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Pelosi Wants FBI to Investigate Pro-Palestine Protesters for Financial Ties to Russia
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The best propaganda in the world is the truth. I wouldn't even be surprised if the Russians were signal boosting Palestinians in some way. Doesn't mean we should keep supporting a genocide though. Israel fucked up.
They're absolutely boosting Palestinians. Russia wants to prove to the world that Israel is carrying out a genocide, and that Israel/US are heavily leaning on international entities to delay any meaningful condemnation from bodies like the ICJ or UN. Russia wants to highlight the moral hypocrisy of the West, and prove that Palestinians are being exterminated
This is not because Russia cares about human rights. Rather it is because they want to paint the United States/The West as obvious hypocrites with no moral standing. Which will enable Russia to commit larger atrocities in Ukraine without meaningful rebuke. After all, these same international agencies permitted the genocide in Gaza, who are they now to condemn Russia when they massacre an entire Ukrainian city? It also will provide cover for China's invasion of Taiwan, and their further suppression of Uyghurs in NW China.
Israel is certainly engaging in genocide against Palestinian. But this crime, and the US' whitewashing of it, will be used by Russia/China as cover to carry out their own escalated human rights abuses. And by that time, the US will have lost its moral leadership in the world and Western international institutions will have similarly been shown to be utterly useless puppets of America. Which is all a very bad thing for the weak and non-nuclear peoples of the world
Yeah, but that was always going to happen. Using it to silence protest is... Maddening.
She gets intelligence briefings and does not interact with normal people. So I'm sure that genuinely colors her perception of reality on this matter. Plus she's old and has never lived in a time where Americans oppose Israel to this extent - so of course she thinks it's all astroturfed rather than being genuine
Doesn't excuse her behavior, obviously. But there is a plausible explanation for it aside from her being evil (which she is, but other factors are also at play here)