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Tazzy.'s avatar

It is depressing to realise that we , the peasants , will never know what happened, each one will have to decide through the lense of their personal bias.

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cassandra's avatar

"Life is just a series of coincidences I suppose. Except when it’s time to talk Marxism. Then, everything can be understood as logical cause and effect and hegelian dialectic and historical materialism, etc."

Agree: in politics and war NOTHING happens by accident. One can quibble over which historical forces are driving people at any particular moment, but at that same particular moment, there are people driving the history.

To get a full picture, we must account for all the players in the game, but many prefer to remain incognito. We live in a chess game where half the pieces are invisible, so that the actions of the anonymous appear to "just happen". Nothing "just happens", nothing is "grass roots": those labels just mask ignorance.

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