[Peace-discuss] Podcast related to the Pivot to Asia.

[Karen Aram]

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.

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.

This is 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.

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.

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.

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.

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The U.S. is carrying out a new geopolitical and military strategy in the Asia-Pacific region called the Pivot to Asia. Through this strategy, the U.S. is leading a new round of nationalism, militarization, and conflict in the region as the U.S. and its allies rally against the rise of China. This ta...
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