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ML ALERT: ‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 24, 2026, 10:21 am

https://www.medialens.org/2026/the-weak-must-suffer-the-eternal-fiction-of-the-international-rules-based-order/

Re: ML ALERT: ‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’

Posted by Sleepy George <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=brengun' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 26, 2026, 3:24 pm, in reply to "ML ALERT: ‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’"

There is a long list of US misdeeds beginning with Hirosihima. It is in Italics, suggesting it is a quotation from Carney. His speech was remarkable enough but it would be astounding if it included that passag. It has no quotation marks. Lifeboaters often distain to use quotation marks but Media lens are suppost to know better. Are these italicised words ML's own?
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They are quoting Thucydides

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 26, 2026, 4:03 pm, in reply to "Re: ML ALERT: ‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’"

"...the ancient Greek historian and general Thucydides that:

‘the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.’"

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The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.

Re: They are quoting Thucydides

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 26, 2026, 5:04 pm, in reply to "They are quoting Thucydides"

I remember that it was a trudge and a half and that I haven't looked in it since.

The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ??? - 4 November 2021
Georgina the cat ???-4 December 2025

Sounds a bit of a marathon (nm)

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 26, 2026, 6:01 pm, in reply to "Re: They are quoting Thucydides"

"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."

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