The title of “Most Hated Person in the US Congress” isn’t just something you’re born with. It takes work. Ted puts in the work.
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Democrats as leaders are also more than willing to work with (other) asshole leaders around the world, as long as doing so means increased profits for US corporations.
The empire is bipartisan.
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If Greenwald told me the sky was blue, I would go outside and check. Not that I think this couldn’t be true, Greenwald has no objectivity to his reporting. He has gone full-OANN and needs to just go away.
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I knew someone here would pull an ad hominem. I agree he’s become an asshole, but he’s also right more often, especially about corporate-sucking Dems, than the proverbial broken clock.
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Not an ad hominem. He is not a trustworthy reporter. If he is the only one reporting this, I am not likely to take it seriously. If real, others will pick up the story. I don’t trust Greenwald one iota.
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I agree Greenwald has established himself as untrustworthy, and so it’s only right to check what he says. It appears the story in Folha de S. Paulo does indeed say what he claims. Searching further, I found articles in Reuters and US News that says the National Security Council denies it is related to their warning about Chinese 5G, but does support Brazil’s aspirations as a NATO global partner.
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Of course the man Trump made a Major-Non-NATO-Ally (he actually did promised unilateral NATO membership) would continue to talk to the US about become a member of NATO, that’s how meetings with any world leader works they talk about the issues raised with a previous regime with the new one. That really just means it comes down to how believable the report that the US demanded Brazil not use Chinese sourced telecom components in order to then convince every NATO member Brazil should be added to NATO… which is a pretty extreme thing of the US to do so that Samsung can sell the 5G antennas instead. I absolutely believe that the US is continuing the red scare stuff with China, but without some sort of additional support showing how these guys benefit from a NATO supplier (Samsung), I’d have to assume that they told Bolsanaro to buy NATO equipment in order to have better footing for the NATO push that Bolsanaro has been advocating across his entire term for - which could easily be telephoned into the US “offering NATO membership” to use someone besides Huawei in Brazil’s 5G.
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Ah and Greenwald uses it as a comical launching pad to defend Tucker Carlson, implying the US is bugging 5G antennas, and then makes a correct argument that Democrats are dangerously two-faced on climate change.
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What kind of weird bizarro universe have we found ourselves in, where the People petition the government for something and the Government responds by granting the request?
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So, it’s kind of like when there’s someone raving almost incoherently, then they (rightly) point out a cloud that looks like a hotdog. Yes, the cloud looks like a hotdog. Doesn’t mean that they’re not a raving asshole.
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It’s seems really unlikely that they would offer Brazil membership in the North Atlantic - treaty organization. Not sure what he would get out of that anyway?
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On a DDG search of “Brazil NATO”, three of the top 4 hits were rt.com, sputnik.tv, and presstv.ir, not exactly unbiased sources. The 5th hit was a reuters article from 2 years ago which associates the idea with Trump.
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The ol’ “even a broken clock is right twice a day”
except for where the 24-hour clock is used (medical professions, military, transportation scheduling, Europe)
so then maybe it’s “even a broken clock can be right …once a day.”
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Not Biden per se but…
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And the cycle of Afghan history continues unabated.
Begging doesn’t become us.
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To be fair, in this case, I think the previous administrations policy forced their hand. I think that Biden probably wanted to pull out of Afghanistan, too, but probably would have liked to have done it in a different way. Although I have no clue what could have made this better.
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Not having Pompeo as head of the State Dept. for the past several years would have been a good start. It’s clear his reign was time wasted in Afghanistan.
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