• Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    They aren’t serious political actors with consistent or defensible positions, they are nationalist campists if not outright propagandists.

    The only acceptable Western leader to them is one that will cause the most internal chaos and self-destruction while leaving BRICS (mostly China and Russia) alone. Left-right politics has little to do with it. They don’t want us to coalesce into progressive countries, they want us to collapse and suffer.

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      If you mean “Progressive” like EU or Nordic countries, in which life is better for it’s own citizens at the cost of continuing to exploit poorer nations then yeah I get their point.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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        If you mean “Progressive” like EU or Nordic countries, in which life is better for it’s own citizens at the cost of continuing to exploit poorer nations then yeah I get their point.

        Jesus fucking Christ.

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      The only acceptable western leader to me is one who leaves BRICS alone. Partly because I live in it, and partly because it now contains the majority of the world. Also at least don’t enable literal genocide. I definitely don’t want them to cause internal chaos wherever they leave, but destroying the World Bsnk / IMF and other instruments of neocolonialism would be nice.