Quotations

‘The Europeans dance to our tune…we have all these fictions that we tell people about ‘joint decision-making’…the US runs NATO and the Europeans do what we tell them.’ John Mearsheimer. If only Sarkozy and Frau Merkel had refused in 2008 to agree that Ukraine and Georgia might one day join Nato.

Aaron Maté

@aaronjmate

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Dec 12, 2025

In military conflicts that the US is involved in, questioning the official narrative at the outset will result in marginalization or disqualification. One can only remain "respectable" in establishment circles if you defer your dissent until long after the damage is done. In the Ukraine proxy war, those who argued that there were reasonable diplomatic options that could have prevented, and then quickly ended, the Russian invasion were dismissed as Kremlin apologists. Now, hundreds of thousands of deaths later, senior Biden official Amanda Sloat admits that Ukraine declaring neutrality before the invasion, or accepting the April 2022 Istanbul peace deal just weeks after, "would have prevented the destruction and the loss of life." Proxy war cheerleaders, including on the left, might want to reflect on why they shunned those of us who wanted to prevent the destruction and the loss of life:

'Gaza has not been "a mess" for centuries. Gaza City was a prosperous Mediterranean port with extensive trade connections until 1948, when Israel shunted 250,000 Palestinians into the narrow strip of land we now call the Gaza Strip and imposed new military borders, cutting Gaza off from its trade routes and much of its agricultural land, and rendering all those who lived there, both refugees and residents, destitute.'

British economist Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola, on December 30, correcting Donald Trump