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[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (15 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (14 children)

More accurate to say I support Russia's role in geopolitics — as any working class person should — because their interests are broadly aligned with the Global South's in ending the dictatorship that the US — and the Imperial core in general — has had on the rest of the world for the past century (it was mainly the UK before; it's been the US since WW2).

While much of the economic and social progress the USSR had made has been undone with its overthrow and forced privatization and capitalism, Russia's foreign interests have surprisingly remained in favour of the Global South (though unfortunately not as much; they stopped directly funding Vietnam, DPRK, and Palestinian resistance groups since it's not profitable for capitalists). They've consistently supported Syria and Venezuela's sovereignty against the US for example, and are a core part of BRICS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

Just curious what do you think of the invasion of Ukraine?

Btw, the USA is a flawed democracy but it's still a democracy compared to Russia and most of the countries you mentioned.

Also from your link to that weird wiki, why is Greenland not "the global north" when it's owned by Denmark?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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