Chapotraphouse

I hope Yemen is remembered by history for their bravery.

On the bright side, terrible conditions like this are excellent for the PSL and other groups like them. We got trump complaining about how pretty their posters are. This is the best moment to convince people to join an actual socialist party

I like the phrase “internal US counterinsurgency” for visualizing and communicating how the state operates against what it deems *internal threats. Very similar to how it operates as an insurgent against *external threats.

Infiltrating; disrupting; dispersing; repeating.

Basically using an understanding of the *threats and their resistance capabilities to cause targeted disruption with the intent of driving off/splitting up the resistance and causing distrust and breakdowns in its structures, which they then repeat (if they respect your intelligence, maybe at least with different people).

*latest fad

The magic of strategy is that it is all encompassing! If it's unable to counteract the counterinsurgency, then the strategy must be changed ;)

But I agree in principal on all of this. I just always think that we should take responsibility for our failures no matte how abstract. We aren't losing because the US is too good, we need to get better to win and haven't managed it. Taking that responsibility forces us to think differently. Though I agree with your despair here

And the international work of the same type, exponentially more expensive and complex.

These past 35+ years have been an awful time for international socialism. The neoliberal doctrine following the collapse of the soviet union soaked up any left consciousness and lulled it into to inactivity. The infrastructure is non-existant, not just in America. The fact that Yemen is the shining beacon in this world to tyranny would be kind of unheard of in the first half of the 20th century.The only hope is that liberal decline will pave the way for a new era of leftism