tbf World Peace Is None of Your Business (2014) was decent. It was after that he lost the plot. His Israel track on the next album was the final straw for me.
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For me it perfectly illustrates why I am glad he isnāt. He has honourable ideals however that conflicts with reality. It assumes motives are based upon genuine concerns, beliefs or ideals. Things that can be negotiated. Some sort of morals that align with international thinking.
Putin has little empathy for human life, believes he can reshape world order through power and wants a legacy. His motives are far more based on greed, power and intimidation.
As John McCain once said about Russia āA Gas Station Run by a Mafia That Is Masquerading as a Countryā
Itās akin trying to negotiate with a criminal wanting protection money.
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Rumours on Bluesky that Reeves resignation is imminent
Could be based upon a percentage figure of what he saves the company/shareholdersā¦ by dumping waste water in the rivers, instead of the costly exercise of filtering and disposing of it responsiblyā¦!
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I thought The Smiths would have been great as an instrumental group. I always thought Morrisey was a bellend. It felt like he was taking the piss out of his bandmates.
Seems like he was taking the piss out of his fans as well.
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As I understand it, heād have to pay off Capitol before releasing any new records, which he isnāt willing to do, so heās hoping for a major label to come along and bail him out. I agree with you, though. Itās never been easier for independent artists to release music, and plenty of artists less wealthy and with less of a built-in fanbase than Morrissey manage to do so regularly.
The Smiths are my favourite band of all time, and I love a lot of Morrisseyās solo, but he played two shows an hour either side of me in the last week and I just couldnāt couldnāt find the energy to attend either.
āPeople like you make me feel so tiredā¦ā, to quote the man himself.
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Iām ready to receive the (probably deserved) pelters for this, butā¦
I donāt think Iāve heard any of their songs before.
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Blows my mind how many people have been brainwashed by American media, movies, culture. Everything you have said there and everything Russia have done has been completed by the US many times over
There is nothing wrong with using diplomacy alone with Russia. But itās rather too late AFTER they have kicked off their invasion, unless it is Ukraineās surrender one wants to negotiate.
Corbynās āI am against bombs and against helping Ukraineā = I am fine with Russia conquering Ukraine and annihilating itās statehood and culture. Further, the horrific fate of Ukrainians aside, it also in a very spectacular way, says that one does not really see a strategic danger in Russia incorporating Ukraine into their empire.
After all, Russia has absolutely 0 reason to negotiate if they are winning on the battlefield and think they can reach their War Goals (which are not any kind of acceptable deal/s, but old school conquest of land and people), which they would have long ago if there was no Western aid. They have War Goals and will prosecute the war until those War Goals are met, unless outside interferance forces Kreml to change their calculus. But they will obviously only change their calculus if the war become too expensive for them. Which it hardly would, if Corbyn was in charge of things. Then their victory would be incredibly cheap in comparison to now. And revanchist irrendentist empires who get a cheap victory, well there is hardly an incentive to stop. Most people understand this if they just allow themselves to think for a minute, unless they are Corbyn and/or ideologically blind.
Those who want the war the end the most, is not Corbyn and his like, but it is Ukrainians. But they are not willing to be annihilated for āpeaceā, so they fight on. The only ones who actually want this war to continue, is after all, the Kremlin and their Tankie supporters. The rest of the world wants the war to end and for Russia to withdraw its armies. But they wonāt do that if they think they can win a military victory and thus reach their political goals through force of arms. Obvious I would say. But itās some how not obvious for everyone.
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2 things hereā¦
- agree or disagree with him, its wonderful that in the west he can be given the ability to produce this content
and
- i imagine he sleeps with one eye openā¦
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Probably still a Tibetan or two alive who would cock their eye at the āChina does not invadeā line. Not sure what he thinks is revelatory here about America being an empire/hegemony/whatever you want to call it.
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Orā¦ itās fucking astounding that in the West, (where we think of ourselves as the bastions of democracy, freedom and human rights) that itās only a tiny minority of journalists that have the courage to speak the truth. And astounding that they would have to sleep with one eye open for stating the truth
As above
Again, anyone who thinks in 2024 that the idea that the US is an empire of some form is somehow a revelationā¦well, I am just not sure what to say. For Europeans in particular, did you not notice that it was the empire that filled the vacuum when your colonial empires all collapsed? The Monroe Doctrine, as in President Monroe (1817-1825), is fundamentally a statement of imperial interest now starting into a third century. Other than the Gaza angle here, there is nothing he is not saying you cannot find in a 1990ās international relations textbook.
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Yes, but my original point is that there is a general consensus on Russia like the statement below but little recognition/acknowledgement that America is no different
Morrisey is like Blair. Disagree with him as youāre right.
If one has to choose between evils (and unfortunately, one usually does in reality), most states and people tend to think that a very soft version of āiiā (USA) is after all is said and done, preferable to the draconic and repressive āiā.
" Two main ways to establish and maintain an imperial political structure: (i) as a territorial empire of direct conquest and control with force or (ii) as a coercive, hegemonic empire of indirect conquest and control with power."
There is a substantial difference. In my view, anyway.
Good night everyone.
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I think America is a little different, and probably less different now than a generation ago. From everything I have seen, being a vassal state of the Russian empire is a rougher ride. All things being equal, Iād rather not be a vassal state, but that is not really an option. Russia and China are more overt and direct in their control of their less expansive empires, so there is a little more scope for freedom and a little more scope for a rules-based order. But that never meant that there wasnāt a self-appointed judge.
Had Allende been a Canadian and pulled Canada out of NORAD, I think the only real difference from what happened in Chile would likely have been the tanks in the streets would have been American.
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