Less bad is good there too

And as you said, not a good comparison.

Pollution going beyond the capacity of our environment is the issue, right? Every decent improvement is a good thing there. Not that we should stay silent with that, but we should be cheering for improvements and encouraging them.

Less bad is good, right?

Obviously, stuff like better public transportation will be good
Electric buses, trains etc

Have been hearing about China’s solar adoption and them looking into thorium reactors.
My country, India, seems to be looking more into solar too.

I think it’s a correct direction. Though, the pace needs to be a bit faster

Reporting and fining drunken drivers need to speed up in the location.

Are electric cars a net improvement?
I’ve heard that they are, because electricity can ve produced more efficiently and pollution can be better handled than individual car exhausts

What happens when the US and allies forments coups and starts bombing you?

Obviously, peaceful means are preferred by most people.
Like, why would they allow you to take power peacefully?

Imagine you take power and want to redistribute land to the common people who were exploited and forced to be landless or without proper homes in the previous regime? Would not the ultrawealthy landowners try to coup you and get support of US and other countries?

Then you’ll have to go there, right?
Or you’ll have to stop or allow yourself to be couped.

Like, in Russia, they took power away from a monarchy and came into power with the slogans of 'Land, peace and bread:. They faced an attack by the White army, which was supported by major foreign powers.

In China, they took power away from Japanese colonialism and subsequent mix of Koumingtang rule which violently opposed communists and the public who wanted land reform.

In Vietnam, they fought French colonialism and US invasion.

Similarly, in Korea, US installed a dictatorship to kill people who may have been even slightly sympathetic to socialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre

Even in the case of slavery in US, the North, under the Lincoln govt, had to fight the south, right? Republicans were attacked in the south by Racial supremacist groups on that too.

Compared to the Western govts? Much more likely

Is USAmerica(worlds largest superpower) a successful capitalist country?
Is slavery and Eps stuff a success?
Success would need to be defined then, right?

And your notions on everyone having to be perfect seems to be wrong. The main basis of Communism is who owns the means of production and the level of development. The minority of the ultrawealthy in capitalism vs the majority of the regular people in communism.
Also, capitalist planning that focuses on profit and externalises social cost vs general planning that thinks about the ‘externalised stuff’.

And if you want to go deeper into critiques of capitalism and why we need to plan beyond that, I think looking up aspects like the crisis of overproduction and the tendency of the falling rate of profit might be good.
Others here maybe better able to explain more on that.

Hypocritical, yes, but different from directly voting in favor, although effect is similar.

They abstained from the vote
So the last panel of them joining in would be incorrect, right?

Who uses that term tho?
I think it’s used by progressives. So they might be blind to loneliness of women?

Using a famine to justify Nazi glorification?

Lack of practice?

I had started taking selfies with a smile to see how my hair was growing, to see which amount of hair seems good for me

My smiles in group photos seem more nice nowadays.

So, maybe try that?

Bite-sized stuff?

I see cool quotes or memes that are also linked to recent/contemporary things and it gets my interest to look more into it

I have a friend and she thinks “its posh” to read theory.

Well, maybe recommending things that would be directly useful for her or things that she likes would be good?
And tell that it’ll also be useful to counter fake narratives and provide clarity in talking about it to others?

Is there a leaked NATO playbook.
The article on NATO seems to be painting it in a positive way and does not detail nor critique it’s policies unlike the other articles you shared against the ones whom NATO targets.

For “the West”, as you keep saying, I’m not exactly sure what you mean. There is "no West ", so to speak, as it’s actually used as a framework to be positioned against the East , or Global South.

USA America, western colonial nations etc.
USA + EU in general sense. As you said, NATO and its collaborators would be more accurate.

To understand " the West" it’s important to understand what came after WW2 in Europe, when Russia profiled itself more and more as an enemy than a friend. It invaded and annexed many European countries during and after WW2

Wasn’t the West afraid of Soviet influence too? Or more accurately, loss of control over Easter Europe?
Operation Gladio would come under NATO playbook, right?

Add: I responded in good faith, so I do hope my efforts are not in vain.

Thank you. Me too. I too commented in good faith. Hoped that you were actually responding in good faith too.

Anyway, thanks for the links. Will try to read them or get through summaries and also search for articles critiquing the NATO’s and EU’s playbook too

And as I have read those playbooks, I recognise these narratives, as you probably should too.

Is there a literal playbook for it? Please do link it or mention its name. And if you have access to or know the playbook by the West, please share that too.

And could the playbook rhetoric be a part of that playbook, used for trivialising things?

People in developing countries do notice both playbooks.

Regarding Trump, even before him EU haa generally followed US invasions. Trump is the most recent and most open(which obviously puts off many on their own side, who like to dress it up or self-justify their actions).

So yes, Europe isn’t perfect, the first to admit that are Europeans. But when we are being bashed for the sake of bashing, that’s not longer a dialogue.

Disinformation is an issue in India as well

Yep. And as you said, Indians are the first to admit it and talk against it.

I’m Indian, specifically Sourh Indian.
We learn English in our schools and it is the main medium for school and college education.

Did you not realise that my comment was saying that the article was trivialising the mistakes of the west?

The content of the article applies to the Western countries too, but withholds that.
Quoting what you quoted:

• Details are withheld or taken out of context.
• Speculative information is presented as fact.
• The stories are often told in emotive terms in a bid to trigger our anger, shock, fear or resentment.

Also, the artcile admits that there are kernels of truth. But are those truths being confronted?

The trivialisation is indeed a reason why China and Russia are getting more support in developing countries, which have the history of facing Western colonialisation.

The people know that it is a fight for dominance and we don’t need to take western narratives at face value.

Also, even outside foreign intervention, the democracy and freedom image gets tarnished with all that is happening in America and EU, with the RW rising and taking power.

Not a Westerner, but randomly saw this in my feed and read the content quoted in the text.

Your govt’s are indeed problematic in foreign affairs, right? Not saying that it is illogical, but problematic because it is inherently focused on western dominance
Trump ordering hits on boats. And Trump openly talks about annexing countries.

How the US went to Iraq war, based on exaggerations of WMD’s. How even before that US was supporting apartheid South Africa and had Mandela in a terror list?
ICE kidnapping people, deporting them to secret locations. Should mention Guantanamo bay and similar things too.

If it was freedom and democracy, wouldn’t western govt’s also send military and aid to Gaza to save them? So, Ukraine is indeed a strategetic choice. Or it’s part racism?

Also, don’t African countries have concerns on neocolonialism by the West? French influence on former colonies via the currency?

And might be unpopular, but Russia was indeed a victim(considering the disintegration era), right? Like, they opened up and saw significant drops in key QoL figures, like the life expectancy.
One reason why Putin gets support is because of how his time started the transition out of the drop, right?

Not saying that they are saviors, but that they are potential alternatives to the West. More options

India is also the most populous country in the world currently and I think our percapita usage has not reached western levels. Atleast not US levels.

Though, yes, we do need to transition to solar and we currently don’t have a Marxist-led govt like China(Would be cool if our leaders became pragmatic Marxists, but very wishful), but I think we are looking into solar decently.

Well, USAmerican govt’s propaganda(aimed to keep their people misdirected and supportive of invasions like that in Iraq) targets Stalin and other figures who had either looked at economic systems beyond capitalism or opposed USAmerican imperialism(directed by their ruling class), right?

Same for Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Che and even Nelson Mandela.

https://time.com/5338569/nelson-mandela-terror-list/
The USSR and Cuba had aided anti-apartheid struggles in Africa.

Video snippets of Mandela talking about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je5R5E8SOSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7cZBg4c4W4

Also, not saying that all those people were perfect, but the reason for the hate does not seem to be the imperfections, but them opposing or being threats to the interests of the USAmerican ruling class.