• Bury The Right@lemmygrad.ml
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    Brings a smile to my face, considering that Colombia has historically been the US’s most loyal puppet in Latin America.

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      President Petro is particularly left wing, it was a pretty big deal for Pink Wave 2.0 when he got elected.

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    Glad someone is saying it. Collective punishment is not the way to suppress “organizations” like Hamas.

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    International Jewish organizations have harshly criticized the Colombian president’s comments.

    I agree. There is no need to compare this to the Third Reich’s atrocities. That’s unnecessary.



    Let’s compare this to Fascist Italy’s atrocities instead:

    Even as some [Fascist] planes were dropping proclamations, others were dropping bombs. De Bono insisted that the targets were exclusively military ones, sites “where groups of warriors had been observed.” Yet one of the first targets was the town of Adowa, which was filled with women and children. Mussolini’s eldest son, Vittorio, participated in the opening raid, which he saw as “revenge […] for the heroic death of our soldiers, who forty years ago fell victim to overwhelming odds.” But young Mussolini was disappointed by the results of his raid: “I noticed with regret,” he reported, “that [my bombs] did not create any sensational effects. Perhaps I was so disappointed because I had expected the huge explosions and flames I had seen in American war movies. Unfortunately, the mud‐and‐grass Ethiopian houses were just not designed to provide a satisfactory target to a bomber.

    Unspectacular though these raids might have been to the bombers, they were impressive enough to the people on the ground. […] Greek and Levantine shopkeepers painted red crosses on the roofs of their shops, and even on their strawhats, in hopes of securing immunity from [Fascist] bombs.

    Buildings marked with red crosses, however, seemed to attract rather than deter [Fascist] pilots, and they were one of the few targets the bombers managed to hit with any consistency. The British minister in Ethiopia telegraphed London that the first [Fascist] bombs had fallen precisely on a house containing hospital stores and flying the red cross. European and American newspapers sent up cries of indignation over this “barbarous” behavior and over [Fascist] air attacks that claimed the lives of defenseless women and children. General De Bono dismissed these complaints with equal indignation. In reality, he insisted, the only victims of the first raids “were one woman, one child, and several cattle.” He said nothing about warriors.

    (Emphasis.)

    This way, not only will the Zionists be happy, but we can still compare the neocolony to a Fascist empire, and everybody will get to learn about lesser‐known tragedies as well. It’s a win‐win situation!