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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Aug 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Deborah Haynes

    If I read this correctly, the argument is that the "Western ideology" of "liberalism & democracy" is really a front for imperial domination (i.e. control of Suez). Which I think is true but it's interesting to see the intelligence agencies admit it.https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1432410630137524226 …

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    Deborah HaynesVerified account @haynesdeborah
    A senior former UK intelligence officer, reflecting on US-led withdrawal from Afghanistan, said: “This marks the end of an era of Western liberalism & democracy that started with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a defeat of Western ideology. It is the biggest defeat since Suez”
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      2. Glinert  🇺🇦‏ @StevenGlinert 30 Aug 2021
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        ok i'm pretty sure liberalism and democracy are good things, not bad things. I'm not sure "an intelligence guy said it" is a good argument against an entire system of government.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Aug 2021
        Replying to @StevenGlinert

        "Liberalism and democracy" as used in a foreign policy context.

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      1. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW 30 Aug 2021
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        "senior former," probably some Thatcherite

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      1. Bob Westal‏ @BobWestal 30 Aug 2021
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        Yes, but I doubt the writer of the tweet sees it that way. Many on the right honestly can't tell the different between liberalism and democracy and US domination. OTOH, many I've encountered on the Twitter seem to believe that liberal democracy itself is a form of US imperialism

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      1. Rowen‏ @SCBasenji 30 Aug 2021
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        "rules based" international order...

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      1. K, not K‏ @kphextwin 30 Aug 2021
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        Not sure that individual is empowered to speak on behalf of the entirety of "western ideology". They can admit to their own view, but that doesn't damn the rest of us

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      2. limitedinc‏ @limitedinc3 30 Aug 2021

        You mean, when its regular columnists were Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Hitchens? Yeah, they were real big Democrat supporters. Or maybe you have confused the New Republic with the Nation, which has never "spoken for all democrats".

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      1. Little Ball Of Hate‏ @littleballohate 30 Aug 2021
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        "I... I spent 40 years working to prove this and he... he just blurts it out!"

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      1. Madeleine Case Tweets 🌐‏ @McCannCaseTweet 30 Aug 2021
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        Protecting the Suez Canal is “a thing”

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