Friedman has a new column in the New York Times, with a rather limited anchor in TRVTH.
He starts by saying the world is divided into democracies and autocracies, and there is the Resistance Movement, dedicated to preserving the autocracies, and the Inclusion Movement who want to join the Democracies.
The Ukrainians are all in the Inclusion Movement, fighting hard to join the democracies as Putin is futilely trying to keep them under his autocracy. This is only costing the US a few dollars, the Ukrainians are doing all the dying that NATO must spend to stop the evil Putin, so the Ukrainians are saving American lives.
And the war has cost Putin 90% of all the soldiers in the Russian army and most of his tanks. Putin only has outmoded Soviet and Czarist weapons while NATO weapons have twice the range and much greater accuracy, so the Ukrainians have destroyed Putin's army at the cost of a relatively few Ukrainian lives.
I've seen this reiterated in all the Western media. Not just the New York Times, but CNN, the BBC, and Yahoo News.
Of course, those actually in the Ukraine reporting have rather a different take, but what do they know? To report accurately about the Ukraine one should do most of the writing in New York and London and Paris and Berlin, getting your information from your government's information office. A trip to Kiev is OK, but don't go into the Ukrainian countryside or you could end up like Gonzalo Lira, and that would be entirely your own fault.
Don't believe Russian disinformation that it is Russia that killed off at least three Ukrainian armies, and the Ukraine are now drafting women, even pregnant women, since Russia have killed off most of the male draftees.
Officially, Russia were just like Saudi Arabia, selling energy to Europe and using the money to buy everything they needed from Europe. Sanctions cut off all their money, so the Russian military had no financial support and had to use old, inept, outmoded, and in very poor repair Soviet and even Czarist weapons, and had very little ammunition. Ignore the fact that the PRC where, when I was a boy, people dreamed of someday owning a bicycle but knowing that was just a dream, is now the country with the most cars and which buys the most oil, and pays more than the super discounted price Russia gave to Europe to buy their friendship. The PRC, where those in the north were barely able to keep their homes above freezing in the winter, now provide ample heat, and so buy more gas than any other nation. So Russia had money and materials coming in and restarted all the industries closed when Russia were buying almost everything from Europe. And the Russian defence industry is now the most advanced in the world. Remember, all the West, all the Western news media say that is all just Russian disinformation. All the Russian defence industry was outsourced to Europe, so their military only had outmoded and inept equipment, and all the Russian soldiers have been killed and all the Russian tanks destroyed by the brave, well trained, and well equipped Ukrainians. But we do need to give the Ukraine a lot more money, but that's still cheap at half the price.
Meanwhile, Hamas and Iran are also in that Resistance Movement, while Israel and Saudi Arabia are very much in the Inclusion Movement. Saudi will soon be 'a Dubai on steroids' according to Friedman, and will work closely with Israel to join the Democracies of the world.
OK, I'm close enough to see Saudi and Israel, and that Inclusion Movement and their rush toward Democracy don't look all that much better than the autocracy movement, rather worse if one looks too closely.
So stick with Friedman and the New York Times: the Hamas attack on 7 October was unendurable, and Israel have the right to self defence. Israel are providing food and medical care to the Ghazans injured by Hamas, so all claims of genocide are pure lies. The Ghazans can't see that food, and nor can I, but if Friedman and the New York Times say Israel is providing the Ghazans more than enough food and medical care, we must believe him and not our own eyes. His information is much better than ours. Some say that, as an occupying power, international law does not, in fact, give Israel any right to self defence, and certainly no right to block all food going into Ghaza, but Friedman knows what International Law should be, favouring the US as the Leader of Democracy, so whatever the US does and supports is the Law, not what's written in some old books like the ones still available in South Africa that they tried to bring before the ICJ. Nothing Israel does can be considered genocide when the US says it can't possibly be genocide.
As Friedman concludes, Netanyahu hoped to convince Saudi to fully join the Inclusion Movement without giving the slightest concession to the Ghazans, when it would be so easy to get diplomatic recognition by Saudi for Israel if Netanyahu would offer some minuscule, insignificant token and call it full freedom for the Palestinians. No need to give any real concessions, just some meaningless, token concessions, but Netanyahu says Saudi are so desperate to be in the Inclusion Movement that not even a token will be necessary, Saudi will eventually come round, the Inclusion Movement is just too tempting to resist.
And this is making it harder and requiring more time, and Friedman can't understand why Netanyahu is doing this when that meaningless concession would be so much easier and quicker.
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