Note - Blowback is a ~~leftist~~ Marxist-Leninist-leaning American podcast, that critiques America's mainly 20th century foreign policy forays as the main and later sole most powerful hegemony, and its victim countries

As of now:

S1: Iraq

S2: Cuba

S3: DPRK

S4: Afghanistan

S5: Cambodia

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6628957

Funnily enough, he could've fit with our posters

1. Praised China's rise to power

2. Negiotitated with DPRK to rid its nukes, and condemned the U.S sanctions on it

3. Praised Venezuela's electoral system

4. Declared the settler-colonial entity that took over Falastin, an apartheid state

https://www.wabe.org/president-trump-calls-president-carter-to-talk-china/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/02/22/when-jimmy-carter-went-to-north-korea/

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7272/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid

Then again, some pessimist might have point out, during his presidency, his support and alignment with reactionary anti-communist gov't and forces in the cold war in the following (some of which Reagan expanded upon and was known for) :

Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo - backed the dictator Mobutu

Guatemala - backed the Mayan anti-gov't genociders, around 200k dead

East Timor - backed the East Timor genocide over, over 200k dead (his little pet project) https://web.archive.org/web/20170226181104/https://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indoarms.html

Unfortunately, despite its professions of support for human rights in Indonesia, the Carter Administration picked up where Kissinger and Ford had left off. As Noam Chomsky writes in the preface to Matthew Jardine's 1995 book, East Timor: Genocide in Paradise, "In 1977, Indonesia found itself short of weapons, an indication of the scale of its attack. The Carter administration accelerated the arms flow."[7] U.S. arms sales hit $112 million in 1978, and averaged nearly $60 million per year for the four years of the Carter administration -- this was more than twice the level of weaponry supplied to the Suharto regime by the Ford Administration.

Angola - backed the anti-communist civil war there, along with apartheid South Africa, that caused 1 million deaths

Afghanistan - started Operation Cyclone

In the West, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the existence of Pakistan. These concerns led Carter to expand collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which had begun in July 1979, when the CIA started providing $695,000 worth of non-lethal assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") to the Afghan mujahideen.

El Salvador - supported anti-communist death squads, including the ones that killed Jesuits there

Vietnam - refused to recognize and continued the sanctions on Vietnam post-war (he was supposed to give reparations)

Nicaragua - supported the Somoza clique and started to back of the Contras that followed

Cambodia - post-Khmer Rouge, he supported China and Khmer Rouge + anti-communist elements against the Vietnam-aligned People's Republic of Kampuchea

South Korea - supported Chun Doo Hwan, in a line of SK strongmen, responsible for the Gwangju massacre

Philippines - supported dictator Marcos

Middle East - expanded bases there, as part of the 800 in our global world

In addition, he:

Supported the destabilisation of Grenada after the election of a socialist government leading to the eventual invasion and occupation by his successor’s administration

Facilitated and supported a fascist coup in Liberia

All along with Zbigniew Brzezinski https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/05/john-helmer-zbigniew-brzezinski-svengali-jimmy-carters-presidency-dead-evil-lives.html

https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy-2/

https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2020/11/19/jimmy-carter-is-a-saint-now-was-a-war-criminal-then/

Plus his start of neoliberalism and destruction of Unions (wow, talk about Dems starting, and Reps expanding it)

https://truthout.org/articles/neoliberal-policies-associated-with-reaganomics-actually-started-with-carter/

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-was-no-friend-of-union-workers-like-me/

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6559687

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6559531

Interesting 🤔

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6404294

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23194540

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23194489

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem
Tue 3 Dec 2024 11.12 EST

Still a bit wary

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6331587

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6331585

A path to reconciliation with Tamils?

Nothing else

Unless something more material like a whole continent turning anti-imperialist, if not socialist, and deciding collectively to nationalize the fruit and veg produce, and thus disrupts U.S's produce imports -

I don't think any internal problems in America would reach to a boiling point, as to end on a conclusive note

So what if it's a big deal to you, huh, America is the most armed-country, and has a lot of guns, yet no civil war(s) has occurred recently... it's just reactionary settler business as usual

Im America, nichts neues

Notes: Besides the gaokao prep starting from middle school, and taking at least 12-14 hours a hour to prep for it each day and it being mentally strenuous and seemingly decisive to your career,

the narrator talks about how the Gaokao varies per province and apparently

depending on how high your city/province's GDP is, it may be easier compared to other provinces

Other than that, though, he talks more about societal issues rather than political ones, so I think he's at worst, a good-faith Chinese lib, even considering his reddit account, which has little political activity...

Also, I've heard there are other comparable hard exams which are not necessarily hard as the Gaokao, in the comments, such as Brazil and India, thoughts on that as well

To any libs around here: If you lemmy libs want to wander on here, I'll politely tell you which instance you're in and tell you to go back your mother's skirts....