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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: inherit;" class="">About a year old, an excellent podcast in relation to the US "Pivot to Asia". The speaker is quite entertaining with his presentation. However, I have one very strong disagreement, or clarification.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">This final statement in which he suggests: that we the US socialists or working classes need to "support" and "unite" with the Japanese anti-war movement against their military government of Abe, in
respect to the continued expansion of US hegemony in Japan, and Okinawa.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">This is<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> the type of narrative, that lends itself often to supporting "so called rebels" for example in Syria, rebels who
are really propped up terrorists by the CIA, against their dictatorial government, the same thing we have heard in reference to other nations despots that the USG planned to replace with our puppet.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: inherit;" class="">To be clear, Abe of Japan is our current puppet, but any suggestion that the Japanese people, or the Asian people, in general, need Americans to support their anti-war movements, is a form of "white
mans burden" which needs to be guarded against.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">The best thing Americans, anti-war activists, and socialists can do to help those we wish to support, elsewhere in the world with their governments, is to focus on building our own socialist, anti-war
movements, focus on preventing our own government from further imperialism, and war. We need to focus on creating a united front against our own despots.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">This is not "isolationism, this is not turning our backs on others. This is a recognition that we the American people have the power to stop the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world" to quote
Martin Luther King, and only then are we in a position to assist anyone else, if they still need our help, and ask for it. Until such time, we should be supplying humanitarian assistance only, in areas that need it. Not weapons, bombs, and warfare.</p>
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