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May 8, 2026

Why I Hate the US Military, and Why You Should Too

The video/audio is better, more thought out and cognizable, I am extremely dyslexic so read at your own expense :) - Listen or Watch as a podcast on youtube - <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt</a> - OR even better add RSS Feed directly to on Pocket Cast - <a target="_blank" href="https://pca.st/9c39a6q7">https://pca.st/9c39a6q7</a>I recently fell down a rabbit hole of military recruiters, military wives, and military hustlers, and when I say fell I mean more jumped down, because I wanted a closer look into the largest terrorist organization in the world: the US DOD. And in my responses condemning their grooming of children in high schools, normalization of the extreme harm they commit daily, and rewriting of history to glorify war criminals, I kept hearing similar responses, and so this video is a response to those responses. So first I’ll make, though incompletely for lack of time, the pretty clear argument that the US military ought to be hated, and then go into why we should do that hating performatively and openly, firstly in response to these people defending the US military and then the things we gain from doing so.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.Why DO I hate the US military:Because the US military and its proxies have been the most lethal entity the world has seen in the past 70 years, if not ever. With just retributive attacks for 9/11 having direct deaths of almost 1 million, with indirect deaths bringing the total to almost 5 million. Not a single one of those invasions was justified (insofar as any action of a genocidal empire could be justified) and every single one of them was criminal. With a think tank institute estimating between 7 and 13 million direct deaths in US-supported and -instigated armed conflicts and 6 to 10 million deaths.But these numbers are too big for anyone to fathom, and before people comment, if we use the methodology of the fascist Victims of Communism Foundation this number would be 100 quadrillion (because they’re just straight up making shit up), so no, I don’t want to hear any whataboutisms with communism.And what’s really important is not the number, right, one criminal death is as significant as the other, but that this is the function of the US military: to protect capital abroad through violence and occupation, still occupying a majority of the countries in the world, and the arms of the American state being as expansive as any state apparatus the world has ever seen. This level of control, carnage, and harm should be condemned. This is an exploration not of whether it ought to be but of why this obvious conclusion isn’t taken.And the basic conclusion, to ruin it all, is that Americans identify with the criminals more than their victims, and if you humanize those in the Global South, the primary victims of US imperialism, even vaguely as much as you humanize the people that are doing the violence against them, then this worldview has absolutely no ability to maintain itself. If you use the language to talk about the US military, even domestically, that the US State Department uses to talk about other military apparatuses across the world, then this worldview falls apart. So I want to go into the actual discussions I’ve had and the actual points (that I think boil down to but are not limited to the above point) about why exactly even seeming progressives shiver at the concept of calling a spade a spade and a soldier a war criminal.But the Poverty Draft: “You don’t understand, you have to be nice to them”Whenever I do anti-US military propaganda I inevitably get the well-meaning, or sometimes not well-meaning, response from a “veteran,” military wife, or even self-apologetic current military member that goes something like this: I agree the US military is bad (they might even go so far as to recognize it as a war criminal or a terrorist army) but the people in it are not the thing itself, and in fact many of them are victims of the exact propaganda you’re talking about, so why are you attacking them? Actually, many of them are victims not only of the propaganda but are particularly so because of the targeting of impoverished and lower-class schools to recruit from.There are many responses to this, the most common of which I think tends to be “it doesn’t matter how much you need to feed your children, it never gives you a right to kill other people’s children,” or my favorite, “would you say this about any other terrorist group in the world? Would you say this about the IDF? ISIS? Because Israelis certainly do.” Both of these reassert the American exceptionalism and the extreme nature of American crimes, but I don’t think they hit the problem, which is that the archetypal apologetic military wife could actually say, yeah, I do actually say that, I try and understand everyone, and no, I don’t think it’s a justified move, I just think that attacking them doesn’t help the problem because you should be attacking the system even if what individual military members are doing is wrong.And that is why what I’ve tried to start moving toward is this response: if you really believed that they were victims of propaganda, me attacking the perpetrators of that propaganda would not bother you. I.e., if this argument is coming in good faith to protect people not just currently in the military but all people who might be susceptible to the pro-military propaganda out there, then me undermining it and using social tools that we have like shame and ostracization and exposure to undermine that glorification and cool factor that such recruitment ads often project would not be a concern. In fact, the reasonable response would be “wow, I’m so happy, because if my husband had seen this when he was making the mistake of joining the military maybe he wouldn’t have made that mistake,” or better yet, decentering your “victimized” war criminal in the first place: this may hurt my feelings but if it’s effective in undermining recruitment, that saves lives.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Positive Argument for Being Mean to ThemWhy do I care? What’s the goal? In deeply Israeli-esque arguments, I consistently hear from low-level military recruits or, worse, recruiters whenever I call them out on glorifying the military, that they are just doing their job, just as Israelis glorifying Israel who I confront with the crimes they normalize consistently remind us that the state of Israel will not stop its genocide merely because we comment a Palestinian flag under a post. In Tel Aviv, soldiers in America keep reminding us that they’ll continue doing their jobs even if some random commenters that totally don’t bother them tell them they’re doing war crimes. And actually they tell us in a very Democrat way that if we keep on hating on them they’ll just become worse. And I don’t know about those individuals and that might be true for them, but if you were going to become a war criminal more because of internet comments I think you’re going to become a war criminal anyway, so what exactly is my goal?Well, my goal is to use the exact same levers that the empire is using to recruit people into their org to prevent that recruitment. And if you look at military advertisement, it is very clear that they are not just advertising that you will be able to feed your children, they’re not just advertising that you will be able to feed yourself or go to college. They certainly do mention that, but most important, as was true when Israel is trying to compel people to make aliyah, Rhodesia was trying to compel young white supremacists to join the Rhodesian Bush War, and army recruiters are trying to recruit you to the Navy: they care about looking cool, they care about bringing glory, and most importantly they want you to feel normal. Superior but normal. Whether that looks like feeling successful, or marrying or dating someone hot, or doing what you already had in you.These things matter, but importantly these things are in our control. We can’t stop them from spending on education or making it so impossible to live in America that the only way some people see (possibly rightly but mostly wrongly) the only way they can live or even move up on the ladder is to go tear other people down their ladder in the Middle East. But we can control whether downwardly mobile middle-class people will feel accepted, tolerated, and even successful if they join the military. And that’s why they’re so sensitive to the internet comments, that’s why Republicans lose their mind when you stomp on a flag or don’t salute a veteran. It is incredibly hard to convince someone to put their life on the line simply because they want money, but if your family will love you more, if your wife will be hotter, and if you will feel more complete and happy, yeah, maybe self-sacrifice can be a part of that: but it requires that you identify your needs and wants with that of the military. And if we elucidate to them as clearly as possible that that is not true (in the direct inverse of what the military propaganda is trying to convince them), then we are doing our jobs.The Possible RiskNow to actually address the naysayers: the form of the argument tends to come, sure, you could say all of this, but what actually ends up happening is you remove their ability to have an off-ramp. And this is true interpersonally. It is understandable that if you think your friendship with someone can be leveraged to help them make a better decision, as is done in some antifa circles, then keep that friendship and leverage it as such. Same thing with familial relationships: if you can stop your brother from becoming a Nazi, or even if you have to do the labor of pulling him out of a Nazi cult, do that. But will you promote that publicly? Will you say that that’s the only way you can prevent Nazis, or will you recognize that condemning and ostracizing them serves the purpose of not getting them in the situation in the first place?And to be cynical, although I think accurate, this often comes from a place of self-preservation much more than pure logic, which is true of most people’s arguments for most things, mine included very likely, where they are uncomfortable with the truth that they believe (their husband is a war criminal comparable to the SS) so they twist and turn to find a permission structure that is plausible, that allows them to feel comfortable where they are. Classic cognitive dissonance. And this is understandable, I don’t condemn it, but I also just have very limited time or patience for therapizing people out of it.What Is to Be Done?So what then is my call to action: don’t salute veterans, don’t tolerate recruiters at your high school, be vocally and publicly against them doing that job in any capacity, make no concessions. No, Germany does not need an SS, not even a nicer one. No, occupied Palestine does not need an IDF, not even a nicer one. And no, the US does not need a military, not even a nicer one. And we have some tools that the empire recognizes matter more than all the money they have: social, political, familial pressure. It isn’t everything and we need to address it materially as well, but we cannot undermine it, because if we ignore it we are not helping the victims of it, we are enabling the perpetrators.I'm so thankful to every subscriber who helps make this possible! If you'd like to consider joining, it helps me prioritize work like this that I hope provides value to y'all. Otherwise, please feel free to share, repurpose, or reuse any of my work, the main goal is to get these ideas out there and discussed. I love these types of discussions and I'm so grateful that I'm able to do this type of work. And remember, no matter what, you will always be able to reach me on my own website (still under development) willztalks.com.The video/audio is better, more thought out and cognizable, I am extremely dyslexic so read at your own expense :) - Listen or Watch as a podcast on youtube - <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt</a> - OR even better add RSS Feed directly to on Pocket Cast - <a target="_blank" href="https://pca.st/9c39a6q7">https://pca.st/9c39a6q7</a> This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://willztalks.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">willztalks.substack.com/subscribe</a>

April 21, 2026

Americans are the Israelis of the world - The Myth Patriotic American Anti-Zionism

The video/audio is better, more thought out and cognizable, I am extremely dyslexic so read at your own expense :) - Listen or Watch as a podcast on youtube - <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt</a> - OR even better add RSS Feed directly to on Pocket Cast - <a target="_blank" href="https://pca.st/9c39a6q7">https://pca.st/9c39a6q7</a>Stop asking people if they are America first or Israel first - we don’t want either.I’ve heard this question asked consistently, by likely well-meaning and otherwise aligned people, but we truly have got to stop and this little blurb is my view as to why and what we gain from changing, and what we lose from failing to. Firstly, my basic thesis - anything you say about an IDF soldier, can and should be said about an American soldier. Anything you say about Israeli politics can and should be said about American politics. And anything you say about an Israeli can and should be said about an American (specifically a white American) American nationalism is not better than Zionism, and in the current political context they are almost indistinguishable.If you are ready aligned on that, fantastic, this essay is a set of arguments for that that you might find helpful - if you aren’t sticking around and you might be compelled.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.What is the phenomenon?In my time in anti-zionist spaces especially online there have become two distinct views: Israel runs America and America runs Israel. I am staunchly and principally on the America runs Israel side, and I think literally everything about reality demonstrates this - From the fact that things like AIPAC are primarily funded by Americans, and American Christian Zionist at that, the fact that people like Henry Kissinger described Israel explicitly as doing Americans bidding and aims, and the fact that even more low-key imperialists like Joe Biden, famously said that if Israel did not exist America would create one.I’m not going to contend substantially with the overwhelming often vacuous and often repackaged anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Israel controlling America. From my view, having clear eyes and a functioning mind is enough to demonstrate that a small country with an almost entirely imported economy and dependent defense infrastructure is not the one in control of the largest Empire the world has ever seen. Almost every single proof of this supposed assertion is better understood as the simple alignment of Israel’s interest with the oligarch class of America’s interests, which I once again feel called to point out are majority Christian. If you have a serious contention on this, I would love to see an actual fundamental response and one that does not conflate any jew acting ever with Israel acting always. Until then I’m going to move on and presume we are all on the same page on basic material reality.The consequence though of falling into this other camp of not viewing Israel is an expansion of America, but either as a unique unexplained evil or as a unique unexplained evil controlling America, is lots of very compelling viral clips and sound bites that I bet we have all heard such as “ do you believe in America first or Israel first?”, but there are also some obvious ones that I often run into, such as the idea that Israel pulled us into the Iraq War or that Israel alone pulled us into this current war on Iran. so that’s what I’m talking about, and as I flesh it out I hope you can recognize both the communities that engage in it and the particular taste of that ideology.What’s the Danger? Now you may be saying what’s the problem, don’t we want to undermine Israel? even if we think that there’s some fundamental different theoretical explanation for the power relationship between these two entities, why does it matter? Why do you care? Well my friends I have a list for that too.The dangerous threefold: Liberal Co-optation of Anti-Zionism, Fascist co-optation of anti-zionism, and Immediate and Actual Harm.Liberal Co-optation of Anti-ZionismThis is the one that keeps me up at night: Liberal politicians coming out condemning Israel for pulling us into the Iraq War, condemning Israel for pulling us into the conflict with Iran, condemning arms to Israel, and saying that American Military members should have been the ones with those arms. What this does is it satiates the anti-imperial impulses that observations of the extreme Imperial violence that we are seeing out of Israel, but it allows the imperialists themselves to completely reconfigure.Take for example of recent post that I saw out of a progressive candidate who was asking the question “Does South Korea have the right to exist” and idealizing the fact that South Korea pays for its own defense, suggesting that Israel should do the same. This is not Anti-Zionism, this is alter-zionism - instead of directly funding isreal, we should indirectly boost its economy and its industry through free trade agreements and selective sanctions of its competitors like we do for South Korea. We should Aid and abett it in its founding genocide (as we did for South Korea) and then provide continued extreme diplomatic support for them.This is doing what liberals do best, which is take the demands of the populist left, give the least but important concessions that they can give - direct arms sales - and maintain and obscure the system upon which that very violence was predicated. this has the largest chance of demobilizing revolutionary movements, of forcing them to a table where they are not in a seat, but they are on the menu, and creating social norms to shame and limit them at the least cost to the empire.Fascist co-optation of anti-zionismThis one is slightly more obvious, and thus doesn’t keep me up at night as much ( though likely because I am also privileged to not be a direct target of it… yet) - this is the one we have all seen, Nick Fuentes proclaiming how Israel controls America and is forcing us to do all the bad things we did, from slavery to the Vietnam War to (from his view) a bad side in World War II. We see how he shifts basic populism against American imperialism into specific anti-semitism with a very cohesive yet entirely nonsensical worldview. It provides explanatory ease to people who are seeing the harm and don’t want to be responsible for them, an ease that is simply not present from my worldview where I as a tax paying american do unfortunately get moral obligations to make the world better from the harm my state has caused.There is occasionally though luckily quite quiet a left anti-zionist voice that perks up its head and notices that all of these Nazis say they want to work with us, and in fact quite often beg us to work with them… why are we not taking advantage? We only have to sacrifice our trans comrades and our Jewish comrades and our muslim comrades? Is that too much to ask for the liberation of Palestine? are you being pragmatic, are you being a purist?Now of course I phrased that in a way that it should be obvious what I think of that argument - poor - but it still must be contended with and the obvious answer is that it cost us too much to work with them, because it cost us everything we have. The only Power that leftists have is our solidarity the only Power that leftists have is are clear-eyed worldview, and if we sacrifice that then we simply cease to functionally be leftists, we could be Strasserists, but just as America Firsters ultimately get humbled and be forced to be honest about their imperial aspirations: Nick admitting he supports the imperial invasion of Venezuela, We would be an instrument in a movement that we wouldn’t control but would control us. which leads me to the Third, and final on my non-exhaustive list -Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.Real Immediate Harm -Every second we engage in American nationalism ( the words America First leaving our mouth) we are causing harm to the people that are harmed in the name of American exceptionalism. invading Iran is in fact putting America first, because what America is, is the American Empire which is predicated upon violence to countries like Iran. Every second we forget that Nick Fuentes does not believe in our Jewish comrades’ right to live, we do harm to our Jewish comrades, and we enable zionists as well to degrade our movement in the name of countering his antisemitism ( not that they need much enabling In fairness). And as I will set out below, we are simply failing to be effective We do not at least internally and ideologically reject this nationalism because doing so allows us both rhetorically educatively and practically to be more effective not only in our anti-zionism but our anti-imperialism as a whole.So what do I do then?Don’t resist the differences between America and Israel. There is often a knee jerk, though Justified response to this to suggest that that is merely a Zionist talking point that downplays israelis crime. though I am compelled to tell you that failing to recognize the extreme intrinsic violence in Americanism just as there is in israelism, downplays that violence and those victims of americanism. Instead of downplaying one extreme Colonial violence off of the other you can understand them together - you can understand how America First genuinely does lead to Israel first. how the genocide of the natives was a playbook for genocidaires of the world, how the concentration camps and the slave holding is a playbook for what’s going on in the West Bank and what’s going on in Gaza. Instead of working to reach American nationalists and convince them to work against what is fundamentally a benefit to their ideology ( as American nationalism merely is the ideology of worshiping Violence by America, specifically white americans) we ought to work as effectively and fundamentally against them and their ideology because that is the only way we will either not be co-opted and be effective at all in aims.What Do We Gain?I’m not asking you to not say this because it offends me or out of the goodness of your heart - I’m telling you this because not only is it true just factually, but it also effective to our aims, and how you ask? well my my I have yet another list!Responding To Vacuous Zionists ArgumentsI can feel an eye roll already coming, but it is valuable when it can be done without sacrificing important values to shield ourselves from Easy critique. Zionists for all of their faults are very well funded and thus oftentimes know where those weak spots are and one thing you will hear consistently from zionists is that we are essentializing or specially focusing on Israel too much. Now obviously there is an easy response to this: it is the peak of imperialism. But in order to do that, you have to come from the place of viewing it essentially as an expansion of American imperialism. if you do not, and you have one of the series of other above stated perspectives on why we ought to move and care about Israel in ways that we do not move and care about other harms and atrocities going on in the world, then you have a worse time justifying Why Us speaking about certain things more than others and you very likely will in reality regardless of a Zionist perspective not speak about other things to the extent that you ought.Take for example the consistent refrain from idiots “why are pro Palestinian people so silent about Congo?” - the fact is we aren’t, because many of us recognize how the atrocities in the Congo are imminently related to The Liberation of the Palestinian people, and of the Sudanese people and of the Native people of Turtle Island. but you know who doesn’t? Nick Fuentes. You know who doesn’t? A liberal who thinks South Korea has a right to exist. having a holistic worldview that doesn’t arbitrarily separate Israel from the rest of the anti-capitalist anti-Imperial worldview, and for the love of God it doesn’t contribute to americanism ( for which the genocide in Sudan is deeply profitable) allows you to respond to these arguments better“The Israel of ….” - Anti-imperialism outside of the context of ZionismIf you confine yourself, and epistemically limit your understanding of American imperialism or even western or imperialism as a whole to its relationship with one particular context then not only do you fail to understand the concept itself but you also remove yourself from the many helpful conceptual tools you build in applying it to other contexts. For example - criticisms of the United Arab Emirates do not start and end at its relationship with Israel nor does it start and end with its relationship with America itself - but the tools and contexts and methods and even calls to action, that we have built with the anti-zionist movement in America are not one-to-one but perhaps 1 to .9 applicable to working against the United Arab Emirates and it’s complicity with the Sudanese genocide. Its like a muscle build up our ability to recognize the effects of transnational capital and how it is used to fund Zionism and Zionist complicity in the Gulf, then we would fail to be able to recognize transnational capitals role in funding the violence that Rwanda is committing in the Congo with the funding and diplomatic support of the UK.Activism and leftism as a whole is a muscle - and if you only allow it to move a little bit it won’t get as strong, but if you allow it to add more General context and a more cohesive context not only do you inoculate yourself to whataboutisms (like above) because you can actually answer what about this other context? but you also actually get to be able to answer that in context, which strengthens both your antizionism and leftism as a whole.Absolutely Fucking Dunking on LiberalsThis is actually what prompted me to discuss this - because I have found that Israel as an example for what is wrong with America is one of the most effective ways to get liberals to not only shut the fuck up but actually possibly change their mind.Take for example the much repeated, but as I have said before often oversimplified, “ Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin” - a liberal will lose their ever loving mind when they hear this, but a Mamdani liberal, or even a Buttigieg Liberal at this point, might not have such a visceral reaction if you go “would you tell a Palestinian that there’s a genuine difference between Israeli political parties?” No their identity reductionist ass, and their hopefully baby antiimperialism ass, would probably not have the gaul to say that - and they might actually say themselves that they understand how Netanyahu and Golda Meir are in fact two sides of the same coin. Suddenly they aren’t making a bastardized “Harm Reducation” argument about whether the genocide is completed in 5 years or 10 years, they understand the concept of a liberal and conservative Colonial dynamic, And they get how silly it sounds to suggest that Palestinians taking the bread crumbs Golda Meir might offer them ( even if those bread crumbs are literally the ability to live for five more years) does not abdicate such liberals obligation to end the genocide itself, and certainly does not allow them to celebrate and clap like fucking seals when those bread crumbs are delivered.The next move obviously, is to take them slowly and ask them how that is different from America. Is not America a settler Colonial entity? Is not America continuing an ongoing genocide against the natives? Do American liberals not actively enable the empire? The only way to make this argument is to stand 10 toes down that Israel and America are genuinely at least in the primary principled way: the same.I do this across contexts - as said at the beginning I convince Americans that they’re Warriors and they’re valorized veterans are terrorists because Americans are happy to call IDF members terrorists. I get them to care about black nationalism because I can tell them how they support Palestinian nationalism. I get them to stop with their peacegating because we have at least a little bit one that rhetorical war with getting liberals to stfu about Palestinian resistance.The possibilities are endless because Israel in fact is merely America with the contradictions of imperialism heightened. The racialization, violence, occupation, control, surveillance are all clearer there, the harms of settler colonialism in high definition: and all of that violence and vitriol is swinging as quick as possible back to America so we have to do the same and allow the insights and response and resistance that it gives us to swing back to America just as fast.Conclusion -This doesn’t engage with the substance of the alternative view - I have no interest really in engaging in the substance of the alternative view and that is intentional. But rather what I aim to do is offer a practical reason to rhetorically and ideologically expand any anti-zionist movement into an intersectional Anti-Imperialist movement especially for those in and around the Imperial core. This starts with the end of the juxtaposition of American Nationalism and Israeli nationalism, which misses the whole entire point that both of these Concepts were constructed explicitly to benefit the exact same people or moreso exact same thing: International capital and imperialism. And that may be a terribly unsurprising end to an essay by a leftist, my deepest apologies, but I do hope I have at least provided some tools for arguing the positive case for the conflation of Israeli and American interests, and away from dangerous narratives that can be co-opted either by Imperial liberals or conservatives.I'm so thankful to every subscriber who helps make this possible! If you'd like to consider joining, it helps me prioritize work like this that I hope provides value to y'all. Otherwise, please feel free to share, repurpose, or reuse any of my work, the main goal is to get these ideas out there and discussed. I love these types of discussions and I'm so grateful that I'm able to do this type of work. And remember, no matter what, you will always be able to reach me on my own website (still under development) willztalks.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://willztalks.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">willztalks.substack.com/subscribe</a>

March 27, 2026

Takeaways from the “Nuestra América” Flotilla To Besieged Cuba - ft. Lily Eagla

Listen or Watch as a podcast on youtube - <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt</a> - OR even better add RSS Feed directly to on Pocket Cast - <a target="_blank" href="https://pca.st/9c39a6q7">https://pca.st/9c39a6q7</a>This week I spoke with my friend Lily Eagla, who has just returned from Cuba after participating in the Nuestra América Flotilla which brought critical humanitarian Aid at a time where the United States Empire has placed an illegal brutal blockade on essential trade with Cuba, from oil which has led to blackouts in hospitals to critical medicine to food. While this is a very serious issue, our conversation is quite late educative and informative, and I hope you can find some enjoyment in it and learn something. Lily is an activist based out of Chicago now (!!!) and you can find her on substack <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/209025280-lily-eagla">Lily Eagla</a> and her instagram at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/lilyeagla/">lilyeagla</a>, fantastic content, fantastic politics, fantastic person. 0:00 - Intro, Who is Lily 1:36 - What the Nuestra América Convoy Did 4:47 - Cuba's Government, Healthcare, and the Young Pioneers 8:44 - American Exceptionalism and the Cuba 13:11 - Trump, Empire, and the Leftist Theory of Change 17:16 - Democracy at Home, Genocide Abroad 19:39 - Lily's Conversation with a Cuban Who Wants Regime Change 24:52 - Imperial Contradictions and Siege Economies 28:17 - Diasporas, Right-Wing Global Coalitions, and Palestine 34:24 - Will Cuba Survive Trump? 37:09 - Gen Z, the Death of Liberal Shame, and Why Actual Leftism is the Only Option Left 41:53 - Leftist Coalition-BuildingThis Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Brief editorial note: we talked for about 30 minutes after the end of this episode that were meant to be recorded but did not record, or rather is just me talking to myself so it is complete nonsense that I think I will send out to the paid subscribers so if you would like to deepen a pair of social relationship with me and pretend that you are the other side of that conversation, feel free to hop over to my paid subscription and I'll be releasing that within the next week. In any case thank you so much for listening, I hope you enjoy, and I have a few more interviews and discussions coming out imminently so please do subscribe if you don't already and if you would like to consider becoming a paid subscriber you mainly become just notably cooler. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://willztalks.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">willztalks.substack.com/subscribe</a>

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