Kremlin threatens “serious consequences” whenever anyone in the West does something Putin doesn’t like. It never actually amounts to anything.
Published in at least two European newspapers on friday (sadly paywalled), Bernhard-Henri Lévy draws
parallels between the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
[…] On the one hand, there are democratic states that have their faults, but are democracies after all, both of which emerged from an anti-colonial liberation struggle: Israel against the British Empire and Ukraine against the Soviet Union and now Russia. And on the other side is the grand alliance against the democrats at home and abroad. It includes Russia with its Eurasian ambitions, the Islamist international from the Taliban to Hamas and Qatar, a neo-Ottoman Turkey, Iran with its imperial nostalgia for the Persian Empire, and China, which is closely observing how the USA is supporting its partners and meanwhile considering whether and when to attack Taiwan. […] Terrorism is a family. Whether you kidnap children from Mariupol or from a kibbutz - it remains the same barbarism. In the face of this international of the worst, there can only be one thing, namely what the Czech dissident Jan Patočka once called the ‘solidarity of the shocked’. Israel and Ukraine - this is the same struggle. The future of freedom will be decided in these two arenas. It would therefore be extremely dangerous to weigh up aid for both against each other and to neglect support for one because of the other."
Since he’s brought up Mariupol:
The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history.
In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more civilians than the U.S.-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against the Islamic State group.
That makes no sense?
We are nearly at the end of 2023 and I am confident that that statement is understatement of the year.
‘Batshit fucking crazy’ would still be an understatement!
It’s shockingly glibly utterly wrong and obviously the product of someone who has never actually engaged in anti imperialist struggle in any sense.
Apartheid is not democracy.
… there is a little extra irony in that the character in the gif is a youth leader in a weird New Age cult 
Assuming you are talking about Lévy, I personally would not come to the same conclusion as you in regard to your claim he never engaged in any form against imperialism.
YMMV, of course.
Yes, Lévy is also known as “France’s most ridiculed public intellectual”.
Kind of like being the tallest man in the NBA that is.
