Mark Rutte’s repeated admissions of Europe’s willful complicity in the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran only confirms, once again, that they were not impartial in this brutal unlawful aggression. Those who provided their territories, military bases, and infrastructure to enable the aggression cannot evade responsibility for their contribution to an unprovoked aggression and its grave consequences.
Yet @SecGenNATO’s relentless self-congratulation for serving an illegal war of choice does not reflect strength — it exposes the servile mindset of a fawning courtier who fancies that flattery can erase a king’s contempt. In Washington’s eyes, an ineffective Organization cannot be rendered effective through sycophancy — nor can such manipulative flattery ever restore the flatterer’s own self-respect and personal integrity.
i had the unfortunate displeasure of being subjected to local australian television news last night at my in-laws place, and this guy came up and said some of the most dominated, servile ghoulish shit (nato meeting are on or something?) about supporting the US or Ukraine or whatever that even my murdoch paper brain poisoned father in law groaned audibly