Normalising genocide as war Vanessa Beeley with Tarik Cyril Amar AUDIO
Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian, geopolitical analyst and author of The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis and Nationalists. From his recent article for RT Britain goes full Orwell accusing Putin of imperialism: Politically, this is just another way in which semismart people fool semisimple people. But there is a more serious, moral dimension as well. It is a truly and abjectly colonial and imperialist move to exploit the massive suffering almost exclusively at the hands of the West as well as the hardwon insights and hardfought resistance of what we now call the Global South so as to feed them into the cheap propaganda that the West now uses to sell its geopolitics101 proxy war in Ukraine as an issue of rules and values. And yet that is precisely what David Lammy has done. What a disgrace. Tarik Cyril Amar on Amazon describes himself thus: I am a historian of the twentieth century, writing about World War Two, the postwar period,
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