kontextmaschine:

Remember when there were articles about Western urbanites doing the Falun Gong Tai Chi stuff because “Free Tibet” was played out but They hadn’t realized to pivot back to Russia again?

Anyway, I’m not hating on superpowers tryna rouse the public in the name of their geopolitical interests, that’s how it is. I’ve been realizing how much of Clintonite foreign policy was really about tying off Cold War loose threads, and it was really clear with Cuba, Northern Ireland (remember Bono as a Clinton sidekick?) and especially Israel/Palestine that the other side’s propaganda apparatus fell apart without the Russians to prop it up