Has anyone watched the new episode from First Thought/JT?

  • LeniX@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Dogshit video, to be honest.

    Multiple critical pieces of the entire puzzle are missing, like almost everything the US had done before 2014, the coup and the fact that it was a US/CIA-orchestrated Nazi coup, the fascists themselves and their massive influence, the fact that it was Ukraine who’s been provoking Russia for 8 long years, despite the Russian government trying to find a diplomatic solution. The fact that it was Ukraine who indiscriminately shelled civilians in the Donbas, that the people of Crimea rose up themselves, and that was evident by a plethora of polls from the 2000s, where even Ukrainian polling companies admitted the majority of the people (over 70%) in Crimea would like to not just secede but join the RF. Too much “both sides”-ing. I get that they are trying to dance around the truth and create a lib-friendly and babyleft-friendly picture, but my personal take on it is we’re way past that point, given that the vast majority of Westerners want this conflict to end - it’s literally tailing the masses. How can a person look at what is happening in Gaza, at the fact that the US is arming “israel” to the teeth, which makes them enablers of genocide and not “protectors of democracy”, and not understand that they’re not “protecting democracy” in Ukraine either? As one comrade aptly pointed out - “what is the common denominator between Palestine, Ukraine, Taiwan, Syria and Libya?”. It should be clear by now.

    Is JT aware of the true nature of this conflict? I’m inclined to think rather “yes” than “no”, but I’m very unsure. Hakim definitely dropped some hints. Yugo - IDK, really. But, sadly, they are silent. Also - they have an Arab to tell them a bit about Palestine, I guess if they had a communist from Ukraine they would at least be more knowledgeable when it comes to Russia-Ukraine stuff.

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      3 months ago

      I only just pressed play, and the intro text seems to have some relevant caveats.

      For the sake of brevity, this video will focus solely on the state of war and not the internal politics of the involved parties, such as the influence of far-right elements in Ukraine or the reception of mass mobilization in Russia.

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        3 months ago

        That is not a “caveat”, it’s an announcement that the video you are about to watch will be worthless as a serious analysis of the conflict.

        Trying to talk about this conflict without discussing the internal politics of Ukraine is like talking about WW2 without discussing the “internal politics of Germany” at the time. Imagine making a video about WW2 and not mentioning the Nazis a single time. Absurd. This video was a joke.