The YPG's Kurdish ethno-state Rojava has committed numerous war crimes against neighboring cultures, all so that Washington can use this breakaway state as a partner in stealing Syria's oil. Ironically this atrocity campaign, and the movement of U.S.-backed jihadist terror that's produced Syria's war, is rationalized by the narrative that Assad is guilty of massive atrocities.
For the last ten years, the world has been bombarded with perhaps the most extensive and elaborate atrocity-propaganda campaign in history, all directed at Syria's government. From the numerous "Assad chemical attacks" that have been revealed to be fake or not actually committed by Assad, to the award-winning Netflix film promoting the terroristic NATO-backed Syrian While Helmets, to the scripted statements from Syrian refugee children the media exploits, to the narratives painting Assad as the aggressor for defending from an attempted jihadist takeover by U.S.-backed terror forces, the deceptions surrounding Syria have been encyclopedic. And as Maidhc Ã" Cathail of Consortiumnews has written, it's all served to exploit the memories of the Holocaust, using the fears of history repeating itself to convince people that there's a moral imperative to get Assad out. To support this point, Cathail quotes Norman Finkelstein:
"The irony is that the Nazi holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression," Norman Finkelstein tells Yoav Shamir in "Defamation," the Israeli filmmaker's award-winning 2009 documentary on how perceptions of anti-Semitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. "Every time you want to launch a war of aggression, drag in the Nazi holocaust." If you're looking for evidence in support of Finkelstein's thesis today, you need look no further than the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibit of images of emaciated and mangled bodies from contemporary Syria... The small exhibit, entitled "Genocide: The Threat Continues," features a dozen images said to be from an archive of 55,000 pictures allegedly smuggled out of the country by "Caesar," a mysterious source who claims to have defected from his job as a Syrian military photographer after having been ordered to take photos of more than 10,000 corpses. Emphasizing the threat of an impending genocide, the reportedly conscience-stricken defector warns that a similar fate awaits the 150,000 people he says remain incarcerated by President Bashar Assad's government.
Yugoslavia is the great model for this kind of campaign to dismember nations. This model consists of manufacturing a genocide narrative in the vein of the Holodomor, then weaponizing it to the point where states and borders in the targeted countries are obliterated. As even some of the CIA's own former operatives within Yugoslavia have admitted, Washington used the Serbs as scapegoats, with Serbian socialist leader Milosevic having been charged with numerous war crimes that he's since been exonerated on. The imperialists then claimed that the Serbs had committed a genocide against their surrounding ethnic groups, absurdly painting the besieged last remaining bastion of socialism in Europe as a new Nazi Germany.
It was through the promotion of these slanders that the imperialists could get away with systematically destroying Yugoslavia's infrastructure, bombing Yugoslavian civilians, and imposing cruel neoliberal policies onto the nation. This was all explained to the U.S. public with propaganda statements like the New York Times headline: "Bomb the Serbs. Now."
This is how the imperialists justify genocide, or at least atrocities that are rationalized through genocidal language; just imagine if that headline had said "Bomb the Jews" or "Bomb the Blacks." In the twisted reality they've constructed, no atrocity by the U.S. or its proxies is too severe, because it's all merely a proportionate response to real or fabricated human rights violations.
At the moment, the biggest targets for this tactic are Ethiopia and Eritrea, which are under attack from the U.S.-backed terrorist organization the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front. Like the ETIM, Washington refuses to acknowledge the TPLF is a terrorist group. And this negligence is rationalized by the atrocity stories that the CIA is throwing at the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments, motivated by a broader U.S. campaign to destabilize the horn of Africa to counter China's rise. These two governments in particular are under attack due to their willingness to collaborate with China on infrastructure projects, making for a dual imperialist campaign against both Global South development and communism.
The consequence is the worst famine in a decade. Since the TPLF invaded during harvest time to deliberately destabilize the food supply chain, the region's people have been thrown into mass starvation that harkens back to colonialism's biggest engineered famines throughout the continent. Washington is pitching its sanctions on the targeted governments as necessary for addressing the human rights abuses they're accused of. But those who've studied imperialism's disgusting manipulation tactics see this charade for what it is: a weaponization of empathy for utterly inhumane purposes.
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