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Great work, thank you

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I read all of this in a squirrel voice.

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I'm not American, *and* I find it rather silly that you choose to go the long way around in explaining why you're mad that Finland and Sweden began the slow process of joining NATO because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Also, not a fan of all the American bases around the world but that infograph is as legitimate as every map tankies put out showing millions of NATO bases surrounding Russia. I mean cripes, US Bases in Canada? What? That's probably even news to the American Military Industrial Complex.

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An Imperialist troll bitches and whines that someone calls out the Imperial projects of the US instead of falling in lock-step with the anti-Russia hysteria. Why am I not surprised.

Also, the author didn't even mention Sweden or Finland or Ukraine in the piece. So, your attempted attack on them for being a "tankie" or being sympathetic to Russia fails immediately. And there are US forces in Canada, so your attempt at a "fact check" fails.

You've got nothing and you know it.

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Will you please miss just once?

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Tucker Carlson has been anti-war, anti-US imperialism, actually. (Which makes him a Russian agent, of course.)

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Tucker Carlson has done nightly segments whining about how China is "taking over the world" and is the greatest threat to the US, which of course totally justifies Pelosi's actions and the increase in defense budgets and expansion of NATO. Meanwhile he also constantly says Biden and Nancy Pelosi are agents of the Chinese Communist Party, which is more deranged than Russiagate and again only pushes both parties to increase tensions with China. He also fully supports the various economic terror campaigns the US runs across the world, from Cuba to Iran and Venezuela, and criticizes anyone who even suggests making moves to bring those to an end. So no, he is not anti-war or anti-US imperialism, he's a partisan hack.

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Thanks for your reply - I didn't notice it until now.

You kind of have a point about China, but you might be confusing him with Hannity in other respects. Carlson has been denouncing sanctions for years, going so far as trying to talk Trump into easing up on Venezuela. During his most recent show, guest-hosted by Tulsi Gabbard, there was an entire anti-sanctions block, including the video clip of Madeline Albright saying that the deaths of half a million Iraqi children were "worth it".

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1558535917782142976

Tucker regularly trashes the Republican party establishment, "permanent Washington", and the globalists bent on world domination. His mentions of China usually have to do with the gutting of our country by capitalists and politicians sending most of the good working-class jobs over there. He also was all in favor of Trump's talk of pulling the US out of NATO.

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Can you please show me one example of Tucker Carlson denouncing sanctions in relation to Cuba, Syria, Iran, China, Venezuela and North Korea? If you have more that would be better, of course.

Tulsi Gabbard is and has always been a grifter piece of shit. She refused to endorse Bernie in the 2020 primary and instead helped pave the way for Biden, criticized Obama for being insufficiently enthusiastic for the "war on terror", and now regularly comes out with the most deranged conservative bullshit, so I don't care about anything she says on any topic. That segment is useless in any case because it's specifically framed as "these sanctions are causing bad economic effects for us so maybe we should not do them", it's not an opposition to the principle of economic terror campaigns.

That is why Tucker and no one on Fox or the right has ever or will ever call for ending these terror campaigns against Iran, Cuba, Syria, etc. etc.

Incidentally, Obama ended two of them in relation to Cuba and Iran. So if you want to lower the bar of being some great anti-imperialist hero to down to the level where Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard can pass it, then Obama passes it with flying colors. The only difference is that instead of it being some useless TV segments he actually passed that policy and took a lot of shit from it from the Israel lobby and corporate Dems (you can also add stuff like his refusal to send advanced weaponry to Ukraine to that, which Trump did and Tucker never said anything about, and that directly helped precipitate the current war).

However, while I do believe Obama deserves credit for that to some extent (just as Biden does for leaving Afghanistan), the fact that neither of them did so as part of an explicit argument meant that it is ultimately useless, because it can easily be overturned even by people on their own side. And that's exactly what Biden did after Trump brought the economic terror campaigns against Cuba and Iran back. So the critique I have of Carlson also applies to Obama, although he would very easily pass the low bar you've set.

All the other stuff is just useless bullshit populist rhetoric that the right loves to do but never follows through on. Oh wow Trump mentioned perhaps leaving NATO and then did the exact opposite when in power by forcing other countries to up their NATO military funding and further integrating Ukraine into a de facto NATO-state. And as he was doing that the cuck Tucker Carlson didn't say anything about, nor did anyone else on the right, because all that stuff is just bullshit rhetoric to them. Another obvious example is Orban whining about how edgy and anti-establishment he is, but then nothing only staying inside NATO, but also refusing to do what Turkey at least threatened with blocking its expansion with Finland and Sweden. He is also still in the EU. Just a total fucking cuck bitch who is adored by, you guessed it, Tucker Carlson and that whole crowd.

It's the same with Le Pen, who also started making noises about how she wouldn't leave NATO but it requires a debate or whatever bullshit excuse to then get out from under it if she were in the position to actually enact it.

You know who is serious about that rhetoric? People like Melenchon and other principled leftists, which is why they are universally despised by the entire media and political class.

Those are the people whose rhetoric, which is part of an explicitly pronounced argument about the nature of imperialism, economic exploitation, etc., that one should take seriously if one actually wants to see it reflected into policy. Not these meaningless faint occasional noises on the right which whenever they are in power they immediately renege on, as we saw with Trump and Orban etc.

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Wow. That's an amazing takedown of Tucker and right-wing populism in general. Remind me to never piss you off.

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