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The "Vietnam Moment" Is Near: Empire Exhausts Itself | Prof. David Gibbs (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Cross posted from https://lemmy.ca/post/69140935

After 4.5 years of Proxy-War something is breaking: When the cracks in the pro-war narrative get so large that even Neocons have to admit the empire is running out of munition, an inflection point has been reached. And we have seen this before. What David Gibbs calls the "Vietnam Moment" is not far away anymore.

In this talk, professor David Gibbs of the University of Arizona discusses his trip to the Baltics, arguing that anti-Russian feeling is widespread and that Russian-speaking minorities face exclusion. He and Pascal Lottaz compare Western messaging on Ukraine with Vietnam, debate the political costs of a setback, and discuss how culture-war language can be used to support military intervention.

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[–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

The US stopped supporting Ukraine the second that Trump took office again.

https://www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker

So I'm not really sure what the US has to do with Ukraine's success or failure any more, except Trump wanting to be seen as a "winner" so warming to Zelensky as Ukraine starts to get more effective at destroying Russian war infrastructure.