Good rebuttal of the same nationalism babe was parroting earlier.
Sorry, but immigration to the United States isn’t the same as what’s happening in Ukraine. It’s not comparable at all.
I never made it an equjivalence. I said the "open border" with Mexico in regards to illegal immigration supports modern slavery and human trafficking. I think I can expand that list. With drug trafficking from Mexico we have a very high death rate with Fetanil in some drugs. I more dangerous fetanil some think is supplied from China. The human smuggling is lucrative dbecause the cartels have sufficient enforcers on the groung throughout the USA that they can collect enormous "debts" "owed" the cartels when the workers get jobs. This is a modern equjivalent of slavery.
I said no one should believe "progressives" from out internal movement really carfe about human life or human liberty so lang as their "cause" endorsed illegal immigration.
It's all about the agenda.
What is the agenda? Most people could easily compile a list from current media endorsements of causes, most of which are believed as some way to "save the world" with increased political power to governments, government programs for all kinds of things. Etc.
Endorsements of absolute government power is, in my view, an endorsement of leaders like Putin, and many others throughout the world.
I saw Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos lose his international support when he declared Martial Law in the Philippines.
In my opinion, he got too sure of himself, much like Putin. His crimes against humanity never got the Press, exactly. I never talked to Marcos personally. I talked to key supporters like people who handled his political organization, his opponents in politics, and even the commies who controlled some areas. There were some, in my opinion, operatives who did some stunts, which Marcos declared justified his order suspending normal law and declaring Martial Law.
Putin for over two decades decried NATO expansion for reasons of treaties and political promises that were being broken. He distrusted some Western businesses wanting to open up Russian businesses, and subjected them to some kind of "loyalty" examination, and lot of them he simply denied access to Russia.
In 2014 he began to say the UN was not a new world order at all, but simply a gang of thugs. He was already on the list of people who needed to be taken out to pave the way for the New World Order.
In world history, some think both WWI and WWII were instigated in some "conspiratorial" manner which of course means very little fact to back the claim. The idea of a modern "Silk Road" or MagLev railroad capable of moving goods, raw materials and finished products, across the Central Asian land mass. A credible economic blow to the shipping interests established by Western European business..... "The City of London".
Putin's cooperation with Xi on the Belt and Road initiative might be one factor, the immense oil and gas and other resources controlled by Russia might be another. But I think his potential disruption of UN or global initiatives is the central issue why the West is willing to villify him but not Xi, or any number of other real thugs around the world.
I think Putin made a huge "mistake" from any rational analysis, probably final miscalculated decision. I am not well-informed on essential civil or human rights in Belarus or Russia. I believe he has real opposition, and opposition within Russia. I have read some reports in places like "Foreign Affairs" that credibly instruct any rational student that "our" Establishment has bribed enough people inside Russia and built a network that can take over favorably for globalist leaders when he is gone.
I am not a big hater of anyone. I have a few sources close to most significant world leaders who have been in place for over 20 years, even our own Bush Dynasty. I am against exploitative wars or any undemocratic "regime change" operations.
Some people who have talked to me include Iranian people who wanted to get US help or backing to overthrow their government. Sorry, I told them it was a bad idea. Our government has a record of letting fools and dupes and idealists of every kind, hot with Liberty Fever, just extend themselves and then die in their unsupported fight.
It would have been my idea to live up to our diplomatic assurances and hope Putin, or Xi, could just relax a little about dissidents and idealists, and maybe treat them better.
But the cause of actual human rights throughout the world, and limited government power, is definitely a challenged position to take anywhere, even in JFC.