Im not incapable of reading. Your writing clearly states that Carter was responsible. You claim he oversaw it which is just flatly incorrect.

You think Im a bot because my username contains the word “bot”?

“In 1977-1978, as Indonesia engaged in wholesale destruction of East Timor through massive bombardment and forced relocation of populations”

That REALLY sounds like Indonesia was responsible for the genocide they were committing. Why are you blaming an American president for a war waged by Indonesians due to choices made by the Indonesian government? Do you think Indonesia had no agency in the genocide they perpetrated?

Again it is really weird you are blaming Carter for this.

That’s a claim I would LOVE for you to attempt to back up.

Just off the top of my head I would suspect UK, French, and Soviet imperialism to have been as big if not a bigger factor than the USA.

Also it continued until 1999 which makes blaming him for it an odd choice.

No he did not. Indonesia waged that campaign from the mid 70s to 1999. Blaming Carter is a stupid choice.

You might want to rephrase that as the East Timor genocide started while Carter was in office. Carter played no role in that genocide. The Indonesian government was responsible for it. It is odd that you are blaming Carter at all.

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Everything you mention for Reagan was passed by a democrat controlled Congress. Both parties killed the middle class

There’s almost no national leader that is going to be a “good person”.

Britney is the face of the bourgeoise stealing the profits from the teams who wrote her songs, the sound engineers who made a girl forced to sing out her natural range sound ok, and the publicists that promoted an image of a child that we should all have known better than to accept.

They have one in LA and one in NYC as well. Take a second to look up who went through UCB as they are many of the bigger names in improv/comedic acting right now. UCB became another pipeline to Hollywood comedy like The Groundlings and Improv Olympic had been.

UCB isn’t just doing well it is thriving. I don’t think I go a week without seeing a UCB grad on a tv show or podcast and haven’t since the mid 2000s.

UCB seems to have worked out all right in the long run.

Ukraine didn’t cease to exist when the administration was removed. Why would you think that would be the case? They still go by the same name and hold to all their relative treaties other than those involved in their invasion.

We have all sorts of agreements with Ukraine including ones that provide military responses which seems to be a fairly significant sign they are an ally. They are not any more now that the USA is aligned with Russia once again.

Why would you think the Ukrainian government isn’t an ally of the USA? Why would you think the treaties and agreements made by previous administrations aren’t still in place?

Yes but your source has an inherent bias against the subjects they are talking about.

Im looking for you to provide someone that backs your claim that isn’t anti-Western. If you claim has validity you should be able to find an less biased source or at least one that isn’t inherently biased against the West.

And Im asking for you to establish that those quotes are legitimate by backing them with a source that theoretically does not have a built in bias.

Im asking for you to back your claim with a more valid source because People’s World is equivalent to Fox Cable News when it comes to built in bias

Completely agree, so many people react in the most over the top way here.

I also see a lot more overt racism here which is odd.

No, because we actually have negotiated signed treaties with Ukraine. Are ypu confused as to what an ally is?

Still looking for a valid source on your claim…

The ISI being the go between for almost everything does mean those groups the ISI paid are not allies of the USA. If anyone in the Mujahideen needed help we would not have provided it because we are not allies. If the ISI needed help we likely would help depending on the circumstances (we wont fight India for example).

Yes and the ISI were the intermediary for almost everything. The wiki link they provided even explains this.

What did you think I was missing or am I supposed to think a handful of CIA guys made all the decisions vs taking input from the ISI would would know all of the players involved.

I know you are a communist and not a huge fan of the USA, but are you one of the people that actually believes America’s intelligence agencies were good at spy-craft? We weren’t.

From your link I have added emphasis to the part you seemed to have missed:

“ The distribution of the weaponry relied heavily on the Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who had a personal relationship with Congressman Wilson. His Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was an intermediary for funds distribution, passing of weapons, military training and financial support to Afghan resistance groups.[40] Along with funding from Saudi Arabia and the People’s Republic of China,[41] the ISI developed a complex infrastructure that was directly training 16,000 to 18,000 mujahideen fighters annually by early 1986 (and indirectly facilitating training for thousands of others by Afghans that had previously been recipients of ISI instruction).[42] They encouraged the volunteers from the Arab states to join the Afghan resistance in its struggle against the Soviet troops based in Afghanistan.[40] Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq also directed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to establish contact with Israel’s Mossad.[43] Intelligence offices were set up at both countries’ embassies in Washington, where the ISI, MI6, CIA and Mossad jointly ran the operation.[44] During this operation, Israel supplied Soviet-made weaponry (seized from Palestinian militants) to the Afghan mujahideen. Pakistan and Israel cooperated very closely during the entirety of the conflict and the Pakistani military which was engaging Soviet aircraft and providing the mujahideen with funds and weapons—received a generous amount of Israeli armaments and aid as a result.[44]___

So how didn’t it work like that? It really seems the ISI, who would best know the parties involved, did the heavy lifting.