They’re trying to infantilise the image of US Army personnel who are inherently violent and imperialist. “My smol bean fallen soldier loved legos and milk”.

I had a good look for any sources now but it’s the same media bullshit where every source links back to another article that links back to another article etc. There’s references to videos but I couldn’t find any videos. There’s a reference to a UN investigation but it turns out it was an out of context quote by a UN spokesperson with no actual investigation or even any information from the UN. The more I look into this the more bullshit there is. The quote is published on the website “Business and Human Rights Resource Centre” which is primarily funded by private philanthropists like the Schmidt Family Foundation (set up by the ex CEO of Google Eric Schmidt). It was honestly just a waste of time, I could have just assumed it was made up.

As cliche and cheesy as it sounds you need to learn to love yourself before others can love you. It sounds like you are self isolating as a form of self sabotage and self punishment. You need to wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and say “I have a right to exist”. When you are out in public and feel insecure you need to say to yourself “I have a right to be here, this is my space like everyone elses”. You are not a criminal, you have done nothing wrong and you don’t owe anyone anything especially money. I struggle with avoidance as well and what helps me is to book appointments or tickets to events to force me to go. Unlike going for a walk in the park which I can do any time so I put it off and never do it. If you start going outside you will build up your confidence and meet new people.

It sounds like you and your friend are neurodivergent.

There’s a really good video essay about Nolan’s Western depiction of the Odyssey: https://youtu.be/yFn1JfOd3b0

Is there any information about the “African women working in Russian drone factories” mentioned in the article? I read the linked article about it but the only evidence they had was anonymous witness statements and a dubious facebook group with 84 members ran by obvious fake accounts.

Comments sections on youtube videos from psychologists talking about parental narcissistic abuse?

Higher crime rates and lower standards of living suppresses wages which in turn makes it more attractive for US businesses to outsource labour to.

My assumption is smaller countries are weaker and easier to dominate.

Communists/anti-imperialists across the world, and especially in the west, wish so much to believe a fantasy of the Yugoslav wars where the communist Serbs were defeated by NATO.

The reality is after the death of Tito in 1980 nationalism was bubbling up among the different states and by 1991 communism was dead in Yugoslavia. Talks of separatism was happening with every ethnic group in the 1980s but for Belgrade the rhetoric had become that of Greater Serbia. You will not find a single speech or letter from Milosevic in the 90s that even remotely resembles socialist values. In fact you will not find Serbian soldiers with socialist/communist values, no “brotherhood and Unity” or celebration of Tito. It was purely nationalism and fascism, Chetnik, orthodox and even monarchist symbols were displayed. There was no hammer and sickle or red star.

If you wish to understand what happened, you will have to look into the history of WWI & WWII in the region. I don’t have time to go into depth but here is a short article that slightly touches on it: https://detsvenskahatet.aftonbladet.se/chapter/del-4/

If you’re asking if the Srebrenica Massacre happened? Yes, it absolutely did. 8000 unarmed Muslim Bosnian men were rounded up and killed by Serbian forces (with the help of the UN). There is an abundance of evidence: photos, videos, mass graves and witnesses.

Here is a video which shows one of the killings part of the Srebrenica massacre (warning graphic): https://youtu.be/lwi7w6lIjys

In the video, a Serbian Orthodox priest is seen blessing members of the Scorpions unit before they go on to kill the Muslim men, he says: “give strength to the most faithful Serbian army to fight and to win against the enemy of the Serbian people.”

The victims were identified as: Safet Fejzić (17), Azmir Alispahić (17), Sidik Salkić (36), Smail Ibrahimović (35), Dino Salihović (18) and Juso Delić (25).

This is also a good documentary about it: https://youtu.be/Vj9hPamC04U

Bonus, the human Safari of Sarajevo. How wealthy foreigners paid to sniper civilians in Sarajevo: https://youtu.be/6-9nZkdaNrQ

I can understand wanting to side against NATO in every conflict, they were not there in good faith (never are really). I also believe that there was outside interference to stoke the flames of nationalism in Yugoslavia, after all a strong united balkan nation threatened the economic interests of Western Europe and the USA. But it didn’t take a lot of effort for the whole thing to crumble, it fell faster and easier than any other “target” like Libya or Syria. The USSR, Czechoslovakia divided and Germany reunified without war. China, Vietnam, Cuba and even Venezuela are still kickin. The balkan rabid fascists couldn’t wait to slaughter the “other” for revenge for something that happened 50yrs ago which was revenge for something that happened 30yrs ago which was revenge for etc. etc… Out of all the communist countries I find Yugoslavia the most disappointing.

RIP Comrade Parenti, my life changed forever when I accidental came across your lecture all those years ago. Now that I read your books I forever continue to learn from you.

Did Russia betray Assad? The way the transfer of power happened so quickly, without resistance and no push back from Russia seems suspicious. Maybe Russia got sick of Assad?

The European liberal thinking pattern: “The communists defeated the Nazis but the communists were also bad” -> “well actually the communists defeated the Nazis but they were just as bad” -> “well actually the Nazis were bad but the communists were worse and it would have been better if the Nazis won” -> “The Nazis were good” -> “we should be Nazis now”.