Just watched this from Margarita Simonyan of RT fame, seemed apposite:

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https://nitter.poast.org/M_Simonyan/status/1934733994911818076#m

We live in a prison of self-restraint.

In the offices we all hear and repeat it: "We must not provoke them!"

To paraphrase Churchill, if you choose Shame instead of War, you get War anyway - on worse terms.

Sadly, for all the peace sign tattoos, and the rainbow slogans, what we see now is that "Might is right" has triumphed.

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All this state/country perspective is unhealthy and toxic from an anarchist perspective. War is a gift to the state when everybody starts using the 'we' as Simonyan does above and invests their identities in the national entity. The bind comes when only these national entities are able to employ the force required to end atrocities committed by another. Really, conflicts should all be on an immediate peer-to-peer level and resolved in the same arena, between people or small groups who have to find ways of living together, or, failing that, to limit or ritualise conflict so that it doesn't get out of control. But it's all well and good saying that, while in the present moment thousands of Palestinians are being murdered by the state of israel. Groovy anarcho-primitivist stances aren't much help to them, are they?

I have more sympathy for David Graeber wishing for US bombs to fall on those persecuting his beloved Kurdish anarchist social movement - https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/archive/1567854610.html - though I still think that was wrong. I suppose there's a difference, too, between wishing for the bombs of the hegemon, with all the strings that come attached with those, and wishing for missiles from Iran, which stands in opposition to the Empire. The more you can play them off against one another, the less energy they have to f* us all over.

Maybe. Thoughts not finalised on this, in case you can't tell!

cheers,
I