It was amazing watching the FDP not even have to think about approving the last €100B Schuldenbremse-excluded military gift basket.
I'd suggest reading Michael Hudson's Superimperialism for some background on why the US went off the gold standard. To succinctly summarize, it's because the US had dug itself into a massive balance of payments problem in the post-war period, primarily due to the imperialist wars in Korea and Vietnam, and had no way out beyond simply telling the rest of the world that it wouldn't be bothering to balance its payments anymore.
Dropping the gold standard was a means to an end, not an end unto itself. It also wasn't done overnight in 1972, there was more than a decade of soft-dropping leading up to the final event.
I always cringe a little internally when I see someone pointing at the dropping of the gold standard as The Thing[TM] which has defined the neoliberal era, as in my experience it's some sovereign citizen type dreaming up some anarcho-capitalist world in which gold (coin) and lead (bullets) are the only two payment instruments worth anything and there is no such thing as society anymore.
The Bretton Woods institutions were designed to assist the USA in its post-war project of global imperial hegemony. They were never meant to assist developing countries, quite the opposite, they were meant to assist the US and to a lesser extent western Europe to more efficiently extract resources and value from resource rich countries.
No they don't.
But you're just proving the trope asked about in the original post.
This is not objectively an event that has happened. It's not news. It's made up atrocity propaganda, trying to get westerners to consent to the genocide of Palestinians.
What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?
- US President Andrew Jackson, talking about the Indian Removal Act of 1830
According to historian H. W. Brands, Jackson sincerely believed that his population transfer was a "wise and humane policy" that would save the Native Americans from "utter annihilation". Jackson portrayed the removal as a generous act of mercy.[34]
According to Robert M. Keeton, proponents of the bill used biblical narratives to justify the forced resettlement of Native Americans.[35]
Their About page mentions how important toeing their ideological line is for potential contributors. After reading the Kyrgyzstan article I thought they were Ultras/MLMs, but I guess their ideology is whatever OpenDemocracy and Co. figure is left enough to bamboozle some baby leftists while ultimately serving reaction.
Russia started a war in 2014?
Whether or not the separatist faction is fomented by a foreign power, what gives Ukraine the right to shell them for nearly a decade on end, make their language and culture illegal, and exclude them from the public sphere? In early 2022 Ukraine was preparing for military action on Donbas, to essentially remove all remaining dissenters.
I think Ukraine, under direction of its NATO puppeteers, has done a great job of fomenting separatism in culturally Russian minorities present in Ukraine all on their own.
No. Plus the founder is pro-censorship and weighting search results based on his own worldview.
At this point Searx is the only viable option, both in terms of privacy and results. Yes it ultimately ends up using the backend of the big three, but with customizable layers of abstraction and behaviour.
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We already saw that as soon as Biden was elected. Any bit of skepticism with regards to loyally following the US under Trump went away overnight, when everything went "back to normal" in the White House.