The great Japanese writer Michiko Ishimure wrote about poor families in MInamata, and the Amakusa islands being forced by poverty to sell their daughters into international prostitution. There was a special word for the girls that had to go off like that, /karayuki-san/ Ms Going-to-China. I guess because that's were most of the overseas brothels were. Selling off the daughters was one method of 口減らし KuchiHerashi (KuchiBerashi?): cutting down on the number of mouths to feed.
It would be good if a lot of the Afghan refugees could get together with the Ukraine refugees and explain what can happen to your land after you let Rambo and his Stinger Missiles in... White people can be forgotten just as quickly as non-white Middle Easterners.. Does the media spend a lot of time looking back on all the bombings in Bosnia...? Naomi Klein's /Shock Doctrine/ mentions how /'free market'/ economic policy killed of 10(?) million Russians... Noam Chomsky in /Education and Democracy/ talks about Easter Europe and the effects of economic policy too... If people in Poland weren't making dresses for rich Germans they were out of luck... Does Zelensky realy have people in Ukraine believing that the West is going to be sincere about helping them???
Sending a lot of missiles into a country with a lot of Nulcear Plants (and Nazis?? in the Azov Battalion??) doesn't seem like a caring or even sensible thing to do... One of the Counterpunch writers mentioned that the UK was ready to fight Europe down to the last Ukranian, but with all those missiles flying around nuclear plants (who thinks where a missile will go if it misses the helicopter? or what will happen if the helicopter spirals down into a nuclear facility...) The USA seems ready to fight down to the last European... I guess it's not a surprise, since the 50s we've let MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) people justify nuke and military budgets with their readiness to war down to the last living thing... It's hard to believe it's so stupid.. David Graeber offers one way to get a grip on the situation, in /Utopia of Rules/ he writes about how bureaucracies make us stupid.
