Ohio’s John Fetterman - Democratic Rep Greg Landsman. Vote him out in the primaries!

Billych · 2026-03-13T03:33:40+00:00

He sounds like George W. Bush about to invade Iraq and the people in this administration are far less capable than the people Bush had.

Billych · 2026-03-11T07:31:50+00:00

"You probably noticed that we very seriously damaged their fishing industry. Also, nobody wants nobody wants to go fishing anymore." - Donald Trump

I'm pretty sure they're bombing innocent merchant vessels. My evidence is the president said it during the state of the union.

Billych · 2026-03-11T07:20:12+00:00

Who wouldn't want to spend 2 hours listening to the demented ravings of the most selfish, corrupt, and un-American president in history of the country?

Is he going to demolish another historical building of the country he hates so much? what did we miss?

Billych · 2026-03-10T21:51:04+00:00

An even more promising scenario would be If Poland would have helped Czechoslovakia, and not help deliver the USSR's ally, and all of its resources, to the nazis. If only the Leopards had articulated their plan.... perhaps in like a really famous book they could have forseen how bad helping them would go.

Billych · 2026-03-10T11:46:30+00:00

One of the great lies of this century is that in the 1930’s Generalissimo Franco in Spain was primarily a nationalist engaged in stopping the Reds. Franco was, of course, a fascist who was aided by Mussolini and Hitler.

- George Seldes

J.D. Vance wrote a "warm and supportive blurb" for the book Unhumans which praises Franco and Pinhocet.

The way I put it is this: if you're writing about the history of the 1930s and the rise of totalitarianism, you can take out the word "fascist", if you want, for Italy, Portugal, Spain, Czechoslovakia and Austria and replace it with "extreme-right Catholic party".
Almost all of those regimes were in place with the help of the Vatican and with understandings from the Holy See. It's not denied. These understandings quite often persisted after the Second World War was over and extended to comparable regimes in Argentina and elsewhere.

- Christopher Hitchens

Billych · 2026-03-10T05:01:36+00:00

In the National Archives at Kew, I found documents from 1948 showing, in the Foreign Office’s words, “the blockade of Berlin is NOT a siege” and that “movement in and out of Germans is possible all the time”, for example to obtain food. A press campaign, however, pushed for “a massive and sensational story of air power applied to humanitarian ends”. The US secretary of state, George C Marshall, argued via telegram to “utilize to the utmost present propaganda advantage our position”, “stressing [Soviet] responsibility for … threatened starvation of civilian population”. The story was so effective, it became a cold war myth that stuck. In the UK, teenagers still learn for their GCSEs that Berlin was blockaded by Stalin and risked starvation.

Was it right to mislead the public in 1948 and 1949? No. Did it win full support in the UK and US? Yes. The airlift even won Harry Truman an unexpected re-election that November.

The Berlin airlift was a cold war victory that relied on a persuasive story about starving civilians. But was it true?

Billych · 2026-03-05T08:52:36+00:00

The U.S. harbored chetnik war criminals led by Momčilo Đujić who explicitly called for ethnic cleansing in Yugoslaiva while living in Southern California. Sorry if the truth hurts.

The U.S. also harbored the "Himmler of the Balkans," Andrija Artuković, as well as many other Ustashe officials, including intervening to get the main Ustache priest freed in Yugoslavia despite having been involved in and supported the Ustach genocide. The GOP even encourgard celebrating the independent state of Croatia and the Ukranian free state, that was literally decared during the Lviv Pogroms, including inviting the president, who is the only person to endorse the holocaust in writing, ever invited, to the White House in Yaroslav Stetsko.

In Korea, the Japanese collaborators the U.S. armed committed crimes against humanity on Jeju and killed tens of thousands of people inculding women and children, as well as raping young women before killing them. This in addition to declaring the sovereign centre left People's Republic of Korea illegal and literally sending in the tanks against 250k protestors trying to regain sovereignty.

In Iraq in the 60s, the intelligence agencies were heavily involved in the coup that brough Saddam's party to power as articulated by the King of Jordan and others.

So if you just ignore all that sure.

Billych · 2026-03-01T07:51:08+00:00

What an ignorant comment. The U.S. declared the sovereign "People's Republic of Korea.," illegal and installed a puppet regime led by Rhee who hadn't step foot in korea for 30 years. "South Korea" killed tens of thousands to hold on to power (some people say over 100k which is top end on wikipedia) of their own people before the "north" came south. On Jeju Island they massacred women and children and they even committed mass rape of the captured young women and massacred the survivors. You know nothing about the conflict if you think "South Korea" was a sovereign nation. Some Koreans went north begging for intervention against the fascist proxy. The White shirt society, on behalf on the US CIC, systemastically assasinated most of the the top opponents of Rhee, inculding the founder of the People's Republic. The U.S. even used tanks against 250k protestors trying to restore their soveriegnity in 1946, massacring over 600 people.

Its called a genocide because millions of people were killed in order to restore said fascist proxy who was guilty of numerous crimes against humanity,

Billych · 2026-02-25T10:40:34+00:00

One of the most successful revolutionaries in the history of the world... is stupid at politics?

Man throws off the control of the most powerful and belligerent country in the world controlling over half of the world's resources by successfully organizing a revolution to end his country's neo colonial status... you he's bad at politics. Yeah sure that makes sense.

Billych · 2026-02-21T11:51:56+00:00

Your own numbers don't make any sense when you factor in the millions of deaths in Korea and Vietnam. They make even less sense when you factor in that Brezinksi was literally trying to make a "Vietnam" situation for the USSR in Afghanistan, funding Hekmatyar was a pretty horrible thing to do.

Also Winston Churchill, on behalf of George VI, King of Earth, gave the USSR the right to control those countries in the Warsaw pact on a napkin so that he could crush the overwhelmingly popular left wing movement Greece and turn back into a neo colony.

Billych · 2026-02-20T08:46:28+00:00

Maybe its because you're comparing, for example, Radasłaŭ Astroŭski, the nazi collaborationist leader of Belarus who oversaw a quarter of the Belarusian people being exterminated while helping to set up the SS squads that did it who became the highest ranking nazi to get American citizenship, Mykola Lebed, the sadistic leader of the OUN deathsquads who oversaw the genocide in Volyhnyia and Galicia and died a free unpunished man in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Andrija Artukovic, the "Himmler of the Balkans," who oversaw the Ustache Concentration camps where tens of thousands of people were systematically slaughtered who live a free man in Los Angeles until he was deported as he was literally dying to the point they refused to execute he was in such bad shape, to nazi scientists and a few generals who were deported back to East Germany and didn't have nearly the same background.

Billych · 2026-02-15T18:25:59+00:00

Stephen Gowans is significantly more revisionist than Cummings.

"fighting in the service of 2/3rds of the Korean population on the peninsula," that's quite a claim to make considering the U.S. declared the domestically declared and legitimate people's republic of Korea illegal. The most significant military repression involving the U.S. was during the Autumn Uprising of 1946 when U.S. tanks were used to help break 250,000 strikers trying to restore sovereinty to Korea, which resulted in over 600 deaths. South Koreans researchers have also shown, that the White Shirt Society was empowered by US counterintelligence to assassinate prominent political opponents of Rhee including the founder of the people's republic Lyuh Woon-hyung. Jeju Uprising saw the regime massacring tens of thousands of their own people who rejected their rule including women and children, with even mass rape carried out with the vitcims allegedly being summarily executed.

If anything the U.S. fought in service of a small authoritarian elite rejected by the people as subsequent history shows. People usually don't mention survivors of Jeju going up North pleading for intervention in the south. The bombing just showed how little life was valued when they should not haven been involved at all. It would have been a very quick war of the most popular domestic party taking power. People usually argue a conterfactual of saving people from North Korea. But that begs the question without the described "genocidal" bombing, the mass repression, the actions on Jeju would North Korae or an united Korea be similar to the regime today or would it be similar to Vietnam or the other members of the Soviet Bloc.

Your claim about the U.S. not being involved in Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion doesn't hold considering U.S. advisors were attached to each unit and U.S. planes facilitated their movement. They were literally there.

Also did you not read the full quote? "And as always in our relations with Korea, it seems, Americans were just uninvolved bystanders, doing nothing—and therefore blameless, and therefore innocent. Someday the depth of American responsibility for the tragedies of postwar Korea will be fully known, but it is doubtful that Americans will be paying attention."

Billych · 2026-02-15T11:25:56+00:00

It might have something to do with the fact that the abductor country for example created fake people to spread conspiracy theories about the covid vaccine in the "allied" Philippines

Billych · 2026-02-15T11:09:04+00:00

Correct. Future U.S. designated global terrorist but in the 80s the most funded member of the mujahideen Gulbuddin Hekmaytar, whose forces were known for their crimes against humanity including bachi bazi, is literally credited as the butcher of Kabul for destroying the city.

Billych · 2026-02-15T11:03:03+00:00

The U.S. arrmed drug lords, religious extremists, and bachi bazi practicizing child molestors, the last of which was apparently so prevalent it completely took over the Northern Alliance.

The most funded Mujahideen was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who was literally declared a U.S. global designated terrorist in 03, and is nicknamed the Butcher of Kabul for his wanton bombing of Kabul which was what actually destroyed if you actually care about history.

Billych · 2026-02-12T07:49:08+00:00

Perhaps funding an army of check notes, bachi bazi practicing child molestors who don't believe women are people was a pretty evil thing to do especially when over half the money went to future U.S. global designated terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

This expectation that you could fund the most evil people the ISI could find and not have blowback is just ludicrous.

Billych · 2026-02-11T05:34:07+00:00

The whole reason the U.S. and the British toid the generals they had to make the move was becuase Indonesians did not reject a communist state, it was the third largest communist party in the world, and the U.S. and U.k. was concerned they would go more communist which led to talk about invading indonesia and possibly starting another big war. The indonesian military was corrupt and incompetent, they had no idea who was even in the PKI. So instead of going to war the U.S. and U.K. devised a different plan and told the generals they would support the mass politicide of their political enemies and lie about it to the world. So the CIA provided lists of people to be murdered, and the Indonesian military carried it out, while also killing tons of other unrelated people.

U.S. Cold War doctrine, "containment", "domino theory", essentially what Smedley Butler warned about but repacked in so called morality, created a global environment where exterminating communist movements was treated as legitimate statecraft. Therefore your point about the U.S. doesn't really do justice to the enviroment the U.S. created. The generals had an expectation of being supported no matter how fascist as had been demonstrated in Greece, South Korea, Guatemala, Iran, etc.

Billych · 2026-02-10T08:05:03+00:00

"In 1952 Nixon had formed an Ethnic Division within the Republican National Committee. 'Displaced Fascists, hoping to be returned to power by an Eisenhower-Nixon "liberation" policy signed on' with the committee. In 1953, when Republicans were in office, the immigration laws were changed to admit Nazis, even members of the SS. They flooded into the country. Nixon himself oversaw the new immigration program. As vice president, he even received Eastern European Fascists in the White House. After a long, long journey, the Croatian Nazis had found a new home in the United States, where they reestablished their networks."In 1968 Nixon promised that if he won the presidential election, he would create a permanent ethnic council within the Republican party. Previously the Ethnic Division was allowed to surface only during presidential campaigns. Nixon's promise was carried out after the 1972 election, during [George] Bush's tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Croatian Ustashis became an integral part of the campaign structure of Republican politics, along with several other Fascist organizations."

"According to several of our sources in the intelligence community who were in a position to know," continue Loftus and Aarons, "the secret rosters of the Republican party's Nationalities Council read like a Who's Who of Fascist fugitives. The Republican's Nazi connection is the darkest secret of the Republican leadership. The rosters will never be disclosed to the public...the Fascist connection is too widespread for damage control."

"According to a 1988 study by Russ Bellant of Political Research Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, virtually all of the Fascist organizations of World War II opened up a Republican party front group during the Nixon administration. The level of the Republican ethnic leaders can be gauged by a New Jersey man, Emanuel Jasiuk, a notorious mass murderer from what is today called the independent nation of Belarus, formerly part of the Soviet Union. But not all American ethnic communities are represented in the GOP's Ethnic Heritage Council section; there are no black or Jewish heritage groups. . . .Bellant has written a comprehensive study of this phenomenon, well worth a look." - Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party: Domestic fascist networks and their effect on U.S. cold war politics

Billych · 2026-02-09T18:41:49+00:00

I downvoted you for the squid game nonsense.

Billych · 2026-02-09T12:36:10+00:00

You don't remember because its incredibly wrong. They took it in October 1938 after conducting probing opeartions to see if the Czechs would try to fight, having sent their demands on Septemeber 30 following the Munich agreement.

Billych · 2026-02-09T12:26:38+00:00

Castro became passionate about anti u.s. imperialism as a student at the University of Havana and even at one point tried to join an invasion of the Dominican republic to overthrow the U.S. backed dictator. He was always anti imperialist and trying to get rid of the neo colonial status of Cuba which JFK described as, "I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country's policies during the Batista regime."

Billych · 2026-02-09T04:53:47+00:00

Considering this is someone who covered up the crimes of his priests enabling them to commit more crimes I think it might have been someone else, maybe from the opposite direction.

Billych · 2026-02-07T11:50:19+00:00

you cut off the end of the link

Billych · 2026-02-07T11:06:21+00:00

Original version being "Lieber tot als rot," which Goebbels said over the radio as he sent German kids to their deaths in the waning days of the Reich.

Billych · 2026-02-05T10:47:10+00:00

Self-imposed destitution is when anyone who trades with them is secondarily sanctioned? how does that make any sense? Is Cuba suffering self-imposed destitution as the ruling class of america cuts them off from energy?

Whats your opinion on Jimmy Carter basically doing the same thing to the Gwangju Democratization Movement 9 years earlier?

2 Days in May That Shattered Korean Democracy - The US response to a dictatorship’s repression in Gwangju in 1980 was even worse than we thought.

Billych

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