© UnknownThe Vikings sailing to take over the British Isles for some barbaric activity.
When the Irish-born US representative to the UN, Samantha Power, used the word 'barbarism' to describe the Russian counter-terrrorism efforts in Aleppo in Syria, it got me really annoyed. How dare she misuse that word. Being a Dane and with a strong Viking ancestry, I think, I am in some position of authority to say what is 'barbaric' and what is not. We Danes were the Barbarians and my ancestors undoubtedly had much fun in those days sailing around raping and pillaging the world, or spreading "freedom and democracy" as it now is called. So to hear that some of the descendants of some of those Vikings, the Angles and the Saxons, who went over in the 5th century to take the British Isles, have so forgotten the meaning of the word, that they call the killing of head-chopping terrorists 'barbaric' is truly sad.
Let me remind the readers of what the word barbaric really means.
When the mercenaries of the
US-led coalition in 2011 bombed Libya back to the stone age and lynched its sovereign leader, Gaddaffi, THAT was barbaric.
© UnknownNow that was barbaric!
When Hillary Clinton then cackled about it in vicious delight, THAT was barbaric!
When the US government decided to drop two
atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945, killing 450,000 people, just to test the bomb and send a message to Soviet Russia, and when the Japanese were ready to surrender, and for the US to then never apologize for it, now THAT is barbaric!
Atomic bomb victim Sumiteru Taniguchi shows his back which was severely burnt by the atomic bomb next to a photo of him taken about half a year after the incident at his home in Nagasaki
When the US and its allies firebombed German cities at the end of the 2nd World War, in particular
Dresden where 500,000 people died and which had no military value and resulted in the total destruction of the city due to the dropping of 700,000 phosphorous bombs, and again with no apology - now THAT was barbaric.
When the USA
killed of up to 3,8 million people during the Vietnam war, most of them Vietnamese civilians, and left a toxic legacy of Agent Orange and millions of landmines behind to continue killing 'silently' ever after: Now THAT was barbaric!
That was barbaric!
The list could go on and on. The Russian spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs,
Maria Zakharova, was totally right to take Samantha Power to task for using the word 'barbarism'. Samantha Power is a war harpy and is exemplary of all that is wrong with the US and their projection onto other countries of what they themselves are doing. If Power and her ilk want to know the real meaning of the word barbaric, she need only look in the mirror and to her government's foreign policy over the last 70 years.
I work in the international transport sector in Europe. I've been reading SOTT since 2003 and first joined the editorial team in 2007 after realizing I had to do something about the deteriorating state of our world. Especially as I saw how our mainstream media has let us down. I'm particularly interested in 'following the money' to track the machinations of the deceptive ones in high places. I suppose you could say I've taken my chosen profession to a new level, and now with SOTT I'm "inspecting the flows" of people and money in more ways than one.
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To the author: Russia wasn't "Tsarist" at that time, but "Communist".