In military conflicts that the US is involved in, questioning the official narrative at the outset will result in marginalization or disqualification. One can only remain “respectable” in establishment circles if you defer your dissent until long after the damage is done.
In the Ukraine proxy war, those who argued that there were reasonable diplomatic options that could have prevented, and then quickly ended, the Russian invasion were dismissed as Kremlin apologists.
Now, hundreds of thousands of deaths later, senior Biden official Amanda Sloat admits that Ukraine declaring neutrality before the invasion, or accepting the April 2022 Istanbul peace deal just weeks after, “would have prevented the destruction and the loss of life.”
Proxy war cheerleaders, including on the left, might want to reflect on why they shunned those of us who wanted to prevent the destruction and the loss of life:
In military conflicts that the US is involved in, questioning the official narrative at the outset will result in marginalization or disqualification. One can only remain “respectable” in establishment circles if you defer your dissent until long after the damage is done.
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— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) December 12, 2025
Huh, … she really thought about the entire scope of the argument back then, …
Ah, da werden gute alte Erinnerungen wach, …
(bei 43:50 in)
Hanno Pevkur, Minister of Defence of the Republic of Estonia (30. Mai 2023):
“What Russia wants to achieve, the political goals, let’s be honest - and they, these political goals of Russia have never changed, they want to have a grey-zone between Russia and NATO, they want to have a control over this grey-zone and this is what they want to achieve. And they want to have some “security guarantees” for themselves, sorry this is not the Free World and this is what Ukraine is fighting for at the moment, that they are fighting for - the Free World and rule-based world and this is why we support Ukraine so this is obvious and then this is why we can never accept this approach of Russia, looking at international law.”
Eigentlich toll, wenn man so offen die politischen Positionen aussprechen kann - nur wer erzählts der breiteren Öffentlichkeit?
