@The ISAF: Thanks for the update! I must say, this is one of the most fascinating dispatches I've read in a long time. It was so interesting to hear from people and regions that we don't usually hear much about in Wintreath. With being the only member of your military on top of everything else, I'm starting to think you're quite the one-man band.
I had never heard of Paul Robeson before today, but I've read some about MKUltra and the things those people went through were terrible...a program that started based on Nazi research from experiments done in concentration camps and continued on un-consenting and often unsuspecting people, all in the name of protecting freedom through brainwashing and mind control. It makes you worry about what governments will dream up with the dawn of new technologies such as neural implants.
And further confirmation that the invasion on Solidarity was indeed pretty stupid.
I really liked the ads too...they were nice breaks between the articles.
There was a portion from the interview with Podria I wanted to ask about, and it may end up being a rhetorical question:
Podria: Yeah, thanks for asking! As an ideological military we are staunchly anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist and anyone who exhibits or defends any such ideology is within our purview. Obviously some of the louder and more extreme regions like fascists, racists, homophobes, transphobes, and the like are of much greater worry to us than, say, a centre-right region and we have plenty of far-right bigoted moles to whack before we move from the far-right to the right to the centre-right. Ultimately the idea is to deplatform people who spread and perpetuate hateful and exploitative narratives that lead to poor social and material conditions for all people except the white cishet male upper-class of the Western Anglosphere.
Recently, Wintreath ran a poll on Capitalism vs Communism that was open to all nations in NS (
https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=211552). In that poll, around 2/3 of nations voted for Capitalism. Of course, 60 nations who voted in a week-long poll is probably not entirely representative of NS as a whole, but assuming for arguments' sake that the majority of people in NS support capitalism, does that mean The Red Fleet is eventually planning to target that majority? Or am I misreading or misunderstanding what's being said?
