You can't have scholars from "bad countries" on these panels
The most a western panel on issues/topics in "bad countries" will do is to invite someone with ancestry from "bad country" but is
- thoroughly westernized;
- a second/third/etc gen immigrant;
- someone with ties to a three letter agency, think tank or state department; and/or
- a literal gusano
Where do they keep finding Chinese and Russian people whose grandparents owned slaves in Cuba? To this day no one knows.
between this and saying that the US is definitely responsible for blowing up nordstream i wonder if jeff has been visited by the ghost of jacob marley or some shit
I think a lot of individual US capitalists are bitter at the prospect of economic warfare cutting into their profits and are becoming, ironically, less hawkish than the bourgeois state.
Even the dumbest parasite knows without their host they won't last too long, they'd rather keep on feasting on us then have to orient around WWIII
This is exactly it. He's a free market evangelist without much concern for nation states at all and definitely not when their self-defeating dick measuring undoes all his hard (and ghoulish) work.
are they clapping him being shut up or are they clapping him having said anything
Wasn't this guy in the audience a Jewish, British NYT columnist? I can't remember his name. He had very shitty takes though. He looks like he could be a relative of mine on my mom's side of the family.
Ninja edit:: Roger Cohen
Stating that the British Empire was in any meaningful way democratic in the 19th century
:dont-laugh:
Implying that America is the first or second most democratic country since 1950
:data-laughing:
doing 80% of the standard dogma, and still getting cut off for the 20% you went against
And yet no one muted Pericles when he pointed out that although Athens may have been a democracy at home, it was a tyranny abroad. Standards have fallen at the Athens Democracy Forum.
If His Moderator hadn't cut him off, I'm positive Jeffrey would have gone on to say, "And that's a good thing! We need to secure a future, blah blah, you know the rest."
