibility, or on his claim that resisting increasing the likelihood of nuclear war is an act of cowardice.
The only winning move is not to play came up in the wallpaper rotation.
These things happen when Jonestown Democracy Long March true believers out to burn down the world for Satan and Karl get anywhere near the levers of power.
Dress accordingly for the 7500 degree mushroom cloud of egalitarian equity.
Ivan the Bear isn’t the Grand Old Politburo and still has the Dead Hand doomsday defense.
I wonder why I keep seeing stuff on RedState about
Ukraine being Putin’s war. It’s Obama’s war. Methinks
what is supposed to be red is compromised by blue.
No country wants or should tolerate a herpes sore on
its genitals. Cuba, Taiwan, Ukraine. What goes for
one should go for all.